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In Wales, harps are so culturally significant that harpists get a special mention on road signs. Just love this fact
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To any non Welsh speaker looking with limited comprehension at excited Tweets about the current pop chart, the word 'bumed' is the mutated form of the word 'pumed', 5th so 'Lady Gaga bumed i Dafydd Iwan' does not imply any physical contact between these two chart artistes.
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The Welsh word for solstice is 'heuldro' pronounced 'high-el-dro (as in drone without the n sound)' Roll the r sound please. Now say it aloud. Lovely, isn't it? Literally 'sun-turn.' Such a celebratory sound- longer days coming.
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Got to love
@DyfedPowys
When they caught the robbers who broke into our local Spar, after a police chase, they also fined them for breaking the COVID-19 rules. Villains, please note: robbery is not a valid reason to leave the house
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@ThereWillBeGin
@adelegeras
My nephew working alone late in a bookshop in Glascow was alarmed to be asked: 'Have ye nae got a book on psychopaths?' He took the rather rough-looking customer to the True Crime section only to be told the chap wanted '..tae go for a bike ride on mae holidays.'
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Do you remember when most of Britain's cows were slaughtered during COVID? Me neither, because it didn't happen, yet methane levels dropped considerably. Which might lead you to believe that farming does not bear sole responsibility for pollution. Solve, don't scapegoat.
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These are the resonant names of the mountains of what we call Eryri, the Haunt of Eagles, also known as Snowdonia. You are welcome to visit, to climb them and to share our wonderful scenery but please don't start re-naming the peaks because you haven't yet learnt how to say them
Mynyddoedd Eryri o Abersoch pnawn ma 👌🏴
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Beloved Irish friends, lovely to host you in Cardiff but never, ever think that you can get the edge by making us play in pouring rain. We are Welsh. We are rain. It is within us and all about us. When we sing our children to sleep, our voices echo the falling rain
#WALvIRE
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@billywigwam13
@kayaburgess
Some would say no, one having been founded by Christ, who put Peter in to head up the management team, bold choice that worked well til he got crucified in Rome, what a turn up.Other club? More to do with celebrity owner Henry VIII, the most larger than life Harry since Redknapp
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Struggling to understand why the OS are considering putting recent made-up names on maps of Eryri. Gribyn Facet Heather Terrace and Far South Peak already have names- Clogwyn Tarw, Y Llwybr Gwregys & Bryn Tryfan. No group of Cagoule-clad visitors have the right to rename our land
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The woman is a genius. I keep saying it, but it keeps being true. I will stop saying it if it stops being true but until then- comedy gold from the funniest woman in the world. Or any bloody world.
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@LissaKEvans
When I was a child, we used to play a game called 'Catholic Bingo' with the birth announcements. In my early childhood, it was 7th child or later, plus indicative names like Ignatius or Perpetua. Later my mother changed the rules to 5th+ , as an acknowledgement of changing times
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Over on FB, a group called Cor-ona has been formed and I have never been so proud to be Welsh. It is a virtual choir, with people singing proper SATB harmonies wherever they are: glorious. My friend Rhi is feeding her hens as she sings, Aled is lambing, Mair Harlech on the piano
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40% o ffermwyr yng Nghymru'n medru'r Iaith. Oes swydd arall efo ganran debyg? Na fydd dyfodol i'r Iaith heb yr Amaeth felly dyla bob un sy'n gofido am dyfodol ein Iaith hefyd yn feddwl am dyfodol ffermydd Cymru.
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Every year, my mother taped a naked Sindy doll to the top of the Christmas tree, wrapped a white hankie around her then pulled the gold paper out of a packet of Benson & Hedges to make a trumpet saying 'In the eyes of God, this is as good as the Sistine chapel.' She wasn't wrong
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@shockproofbeats
Teenaged daughter came into the kitchen and asked what was for supper. Quinoa was my answer. She asked what was on the radio. I said it was a concert on Radio 3. 'Never let anyone know we live like this!' she cried. 'I may as well write 'Bully Me' on my forehead with marker pen.'
