This is the month when crocus adorn gardens; except in ours, which is the territory of local squirrels! Just one purple crocus has escaped their foraging. It stands in solitary splendour in the middle of the lawn, but it proclaims, with the authority of a 100 blooms, if winter comes then spring is not far behind. We are apt to concern ourselves with big events: special holidays, outstanding sights and sounds, but we miss out if we do not also identify the everyday pleasures e

On September 26th 2017, construction work had begun on the new £350 million hospital in Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran. We read that this state-of-the-art super hospital will offer complex and acute emergency care to patients, and will be known as The Grange University hospital. It will have a helicopter pad for patients who arrive by air ambulance and will provide more than 40 specialist services. This will be OUR new 21st century model of healthcare. Meanwhile, (possibly years while