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My Sunday Walk in the Sun
Posted on 10:42am Wednesday 5th August 2009
Become active, read Dr Mike Stroud's book, and live long, healthy and fit into old age.
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Strange weather for July
Posted on 12:24pm Wednesday 29th July 2009
The Preselis and the scenes of wild life around the hills
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The Mobile Library is more than a library
Posted on 5:46pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
The mobile library arrives every three weeks which - and particularly if people are housebound - is like a treasure trove. The mobile librarian becomes a friend and the books an escape to other times and other lives.
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Dogs are not small people
Posted on 11:03pm Monday 6th July 2009
Training dogs the Dog Whisperer way: motto: I train people; I rehabilitate dogs.
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The Mystery of Michael
Posted on 5:56pm Sunday 5th July 2009
Is Michael Jackson worthy of all the adulation when there are people risking all on behalf of Human Rights; or those who support Amnesty Internation; protecting Whales, the Amazon Rain Forest.
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Fleas on dogs and dogs on kayaks
Posted on 3:42pm Saturday 4th July 2009
I am trying to cure my dog of fleas. And also find a single sit-on kayak with enough space for it to stay on
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My Diet of Death
Posted on 7:49pm Friday 3rd July 2009
Nearly all diet advice is wrong and destructive. My experience with following the government advised diet and taking statins.
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Tough Women and Wimpish Men
Posted on 9:14pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
Swimming off the Pembrokeshire Coast; the pleasure of holiday makers at just being there. The Nelson era and the Patrick O'Brien novels.
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Helping Lleucu
Posted on 6:15pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
Leucu needs voluntary and charitable help after her desperate parents are denied a discretionary top up grant.
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The Needle or Bust
Posted on 11:49pm Monday 29th June 2009
Rowing in sit-on kayaks to The Needle off Dinas Head. Picnic in lonely cove, bird watching and then watching Andy Murray win his match at Wimbledon.
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The Rev. Morris BA, the Red Kite and me
Posted on 4:37pm Sunday 28th June 2009
The Red Kite is seen in the area around Newport and Brynberion. It now attracts tourists as an attraction to rival dolphins, seals and sea birds seen from the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. The Rev Morris, Victorian bird expert feared for the fate of the Kite at the hands of poisoning and trapping gamekeepers 100 years ago.
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Denis Watkins retired to Newport, with his wife Daphne, after spending much of his working life in Nottingham. Since moving to Pembrokeshire he has immersed himself in the culture and language of the county. He has learnt Welsh so that he can chat to native Welsh speakers, listen to Radio Cymru and read and write fairly well. His other interests are politics, the environment,walking on the Preselis and the coastal path with his two labradors, rowing, reading biographies and writing.
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