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Some of it is great. Some of it is walking around the edges of small towns and industrial estates on hard tarmac. To do the Camino properly you...

Sounds good in parts. A case of the curate's egg perhaps

We called them Bompers as well. I had a 30 bumper which I lost to my mates older brother I was gutted. I told his old man that he had forced me to...

We walked a section of the Camino de Santiago through Galicia last year - 110 miles over an easy nine days (three sections from Leon with the boring...

Tennis? Pitch and putt? Posh git. We called those big ball bearings used with marbles "bompers" too. Way up the top of the Ebbw valley, we...

Scrumping in the large gardens of Cyncoed, usually before the fruit was ripe!

Only thinking about them last week. I used to be with the 4th Whitchurch Scouts (poor relation of 1st Whitchurch) near Forest Farm and...

I went to see Simple Minds in Madrid :hehe: quite liked it, IMO more interesting than Barca although i'd happily go to either again if the...

Throwing Dutch-arrows. Those things could really travel quite a distance. Skateboards, made out of those really crap adjustable rollerskates with...

One of my favourite memories as a kid was playing cricket in the yard at Cilfynydd Primary with a “Corkie”. One of the boys hit it over the railings...

Always fancied Seville, not in summer time though. Thamks TBG :thumbup:

Madrid is quite interesting in that it's not one of the classic capitals in Europe but all the better for it (although I haven't visited the city for...

You killed me in your previous reply about walking into town for your pic n mix :hehe: Rock n roll.... :hehe: although i like it, things were...

Colwill was pulling wide quite a bit and put in a few good crosses, one for the 2nd goal and a good cross from the left that nobody on our team...

Go over Glan Ely fields fields with a football and play for hours on end.

I heard it as 'alleys'.

QPR lost 6-0 to a Spanish team I’d never heard of.

Going by your first sentence, you'd never leave the South Wales Valleys. What's your take on Madrid, hardly off the beaten track and a bit of a...

Did it look like anyone could operate successfully as a winger? It would be hugely novel if that were the case.

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It’s in about ten days time.

I know there are many who don't like him but I'd take Wintle over Chambers in defensive midfield. Chambers seems a bit slow to play in that position...

When is the QPR game?

Changing the coach and not the players should give us an idea of how much the coaching has been contributing to the poor results in the last few...

Bogeys!!! I forgot about them. Had a few of those over the yrs. scaffold plank, 4 wheels (sometimes all the same size,) cross frame with rope or...

I quite like visiting places with unpronounceable and strange names which are off the beaten track. A few weeks after my visit to Nuuk in Greenland...

has chambers been played in CDM in either of these friendlies? I think it'll be Wintle there with King as backup.

Anything with wheels! Living in a rural area, with woods, ponds & quarries. Initially without an engine, then later with. 2, 3 or 4 wheels.

During the summer in parks and fields there were always games of cricket going on with youngsters. Never see it these days.

Is that Marbles? My Mother, from Pill always called them arlees.