#Wales
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.europesays.com/934472/ Bernard Cribbins: Doctor Who pays tribute to veteran actor #UnitedKingdom #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/934150/ A view of the mountains #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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.europesays.com/933841/ View from my cab yesterday. Overlooking Briton ferry and Neath #UnitedKingdom #Wales
It's #StandingStoneSunday so here's a #NorthWales dolmen - Bodowyr Burial Chamber, Anglesey.
#Wales #Cymru #Anglesey #YnysMon #Dolmen #Megaliths #Megalithic #Prehistoric #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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.europesays.com/933659/ I am making a Uk and Ireland landmarks cross stitch sampler and just finished my first Wales landmark! #UnitedKingdom #Wales
Calm waters at Conwy ๐ #SilentSunday #Photography #Wales #NorthWales #Cymru
https://www.europesays.com/933336/ Garden ornament turns out to be live bomb #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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.europesays.com/933257/ Cardiff mum told her soaked and mouldy flat is โhabitableโ #UnitedKingdom #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/932726/ Wales earmarked as preferred location for new deep space radar station #UnitedKingdom #Wales
๐: Winding Hole Jockeys Bridge 55
โน๏ธ: winding hole
๐บ: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.7030079021572&mlon=-3.01667647170617#map=17/51.7030079021572/-3.01667647170617
#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #wales #uk #mapbox #aerialphoto #aerialphotography #satelliteview
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
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
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
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
https://www.europesays.com/932219/ Iโve hopefully lived here long enough to get away with this awful pun now #UnitedKingdom #Wales
"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
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
https://www.europesays.com/932052/ Anyone Got Any Good Welsh Countryballs #UnitedKingdom #Wales
Another frosty but beautiful morning here in #Machynlleth. Wear hats and gloves, folks!
https://www.europesays.com/931981/ [Private Eye] Mid Wales Opera #UnitedKingdom #Wales
![[Private Eye] Mid Wales Opera](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/cache/media_attachments/files/111/509/534/573/078/636/small/7dde34021fd32347.png)
https://www.europesays.com/931840/ Pontins: Former holiday park giant shrinks further #UnitedKingdom #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/931672/ Smallest house in Britain #UnitedKingdom #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/931498/ What is the worst Christmas present you ever received? Anrheg Nadolig Gwaethafโฆ #UnitedKingdom #Wales
https://www.europesays.com/931287/ Corn Du from Pen Y Fan this morning. #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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
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.europesays.com/931056/ Castell Caernarfon Castle #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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.
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.
https://www.europesays.com/930828/ Strictly Come Dancing: Amy Dowdenโs blood clot after chemo #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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.
Signing copies of 'Trecadno' at Waterstones Swansea ๐๐ฆ.A cold night ๐ฅถ: glad there was coffee! โ๐ #novel #comedy #fox #Wales #christmasgift
https://www.europesays.com/930602/ Search launched after 12-year-old goes missing wearing just pyjamas #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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.
Brwydr y Bandiau Gwerin #Steddfod2023 - Lo-Fi Jones - Afon
#LoFiJones #Cymraeg #Cymru #cerddoriaeth #Welsh #Wales #music
Pontins closes Prestatyn and Camber Sands holiday parks
The company says the Prestatyn site will close straight away, and apologises to customers.
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.
https://www.europesays.com/929033/ Letter from Clydach Gorge #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AYIKCRQIALQ2Q28V/pages/AOIKRM4T2HP2MV8W
Dydd hapus Andrew Sant!
From :baner: to ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
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".
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.europesays.com/928001/ First Bronze Age hoards to be discovered in over 100 years from Ceredigion! #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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).
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.
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.
Abandoned petrol pumps. Spotted by the roadside, so I made a little u-turn to photograph them . Next to an old #abandoned garage ๐ค
๐ท Zenit E ๐ Mir-1b 37mm
Film: #kentmerepan100 #35mm
Wales; April 2023
#filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #filmphotography #wales #PetrollPumps #RoadsideFinds
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".
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.
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
Happy #Sunday, friends! Back from #Wales, here are my #WeekNotes โบ๏ธ
https://thomasrigby.com/posts/2023-w47/
'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.
Christmas Market in #Llangollen this afternoon. Fuck a duck
(look closely for minor alteration)
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
โIt is over 600 years since Pwllheli in North Wales was given its charter by Edward, the Black Prince.
โBut 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.
โThe 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.
โBut the letters sent out by the Land Registry notifying residents of the claim have sparked 'worry and alarm' according to the townโs MP, who says the Crown Estateโs bid mirrors the 'grasping, unprincipled landlordism' that has bedevilled Wales in the past.
โThe 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.
โLiz 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'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.'
โMike 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.'
โThe 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 sovereignโs land.
โOver the last 10 years it has returned a ยฃ2.3bn profit to the Treasury. Its portfolio includes Regent Street and much of St Jamesโs in London โ and the entire UK seabed.
โHomeowners 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.
โThe 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.
โA 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'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 ownerโs consent.'"
#AbolishTheMonarchy #ExtractiveMining #UK #MedievalLaws #LearnToBeASerf
S4C chief executive Sian Doyle is sacked following review
It comes following a review into procedures at the publicly-funded Welsh-language channel S4C.
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.
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. โค๏ธ
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57978693-welsh-monsters-mythical-beasts
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
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, Iโve 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
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!
Betsi Cadwaladr health board criticised over Weetabix death
Coeliac Hazel Pearson died four days after having the cereal for breakfast at Wrexham Maelor.
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
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
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
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).
#Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ does not need 2 governments....
Neither do #Wales ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ or #NorthernIreland ...
#Scottishindependence ... ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#WelshIndependence... ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
#OneIreland... ๐ฎ๐ช
#allinEurope... ๐ช๐บ
#never vote #tory
#YouYesYet ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
North Wales: Four injured in dangerous dog attack
Two people are airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, and another two have minor wounds.
Wales football fans arrested in Armenia ahead of qualifier
About 1,200 supporters travelled to capital Yerevan ahead of the European Championships qualifier