🍁 October 2024


🍁 Welcome to October 2024 with thirty-one days of blogging to come more

🐦‍⬛ Garden nature diary: October 2024 more

🦆 Cotwall End Valley nature diary: October 2024 more

🕰️ Time waits for no man and that’s still as true today as it was 629 years ago more

🎸 After fourteen years, The Angling Widow puts in another appearance more

🎣 A very wet start to October but the angling continues more

🎥 Charade, a thriller from 1963, starring Hollywood legends, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn more

💰A very good month as far as the premium bonds draw is concerned more

⚽️ Travelling to Italy with the champions of Wales more

⚽️ UEFA Conference League MD-1 at Stadio Artemio Franchi, the home of Fiorentina more

🇮🇹 Night and day tourist time in Florence more

⚽️ Matchday in Florence for Fiorentina v The New Saints, including fan engagement and behind-the-scenes more

⚽️ Meeting David de Gea and football memorabilia items from the Fiorentina trip more

🎣 Yesterday morning I was in Italy, tonight I will be in Wales, and sandwiched in between, I went fishing in England more

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Back on the road with The New Saints and it’s an overnight stay in a Cardiff hotel more

⚽️ Fifteen minutes in at Briton Ferry Llansawel, rain stops play and an interesting signed team sheet  more

✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: When there is no way, God makes a way more

🎣 The Monday morning angling show, starring an all-perch cast and Bayside Radio more

🎣 You get out the violin, I’ll get out the fishing rod, a lesson in perseverance and a nice local woodland walk more

🎣 Perch fishing, a great life lesson and a walk around our local area more

⚽️ Behind-the-scenes as The New Saints lose 2-1 to Caernarfon Town more

🎣 Fishing in 5,000 mph winds more

🍄 Fungi hunting on Penn Common in Staffordshire and, in particular, fly agaric more

🎣 Scrape ice, go fishing, catch fish more

✍️ 1,110 weeks and still going strong more

🎣 What a difference a day makes, as this time round I’m fishing in heavy rain more

⚽️ Nice to get back on track with The New Saints, following a 3-0 victory against Cardiff Met FC more

🎣 A morning session pursuing perch and at least I wasn’t a blanker more

✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: It’s important to persevere and not give up more

🎣 A very slow angling session to start the working week, followed by Bayside Radio more

🎥 Northern Lights Of Christmas (2018) more

🎣 Second angling session of the day more

🎣 Back on track with the prawn after perch fishing more

🎣 Canal lure fishing on the way to work  more

⚽️ Behind-the-media-scenes as The New Saints beat Flint Town United 5-0 more

🪱 A mild and wet evening, let’s snatch some worms for fishing more

🎣 Hitting both the bird and fish jackpots within minutes of each other more

🌲 Nature walk in Cotwall End Valley and memories of Aberfan more

🎥 Christmas Crush (2020) more

🎥 Christmas Parade (2014) more

🎣 Another fishing for perch with prawn angling session more

⚽️ Behind-the-football-media-scenes as The New Saints beat Llangollen Town 16-0 in the Welsh Cup more

🎣 A lure angling session, a dusk walk in the valley and 1,111 consecutive weeks more

✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: Life lessons from a Christmas movie and the world of football more

🎣 Very wet and very windy but the fishing continues more

🍄 My eldest daughter and grandson encounter their first fly agaric more

🎣 No wind, no rain, nor winter’s cold, can stop me, because, if you put your mind to it, there ain’t no mountain high enough and Bayside Radio more

🎥 Homemade Christmas (2020) more

🎣 This morning’s session and I don’t go fishing just to avoid a blank more

🎥 Christmas In The Pines (2021) more

🎥 Christmas At The Holly Hotel (2022) more

⚽️ Training at Shrewsbury Town’s Croud Meadow with The New Saints more

⚽️ At the age of 62 years, 6 months and 2 days, I played football more

🎣 The positive effect of playing football and going fishing with a couple of decent perch in the process more

⚽️ What a performance, what a result, what a night, as The New Saints beat Astana in the UEFA Conference League more

🎣 Late to bed, early to rise and a decent perch on the bank more

🎣 A lure angling session to start the day and 1,112 or should that be 1,113 more

✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: Understanding life’s highs and lows more

⚽️ Behind-the-scenes at Aberystwyth, as The New Saints win 4-2 at Park Avenue more

💦 I don’t normally get excited about appliances more

🎣 No boot? No problem. Go lure fishing! more

🎥 Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) more

🎣 This morning‘s angling session and tips on lure fishing more

⚽️ I got there in the end and so did The New Saints against Connah’s Quay Nomads more

🎣 No Halloween fishing nightmare: Catching perch on the drop on the last day of October more

🐾 Dilwyn’s diary for October 2024: Dilwyn gets excited when he meets a zombie more