I love driving over Fairwood Common where our local airport is to be found and where there is a fair amount of activity despite it being closed to passenger traffic. It still takes private jets as and when required, and no doubt this is where Catherine Zeta lands hers when she pops over the pond for a quick visit to the family in Mumbles.

This is where the Air Ambulance Service resides. I think it's the main base in South Wales. It is very reassuring for residents of Gower to know that the AAS is close at hand: it would take a NHS ambulance 20 - 30 minutes to arrive from Singleton Hospital depending on traffic. The service recently came to the assistance of a neighbouring farmer when he accidentally tipped over a quad-bike that he was driving over his land, it resulted in his leg being trapped and crushed by the vehicle. I called the AAS and they arrived less than 5 minutes later. Within 12 minutes Mr Farmer was in surgery having an operation to save his leg.

You need lots of luck if you are a wild animal roaming on Fairwood Common. The Commoners on Gower graze their livestock on the land, a right that is passed down through the generations. The Commoners cattle and horses roam at will and move from Fairwood Common through the lanes to other favourite grazing and watering holes. Here on Welshmoor we find more than a dozen wild ponies and a herd of cattle numbering between 15 - 20.

It's a sin: there isn't a traffic speed limit on the Fairwood Common. This results in carnage ! Last month two beautiful wild ponies were killed by vehicles. It seems that when drivers hit the Fairwood Road they think they're on Highway 66 - sight of the expanse of road ahead appears to send their brains into a whirl and feet automatically hit the 'gas'. I know this feeling, it surges when crossing the cattle-grid in Upper Killay and one has to rein it in else the 'demon speed-king' takes over where common-sense should prevail.

I am glad to say I haven't been involved in an accident involving one of the commoners animals, but I have had a close call.

This herd of wild horses loves to graze outside my front farmyard gate.

I am a very careful driver, travelling at about 30 mph on the A4118 because I know commoners animals graze on Fairwood. However despite this caution I had a very near miss when a beautiful jet black horse leapt from the two-foot bank of earth which runs alongside the Fairwood Road, and flew across the bonnet of my Fiesta, to land on the opposite side of the road. It was late at night and I was travelling with headlights on full beam, so I truly believe that that horse could see me approaching.

I didn't see it in the coal-black darkness of the night, as it took-off from the small bank of ground to my left, cleared the bonnet of the car and landed safely in the opposite lane! The horse seemed to time the jump to perfection. It glided over the bonnet, it was so close that I could see it's fully-stretched body glistening with moisture.

I have to admit I was shaken and in a state of such disbelief that I turned the car around and went back to check that the horse actually existed and wasn't a figment of my imagination! I found it grazing with the rest of the group and it appeared quite unperturbed.

Gower is now much quieter than in the height of the tourist season and so I hope that this means those people who drive along Fairwood Common are predominantly locals travelling to work and back again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the 'surf dudes' who play at Llangennith, Caswell and Langland will keep a cool head when travelling to their favourite surfing haunts too, in order to 'catch a wave'. Both these groups of people should know that there are huge risks awaiting them on the A4118 if they persist in driving at great speed. And for the visitors to Gower? They will have to wait until Swansea Council takes the danger more seriously and places a road-side alert at the entrance to Gower.