Faith is a surprising thing - you can find it in the smallest corner, the largest hall, across the world and in your own backyard. You see so often now, faith isn't just about religion. Uniting in something that doesn't break a people apart. The faith born of pride, strength, nationhood, being part of something bigger. Faith [...]
Category: Rugby
A Match day out
There are times when hanging out with friends, sharing a mutual pastime, brings about the funniest conversations. None more so than my love of watching rugby with my friends. It's always a day out, a few drinks, some lunch then settle in the pub for the rest of the afternoon. The atmosphere across the streets [...]
Touchstone
First term of uni I was a fish out of water. I'd made the biggest decision of my life to that point and shocked everyone. So off I went, a small town Welsh girl in the middle of London. I barely knew who I was. It took the few constants I could take with me; my love of [...]
Legendary stories, rugby style
I may have brandished my soap box on the last post but the reason why is here. I came to love rugby, not just as a sport, but as something meaningful whilst climbing mountains, asking endless questions of my dad in front of the TV, and sitting curled on sidelines watching my grandad whistle commands. [...]
A building unexpected
A grand house inspires dreams. A patch of grass nurtures dreams. One rarely works without the other. Grass roots/local rugby - how else does the small child pick up a rugby ball and run with it? But how else are they inspired without watching legends, role models and mortals in jersey's that one day they [...]
Epic encounters
A nation's dream and a team of Dragons I have no words for the incredible, awesome, epic, miraculous sight that just happened. None. I am sat in the kitchen slightly disbelieving that Wales won against England in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, hosted by the English!! In Twickenham... Hell boys, amazing doesn't even cover it! I am [...]
Grammy Ffe
In this short story, meet Iestyn and Phoebe Fychan; one is a legend of the literary world, the other will become a legend of the rugby pitch. # © Copyright remains with the author
Stori // Storyteller 