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Im Swansea Till I Die!

Swansea City FC is a Welsh football team, currently playing in the Football League. Nicknamed “The Swans” or “The Jacks”, SCFC ‘s ground was  at the Vetch Field in Swansea city centre until 2005. In the summer of 2005, Swansea City moved to a new 20,532 all seater ground, the Liberty Stadium, in Morfa

 

The early 1980s were Swansea’s halcyon years, under the guidance of then player-Manager, John Toshack, the Swans gained promotion to the old First Division in 1981, winning 3 consecutive Welsh Cups and appearing in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup as well. However, as fast as Swansea rose up the Football League, a decline ensued just as quickly.

Achievments	Year Won
FA Cup semi-finalists	1926, 1964
Third Division champions 2000	2000
Third Division (South) champions	1925, 1949
Fourth Division Play-Off winners	1988
Welsh Cup winners	(9) 1913, 1950, 1961, 1966, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1991
Welsh Cup runners-up	1915, 1926, 1938, 1940, 1949, 1956, 1957, 19
Welsh Cup semi-finalists	1914, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1931, 1935, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1994
Football League Trophy winners	1994, 2006
FAW Premier Cup winners	2005, 2006
FAW Premier Cup runners-up	2001, 2002,
Welsh Youth Cup winners	2003
West Wales Senior Cup winners	(25) 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1934, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2003
West Wales Senior Cup runners-up	1952, 2004
Welsh Football League Division 1 champions	1913, 1925, 1926, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1951, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Welsh Football League Division 1 runners-up	1914, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1933
Welsh Football League Cup winners	1931, 1933
Welsh Football League Cup runners-up	1926
Football Combination (Reserve) Division 2 champions	1955, 1961
London Combination (Reserve) Cup winners	1947, 1950
Macbar (Reserve) Cup winners	1987
Southern Football League (Reserves) Western Section champions	1925 (lost championship play-off to Eastern winners Southampton Res.)

The Swans are great i’ve watched them for years take a look at their main site provided below: http://www.swanseacity.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Welcome

Achievments provided by : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_City

Below is a video from Youtube.com . . .  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-gqoKvpVq0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My old homes

The first place I lived at was a 2 bed flat in Penlan. It was good there until some kids burnt our car! It started to get worse after that, so we desided it was time to move. We left in 1992 after 7 years.

After Penlan, we moved to a 2 bedroom house still in the Penlan area. It was great there to begin with, all my friends lived around there and it also had great views out to the docks. We were happy there, except my mum didn’t like it there. I think she was kind of relived when the gangs started to appear. They ended up:

• Smashing the windows to our house
• Setting our car on fire
• Shooting our dog with a pellet gun

 so we moved from there in 1998.

The third place we lived in, was my uncle’s home. We rented it from him, and it was in the Gendros area. The house was a dump and needed a lot of work done to it. Me and my step-father hated it there, but we put up with it for my mum’s sake. She used to live there when she was a kid, and the family all live around the area. But in 2006 I was on my own and the house was falling apart.

In 2007 I put my name down on the list for a council flat, I didn’t even care where the flat was just wanted to leave. In 2008 I moved to my new flat.    

My ideal place to live

If I could live anywhere in the world, I think the place I would like to live would be Japan.

 

Japan

I think it would be kind of cool to live in Japan and to see how they go about their lives, and to learn about their diffrent cultures and religious beliefs.

Of course it would be difficult living out there, not being able understanding the language, and spending weeks or even months learning the language  just for me to figure out how to ask where the toilet is. LOL

But the main reason I want to live (or travel) in Japan is because I always wanted to be a game designer and well, they are more advanced in the technology department than us. Just look at what they can do so far!  

There is one thing I would have to get my head around first and that is the food,

like this sesame-sauce-coated grasshopper.

http://flickr.com/photos/w00kie/

Looks nice!

Dogs at the Rescue Centre where I used to live

The dogs at the rescue centre came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were street dogs from the capital or other towns. Others were abandoned pets. Most were mongrels, but there were some pedigrees as well, such as Julie – Australian Blue Heeler and Annie – American Cocker Spaniel (see photo below). Nearly all had been mistreated by, and had a fear of humans. It took a lot of patience, love and hard work, but it was possible to rehabilitate some dogs, some of which were adopted by suitable people.

