Alison Powell

PRE-COVID, if you can remember a world way back then, so much TV passed me by. I only discovered ‘Line of Duty’ at series 4. ‘The Bodyguard’, ‘Doctor Foster’, ‘Killing Eve’, ‘Fleabag’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘Ozark’ and so the list goes on of shows that I read great reviews of and friends raved about, but I just didn’t see. Whizz bang up to date and I am gobbling up TV like a woman who has been starving herself of sugar, fat and carbs for too long. As an FYI, I ha

VIRGINIA Woolf wrote many fine lines, but a sentence that particularly resonates with me is, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Penarth Times columnist Alison Powell on what she enjoys most about Christmas, and why she is reflecting on the good things in her life this festive season.

Penarth Times columnist Alison Powell writes:

POLITICS is everywhere right now and depending on your point of view, that is either a good thing or a bad thing.

I AM perched at the Viola Ice Rink tapping this out.

STANDING on stage, I have had some of my most exhilarating experiences and most terrifying.

WHEN I first moved to the Vale, I felt rather lost for a while, and would’ve felt even more so had it not been for Aunty Carol.

I DIDN'T expect my shed installation to be postponed due to severe winds and heavy rain.

AS we swelter; as traffic builds on all roads to the beach; as we lie awake at 4am too hot to sleep, my thoughts inevitably turn to food.