Blogs from Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 7

Who says the Wrexham has no culture ? Well a lot of the townsfolk who really don't understand the City of Culture 2025 bid or don't see culture anywhere . We have a lot of spare time on a Saturday before we go to the football match . We need to get parked up early otherwise we struggle to find somewhere close to the ground to park . Going early means a lot of time on our hands to kill . Over the last few months we have walked up into town . Visited the museum a couple of times . Walked round the temporary exhibits - Hidden Holt and Lego buildings. We have drunk coffee in the museum cafe . Called in at the Portuguese cafe . What we have never done is called in ... read more

Day 715 of Covid. I had forgotten how long Covid had been with us. As I woke this morning I began to realisethat two years had flown by. We had stopped listening to the Politics Show where the politicians justified what they were doing about the economy, furlough and producing vaccines. Boris had stopped standing on the podium giving out figures of infection, hospitalisation numbers and the deaths for the day. We had stopped listening to news of Covid. We were truly fed up of it by now. We wanted our freedom . Something we hold dearly in the light of news coming out of Ukraine. My walk was to take me along the Cloy. A walk I divide into three parts . The first third out of the village and out into the countryside . ... read more

Think back to your childhood. What sort of toys did you play with? What sort of games did you play? Today was one of those days where we were taken back to childhood games with a vengence. Hopscotch - a bit of pavement and some chalk to mark out the squares and a pebble to throw . Bat and Ball. A ball thrown constantly at a wall much to my parents frustration who got fed up of the thud thud of the ball against the wall . Jigsaws , books to read , Roller skates . Cricket in the summer, Tennis in season and football in the winter . A piece of cardboard doubled up as a sledge in summer and a nearby bank used as a dry ski slope . And then there was Lego. ... read more

Another week has gone by - the weather forecasters tell us that we have storms on the way . February is turning out blustery . Colder than it was a few weeks ago and with two storms on the way we worry about the high winds . We need to take Gabby out to fill her with diesel . That will be a shock . The price of fuel has rocketed the last few weeks . Fears over Russia invading Ukraine . The rate of inflation going through the roof . The already expensive fill will cost a lot more . We need to try to fill her up with LPG again . We know she is half empty on one tank and completely empty on the other . But we have failed to find a ... read more

The only way is up - apart from the song of the same title it is fair to say that we are heading in the right direction . Covid seems to be for the time being under control and Spring apart from last night when the wind howled and the rain fell heavily is on its way. We had another football match to watch and after the excitement of Tuesday night we were up for it . The game should be interesting to say the least . We had as always time to spare . Time of our hands to fill . And that can be the problem . We had done so much walking around the town there was little to see . The only option a cafe . How about La Baguette . Not ... read more