Over the last few days, I have been attempting to find a definitive link between the Bryn Estyn estate in Wrexham, and the virtually unknown ‘other’ Bryn Estyn estate, which was built at New Norfolk, Tasmania, by Lieutenant Henry Lloyd…
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I have purposely held back from posting anything on this site, in regard to the very recent ‘Nick,’ or Carl Beech trial and subsequent conviction, but I have, however, been watching very carefully the reactions in certain corners of the…
28 CommentsYou don’t have to look very hard these days, to find examples of how the mainstream media can twist things to suit whatever narrative they are pushing at any particular moment in time. Only yesterday for example, the Guardian newspaper…
22 CommentsThe New International Version (NIV), is arguably the most popular ‘version’ of the Bible. It reportedly holds a 45% market share of all bibles sold throughout the world. The NIV is a ‘version’ of the King James Version, which is…
5 CommentsUntil this morning, it would have been difficult to think of anything that would cast a darker shadow over the mainstream media in Britain, than what currently exists. For anyone out there who still believes that the media is not…
10 CommentsNow that the final results of the European Election are in, it should not come as a surprise to hear and read in the mainstream media – and from the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, Vince Cable, Caroline Lucas and their…
1 CommentI have been watching with interest, the online insanity surrounding the one-time East17 vocalist Brian Harvey, but have, until now, not allowed myself to be dragged into any of it. This will be my only contribution, and it comes by…
11 CommentsI really should not be wasting any more time on this, as there are more important things I should be doing, but this is something that needs to be attended to. Following on from an earlier post on this site, where I…
15 CommentsAnyone who has been targeted online, especially via mainly anonymous users on Google+, will, I am sure, be breathing a sigh of relief over the impending loss of the platform, as announced on Google’s site. A number of reasons have been…
7 Comments‘Ye Sons of the heroes, whose bravery tamed, The proud-soaring Eagles of Rome; Ye sons of the patriots, whose ready swords shamed, The Saeson that threatened your home: Say what is your Watchword? “It is, and shall be, We are…
4 CommentsFor this first post of 2019, I have decided to write about a couple of things, which, to be honest, were/are of such little significance to me personally, that I have until this point in time, not had cause to…
7 CommentsIt always saddens me when iconic buildings with historical significance are destroyed. That sadness is compounded, however, when said buildings also have a personal connection to either myself, or to somebody I know, or have known. A case in point…
12 CommentsI would hazard a guess, that there are a lot of people out there, who, will not have heard about a court case which, is currently taking place at the Crown Court in Mold, North Wales, where a group of…
12 CommentsFifty-Two years ago today, at 9:30 in the morning, a colliery waste tip slid down a mountainside and slammed into the very heart of the mining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The landslide engulfed a farm cottage,…
5 CommentsIn what now appears to be a clarification of my previous post, TOP BOYS, news has emerged of something, that although may be common knowledge to many of those who have spent time in a care home in the UK…
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