'Swollen by the rains, Afon Glaslyn is brown, fast and angry. At Nantgwynant the mountains are streaked with broad silver torrents of water, Afon Nant Peris has burst its banks, and the road down Llanberis Pass is awash.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'We ponder whether one of us should write the definitive monograph on the pedestrian gates of Eryri, to be published in an extravagant, full-colour edition by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'Further below, we pass a large quarried-out hole full of dark water, complete with signs warning passers-by not to approach it.' Llun: hen chwarel, Y Fron. gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

Wittgenstein in Swansea: come and listen to Dr Alan Sandry talk about the greatest 20th century philosopher and his connection to Swansea: RISW event on Thursday 11 September at 6:30pm in Swansea Museum. All welcome.

'Today the Revival is a distant dream, the quarrymen are asleep, and Sardis long closed.' Dinorwig, Gwynedd, yn y glaw. gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

‘My favourite among these is Thomas Patch’s self-portrait as an ox, with its Latin inscription, ‘the person who humbles himself will be exalted’.’ gwallter.com/art/the-arti...

'The franchising change, however successful it is, will barely scratch the surface of the problems that arise from the fact that transport is so badly skewed in favour of the private car and against other means of getting around.' gwallter.com/travel/on-th... ‪@ianwalker.bsky.social‬ #bus

An improbable Victorian murder: 'Black Hopkin', the gold watch and savage Eryri . gwallter.com/books/george...

Cofio Brinley. gwallter.com/libraries/by...

Trist iawn clywed am farwolaeth Dr R. Brinley Jones, cymwynaswr mawr y genedl, un o'r bobl garedicaf yng Nghymru, a chyfaill arbennig.

'Dawn dweud' a'r ddadl am 'oracy' gwallter.com/cymraeg/dawn...

@nataliehaynes.bsky.social on the Library of Alexandria: ‘cherish your libraries … they are places that scare people who don’t want us to think for ourselves’. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... In the week I discussed book bans on Dros Ginio: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

'How many Swansea people, when they stroll along the sea wall past the Observatory ... stop to look closely at the diminutive building that sits on its own on the other side of the path?' gwallter.com/art/the-towe...

Pont Dolauhirion (1773): the handsomest bridge in Wales? gwallter.com/travel/deep-...

'In Shahzia Sikander’s beautiful and witty animated video The last post (2010), a cartoon Clive figure, enthroned like a Mughal emperor in an elaborate architectural setting, is made to crack apart and explode into small fragments.' Tigers & dragons, at the Glynn Viv. gwallter.com/art/tigers-a...

'Neu ydy’r cyfan yn gerflun newydd sbon, o bosib, gwaith cysyniadol gan un o’n hartistiaid mwyaf?' Dychmygu Pentre Ifan. gwallter.com/archaeology/...

At Avebury: 'But there’s always that frustrating gulf between wonder and knowledge. An old archaeology book had the title 'The mute stones speak'. The trouble is that stones don’t speak. They really are silent about what they’re doing where they are.' gwallter.com/archaeology/...

'I suspect that ‘autobesity’ or car bloat is a specific Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.' Plenty of reasons why SUVs need serious kerbing. gwallter.com/travel/again...

'Anyone reading 'Priorities for culture' in a vacuum could be forgiven for thinking the culture and the arts in Wales are in blooming good health.' gwallter.com/politics/pri...

Two relentless walkers and - thankfully - inspired by it to write rich and absorbing books @gwallter.bsky.social talks about the history of walking with @mikeparker.bsky.social Everyone had to walk after all to get anywhere (except the wealthy) - and Wales is rich in pilgrimage tales.

Furious all over again about Carla Hayden's firing. Barbaric, cruel and one of the most powerful indicators yet that American democracy is deep peril from its internal enemies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

THIS SUNDAY IS NATURE SUNDAY Sunday 8th June - a feast of writing about our coastline, hinterland and wildlife. How do we live in, not just love, the natural world - not least in Wales? @gwallter.bsky.social, Jon Gower @mateoy.bsky.social Roger Morgan-Grenville montylitfest.com

'She goes to her bedroom in the turret; He goes to his motorbike in the basement Where her brothers are waiting for him To present him with an ultimatum ...' Ekphrastic brilliance from Paul Durcan (1944-2025). gwallter.com/books/goodby...

