Masthash

#Wales

BBC News Top Stories
32 minutes ago

XL bully ban: Fears move could increase dog attacks

Unsocialised dogs may become more dangerous and other large breeds could replace XLs, says vet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67461693

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Europe Says
4 hours ago

https://www.europesays.com/934472/ Bernard Cribbins: Doctor Who pays tribute to veteran actor #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Bernard Cribbins: Doctor Who pays tribute to veteran actor
Europe Says
8 hours ago
A view of the mountains
Konstantin Binder
9 hours ago

Can I help you?
#Wales

BBC News Top Stories
13 hours ago

Bernard Cribbins: Doctor Who pays tribute to veteran actor

The veteran actor, who died in 2022 aged 93, reprised his role as Wilfred Mott one last time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67600137

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Europe Says
13 hours ago

https://www.europesays.com/933841/ View from my cab yesterday. Overlooking Briton ferry and Neath #UnitedKingdom #Wales

View from my cab yesterday. Overlooking Briton ferry and Neath
BBC News Top Stories
15 hours ago

TikTok influencer Aydan Al-Saad wants to break wage taboos

Younger workers are increasingly willing to talk to their colleagues about what they earn.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67577849

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Europe Says
15 hours ago

https://www.europesays.com/933659/ I am making a Uk and Ireland landmarks cross stitch sampler and just finished my first Wales landmark! #UnitedKingdom #Wales

I am making a Uk and Ireland landmarks cross stitch sampler and just finished my first Wales landmark!
Europe Says
22 hours ago

https://www.europesays.com/933336/ Garden ornament turns out to be live bomb #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Garden ornament turns out to be live bomb
BBC News Top Stories
23 hours ago

Milford Haven: Garden ornament turns out to be live bomb

Sian and Jeffrey Edwards had always assumed the 64lb projectile in their garden was a "dummy".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67602627

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Europe Says
1 day ago

https://www.europesays.com/933257/ Cardiff mum told her soaked and mouldy flat is โ€˜habitableโ€™ #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Cardiff mum told her soaked and mouldy flat is 'habitable'
Europe Says
1 day ago

https://www.europesays.com/932726/ Wales earmarked as preferred location for new deep space radar station #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Wales earmarked as preferred location for new deep space radar station
Albert Semple, Poet
1 day ago

I've got a friend in Ebbw Vale
Who's funny and gregarious.
Valleys people make me laugh.
I guess they are Hill Areas!

#Wales #poetry #puns

AimlessWelshWanderer
1 day ago

A few photos from a cold #Wander in #MargamCountryPark yesterday;

A #Robin
A pair of #RoeDeer
A magical looking #trees
and the great view from The #BroStone

You can see more of my photos at:
https://aimlesswelshwanderer.picfair.com

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Birds #birdphotography #Roe #Deer #Wildlife #Nature #NaturePhotography #Trees #MargamPark #Wales #Cymru

Frosty Robin:

A robin stands upright on top of a small pile of frost covered, brown leaves, it's red breast highlighted in the morning sun. In the background, long green stems of grass are encrusted in frost. In the foreground a patch of sand with fallen leaves is also covered in a heavy frost
Roe Deer:

Two roe deer stand alert on a hillside covered in grass, gorse and brown bracken. They stand side on to the camera, facing one another. Both have red/brown fur, darker on the back and lightening to white at their throat, bellies and bottoms. Faint lighter coloured spots can just be seen on their flanks. The left hand deer is smaller than the other.
Split tree:

An old tree stands on an otherwise hill top, with more hills rising behind it.  The tree is dramatically split almost entirely down the centre with the heart of the tree visible on both sides, although currently bare of any leaves, both halves have a dense canopy of branches.
View from The Bro Stone:

