I had another article in the latest Gair Rhydd (or, as it is sometimes pronounced by non-Welsh speakers, the “Gay Read”. Oh dear. It’s almost as bad as Pwllheli/”Pooh-welly”)! I plan to do scans of my recent stuff sometime soon so you can read my articles on here. The article I have in this week is on Apathy, which is probably my most passionately felt article so far. It’s challenging for me to try and live up to those words! Again, I hope to have it online soon.
I’d have liked to have got by Room 101 piece on Whinging in there before Easter for the sheer hypocrisy of whinging about whinging, and also to have something that was more light-hearted and fun rather than quite so much of a call to revolution against the forces of consumerism, apathy and the like!
What’s more, though, is that someone wrote a letter in response to my article. And very unusually. Robbie, a third-year Journalism student who’s a proof editor on the paper, and who comes to the CU, told me about the letter and joked that they hadn’t had one actually praising something since “Let’s see, nineteen… er, eighty… something!” The correspondent Simon (no surname given) said that “I thought that Caleb Woodbridge’s article was a great piece of work. A superb inspiring article verging on a life-guide!” Blimey. That’s made me all warm inside, that has!