Has Cardiff become a great city, or great big mall? Thousands of houses and apartments have been built in what are now trendy areas of Cardiff, the Bay, the city centre and Roath, but why is there a demand for apartments in Cardiff? Has the population of Cardiff grown? Are more people naturalising here? According to census figures, no. And if they were, why would they come? Is Cardiff a cultural mecca? No, we have an opera house, some small [...]

Having been online for 14 years, and having a active websites detailing my day-to-day life and thoughts for 13 of those years is a long time, I recently wrote about the history of my online life – the different iterations of those websites, the birth of the “blog” and how I had grown up, and how so had my writing. There have been periods of controversy in response to some of the posts, times where I have had to seriously [...]

We decided to revisit Ruby Tuesday, after-all I had been anticipating its arrival for months – so to only visit on the opening night and to take that as a representation of their usual quality of experience would be silly. I tried their “triple prime cheddar burger”, which apparently has been said to be “the worlds best burger”, and it certainly ranks up there – it looks good too. I finally got to experience the “endless fries”, every time I [...]

“You must hate the commute” they say to me, my friends. “I walk 5 minutes to the train station, sit on my arse in a semi-comfortable seat for an hour, I get off and walk 10 minutes to the office” I reply, “It’s not exactly strenuous”. I left the company that I started in May 2009 to experience more new things, that and the working relationship between me and my business partner had become strained through all the late night [...]

10 years is a long time, especially for a young person. In my case, 10 years is 40% of my life. Let’s stand back and think about that for a moment – for 40% of my life I have been keeping a record of my thoughts, feelings and inner-goings on. This would be quite an achievement, if I had managed to do it properly, which unfortunately I have not. There have been quite a few lapses, where posts were few [...]