A large, irregular shaped stone stands vertically, the word "bro" can just be seen carved into it's rear face. A low stone wall forms a circle around it and the ground drops sharply away in front of it with the tops of conifer trees visible. further ahead, and below, green farmland is punctured by patches of leafless woodland and bounded by the M4 motorway, where a few vehicles can be seen. There is then a large rectangular reservoir, it's still water reflecting the image of electricity pylons.  Further on a band of rough shrub-land leads to grass covered sand dunes at the edge of a still blue sea
Rebecca Bryn
1 day ago

Missing children, runes, and a very odd woman. Can Alana discover the truth the village hides before her daughter joins the missing list. 'beautifully choreographed' mybook.to/SilenceoftheStones #mystery #psychological #Wales

Jeff
1 day ago

Shallow fresh water lake at #Kenfig in #SouthWales. #ThatKenfigTree, often in the water in the winter months, high and dry in the summer. Depends on how much rain.

Not been down for a while cos carpark charging machines are a mare to use if, they work. Too much of a risk for a fine.

Rumour has it it is the most photographed tree in #Wales
#KenfigNatureReserve
#tree #lake

A tree on the shore, when the small lake has been filled with more rain, the tree is flooded. I expect there is a natural in flow from underground.
The same tree when the small lake is a lot fuller. Fuller? More water in it.

Good #Moelwyns Snowy Saturday

Snowdonia living up to its name today
with this winter's 1st proper #snow

[pic 1 p.m] โ„๏ธ

+more about this 10-year #weather & #landscape #photography project from Eryri, Cymru (Snowdonia, #Wales): remydean.blogspot.com/p/moelwyns.html

horses on a distant hillside during a thick snowfall - it's a colour photo but looks monochrome
Europe Says
2 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/932219/ Iโ€™ve hopefully lived here long enough to get away with this awful pun now #UnitedKingdom #Wales

I've hopefully lived here long enough to get away with this awful pun now
Me No Troll
2 days ago

"Holy girl, your lips of clay
Will whisper words of Yesterday"

Absolute
Scritti Politti
da "Cupid & Psyche 85" (1985)

#fediradio #NowPlaying #np #aradio
#Gramsci #alberi #Wales #Tutine #eyedrop
#ErosE #Sogni
#ebuongiorno

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=yAoTJGtgfgw

JanPV
2 days ago
Mike Riversdale
2 days ago

SEVENTEEN #Wales #photo albums up for those that want to have a poke around:

https://www.mikeriversdale.co.nz/photos/world-views/uk

- Coastal Wales
- Inland Wales

Towns
- Llandrindod Wells
- Crickhowell
- Caernarfon
- Beddgelert
- Betws-y-Coed
- Llandudno
- Porthmadog
- Bishop's Castle (England)

Places and Things
- Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber
- St David's Cathedral
- Devil's Bridge
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
- Llanfairpwllgwyn..
- Conwy Castle
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Europe Says
2 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/932052/ Anyone Got Any Good Welsh Countryballs #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Anyone Got Any Good Welsh Countryballs
Rita Singer
2 days ago

Another frosty but beautiful morning here in #Machynlleth. Wear hats and gloves, folks!

#photography #Wales

A pink, cloudy sky over the frosty valley.
Europe Says
2 days ago
[Private Eye] Mid Wales Opera
Europe Says
2 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/931840/ Pontins: Former holiday park giant shrinks further #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Pontins: Former holiday park giant shrinks further
Europe Says
2 days ago
Smallest house in Britain
Europe Says
2 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/931498/ What is the worst Christmas present you ever received? Anrheg Nadolig Gwaethafโ€ฆ #UnitedKingdom #Wales

What is the worst Christmas present you ever received? Anrheg Nadolig Gwaethafโ€ฆ
Europe Says
2 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/931287/ Corn Du from Pen Y Fan this morning. #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Corn Du from Pen Y Fan this morning.
AimlessWelshWanderer
2 days ago

A cold early morning at #OgmoreCastle today, but worth it for the glorious #Sunrise

You can see more of my photos at:
https://aimlesswelshwanderer.picfair.com

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Ogmore #ValeOfGlamorgan #Castle #Castles #Wales #Cymru Mist #Misty

