Not a great month with health and family issues (hence the long gap) but life is back on as even a keel as it can be - and summer appears to have overtaken spring. I can't remember so hot and sunny a Bank Holiday weekend; I do hope everyone's making the most of it. I'm now way behind on a couple of deadlines but I've taken a few days out to enjoy things - then it's back to the desk with a vengeance tomorrow!
It's certainly hard to think that we only recently had to postpone a Writer's Room broadcast because of thick snow. But last Thursday saw us not only back in harness at NHSound, but also in our brand new studio in Tredegar. There were the inevitable teething problems with the technology of course, but overall it was a good start and an interesting morning; the programme had a "Tales from Wales" theme and we had three guests making very different contributions. Peter Dimery from Caldicot Writers spoke about his Pembrokeshire stories which are currently in preparation and we heard two from the series. Valerie Thompson and Nigel Daft both belong to Cwmbran Writers. Valerie's memoir of life as a small child in a Welsh village spoke, I'm sure, to a whole generation who grew up "up the Valleys" in the early post-war days; for something completely different we then turned to Nigel's "Tin Dog" series of books which feature a robotic canine faced with the bewildering scenarios of everyday life in South Wales. I'm still smiling at the description of a game of snooker!
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| Valerie Thompson |
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| Nigel Daft |
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| Peter Dimery |
