Castle Inn Bridge, Treforest

In the middle of February, 2020, South Wales got hit by Storm Dennis, one of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever recorded. Many areas of South Wales experienced more than a month's worth of rainfall within a period of less than 48 hours. Record gusts accompanied the rainfall, and across Wales hundreds of residences were flooded out …

Chef Carter #2

I cannot cook. In this blog entry, I try.

Chef Carter #1

I cannot cook. In this blog entry, I try.

Inktober 2019 – STAR TREKKIN’

Another October, another Inktober! As usual, I eschew the prompts, and draw characters from shows I like. This year, I picked all of the Star Trek franchise, so I had plenty of choice.... My previous Inktobers for 2018 and 2017 are here and here!

MY NAME: THE BOOK

I get so many emails from people with my name spelled incorrectly, in spite of the replying party having my correctly-spelled name IN THE EMAIL ADDRESS. So, after months of procrastination, I gathered a tonne of these misspellings together, and put them into a book, and decided to crowdfund it. The campaign is here, if …

Treforest Tin Works

William Crawshay II first started a tinplate rolling mill on site in 1794, and following a rebuild in 1834, by the mid 1800s it was the largest tin works in Britain. It was managed by Crawshay's son Francis. The works were abandoned by the Crawshay family in 1857 and in 1861, the whole property reverted …

Attending TFNation 2019…

SO.  On August 17th & 18th, I'll be in attendance at TFNation, the frankly brilliant Transformers convention that succeeded Auto Assembly. The past two years, I've attended simply as an attendee (albeit contributing behind the scenes in a minimal fashion with intro videos and writing the Saturday script readings). This year however, I'm back on …