Cold Sunrise at Ogmore Castle:

Looking over a calm river as it twists around an old, ruined, grey stone castle. Thin mist rises from the water  and frost covers the grassy banks. A warm orange light fills the sky behind the castle as the unseen sun rises.
BBC News Top Stories
2 days ago

Rugby concussion: Players' litigation decision due in 2024

An application by ex-players to sue as a group may be heard in April or May, the High Court hears.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67594313

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Europe Says
2 days ago
Castell Caernarfon Castle
BBC News Top Stories
2 days ago

Pontins: Former holiday park giant shrinks further

At its peak, the holiday park had 30 venues across the UK, now it is left with just four.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67589538

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

BeeDazzledCymru
2 days ago

Evening sun on the mountains #Wales

Distant view of 3 peaks in the Bannau Brycheniog. The fields in the foreground are defrosted but the mountains have a frosty look
JanPV
2 days ago

This afternoon's shot of the glorious, if rather distastefully 'restored' Castell Dolwyddelan, built in the early 13th century by Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ('Llywelyn the Great').

The upper parts of the castle are clearly identified as the 19th century renovation, undertaken by Lord Willoughby de Eresby.

#wales #cymru #history #heritage #castles

Castell Dolwyddelan, with Moel Siabod in the background.
Vertical drone view of Castell Dolwyddelan
Castell Dolwyddelan, looking east.
Europe Says
2 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/930828/ Strictly Come Dancing: Amy Dowdenโ€™s blood clot after chemo #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Strictly Come Dancing: Amy Dowden's blood clot after chemo
RugbyNerd
2 days ago

The #Dubai7s starting tommorrow and the #ThisIs7s #Podcast made a little preview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1uBcunO9VF3KbDFaIiFZps

The Podcast from the former #Wales 7s Players Chris Knight and Luke Treharne and actual #Ireland Player Harry McNulty started three weeks ago in his 2nd Season and viewing back to the #Olympic2024 qualifier and the changes at the #WorldSevensSeries now called #SVNS.

#rugby

CP Davies
2 days ago

Signing copies of 'Trecadno' at Waterstones Swansea ๐Ÿ“–๐ŸฆŠ.A cold night ๐Ÿฅถ: glad there was coffee! โ˜•๐Ÿ˜Š #novel #comedy #fox #Wales #christmasgift

Europe Says
3 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/930602/ Search launched after 12-year-old goes missing wearing just pyjamas #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Search launched after 12-year-old goes missing wearing just pyjamas
BBC News Top Stories
3 days ago

Strictly Come Dancing: Amy Dowden's blood clot after chemo

The 33-year-old dancer says her "nightmare seems to be never ending" after a blood clot on her lung.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67587530

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

BBC News Top Stories
3 days ago

Pontins closes Prestatyn and Camber Sands holiday parks

The company says the Prestatyn site will close straight away, and apologises to customers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67578045

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

JanPV
3 days ago
Trees cast long shadows on a field on a winter's afternoon.
Julian Brasington
3 days ago

It's hard to know the value of a mark without context, so in order to explore marks for another piece, I gave some test marks some context.

Two 5x5 cm wood engravings.

I know where I'd rather be. That said, I'm still none to sure how I'm going to approach the larger piece, though I do at least have a slightly clearer sense of some of the possibles.

#art #Wales

A wood engraving of a cityscape foregrounded by winding branches and leaves which partially obscure the view.
A wood engraving of a castle tower partially obscured by winding branches and leaves.  The pattern of branches is the same as in the other picture.  What had changed is the shift from rural to urban scene.
Europe Says
3 days ago
Letter from Clydach Gorge
Rita Singer
4 days ago

Bookmarking for later reading. The University of Wisconsin-Madison holds a digitised copy of William Hughes's book "Dark Africa and the Way Out" (1892) which originally was held in the Christian Mission library in Bala (a history in itself). This book is essential reading for understanding how and why the African Institute, a school for children originating from several African countries, was set up in #ColwynBay in #Wales, of all places.

