Tyddyn Bach Trust offers a number of services providing practical and emotional support to those living with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. along with their partners, carers or children. The services offered are based at Tyddyn Bach with their outreach programme serving a wider North Wales Community.

Their Mission Statement
To provide quality social respite care and support to individuals with HIV/AIDS together with their partners, families and carers. To work towards combatting the fear and stigma associated with HIV/AIDS in the community and to promote understanding and empathy through the provision of education and information.

Location
Tyddyn Bach is a large Edwardian house with extensive grounds situated on the beautiful North Wales coast, within walking distance of Penmaenmawr and the beach along with all the essential amenities. The first impression one has on arrival is a far cry from the usual image of a cold, impersonal clinic.

Please contact them via the link on the right hand side of this page.

Stuttgart v Barcelona
Olympiakos v Bordeaux
Inter Milan v Chelsea
Bayern Munich v Fiorentina
CSKA Moscow v Sevilla
Lyon v Real Madrid
Porto v Arsenal
AC Milan v Manchester United

First leg ties to be played February 16th/17th and 23rd/24th, second leg ties to be played March 9th/10th and 16th/17th.

In case you don’t get the Pioneer, here is an article I had in this week.

If you do, I can highly recommend this one:

Gwynfor Coaches
1 Greenfield Avenue
Llangefni
Gwynedd
LL77 7NU

Tel: 01248-722694

Ask for Iwan or Gwynfor, but when it comes to a driver, get Vaughan. He’s the best one there!

In case you don’t know or have forgotten, there is the non urgent number for the police.

101 is a 24-hour confidential number which you should use to report problems to the police of a non urgent nature which do not require a 999 call.

You will speak to a highly trained team member who will report the problem and issue you with a case number to enable you to track its progress.

I have already had need to use it twice, so it is really useful.

I know I shouldn’t, but I know what one of my presents is going to be this year.

My thoughtful brother went with me to the Car Phone Warehouse to get me a phone. I have been wanting a LG Cookie for ages and he bought me one!

The LG Cookie is a touchscreen phone with a large touchscreen display that’s easy and fun to use. With a 3.2 megapixel camera, a media player, an FM radio, Bluetooth wireless connectivity and a memory card slot, it has everything I need from a phone.

I must remember to act surprised on Christmas morning.

Allied Healthcare has been providing health and social care services for over 37 years.

The company originally commenced trading as Notionvale in May 1972, in Staffordshire, UK as a one-branch home nursing service.

Today they operate a community-based network of over 110 branch locations across the UK, which includes their most recent branch openings – East Lothian and London North.

I have been with them for a number of years now, and I would highly recommend their services.

For more information, see the link on the right hand side of this page.

As from  Sunday 6th December, Concessionary bus passes will go live so passengers using them will have to swipe them to get on the bus.

The new cards, which give users free bus travel, contain an electronic chip that machines on-board the buses can read. This ensures bus companies are paid correctly for the passengers they’ve carried.

Stonewall, the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual charity, is backing an  initiative by North Wales Police to remind everyone that Homophobic abuse is is a criminal offence.

The North Wales Police will not tolerate any form of Hate Crime, whether it be Homophobic, Racial, or aimed at someone’s Disability.

If you are a victim or witness such a crime, then call 101 and report it.

Thank you.

The other day I was on a bus, travelling toward Bangor,  when we were stopped just outside the Castle in Conwy. It turned out that a large articulated lorry, with an even larger flat-bed trailer, had tried to get through one of the narrow gates in the wall on the Bangor road. Obviously, it didn’t make it.

The bus was asked to back up by some of my friends in the Police, so as to let the Wagon reverse right back to the bridge!

It held everyone up for about half an hour.

So maybe this was one time that following a Satnav  wasn’t such a good idea.