I bought one of those new fangled room size blow up Christmas decorations. You place it the middle of the room pull the cord and stand back while it explodes outward at a gentle pace until it fills the room. To remove it you just use a pin and it pops back. It worked a treat except we couldn't get into the living room over christmas as it covered all the doors as well.

In a game that was as exciting as it was frustrating the Boks looked as though they would finally get an assegai up their derrierre. The Taff with new wunderkind George North gave the nation hope not experienced since Keith Jarret single handedly trounced England on his debut.Tries came thick and fast. Worlds turned on blades of grass and Mrs Evans across the road shouted for the first time in twenty years.The last 5 minutes caused coronaries across that area thar was once known as The South Wales coalfield and the result - but that would be telling.

Once again our antipodean brethren visit these fair islands. The come to share a common camaraderie borne out of a love of oval balls and all things macho - in the best sense of those words.We accept their challenge in the spirit of the chivalrous knights of old whose virtue, gallantry and heroism set them apart from the rough and tumble of humanity.And so without further ado. Let the battle commence and the best team win.( Aside ) And stamp their colonial faces into a bloody mess of mud and bone.

Ahoy mateys.Ten years a plannin' Billions of lupins spent on attractin the finest golfers in the world in the hope that it would put Wales on the map. It's put Wales on the map allright as for the first time in the history of the tourney it'll have to go into a fourth day. WHY? BECAUSE SOME REALLY BRIGHT SPARK DECIDED TO HOLD A GOLF TOURNAMENT IN WALES IN OCTOBER WHEN THE RAIN RIVALS A TROPICAL MONSOON.

"Smoke hangs like haze over harvested fields,
The gold of stubble, the brown of turned earth
And you walk under the red light of fall
The scent of fallen apples, the dust of threshed grain
The sharp, gentle chill of fall.
Here as we move into the shadows of autumn
The night that brings the morning of spring."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qsvjk/Welsh_Greats_Series_3_Gwyn_Thomas/

Plaque for 'forgotten' Hollywood star Gareth HughesGareth Hughes became a star of stage and screen in America A plaque honouring a silent-era Welsh film star-turned-missionary will be unveiled at a house where he was a boy.Carmarthenshire-born Gareth Hughes, who died in 1965, later gave up his A-list Hollwood life to be a church minister to a tribe of native Americans.Kelvin Day, a relative on his Hughes' grandmother's side, will unveil a blue plaque at 38 Princess St, Llanelli, where Hughes was living, aged six.It comes 10 years after a bronze plaque was unveiled in Parc Howard Museum.That plaque was unveiled by Hughes' niece Nansi Howells and Hughes biographer Stephen Lyons.Mr Lyons said Hughes was largely forgotten despite being an "immense" figure, becoming a star on stage in America before moving into the nascent Hollywood film industry.He said: "You have your famous Welsh actors and famous Welsh ministers but here you have someone who had such an overriddingly varied life.In later life Hughes became an Episcopalian minister Hughes, born in Dafen, Carmarthenshire in 1894, walked to London as a teenager to join a theatre company of Welsh actors.On tour in America, he went on to receive rave reviews, becoming a favourite of JM Barrie, before going into films and making a fortune which he later lost in the Wall Street Crash.Mr Lyons said: "He was known as the metropolitan boy star. He had a town house, a chauffeur, a groom for his horses. He lived quite well."He had all the trappings of a star but although he was a star in Hollywood, he never became an international star such as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford or Charlie Chaplin."And he didn't continue his careeer. He genuinely got God. He became a Protestant Episcopalian minister."Mr Lyon said Hughes is still fondly remembered by the Paiute people to whom he ministered in later life."He had an immense impact on them and is remembered above all ministers."In 2008, Mr Guy, from Burry Port, made a documentary, Desert Padre, about his relative's life and work.

In a game that one could barely conceal bare faced contempt for the MIGHTY, the INVINCIBLE, the GREATEST England team ever who only had to show up to win the World Cup I opted for uproarious laughter instead.Was there ever such an inept England side stuffed with pampered egos with nothing to back up their collective delusions other than the words of their publicists.Deutschland Deutschland uber alles.never sounded more apropos in this game.Whoooo whooo!