#Bywgraffiadur

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AYIKCRQIALQ2Q28V/pages/AOIKRM4T2HP2MV8W

Dydd hapus Andrew Sant!

From :baner: to ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ

#Scotland #Alba #SaintAndrewsDay #Cymru #Wales

BBC News Top Stories
4 days ago

Netflix: Squid Game spin-off sees Welsh vicar compete

Father Lee Taylor says he almost turned the opportunity as he found the original series "too gory".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67565629

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

BBC News Top Stories
4 days ago

Coal: UK's last opencast mine shuts after legal row

Ffos-y-Fran mine is dubbed a "neighbour from hell" as authorities fear for the future of the site.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67564413

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Europe Says
4 days ago

https://www.europesays.com/928001/ First Bronze Age hoards to be discovered in over 100 years from Ceredigion! #UnitedKingdom #Wales

First Bronze Age hoards to be discovered in over 100 years from Ceredigion!
Mark Rees
4 days ago

It's always good to see Josef Herman's epic "Miners" (1950) mural back on display at Swansea's Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.
#art #wales

Julian Brasington
4 days ago

Delighted to learn today that my linocuts 'Yr Wyddor Gymraeg' and 'It would make you weep' have been accepted for the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art open exhibition, 2024.

'Yr wyddor Gymraeg' is a sampler of sorts based on the Welsh alphabet (as was before the introduction of the letter J).

#art #Wales

A linocut sampler in portrait format.  Letters of the Welsh alphabet are framed within different sized squares and patterned variously with abstract images, landscapes, cross-hatching, and a variety of other textures.
A black and white linocut seascape.  The sea is heavily patterned with broad flowing shapes to indicate a swell.  In the distance it breaks upon a black headland; a passage is seen between the headland and a skerry.  The sky is black and fiercely cut.
Rita Singer
4 days ago

Crawling through #PeoplesCollectionWales on #Bywgraffiadur business when I find a picture of Darwin Hinds, the first black mayor of Barry, with then Prince Charles -- who is either going through his hippie phase or coss-playing as a time-travelling Prince Harry.

Source: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/2066491

#histodons #Wales

That weird time when Prince Charles (overdressed in naval uniform) grew a beard. It looks like Darwin Hinds (wearing a grey suit and his mayoral chain) bends in conspiratorially and tells him quietly, "Your Highness, this is just a phase and in the future nobody will remember this. Instead, they will insist your second-born looks like the stable lad."
BBC News Top Stories
5 days ago

North Wales: Four missing teens drowned after crash, inquest hears

The bodies of Hugo Morris, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Jevon Hirst were found in a crashed car.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67563676

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Obsidian Urbex Photography
5 days ago

Abandoned petrol pumps. Spotted by the roadside, so I made a little u-turn to photograph them . Next to an old #abandoned garage ๐Ÿ–ค

๐Ÿ“ท Zenit E ๐Ÿ”Ž Mir-1b 37mm
Film: #kentmerepan100 #35mm

Wales; April 2023

#filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #filmphotography #wales #PetrollPumps #RoadsideFinds

black and white photo of two old gas pumps
BBC News Top Stories
6 days ago

Charlotte Church surprises young carers' choir as vocal coach

The singer says each choir member, aged between six and 19, is an "inspiration in their own right".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67552540

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

BBC News Top Stories
6 days ago

Wales 20mph speed limit: Road's eight changes in two miles

The 1.8 mile stretch of road includes a 30mph section that is only 520ft long.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67543290

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

John Bull
6 days ago

Masterpiece of research, this. Proper deep dive into the 'assumed knowledge' that the dragon on the Welsh flag is 'The Red Dragon of Cadwaladr'.