There were over 100 dogs at the centre when I lived/worked there and it would be impossible to list them all here. All the current residents at the centre can be viewed at:

http://www.animalaware.org/en/adopt01.htm

I got attached to most of the dogs at the rescue centre but here are a few of my absolute favourites:

                        

Alaska                           Dodo                     Forester                  Julie

 Below: Me & MiMi (see Note 1, below)                Below: Me & Julie

          

  Above: Julie & Annie (see Note 2, below)

Note 1: Unfortunately MiMi (sister of DoDo) was born with distemper, which is a life threatening and incurable disease. We tried very hard to give her a good quality of life but after several weeks of intensive care it became clear that she was suffering and in pain most of the time. The sad decision was eventually taken to put her to sleep.

Note 2: Julie and Annie were lovely dogs and were totally inseparable. Sadly, Annie no longer appears on the web site. She could have been adopted, but as they were so inseparable and it was the policy not to split up dogs who had got attached to each other, this is unlikely.

See also related posts:

Where I used to live

Volcanoes near where I used to live

 

 

 

 

Volcanoes near where I used to live

Guatemala is mostly a mountainous country with many volcanoes. The country also lies on several “fault lines” and suffers regular earthquakes.

 

Major earthquakes in Guatemala in the last 100 years

Date	Magnitude	Fatalities
19/04/1902	7.5	2,000
06/08/1942	7.9	38
04/02/1976	7.5	23,000
13/06/2007	6.7	unknown

 Source: USGS

Views of volcanoes near where I used to live:

    

Photo by: Georg_Neu                                Photo by: Magnusfranklin

         
Photo by: SPVW                                                   Photo by: Joshua Wietz

See also related posts:

Where I used to live

Dogs at the Rescue centre where I used to live

Transport where I live

Swansea was famously the place of the first passenger train when it started a horse drawn service in 1807 with a horse drawn train. It later went under different changes up until it was closed in 1960 when they then were using electric trams. It was the oldest and longest running service in the world.

Things are very different nowadays I am close to the bus routes which run to the city centre, Mumbles and Gower. Swansea train station is about 15 mins walk from my front door with links to all around the country Swansea Quadrant BUS station also offers coach services to most cities in the UK. In the summer months you can get a ferry from The Mumbles to Ilfracombe in North Devon. Swansea Airport also offers flights to a limited number of destinations.

The town centre is easily reached by foot  from my location and given the parking around the city centre but they the council provide a Park and Ride facility.

Photo by stitch                                                              Photo by Ian kirby   

                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where I live part 2

I am also lucky enough to have several parks within walking distance Victoria park, Brynmill park and Singleton park where many kinds of outdoor events take place through the summer including car shows and music events. Also close by is St Helens cricket ground where Garfield Sobers famously hit six sixes off one over one which smashed the window of The Cricketers Hotel.

Vicoria Park .photo by Steve Harris                        Swansea bay .photo by samsheep

 

This is about where I live

My name is Alex I have lived by the sea front in Swansea for most of my life, over the years it has changed a lot and is still changing as of this moment they are building the tallest building in Wales on the sea front changing the skyline of Swansea forever.

I am lucky enough to live close to shops were you can get everything you need:

• paper shop
• mini market
• off-licence
• hair dressers
• tanning saloon

 There are at least 10 pubs in five mins walk of my front door many serve food at most times of the day. Apart from the food served in the pubs there are many takeaways including :

• kebabs
• pizzas
• fried chicken burgers
• fish and chips
• chinese
• indian

 also restaurants including Indian, modern fusion, Thai and even a sushi bar.

PrawnCurry photo by sashertootie        sushi photo by apc33 

        

My Moving Day!

Last Monday, 07/04/2008 was my moving day and it was a BLOODY nightmare. And the bastards charged me £130 for the move, it was only down the road.  By the time we got to the flat they damaged my sofas and nothing was put in the right place. Apart from that I had no electricity, no gas and no food. So Monday night came around and I spent the night sleeping on the floor of my old place. There was:

• No heat
• No electricity 
• No nothing.

Tuesday afternoon, finally got my electricity on in the new place so thats something I guess.