Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Thursday, April 10th, 2008

On a day when all the rest of news is sad or bad, it is great to hear some good news for once.
This Newfoundland is being trained to rescue people from the sea in Swansea.
The picture came from the Daily Mail and you can read more about this Super-Dog here
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The following is an extract from the current edition of The Portugal News … an English language weekly newspaper. (more…)
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
March 1st is St David’s Day

Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus Iawn
Happy St David’s Day
Because it happened to fall on a Saturday this year…….. (more…)
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I was reading Stonehead’s blog today and took his link to another blog.
I often get incensed (more…)
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Last week, we had to transport a beautiful and very energetic Labrador dog to the vet. His visit was for castration, which is always performed before rescued animals can be re-homed into families as pets. (more…)
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Perhaps it is just as well that we have had sustained heavy rain and gale force winds for many days now. (more…)
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Last week I felt inundated to saturation point both by chicken welfare and by healthy eating. (more…)
Posted in Animals, Annoying things, Education, Gorseinon, Green things, Interesting things, RSPCA, Sad things, Strange things, Swansea, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Regular visitors to my little blog will know that on a couple of days a week, we drive the ambulance for the RSPCA in Swansea. Today we had to take a beautiful grey and white cat, aged possibly about two years, to the vet for a check-up, after she arrived at the Centre. She had been brought in by one of the Animal Collection Officers from Mountain Ash where she had been found straying in the past couple of days. (more…)
Posted in Animals, Charity, DEFRA, Education, Happy things, RSPCA, Sad things, Swansea, Uncategorized, Wales, volunteering | 3 Comments »
Saturday, November 24th, 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.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
My hitherto trusty bread making machine went sadly wrong a few weeks ago.

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