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@DrPragyaAgarwal
I used to carefully craft organic, wholefood snacks, only to find that they traded them. Going rate for a flapjack was two Penguins, which made economic if not dietary sense to us as a family
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If
@WelshGovernment
want to see 120,000 less livestock in Wales, from what source are they going to make up the food not produced? Honestly, guys, you cannot make that up with a few blackberries. Less food produced here means more food miles- how is that good for the environment.
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@ruskin147
Not sure it has. The message is Stay at Home and if people willfully interpret that as Drive half Acrioss the Country and Climb Snowdon, that can hardly be the government's fault
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Why do you find the need to constantly undermine British agriculture? I have never heard anyone claim cattle as exclusively British so your 'straw manning' is without foundation. Fact: beef produced here is produced to the highest standard in the world. And has low food miles.
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I know it's early for controversy but the 'cat walking on a keyboard' rubbish surfaced again yesterday. In The Times. There's no legislating against stupidity but I do feel it is worth asking why editors let this nonsense through? It's not original or witty and it is so annoying.
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My father was born 111 years ago today. As an avid reader of Tolkien he would appreciate me celebrating his eleventy first birthday. He was a reader, a teacher, a father, a fierce advocate of justice, a fighter with fist & mind, a champion of the weak, a Welshman and my hero.
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@davedhjones
My dad once took a call from an English firm looking to order 10,000 boxes of nails. It was the wrong 'Llanfair 730' so Dad rang every other possible version all afternoon, eventually finding the foundry & making the link. The order saved the firm from laying people off.
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My entire life, I have longed for library steps. Now I know my yearning lacked ambition. On seeing
@valmcdermid
not only has steps but has them running on a lovely little track, I'm struck with awe, like Mr Toad on his first glimpse of a motor car. No-one puts them to better use
Does your spring cleaning include organizing your books? Best-selling Scottish author
@valmcdermid
provides some helpful tips in this video, as she gives us a tour of her bookshelves.
#scottishsfu
#bookshelf
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@RevRichardColes
This was the dilemma obsessing me in the weeks running up to my wedding. In retrospect, I should have given more thought to the identity of the groom.
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Why do we have a Dylan Thomas Day when he wasn't even the best 20th Century English medium Welsh poet with the surname Thomas?
@RSThomaspoet
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100 years ago today, in Darjeeling, my mother was born. She shared a house with Wittgenstein, hunted sidesaddle, nursed Guinea Pigs, wore Chanel's New Look, bore nine children, started numerous businesses, converted, was excommunicated & readmitted, fought her demons, & survived.
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A few weeks ago, I told you all here about deal it was submitting an application for an Arts Council Wales grant when I still have a voice in my head saying how useless I am. Today I found out my bid was successful
@Arts_Wales_
#LlaisyLle
@MontgomeryYFC
@MenterMaldwyn
Amdani
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So, this is Wales, where Chief Constables just rock up at a youth festival and start bashing out a tune on the piano.
Diolch i
@YGBroMorgannwg
am adael i’n Prif Gwnstabl
@CCMattJukes
ddefnyddio eu piano!
#yagym
#Urdd2019
🎹🎼🏴👍
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Odd thing just happened. Was looking at a Youtube clip of a band I liked from the 70s and in the audience I spotted my daughter Gwenllian, who wasn't born till 2000. Checked the details- it wasn't my daughter but me.
#TimeTravel
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Exciting news! Cwmni THR, which consists of the excellent
@EmyrHimyrs
and me, have been commisioned to create a radio drama from my novel 'Bloody Eisteddfod' 'A Oes Heddwas.' To be recorded back to back in both languages broadcast on
@BBCRadio4
@BBCRadioCymru
&
@BBCRadioWales
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People ask why I want to write police stories about Dyfed Powys. There's your answer
A lady told me her son went for a job interview in Newtown and got stopped by police checking it was an essential journey.
Way back, same place near Welshpool, he gets stopped again.
'You've stopped me once'.
'I know', said the officer, 'I just wanted to know how you got on'
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If OS is really considering using climbers' nicknames to replace existing historic Welsh place names, shall we return the compliment? Suggestions please. Pwll Diwaelod for London, Y Garthffos for the River Thames, Porthcaethweision for Bristol, Tre Arwerthwyr Tai for Shrewsbury?
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Annual reminder to my non-Welsh friends that there is no nation in Europe with a richer tradition of Christmas music than Wales and yet they seldom make it over the border. These songs, some passed on under the shadow of execution are too good not to share.
