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About Bryn Thomas

After a longer career in travel agency than he would care to admit, Bryn became a freelance review of hotels and guest houses at the suggestion of a former client and publisher. He still travels and writes for pleasure. More Posts

The Man Who Fell To Earth

I had just got up yesterday, nipped across the road to buy my newspapers and returned to make a cup of tea when – switching the BBC1 morning show on the television – I first caught the news about the passing of rock star David Bowie. For the rest of the day it seemed as if the UK airwaves had [...]

January 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to an old chum

A lady of my acquaintance has endured a very tough week. She had to take her twelve year old dog to the vets yesterday to have him put down. I am a big fan of dogs – when I was young my parents had two brindle boxers in succession – but have only ever owned one in my life, a highly [...]

October 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Such is life …

One of the aspects about modern life that most often irritates me is the sheer numbers of people that exist and then on top, of course, the knock-on effects thereof. [Having opened with that sweeping statement, I perhaps need to qualify myself. I am not addressing the issues of the global size of [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

An outing in the Solent

Yesterday I traveled in a small party by motor cruiser to Bembridge on the north-east of the Isle of Wight, for much of the trip being let loose on the wheel in the cockpit. The conditions were overcast and mild – save for the forty minute period over lunch during which bright sunshine broke [...]

August 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Media frustrations

I know people who will not read The Times, The Sun or The Sunday Times – or indeed any other publication they believe is owned or influenced by the tentacles of the business empire of Rupert Murdoch – simply because they are owned by Mr Murdoch. Separately, most days I buy The Times, The Daily [...]

July 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Waiting for God-knows

What is it with utility contractors and call-outs? One of the most frustrating aspects of modern life is having something go wrong in your home which necessitates the call out of an engineer. Take a hypothetical example which actually happened to me this week. Suddenly one day, about a month ago, [...]

June 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The way ahead

Writing as a senior citizen who likes to think – probably erroneously – that he keeps up to date with what is happening in the world via his television-watching and internet-browsing, I was pleased this week to be given new confidence about the future by two media reports. The first was about a [...]

May 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

What comes around

Six or seven years ago now I sat next to Bob, a friend of my father’s, at a dinner following a public talk given by the author of a new book. I hadn’t seen him for at least eighteen months and so we had quite a lot of catching up to do. Towards the end of said meal he asked me if I knew what [...]

April 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A slice of political chat

Last night I popped over to see my brother and his family to discuss a family issue and the conversation swung to the forthcoming UK General Election, specifically last week’s ‘Seven Leaders’ TV debate. The topic of the importance of voting – and the rights and wrongs of the UK political [...]

April 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on with it

Sometimes – thankfully – events conspire to remind us to park our self-absorption, reflect upon life and be thankful for small mercies. I hesitate to file this post under the heading ‘There’s always someone worse off than yourself’, but there’s an element of that in my theme today. [...]

March 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

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