Just because people have been saying he flew it, right back until 1700s, doesn't make it true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k6r5Kkts0s #history #wales #histodons

Thomas Rigby
1 week ago

Happy #Sunday, friends! Back from #Wales, here are my #WeekNotes โ˜บ๏ธ

https://thomasrigby.com/posts/2023-w47/

BBC News Top Stories
1 week ago

'Joyful' art helps shine new light on colonial history

Artists aim to alter how we view the colonialist past through the lens of a library's collection.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67421092

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Christmas Market in #Llangollen this afternoon. Fuck a duck

#Wales #Cymru

(look closely for minor alteration)

Evening fair street stall, 'hook a duck' game. Brightly lit interior with bundles of soft toys to be won. Iron railings in foreground. Lampost to right.
DoomsdaysCW
1 week ago

North #Wales market town at centre of royal claim over '#ManorialRights' to its minerals

Residents of #Pwllheli receive letters saying Crown Estate wants to register ownership of the minerals beneath their homes

Dean Kirby
Thursday 04 February 2016

โ€œIt is over 600 years since Pwllheli in North Wales was given its charter by Edward, the Black Prince.

โ€œBut now the ancient market town is at the centre of a #Royal claim over the 'manorial rights' to the ground on which its foundations are built. Around 1,300 homeowners in Pwllheli and nearby Morfa Nefyn have been sent letters saying the Crown Estate wants to register ownership of mines and minerals beneath their houses.

โ€œThe estate, which manages sovereign land, says it has owned rights over the minerals for many centuries and is now having to register its ownership after protection over these rights was withdrawn under new land registration laws.

โ€œBut the letters sent out by the Land Registry notifying residents of the claim have sparked 'worry and alarm' according to the townโ€™s MP, who says the Crown Estateโ€™s bid mirrors the 'grasping, unprincipled landlordism' that has bedevilled Wales in the past.

โ€œThe row comes two years after residents in Anglesey and the Arfon area of Gwynedd pledged to challenge similar notices sent out on behalf of the Crown Estate claiming ownership over ancient rights to minerals and mining.

โ€œLiz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, which includes Pwllheli, said: 'This has alarmed my constituents and has been the cause of great worry for local people

โ€œ'Staking claim to mining and mineral rights reeks of the 19th century, not the 21st century. There is no place for this kind of approach today.'

โ€œMike Parry, a town councillor in Pwllheli, said: 'These letters are worrying for people, especially the elderly, who are concerned about what will happen to their homes.'

โ€œThe Crown Estate is an independent commercial business, with a history dating back to 1066. It has been tasked by Parliament since 1760 with managing the sovereignโ€™s land.

โ€œOver the last 10 years it has returned a ยฃ2.3bn profit to the Treasury. Its portfolio includes Regent Street and much of St Jamesโ€™s in London โ€“ and the entire UK seabed.

โ€œHomeowners in Pwllheli have been told they can challenge the claim, but must provide evidence that they are entitled to whatever minerals might lie beneath their homes.

โ€œThe minerals, if they exist at all, might include deposits of sand, rock or even quartz. But they would not include coal, oil, gas, silver or gold, which are covered by other legislation.

โ€œA spokeswoman for the Crown Estate said: 'Along with many other landowners, the Crown Estate is in the process of registering historical mineral rights with the Land Registry.

โ€œ'These claims are not new and we would like to reassure local residents that the registration process is in no way an indication of our intent to begin mining, which in any event would require planning permission and the surface ownerโ€™s consent.'"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/north-wales-market-town-at-centre-of-royal-claim-over-manorial-rights-to-its-minerals-a6852111.html

#AbolishTheMonarchy #ExtractiveMining #UK #MedievalLaws #LearnToBeASerf

Rita Singer
1 week ago

Good morning from frosty #Machynlleth.
#Wales #photography

Frost covers the town and valley as dawn breaks with soft colours.
BBC News Top Stories
1 week ago

S4C chief executive Sian Doyle is sacked following review

It comes following a review into procedures at the publicly-funded Welsh-language channel S4C.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67524977

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

BBC News Top Stories
1 week ago

Cardiff canal hidden for 70 years uncovered in city centre

For almost two years, work has been underway to reopen the Churchill Way dock feeder.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67525060