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@DaniDarkSkies
My own belief is that Welsh makes some English people uneasy because so much of their own sense of self springs from the idea that they are 'indigenous' in some way: Welsh remids them that they too came in on small boats to a land with its own culture & language. Hence ridicule.
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As you listen to this, look at the land.
@1GarethWynJones
farms this land. Its beautiful diversity is there because of how he farms, not in spite of it. Don't take the word of those who visit occasionally with clip-boards & closed minds but to those who live in symbiosis with it.
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This is the best novel ever written in the Welsh language and anyone who disagrees had better be prepared to settle the matter by single combat. It is a family saga, and so much more. It is set in Dyffryn Banw. Why is Powys such a great place for storytelling?
@Powys2025
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I was in trouble here recently for lack of respect for Dylan Thomas. In the 50s, DT & my uncle Elwyn were out on the lash in Fitzrovia. Offered sofas for the night by strangers, DT crapped in their fireplace in the night & left Elwyn to take the rap. Say what you like about RS...
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Sorry for any of you who get fed up with my 'Isn't Wales just phenomenal?' posts but here is another one.
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@zoesqwilliams
It's 'not very widely spoken' except in Wales. And Patagonia. Where else, apart from Sweden is Swedish spoken? In communities like mine, Welsh is the language of daily life. Wales was the first nation in Europe to achieve mass literacy. Our language preceded yours. Wise up.
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To the Costwolds to record
@BBCRadio4
's iconic Round Britain Quiz. The Welsh team is now all female as I am joined by the brilliant
@ladycariad
. Actual photo of the team preparing to meet our foes.
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Gearing up for the
@eisteddfod
I want to encourage my friends who don't speak Welsh to attend. It is a cultural phenemoenon unlike any other. Here is a taste and remember, this is the audience singing, without prompts, no words to follow, no-one on stage.
The audience at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, in multi-part harmony, singing from memory.
The actual audience.
No words on screen, no-one on stage.
Just waiting, and singing.
❤️🏴
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In Wales, we've chosen to forget this man because his heroic story does not fit our narrative about ourselves though his final speech in Welsh to the Welsh speaking crowd in Usk, was cheered to the echo. In Rome, they've commissioned this painting of him. Cofiwch Sant David Lewis
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So, as a non red-head from a family of red-heads, I offer you this proof, as if you needed any, that
@EleanorMorton
is the funniest person in Britain at the moment.
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Radio Times Pick of the Day for tomorrow. So grateful for the fantastic team, especially the long-suffering genius
@EmyrHimyrs
who managed not to throttle me when I said, again, 'Like that but with more curlews & tractors.'
@Steffan_Rhodri
is Daf Dafis. Diolch, diolch diolch
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@LaceyBonarHull
I'm Team Catherine of Aragon and I think about her a lot. In fact, I even ask myself, in a dilemma 'What would Catherine have done?' and always get sensible outcomes. C of A would not have upgraded Windows halfway through a massive project, would she now?
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I've had the great good luck to be asked to select the radio for this week's 'Pick of the Week' on
@BBCRadio4
and the process is delightful and fascinating. Please tune in on Sunday to see if you agree with my choices
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Sometimes, non-Welsh friends ask why so many of us who live here have such an intense sense of belonging. We are raised in beauty and it cannot help connecting us to the land. This is Cymru, we are Cymri and to part from this place is an amputation for many of us. Hence hiraeth
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@RevRichardColes
My late father (Commander RNVR) often repeated that the RNVR (aka Wavy Navy) were gentlemen but not officers, the RNR were officers but not gentlemen but that the Royal Navy were both officers & gentlemen. My father, btw, was a miner's son from Aberdare who Had a Good War.
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Calennig- an extortioner confesses. When I was young, it was traditional to round neighbours, asking for a New Years' gift. Cash only, no sweeties. The going rate for Calennig in 70s MidWales was 50p per household. We told 2nd home owners the rate was £5 and threatened curses.
