November has arrived ..............................

With it we have the sad news of the passing of Ray Gravell. A man, a Welsh speaking man from West Wales who played 25 times for his country starting with the 25-10 win in Paris and ending with the 18-34 defeat to Scotland, the first defeat to a team other than New Zealand for 14 years. Grav also played in all 4 tests vs the Bokke in 1980 and would have made the team in 1977 had he not been injured. After retiring from Rugby he had a acting career, a wondeful film about thai brides and a small role in Damage. He was a leading broadcaster for S4C and BBC Wales as well as Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. He was the president of Llanelli and acheived many great things with them. He was a devoted husband and father. Lastly like myself he was diabetic and it was this nasty illness which killed him. Forget that the death certificate says heart attack it was this illness which took him away. Let us all renew our struggle and it encourages me and gives me heart.

This being November we remember all those who died in World War One so that Belgium might be free but at what cost ..................