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Very nice entry, lovely humour throughout, you may even have inspired me to visit Treforrest one day as I live in Cardiff.
Doubt I'll ever go to the university as I have far too many degrees already but the place sounds nice.

And it doesn't rain all that much here. not any more than it does in Birmingham anyway

Although clearly you haven't inspired me to spell Trefforest correctly yet

Well I have only guaranteed a certain level of inspiration, and I'm afraid spelling isn't covered by your policy. You pay for bronze mate, you get bronze...

You got the welsh spelling right so, you're on the right lines.

Fantastic post. As a student here, I can directly relate, especially with the weather conditions and the hills, which I'm about to make a round trip about. And guess what? It's raining.

I did some creative writing a Glamorgan (don't think it was a degree option when I was there, or I might have taken it) including my epic poem 'it's raining in Wales'. Who are you working with?

I'm doing creative and professional writing here, working with sheenagh pugh, chris merridan and others. Shame you didnt have the option back then because its a really good course. Aiming to take it towards radio and journalism. If you have a look at the glam site, theres a load of details on there as to what exactly the course entails.

Incidently, on a side note you may or may not care about, after reading your profile, I see your from Beds. I'm from Leighton Buzzard myself.

Heh, coincidences abound, I grew up in Bedford

Just a question Ben, I have a writing media module and the assignment for this week is to write a last word column. Although mines not about glamorgan, it was suggested that it would make a good subject. I personally believe myself to be a little more creative than that, but I'd like to show your entry to the class because I liked it so much. But I need your permission first, if that's cool? I think it would go down really well and might show some of the people who didn't get it too much what they should've been doing.

You're welcome to show the entry to the class if you wish. I vaguely remember Sheenagh Pugh, she may have taken a poetry lecture for me once (not just me, there was a group of us) when Paul wasn't there at the last minute. Or it might have been Matthew Francis, I can't remember. Interesting that we're all from Bedfordshire. Orcus- do you still live in Beford or have family there? I have an entry about the rugby club amongst my few edited entries.

Yeah I noticed when I looked up your personal space earlier. I once used to drink at the same pub in Bedford where Martin Bayfield was in occasional attendance (although he soon defected to the dreaded Northampton team- traitor! )

My Mum still lives there - near Putnoe Lane if you know it.

I left Bedford for pastures new nearly 20 years ago myself though - 1989 to be precise.

I was unfortunate enough to spend nearly a year living in Luton. Had to make money somehow, but bloody hell, it's one of the most depressing places on the face of this earth. Just like Milton Keynes really.

I have to say I kind of left the area at a sprint, I don't find it so bad now though, not really the most thrilling part of the country when you're a youngster

Luton is of course a seperate electoral area now, I think it was thrown out of bedfordshire for being such a scab. Bedfordshire does indeed not hold a great deal of allure for the young, but I'm sure there are plenty of worse places. Certainly there is still a fair amount of open country there, whereas Hertfordshire is a lot more built up by comparisson.