By Lesley | Published:
November 8, 2009
Yesterday saw the last ever greyhound race meeting at the Swansea Greyhound Stadium.
Fears had been expressed about the welfare of some of the greyhounds whose owners might not wish to continue to care for them.
All the animal welfare charities agreed to combine forces to ensure that temporary shelter could be found for any animal [...]
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By Lesley | Published:
April 6, 2009
High Definition television?….Having Difficulties?…or Highly Dubious tactics more like!
By Lesley | Published:
March 27, 2009
Despite the fact that the Government in Westminster has seen fit to allow English badgers to continue to live in their natural settings (or should I say sets?) , the Welsh Assembly has decided that the culling of badgers in Wales is to go ahead.
By Lesley | Published:
February 19, 2009
Is Abbey/Santander in difficulties? If not, why will it not release our money?
Some ten years ago, my husband and I each invested in ISAs in The Abbey National in Swansea.
By Lesley | Published:
October 18, 2008
At a time when just about everyone in the country is fitting energy saving bulbs in their homes, tightening their belts against the economic crunch we are facing, having cavity wall insulation installed, closing curtains at dusk, turning down the thermostat and wearing extra clothes, switching off pilot lights and lights that are not strictly [...]
By Lesley | Published:
September 4, 2008
I don’t believe it!!!
Following the shameful behaviour of the people in Ashstead in Surrey last year, today there has emerged a disgraceful episode in Woking, again in Surrey, where an injured soldier, sent home for treatment to a war wound, was kicked out of a hotel which he had booked into earlier in the day.
By Lesley | Published:
February 28, 2008
I was reading Stonehead’s blog today and took his link to another blog.
I often get incensed
By Lesley | Published:
January 21, 2008
Perhaps it is just as well that we have had sustained heavy rain and gale force winds for many days now.
By Lesley | Published:
January 13, 2008
Last week I felt inundated to saturation point both by chicken welfare and by healthy eating.
By Lesley | Published:
November 24, 2007
Firstly……the TV news and the newspapers have been filled with the reports of the cruise ship MV Explorer which emulated the Titanic in the Southern Ocean, hitting an iceberg and sinking.