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Hafal's first day in 2003
So Hafal is 10 years old.
I could bang on here about all the successes, exponential increase in size, numbers of staff, blah, blah but I'll leave that to the official Hafal media machine (they are doing a piece in the next Mental Health Wales journal) and instead share a few pictures to illustrate how things have changed - or haven't changed...
A bit severe? You don't want to get on the wrong side of this one - then or now...
Can you spot the ex-Guardsman hiding behind a bush...
That coiffure remains precision-perfect, nothing out of place...
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And what about this sour-faced exercise-dodger (with hair)...