So in a couple of weeks we’re heading to America for ten days. I’ve been before, four years ago, with just my wife. This time we’re taking our son and our nephew. This has prompted much conversation in our household about food, because last time the salt content of some …
In case you hadn’t noticed my wife is an American and has been living in this country for over six years now. She first came here as a student to learn some Welsh, then to do her Masters, and then she married me. She’s working on becoming a citizen of …
Over at Alphabet Soup, it’s time to chose a word of the year. I didn’t think it was possible to do this. A word of the week maybe, a word of the day like those calendars, but a word for the whole year…I wasn’t sure I could that. A word …
Originally posted on Weird and Important on 10th January 2015 It’s three am, I can’t sleep. Partly because of a touch of insomnia borne out of a messed up sleeping pattern from being ill and partly because I am still ill. My throat is killing – still – when I …
So it’s Thanksgiving. Okay, so I know, I’m British, we don’t do Thanksgiving and we do enough American crap as it is what the hell? Except, my wife is American remember, and loves Thanksgiving. And it’s a become a bit of thing for us because it’s the one time I …
She is counterpoint to my supernova, I am a brilliant point of light burnt out before my time and she is the only thing I am holding onto as I blaze through existence. She is my solar system. briefly I outshine her mere moments pass but she is my gravity …
It’s warm around my finger, silver around skin around flesh around bone. It imprints on my soul through letters engraved deep into the metal and deep into me. Through skin, and blood, and borne of love and days to come. Accept it. I accept. It shines and shouts in sunlight …
I am an immigrant. Actually, about a quarter of me is descended from the Celts, but I don’t think of myself like that. And I don’t really think of myself as an immigrant or even as English any more. I’ve been in Wales since I was ten years old (bar …
