Dai's walk around Wales blog

6/6/22

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Racing is so often a self driven experience but racing in the military is different. You run for your friends, your team, your company, your battalion and your regiment and when you win, you win as a team not as an individual. Today is the 30th anniversary of my first involvement as a member of the winning Welsh 1000s team. Thanks guys................... Shyaway

Grampa Jim used to tell this 'nursery rhyme' to Neilson as a boy and my mum used to tell it to me, and I couldn't for the life of me remember it so I asked Neilson for the words and along with the words came the performance. I never met Grampa Jim, he died before I was born.

https://youtu.be/rGLO-jHvgJA

Today is the 100th anniversary of my Mum's birth - CLICK HERE

As part of the marketing for our Rugby Auction later this year, we dressed up the kids in historic All Black jerseys for a family rendition of the Haka. This is a link to the words for the complete New Zealand All Black Traditional Haka.

CLICK HERE

https://youtu.be/EeX2KIhQpn8

I saw this fella swimming in the canal last week and got a lovely close up of him or her so here it is........

Does any one know how to tell the sex of a grass snake?

FB response from Howard Middleton-jones

Females are usually larger - males have a distinctive orange - yellow collar - females less distinctive etc.

FB response from M.N. on Neath Town Talk

Difficult to sex but the female is much larger than the male generally and the head of the female is much more pronounced in being triangular in appearance with eyes deep set into the cheeks whereas the male has an altogether more slender head with eyes that often protrude beyond the line of the face and jaw.