🏴 Welcome to December, welcome to winter, welcome to Cardiff more
⚽️ A positive result in Barry and it’s off to Newtown in the Welsh League Cup final for The New Saints more
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: The importance of promotion more
🐦⬛ Garden nature diary: December 2024 more
🦆 Cotwall End Valley nature diary: December 2024 more
🎥 Christmas At The Plaza (2019) more
🎣 Talking angling on radio, our best premium bonds reveal to date and the first fishing session of the winter more
🎥 A Christmas Karen (2022) more
🎣 A morning angling session and the importance of perseverance and tweaking around the edges more
⚽️ Defeat for The New Saints in Merionethshire and five games to go more
🎣 My new toy and I’ve yet to blank this winter on the fishing front more
🎥 Christmas On The Range (2019) more
🎣 Targeting the right species, with the right bait, the right tactics and being in the right place more
🎣 As Storm Darragh begins, the second angling session of the day more
🎣 Fishing in Storm Darragh more
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: Battling the storm and finding the lost sheep more
🎣Fishing in Storm Darragh: Part two more
☔️ Storm damage and a sign that, even in the darkest times, there’s hope if you look for it more
🎣 Weekly fishing chat on radio and we can all be ambassadors for angling more
🎣 A very pleasant angling surprise to start the day and a reminder that, as long as your bait’s in the water, you’ve always got a chance more
🎣 As the days continue to shorten, the fishing continues regardless and the signs of new life are there if you look closely more
🏡 Keeping on top of things in the garage and the garden more
🎥 Miracle On 34th Street (1994) more
🎣 Roach fishing on a pond to start the day more
⚽️ Panathinaikos prove too strong for The New Saints and three games to go more
⚽️ Football memorabilia items added to my collection from The New Saints v Panathinaikos UEFA Conference League game more
🎣 Late to bed but up early for fishing and another pond session to begin the day more
🎣 A morning angling session, climate change and an important principle when it comes to fishing location more
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: Don’t despair, there is light at the end of the tunnel more
🎣 A Sunday morning return to the roach pond more
⚽️ A comfortable win for The New Saints in my favourite competition more
🎣 Talk angling, buy bait, go fishing and my wife is boosting the economy more
🎥 Miracle on 34th Street (1947) more
🎣 A pond angling session and just on the right side of the line more
🇸🇮 The football journey takes me from England to Slovenia more
⚽️ At Stadion Celje for MD-1 training with the champions of Wales more
🇸🇮 Welcome to Slovenia, an interesting early hours of the morning and a walk around the local area more
⚽️ After fourteen games, The New Saints exit the 2024/2025 European stage in Slovenia more
✈️ From Ljubljana to Liverpool and home, sweet home more
🎣 Back home, back on the bank for the shortest day of the year and some philosophical thoughts more
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: The real meaning of Christmas and the importance of looking up and seeing the big picture more
🎣 Scraping ice, going fishing and a huge landmark angling session more
⚽️ Back to domestic football for The New Saints and they think it’s all over – It is now! more
⚽️ The final memorabilia items from my time with The New Saints FC more
🎣 Groundhog Day: Scraping ice, going fishing, another huge landmark angling session and football more
🎣 Fishing on December 24, at least I’m not a Christmas Eve blanker and both a male and female blackcap in the garden more
🎥 Red One (2024) more
🎣 Fishing on Christmas Day more
🐾 Merry Christmas, Dilwyn, the Bedlington terrier more
🎥 North By Northwest (1959) more
🎣 Boxing Day fishing on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal and a change is as good as a rest more
🎣 Back fishing on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal, the benefit of made-up rods, the use of a plummet and presentation more
🇺🇸 The girls are away, the lads are at home and it’s The Civil War more
🎣 A morning session on a pool and a lesson in perseverance: Keep going and you get there in the end more
🎥 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) more
😮 My Wife Has Left Me more
🎣 Including today, just three angling sessions left in 2024 more
✝️ The Church at Hiraeth: It’s good to reflect on the past year but don’t dwell on the negatives more
🎣An afternoon on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal for the penultimate angling session of the year more
🎣 The last angling session of 2024 and the final fish of the year is… and the blackcap drama more
🎣 First full year of retirement around the corner and my angling plans for 2025 more