Author Archive: Monnow Man

Phenomenon or phenomena? A guide for Coast to Coast guests

I listen to quite a lot of the UFO/paranormal internet media, including Coast to Coast, The Paracast and Dreamland and have noticed that there is a real confusion sometimes among guests and presenters about when to say phenomenon, rather than phenomena. Now I suppose it’s risking appearing snarky by pointing out the difference here as [...]

Restaurant review: Dragon’s Den Thai & Chinese, Monmouth.

The sort of situation that must present itself to millions on a Saturday night befell our household last night: too tired to cook, too tired to go and buy some food to cook. The obvious answer was a takeaway delivered to our home. Monmouth has many restaurants, most of them in Indian/Bangladeshi. Indeed, I’ve wondered, [...]

Recipe: My favourite comfort food: Chicken Liver Risotto

This is a meal I make when I need comfort food. It’s not an authentic Italian-style risotto as it uses Basmati rice and the aim is not to produce the creamy nursery food dish that is the mark of a real risotto. So if that bothers you, call it “Rice and Chicken Livers”. If you [...]

Crop circle aliens are vandals

The silly-season, sorry, crop-circle season story of the man arrested in a crop circle for allegedly firing a shotgun to deter sightseers provoked the following thought: There are those who marvel at the amazing complexity of some of the crop formations and find mathematical and symbolic meaning in them that, they say, is proof that [...]

Halt says he saw “structured machines” at Rendlesham, “extraterrestrial in origin”

File this under in the “If true, it’s very important” category: Col. Halt, famed in ufology for his taped commentary of strange sightings outside a nuclear weapon-packed US Air force base in 1980, has apparently stated in an interview cited in UFOWeek.com: “I wish to make it perfectly clear that the UFOs I saw were [...]

Is Disclosure Imminent?

Some websites are reporting that UFO disclosure is imminent.

Closure of The Hill, Abergavenny

Local news: The Hill, Coleg Gwent’s Education and Conference centre in Abergavenny is due to close, under plans announced recently. A real shame if this does happen. Politicians condemn Hill closure

Blackthorn blossom

Blackthorn blossom Originally uploaded by Monnowman. Spotted this next to the Wye today.

The end of The Wye Valley Chorus

A couple of Tuesdays ago, a few of us held the last meeting of the Wye Valley Chorus in Monmouth. There was no singing and the mood was sombre as we took votes to decide on which charities would receive the remainder of the bank balance. Instead of the usual banter, there was awkward smalltalk. [...]

A difficult choice

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