On the Benybont Site as at JANUARY, 2012
New stuff on this web site.
The purpose of this page is quite straightforward - to draw attention to the newest seven or eight additions or revisions to this web site. By that I mean the major additions or revisions. Not the tweaks and fiddlings about that go on all the time.
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Wild Thoughts.
Back in the heady days of 2004, before someone in the financial world got their sums badly wrong and when we had a war criminal as Prime Minister instead of a Euroloonie, I wrote Wild Thoughts for Cambrensis Magazine. It was a kind of holiday from Stray Thoughts, the series that featured in the magazine from 2004 to 2006. Later, I added the Archived Stray Thoughts to this website, together with their interactive successor, Stray Blogs.Wild Thoughts is now included in the Stray Archive.
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Marconi Beach Sound.
The latest musicians to join the Music section are the members of a group which specialises in instrumental surf music. Marconi Beach Sound are based near Lavernock Point on the South Wales Coast. Featured here is one of the tracks from their CD, Beach Party. The track is entitled Walk Don't Run.
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Luís Benitez.
The latest writer to join the Even More Guests section is a poet with an international reputation, Luís Benitez. Featured is the title poem of his latest collection, A Heron in Buenos Aires, published by Ravenna Press of New York in 2011.
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Autumn Quiz Making an unwelcome return to the what's new section of the website is the autumn quiz, with all-new questions for October, 2011. Yet again you have absolutely no chance of winning GLITTERING PRIZES. There was no Spring Quiz this year because spring passed without my notice.
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The Efficiency Myth
Joining John Major Balls-up's Train Set and a fairy story called The Prime Minister's New Policies on Pinko Prose is The Efficiency Myth. This one doesn't just poke fun at members of The Regressive Party. In fact, several years ago, it nearly made it onto the august pages of The Spectator. The then deputy editor (i.e., the one who did all the work) rang me to say he liked it and was going to 'put it up to Boris [Johnson]', then the nominal editor. Unfortunately, the blond one must have disapproved or decided instead to focus his attention on HIGNFY and becoming the Mayor of London.
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Looking at a Poem Revisited I've added Looking at a Poem Revisited to the original Looking at a Poem on the More Words section.
'The GOTCHA! War and After' is the poem looked at. This poem examines the military adventures in The Falklands Islands and Iraq. Don't look at it if you're a fan of Thatcher, Blair and Bush
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Peter Finch The previous writer to join the Even More Guests section was Peter Finch. Peter contributes his fine poem, written many years ago now, A Welsh Wordscape.