The next two are also excellent. Such a joy!
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The next two are also excellent. Such a joy!
Someone's just thrown a bottle of Omega 3 tablets at me. I only received super fish oil injuries, but still.
Don't forget yoga with Gwilym and being woken up by amser codi every morning!
Screenshot from the "Welsh Outlook", 1921: "But London, with its opportunities and its prosperity, could not pluck from his heart the memory of the valley of contemplation. As he became one of London's rich citizens, he remembered that he was still a Welsh-man. One of the most charming glimpses we get of him is at performance of "Henry V." The braggart Pistol is eating the leek, and Myfyr, greatly excited is clapping his hands and proclaiming loudly, "That's right! That's right!"
Nineteenth century cartoon showing the scene from Henry V in which the rejected Englishman Pistol is forced to eat a Welsh leek by Fluellen
Ar gyfer Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi, un o fy hoff straeon (heb fawr o dystiolaeth, am wn i...) am Gymry Llundain y ddeunawfed ganrif
Very sad news about the death of Rob Grant.
Not only the co-creator of the brilliant Red Dwarf, but also part of the original writing team that made Spitting Image the huge show it became.
A huge comedy talent.
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My love and sympathy to all my fellow Amandas out there who will have newspaper headlines endlessly quoted at them again...
Wolf Moon is now available as a print here www.ianarchiebeck.co.uk/shop
Printbin black and white featuring birds perched on telegraph wires coming from a central post in different angles against a white sky
'Star of Starlings' by Fiona Watson, contempory artist and printmaker #WomensArt
Penblwydd hapus!
Love this. But also, here's why you need librarians. BBC News - The retired Indian factory worker who built a library of two million books
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Steve has committed shenanigans. I can tell. This isn't normal behaviour.
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The sun setting over the Severn Estuary as seen from the top of Uley Bury hill fort. I took this photo in September, 2021, on the most perfect windless evening, feeling euphoric having finished the edits on my debut novel, Villager. The whole walk felt like I'd temporarily stepped inside a Kit Williams painting, which was apt since for the last several decades he has lived not far from here, and the landscape was a prime inspiration for his masterpiece Masquerade.
Almost certainly the best photograph I have ever taken from an Iron Age hillfort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
A black cat sat on a chair, pretending to be a cushion and hoping no one will notice
The latest in a series I call kittens pretending to be soft furnishings, I present Gloria being a cushion.
Five very bargainous books. The rest are also available for cheap!
The whole series is discounted *for today only* so pass it on, tell a friend, stock your kindle etc etc but before midnightβ¦
Always loved the art galleries there. But I also remember being ridiculously excited when we swapped some of the Monets for dinosaurs.
I watched this recently, amazing film.
Put community repair shops on every high street. Our work shows people love it, increases community interaction & helps people keep essential goods going for longer giving them more money to spend on food & utility bills It reduces waste and so reduces local authority costs. It is a win, win, win.
Nostalgia is not a strategy
A line drawing of a street scene with children skipping, a bike going by and birds in the sky
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Youβll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
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So sorry to hear this news.
If you missed the first two of these, I've set up a bundle for you to order all four of them in one go!
It'll be sent out after the new two are released on 26th February, but you can pre-order now. - Michael
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/mr-m...
It was an honour to be asked to write the introduction for this beautiful new hardback volume - with gilded edges, no less - of Welsh Folk & Fairy Tales by Flame Tree Publishing as part of their Collectorβs Editions series.
Available in all good bookshops as of today π«
If youβd like to back Shadow Rabbits by @gralefrit.bsky.social and @benwillbond.bsky.social you can do that here.
Isn't AI wonderful. I Google "Taliesin satire" and the unwanted AI offers ...
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I just gave it to our fab archivist. To be fair she is used to me leaving random stuff on her desk!
At my place of work, we put a piece of the old carpet in the archive. A reasonably clean piece, at least.