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Received excellent news today- the Welsh Books Council will be supporting my next novel, in which Inspector Daf Dafis spends all week at the
@royalwelshshow
Expect hell on Horse Hill, carnage on the cattle lines & mayhem in the Members
@LlyfrauCymru
@CarregGwalch
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@glosswitch
As the mother of 6 daughters, the growth of this bullshit really alarms me. I brought up my girls to be themselves, develop their own interests etc. The youngest is now 18 and I am so glad to not be raising younger girls in this toxic climate
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I don't want to seem thin-skinned but I just started watching a recent film set in Wales but with, of course, an Englishman cast as the lead. He's a good actor and his put-on accent is tolerable but I won't be watching any more. It's not as if we have not great actors of our own.
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I just want to point out to Mr Drakeford that in an average Christmas, a group of people happy to be defined as one household at 11am may well have split into four or five distinct warring factions after an hour of Monopoly, with spouses are not speaking and children running away
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In the last 48 hrs, most of my waking hours have been spent in a socially distanced recording studio working with an amazing team on the radio dramatization of my novel, 'Bloody Eisteddfod'/'A Oes Heddwas.' When the actors are this good, they no longer feel like your words.
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Look at this. Reflect we are a literary people. How could we fail to write poems & stories? This is what fills our eyes.
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Sometimes my intelligent friends from larger nations ask me why I have such a passion for this corner of Europe. This is a major reason. Wales was the first nation in history to achieve mass literacy and that has left a legacy so rich and powerful. Our culture belongs to everyone
It’s
#LibrariesWeek
and this year's theme is ‘A Nation of Readers’! 📚
What better time to learn about the man who made Wales one of the most literate countries in Europe? Read our guest blog on
@Europeanaeu
to discover the story of Griffith Jones.
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@JayHulmePoet
Am I the only person to find this heart-breakingly sad? This Church should be full of worshippers. If only the faith which built that Church had not been ripped out of the heart of the nation by lust and greed....muted Papistical mutterings....
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@dcsandbrook
@TheRestHistory
@jonawils
I see this shaping into a battle between two key Twitter demographics: young male players of fantasy games who have never left their bedrooms and mildly bitter, bright women who blame their lack of promotion on the patriarchy. Could go either way
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Yet another picture! I'm sharing this today for a reason. I'm going to a virtual event about preserving & celebrating Welsh placenames so wanted to share an image of physical beauty, also full of culture & history. Discover more about Wales via the scenery. Celebrate don't erase.
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What a picture! I have said it before but this image underlines it: there is something transcendental about the land of Wales. It is too disturbingly lovely not to make poets out of us, even prosaic slobs like me. That's it- poetry classes in the New Year it is!
The milkyway over Grib Goch
Eryri
North Wales
2016
#Astrophotography
#mountains
#space
#photooftheday
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I know I risk getting piled on for this but signing petitions and going on protests are what we call in Welsh preaching to the choir. Go out and meet someone you disagree with. Buy them a coffee or a pint and talk. That is the only way to change politics, by changing minds.
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This is where I live. I could live somewhere else, but I can't think of any good reason for doing any such thing
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Newyddion cyffroes! Mae Cwmni THR, sef
@EmyrHimyrs
a finne, wedi derbyn comiswn i creu gyfres drama o'm nofel 'A Oes Heddwas' 'Bloody Eisteddfod.' Fydd o'n gael ei recordio 'back to back' fel petai ac yn gael ei darlledu ar Radio 4, Radio Cymru a Radio Wales.
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Taking the rubbish down this morning. Disappointed to see so much traffic about
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If you missed the programme I made for
@S4C
which was aired last night, why not give it a watch? Though the topic is loneliness, which is a very serious subject, there are a few laughs along the way and there are subtitles aplenty
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I'm going to make a plea for the re-introduction of some signifying garment or symbol of mourning. My brother died. I'm out of wack. I said 'Thank you' instead of 'Amen' when I Received on Sunday. I am distracted by memories. If I wore black, you would know I am sad not plot lost
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Switched off
@BBCRadio4
Food Prog when we were joined, yet again, by a 'vegan chef.' 1.16% of UK people are vegan so 1.16% of the items should be vegan, not c40% as now. 84% of vegans desist so tell them how to eat after the phase rather than pushing propaganda
@1GarethWynJones
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She has done it again! The genius who is
@Eleanor
Morton. If you think there is anyone funnier that her perfomring in Britain at the moment, we may have to settle it by means of a fight in a pub car park. Or just agree- she is glorious
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If you have any farmers in your timeline, check up on their mornings today. Whilst smug, cosy pundits peddle inaccurate rubbish about the good food they produce, they have stuffed their cold feet into colder boots and are out there in the griping cold, putting food on our plates.