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Stephanie Burgis
1 week ago

This book actually belongs to my 15-year-old, not to me, but once he finished devouring it, he immediately brought it over to me because he knew I'd love it, too - and he's not wrong! Gorgeous art and so many cool creatures (some of them quite local to us) - bliss. โค๏ธ

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57978693-welsh-monsters-mythical-beasts

#wales #welsh

The hardcover coffeetable illustrated book Welsh Monsters and Mythical Beasts, written and illustrated by C.C.J. Ellis
AimlessWelshWanderer
1 week ago

Went looking for #Kingfishers at #ForestFarm #NatureReserve in #Cardiff today ... and got lucky. Lovely place for a #Wander with plenty of obliging #wildlife to #photograph, pictured are;

#Kingfisher
#Robin
#Jay
#GreySquirrel

You can see more of my photos at:
https://aimlesswelshwanderer.picfair.com

#Wales #Cymru #Nature #NaturePhotography #Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #Squirrel

Female Kingfisher:

A small, brightly coloured, bird is perched on a moss covered stick, which curves over a pond, in front of a reed bed. The bird has a bright orange underside, feet, patch behind it's eye and lower bill (which is how you can tell it's female). The rest of it is mostly an electric blue colour with white speckles on it's head and wings and a white flash across it's neck. It is holding a small fish in it's beak.
Close up of a Robin:

A profile view of a bird with chestnut brown head and wings, bright red breast and throat and grey fringes separating the red and brown areas. It has a dark black eye and a black small, pointed beak
Jay:

A large bird stands on a wooden fence rail, it has pale pink plumage, a black tail and white rump. Its head has a pale crown with black streaks, and black facial markings and bill. Its wings are black and white with a panel of distinctive electric-blue feathers. It is holding a peanut in it's beak
Grey Squirrel:

A squirrel sits on it's haunches on an old wooden fence post, in front of bushes and trees. It is mostly a silvery grey colour, with white belly, reddish brown head and face with a big bushy tail  which is a mixture of all three colours. It's front paws are held together in front of it.
Hannah Howe
1 week ago

We all have different ways of coping with grief. One of my coping mechanisms is to create something new. My new project is the life story of my 3 x great grandmother, Mary Hopkin. To tell her story, and the story of her relatives and village, Iโ€™ve stepped into her shoes and will follow her footsteps as a thirty-year-old single mother in 1848 through to her passing in 1897. I hope you will enjoy the posts.

#Grief #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FamilyTree #SocialHistory #History #Wales

A drawing of eighteenth century women wearing colourful dresses and bonnets
BBC News Top Stories
1 week ago

Doctor Who: I rescued Kylie Minogue as David Tennant double

When David Tennant was away, one lookalike extra was in the right place, at the right time... lord!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67417110

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

BBC News Top Stories
1 week ago

Betsi Cadwaladr health board criticised over Weetabix death

Coeliac Hazel Pearson died four days after having the cereal for breakfast at Wrexham Maelor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67512566

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

Mark Rees
1 week ago

Welsh folklore tells us to always be nice to witches:
"Witches were attributed with much power and mischief. For this reason it was wise to please, and dangerous to offend, them."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
#folklorethursday #wales

Rita Singer
2 weeks ago

As part of the #Bywgraffiadur Diversity Project, we just updated our list of names that need new articles.

This is the chance to have your say!

Do you recognise any of the names?
What do you know about them?
Which names are still missing from the list?
And: Would you like to write an article for inclusion in the Dictionary?

Find the list here: https://biography.wales/amrywedd

#Wales #histodons #Music #Education #Literature #Poetry #Tourism #biography

Example of the historical postcards that Siani pob man used to sell. It shows her photograph together with a poem in Welsh.
Formal studio portrait of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the famous US composer and musician who also used to adjudicate in the National Eisteddfod in Wales.
Group portrait of the Congo Institute pupils in their uniforms and their headmaster, William Hughes. The boys' ages range somewhere between 8 and 17 years old.
Jane Cave's engraved portrait that was placed opposite the title page of her poetry anthology which she published and republished with the help of several rural presses.
AimlessWelshWanderer
2 weeks ago

Today's #wander was around #CosmestonLakes where the #Trees were pretty and the #wildlife was mostly very bold, and obligingly photogenic.

