I've been overtaken by a Hercules at eye-level too - on the road from Aberystwyth to Llangurig. I gave the b**ger a run for his money, though - might have even beat 'im if it wasn't for that darned horse-shoe bend at Goginan!

We've had a lot more low-flyers over Carmarthen town in the last couple of weeks. Usually they're farther up the Tywi valley, around Llandeilo. There used to be a lot of REALLY low flying, and the fly-boy bosses assured everyone that all you had to do was note down the numbers on the wings and report offenders. Sure. Like you've got time to do that as you're trying to keep you mini from rattling apart or sheep from stampeding! They shot themselves in the foot one year though. The National Urdd (young people's) Eisteddfod was held locally and the pilots thought it would be cool to use the big marquee as a reference point. Poor kids were competing against the roar of low flying jets ... and boy did the parents get hot under the collar. Pulled down some major apologies from Government ...

Oh, and regarding Dreigiau (pl.of Draig) - did you know that Welsh is the only gender-based language in which dragon is female?

Waiting for the bad jokes

sian, west wales