Thanks for the feedback.

Those astute readers among you will realise that my South Wales Evening Post column has now been going since June, 2014. This is my 170th column edition.

When I was approached to become a regular contributor to this well-established daily paper it was a total surprise.

Up until that point, it was not something that I had even thought of adding to my repertoire!

Initially, I wasn’t sure that I could deliver content on a regular basis with rigid deadlines.

In addition to this, I was fully aware that the media eats up material at a tremendous rate of knots and new, creative and interesting content was always going to be a challenge.

The technology was also an issue: would my typewriter cope with the extra work?

Are spare parts still available?

I am so glad I took on the challenge. The amazing positive feedback I get (not only off the readers in Wales but as far afield as Ireland, Switzerland, Canada and America) makes it all worthwhile.

I meet so many fascinating characters with interesting stories on my travels.

Without them this space would probably contain Saturday’s lottery numbers and more adverts. Just a thought.