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This is not a kingdom from Game of Thrones, or Lord of the Rings. This is a landscape of beauty and romance far better than anything Hollywood can imagine: this is Wales. Congratulations Rich for this stunning picture
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First day of lockdown and I am working away making final tweaks to scripts for a brand new
@BBCRadio4
comedy show. We've got a social distanced studio, a brilliant cast and a unique offering so watch this space
@robertwilfort
@LynwenHaf
@EmyrHimyrs
@sionedwiliam
#NewsFromNowhere
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Stumbled across 'Escape to the Country,' the BBC's chocolate box celebration of structural inequality. You can't 'escape' to a place of acute housing shortage without making the situation worse. Why does no-one ask how it feels to be trying to stay where others want to escape?
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@KTHopkins
I am portfolio holder for education in Powys County Council- we have a number of families electing to educate their children at home for various reasons. I have never heard of a family doing so to avoid Welsh which remains on the curriculum whether or not a pupil is in school
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I hate to lower the tone but this is glorious
19th century euphemisms for sex included:
Basket-making
Horizontal refreshment
Jumbling giblets
Drawing a cork
Playing the blanket hornpipe
Taking a turn among the cabbages
Riding St. George
Rubbing bacons
Getting your kettle mended
Pocketing the stakes
Feeding the dumb glutton
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A very traditional rendition of an ancient Welsh carol. It sends shivers down my spine, in a good way, but it that is not your thing, pass by. To me, it is if the Reformation had never happened. Best enjoyed by candlelight.
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This is Ynys Enlli, also know as Bardsey. Don't go there unless you have a spare bit of you to leave behind but in compensation for the heart you left there, you take its magic with you forever. Oh, plus seals of course. Lots of seals.
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I hardly ever do politics here but this I must say. If you are one of the selfish fools sending your luggage forward to your rural 2nd home by parcel delivery in order to fool the police you should spend this weekend examining your conscience. You cannot buy the right to act thus
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If you fancy hearing tales of my eccentric relations and their adventures, featuring walk-on parts by such luminaries as Douglas Fairbanks, Oswald Moseley, a tiddly Queen Mother & Wittgenstein, do come along. Miners son weds debutante- what could possibly go wrong? In English
O HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY I BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Monolog gan Myfanwy Alexander Adloniant pur am aelodau rhyfedd teulu Sat, April 27, 2019 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM BST Horeb Chapel, Cawdor Hotel, Llandeilo
@lodeslan
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A piece I wrote on the antipathy certain people seems to have towards sheep, and the people who farm them.
The green war on sheep
Is the humble sheep really to blame for eco-armageddon?
www.spiked-online.com
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Happy New Year to my Twittersphere. Thank you for your friendship, tolerance, support and shared enthusiasms. I've learnt a lot. Here's to a 2021 in which we can safely be our social selves again. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
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The idea of travelling to check if one's bits are working has a certain appeal. I wouldn't mind popping up the M6 to visit a north country farmer of my acquaintance but as a lady, I cannot divulge the functioning of which body parts could be thus confirmed.
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@MarcherLord1
Herefordshire is in Tier 1. Over the border in Radnorshire, infection rates are lower- Tier 4
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@peter_sarris
I am more exercised by the fact that they are singing carols the day after Christ the King when it isn't even Advent, let alone Christmas. They are almost late for last year, they are so early for this....
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Even some of Wales' biggest fan don't rate our climate. Picture taken today, 27th November, on Bardsey Island, off the coast of North Wales. No filter or other fancy stuff because I can't use such things
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Are sheep to blame for the state of the plenet? Some of our eco-colonial neighbours think so: I disagree in this article
@1GarethWynJones
@Evsthetractor
@Cynfab3
The green war on sheep
Is the humble sheep really to blame for eco-armageddon?
www.spiked-online.com
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@angharadPJ
The police are turning people back to England on the roundabout by the Smithfield in Welshpool.
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