What am I doing here?
There is some truth in the saying ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.’ When I first met my wife Penny she was working as the events coordinator at St Pauls Cathedral in London (you might have heard of it – big Wren building with a dome!). This in turn allowed me the privilege of going to some of the events she had organised as well as attending other functions. I will not bore you with a list, but more than a few of them involved royalty and the great and good of this land. I’ll be honest with you here and tell you that my upbringing was ordinary, the comprehensive school I attended supplied more people to be tried in the justice system than it ever did Oxbridge graduates. Consequently, I grew up with a that mindset people from Wales are sometimes accused of and that I was not good enough. Despite this, up to this moment in time I have to say the good has outweighed the bad, despite it not feeling like that from time to time. It was this skewed mindset that dogged me whe...