Good things about being Welsh: No. 3
We are so kind and noble we allow other teams to beat us at our national sport. I am not absolutely certain this is an asset, but it indicates true strength of character and I am sure the Japanese have...
View ArticleSwan in an Ikea bag
On my way back from The Promised Land yesterday evening – that’s right, there is a way back – we passed under the railway bridge between Tudor Street and Taff’s Mead Embankment and there was this swan...
View ArticleField of broken dreams
'Neutral' referee Alain Rolland Here is the man who wrecked the rugby world cup, referee Alain Rolland, wearing his jersey of choice. The French team were utter shite. Sam Warburton’s tackle seemed, at...
View ArticleBlanco’s Sunday Round-Up
I am leafing through a notebook and I find a terrifying quotation from John Cheever, and though I have no idea when I copied it down, it would seem to come from Cheever’s journals: When the beginnings...
View ArticleOdds and ends
Here’s a salutary tale. The past few days Blanco’s Blog has gone viral, thanks to the occurrence in a one-off post last summer – a film review of Hobo with a shotgun – of the word penectomy. Shit, I’ve...
View ArticleGood things about being Welsh: No. 5
a) Grand Slam. b) Singing and shouting like a loon. c) Soaking it up afterwards.
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