Pictures are of;
#Autumnal Trees
A #GreySquirrel
A #BlueTit, and
A #Moorhen

You can see more of my photos at:
https://aimlesswelshwanderer.picfair.com

#Cosmeston #Wales #Cymru #Autumn #Landscape #Nature #NaturePhotography #Squirrel #Birds #BirdPhotography

Autumnal Colours:

A path leads through deciduous trees. Those closest to the camera are mostly bare of leaves but covered in lush Ivy. Further on a few of the trees still have full canopies of small leaves which have turned a bright golden colour
Grey Squirrel:

A squirrel sits on it's haunches on a tree branch close to the trunk. It's fur is mostly a silvery grey, including it's bushy tail. It's belly is white and it's head and face a reddish brown colour. one forepaw and it's nose are pressed tightly against a thin vertical branch
Blue Tit:

A small bird stands on a thin branch, it's claws grasping the wood tightly. it's body is mainly bright yellow, with a thin black line up the centre of it's belly. It's wings are mostly green and blue with a small white bar. It's head is turned to one side as it looks up towards the sky. It is mostly white, with a blue cap and black lines around its neck, through it's eye and under it's small pointed beak
Moorhen:

A bird swims amongst reeds and other green vegetation. It's body and head are mostly a blue tinged black. It's wings are chocolate brown with white flashes and it's beak is bright red with a yellow tip
Rita Singer
2 weeks ago

Some things are faster on their way to publication than others. Turns out, the head editor of the #Bywgraffiadur is a fast reader and gave the green light for my unabridged, original version to get published on my blog.

So for those of you who enjoy their #HistoryOfMedicine, #MiningHistory, #EighteenthCentury and immigrants from #Germany with opinions about #MineralWaters in #Wales, I offer you a short biography of Diederich Wessel Linden (d.1769).

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/diederich-wessel-linden-fl-1745-1768-d-1769-medical-doctor-and-minerologist/

#Scotland ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ does not need 2 governments....

Neither do #Wales ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ or #NorthernIreland ...

#Scottishindependence ... ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ

#WelshIndependence... ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ

#OneIreland... ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช

#allinEurope... ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

#never vote #tory
#YouYesYet ...

"sir" #starmer is a #tory...

BBC News Top Stories
2 weeks ago

North Wales: Four bodies found in search for missing teens

Hugo Morris, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Jevon Hirst had not been seen since Sunday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67485456

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

Michael Sheen to play Prince Andrew in Amazon series

Ruth Wilson will play Emily Maitlis in a three-part drama about her 2019 interview with the prince.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67489681

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

North Wales Police: Four missing males last seen on Sunday

Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris have not been seen since Sunday morning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67482913

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

Wales school summer holidays may be cut by a week

The summer break starts a week later and children are off for two weeks in October under new plans.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67475949

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

Wales' new national park: Plan to create country's fourth

Wales has three national parks, but the Welsh government is consulting on whether to add a fourth.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67453385

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

Pobol y Cwm TV actress: I was sexually assaulted as a child

Soap star Sera Cracroft says she has now chosen to share her story in order to help others.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67448424

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

Art and class: Working-class artists on breaking into exclusive world

Artist Nathan Wyburn attributes his success to social media, bypassing the art world's gatekeepers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67055651

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

North Wales: Four injured in dangerous dog attack

Two people are airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, and another two have minor wounds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67464124

(c) #BBC #News #Wales

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2 weeks ago

Wales football fans arrested in Armenia ahead of qualifier

About 1,200 supporters travelled to capital Yerevan ahead of the European Championships qualifier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67461059

(c) #BBC #News #Wales