A friend, Tim Hughes, has published a book on 100 of the best churches in Wales. A personal endeavour over the past 10 years has finally come to print. Tim takes his personal selection of best Welsh churches and provides details and descriptions on each.

Publishers: Seren Books

The book is available from Amazon.co.uk Wales' Best One Hundred Churches. 

Tim also has more information on this page: Tim Hughes, Welsh Churches  

Nippon Inn, 124 Charminster Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8UT. Tel: 01202 258 859

A new Japanese restaurant has opened up in Bournemouth. Located on Charminster Road it is easy to get to albeit it a pain in the ass to find some parking at night.

The are brand new and sort of finding their feet. They are only opened a few days per week and have a pretty limited menu in my opinion but that makes good sense as a business though.

A group of us went along on Friday night to check it out. We practically had everything on the evening menu. After we ate our first order we ordered again. Throw in the 6 pints of Asahi beer, bottle of white wine, green tea and a soft drink then everything came to just £15 per head. I thought that was really fantastic value for money.

The chicken wings were a big hit. The noodles a bit disappointing. Sushi was OK.

Time will tell if they will grow but we hope so. It was sad to see the other Japanese restaurants in Bournemouth come and go.

If you like chocolate and you like shopping on the Internet then you will like this web site: Montezuma's.

They are not just an Internet mail order outfit but have many shops around the South.

I popped into one in Winchester and they have a great range, all wierd and wonderful. It can seem pricey but probably no more than Thorntons and so on.

Chocolate and chilli, you have to be brave to mass produce that. I bought the Choco:Block which is a hefty square chunk of solid chocolate.

He is nuts in a very funny way. I can't believe that he has a show on Radio 2. I thought he would be more of a person for Radio 1 listeners, but then again he doesn't play much music and just rambles on for ages.

Compared to his current run of the Ponderland TV show on Channel 4 this is positively clean-mouthed. I am not sure whether the show is live or not on a Saturday night but he seems to be able to cut out the swearing but goes off at very strange tangents, like he does.

He went down this racism track on Saturday night and it was just funny.