Category Archives: Sad things

Unseen disability

By Lesley | Published: February 28, 2008

I was reading Stonehead’s blog today and took his link to another blog. I often get incensed

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Hazardous Waste On Welsh Beaches

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.

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Free Range Shopper

By Lesley | Published: January 13, 2008

Last week I felt inundated to saturation point both by chicken welfare and by healthy eating.

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Beautiful grey & white cat found in Mountain Ash

By Lesley | Published: November 29, 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 [...]

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Gas Pipeline: What comes around goes around

By Lesley | Published: November 27, 2007

Today will see the end of the project to build a gas pipeline though South Wales.

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Two capsized boats

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.

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Dogs & Cats Are Different!

By Lesley | Published: November 11, 2007

Yesterday, I caught a snatch of something interesting on Breakfast TV. Apparently, hundreds of people are at risk of killing their pet cats by mistake.

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East Coast Flood Warning Tonight

By Lesley | Published: November 8, 2007

I was thirteen when the Great flood of Canvey Island happened.

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Ray Gravell. R.I.P

By Lesley | Published: November 1, 2007

The Welsh legend , Ray Gravell died suddenly last night in Mallorca where he was on holiday with his family. Following his dreadful year, healthwise, we had been delighted to see him back on the box last week. What a shock! R.I.P

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Our Canary died last month

By Lesley | Published: October 31, 2007

We had a lovely canary called ‘Blodwen’. When we rescued her from a tiny cage, we thought it was a ‘she’, because the only sounds to come from it were shrill squeaks.

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