Last week I was filming for Associated Press TV at a restaurant in Caerleon that has horse steaks on its menu. The Stuffed Dormouse started serving the dish after the horse meat scandal broke in the media. Co-owners, Gareth & Simone wanted to give customers the opportunity to try good quality horse, rather than meat […]

This weekend I had a Marty McFly moment and went back to the past. Sadly I didn’t use the DeLorean to get there, just my everyday car, but I still had an exciting, at times daunting, and enjoyable experience. The adventure started when my former employer, ITV Wales, asked me to work a weekend shift. […]

Everyone knows us women like a good gossip and most of us are pretty good at talking to our friends and family about important issues in our lives, but what about if we were asked to put those experiences down in writing? Well that was the task set out in the Kindle Book Publishing Challenge, […]

After the excitement of Wales winning the Six Nations Championship on Saturday, yesterday I came back down to earth with a bump, by spending the day organising my office! Tedious though it sounds, I actually had a lot of fun sorting through photographs of my time at ITV Wales to put in frames to go […]

Growing up my grandfather always called me his Numero Uno as I was his first born grandchild. For a few months when I was a baby my parents and I lived with him and my Nanny at their home in Barry, and as a result I formed an incredibly close bond with them both. Three […]

You’ve heard the saying no news is good news – well I always thought the opposite was true for journalists, but it seems I was wrong! It has now been a week since I posted my last blog update, which has been the longest gap since I started it. Ironically, the reason I haven’t written […]

Nothing says Hollywood glamour quite like the Oscars, the dresses and the diamonds, the tension and tears, the ambition and the accolade, make it an awards ceremony like no other, and this year’s show was no exception. Amy Adams was unflappable in her feathered number and Jennifer Lawrence dazzled in Dior, while Helen Hunt was […]

I didn’t know where to go, who anyone was or how anything worked…No it’s not a line from my diary on my first day of school, but how I felt yesterday as I worked my first shift at Radio 5 Live. Obviously I know the station well from a listener’s point of view, but when […]

Last night I settled down in front of my television to watch my good friend, Shazia Awan, take part as a panellist on BBC 3’s Free Speech. While I didn’t agree with everything she said, I thought she made her points in a clear and concise way and I was proud of her performance. But […]

Yesterday I went out for Sunday lunch to celebrate my mum’s and brother’s birthdays. The conversation and company were fantastic, and my cheese souffle was delicious, then we had the added bonus of bumping into an old family friend at the resturant. “Aunty” Edana, as we used to call her, gave my brother and me extra English […]