NATURE SUNDAY - 8th June, Montgomery Town Hall Time to get those tickets: montylitfest.com @gwallter.bsky.social @mikeparker.bsky.social @mateoy.bsky.social Jon Gower, Adam Bedford, Roger Morgan-Grenville

Pontypridd at Night: 'The buildings of the town, lit intermittently by streetlamps, gather higgledy-piggledy at the valley bottom, huddled together for warmth under a cold, windy sky.' gwallter.com/art/esther-g...

'Profiad cyffredin ond anochel, on’d yw e? Yn syth ar ôl ichi gyhoedd llyfr, dych chi’n dod o hyd i themâu neu bobl fyddai wedi bod ynddo, heb amheuaeth, pe baech chi wedi clywed amdanyn nhw’n gynt.' gwallter.com/books/cerddw...

Ffordd y Bannau complete: notes on the Beacons Way, with a diary: gwallter.com/the-beacons-...

'I sit on a tomb in the graveyard and eat my sandwiches. Two of the chapel windows are open. I peer inside, across the neatly numbered pews to the gallery, with its elegant iron columns and painted frieze, and the elaborate seiat fawr.' gwallter.com/travel/beaco...

'The ‘corpse road’ taken by people accompanying the bodies of Llanddeusant people back for burial in their home parish, after they’d died while working in the newly industrialised settlements of the Swansea and Amman valleys.' gwallter.com/travel/beaco...

I'm giving a talk on the neglected Cardiff artist and activist Esther Grainger - this is her 'Sunflower tops' (c1950) - in the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea on Saturday 17 May at 2:00pm. Come if you can / Dewch os am wybod rhagor.

'You could fairly call Thomas Johnes a predigital ‘influencer’. He cultivated writers of tours so that, like Tripadvisor commentators, they would give Hafod favourable write-ups. He invited tour writers to visit his house, requested proofs of their books ....' gwallter.com/books/an-ana...

'You can spend minutes staring at the slopes, with their horizontal rock ‘sandwiches’ at the top, and rows of grassier triangular splays below.' gwallter.com/travel/beaco...

Interested in football history in Swansea? This is a must.

'Looking back, I can see the summits of Pen y Fan and Corn Du, stark against the blue horizon, and feel glad I’ve left their busyness behind.' gwallter.com/travel/beaco...

'The next peak is Cribyn. The official route skirts round the bottom of it, and the guidebook is pragmatic: ‘If you decide to miss out Cribyn nobody will blame you … you are meant to be enjoying yourself.’ That’s enough of a provocation to send me up it.' gwallter.com/travel/beaco...

'In the village everything is closed. The church is locked, the pub won’t be open till Friday, and the old café has been abandoned. I cut my losses and eke out a single banana and KitKat on a sunny bench under the church tower.' gwallter.com/travel/beaco...

Probably the best festival of writing in Wales at present.

'And sometimes I wonder at how I spent so much time and effort, all those years ago, in the aid of a cause that would seem to have ended so badly.' gwallter.com/libraries/na...

Rich, engaging, well-ordered, packed with material and insights, Andrew Green has produced a history of human life in Wales according to walking ✍️ Desmond Clifford

'Oni fyddai’n braf gweld adferiad o’r traddodiad o gomisiynu artist i greu poster trawiadol ar gyfer yr ŵyl?' gwallter.com/art/posterir...

Like walking? Or history? Or both? Free on Thursday in Cardiff? The perfect answer: come to Book Space at 6:30pm. www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/voi...

Nos Iau yma, yng Nghrughywel / This Thursday, in Crickhowell.

Waterstones, Abertawe, 19 Mawrth, 6:00 / Waterstones, Swansea, 19 March, 6:00pm.

Book Space, Caerdydd, 20 Mawrth, 6:30pm / Book Space, Cardiff, 20 March, 6:30pm.

'Rowntree at his best: taut, economical, with a feeling for the geometry in landscape': Kenneth Rowntree in Wales: gwallter.com/art/kenneth-...

'Giving back to Maesteg its greatest physical asset, enormously improved and packed with cultural and social benefits for its citizens.' gwallter.com/libraries/in...

Chwilio am ffordd o esbonio'r gair 'bro'? Allwch chi wneud yn waeth nag awgrymu darllen 'Nelan a Bo', nofel ddiddarach Angharad Price. gwallter.com/cymraeg/nela...

Dic Aberdaron, the walking library, discussed in Paul Jeorrett's latest podcast about 'Voices on the path'. podfollow.com/1560172729/e...

'And all the magical transformations in the world won’t save him from being eaten.' gwallter.com/art/two-vers...

'dyn y ffons oedd yno ar ben ystôl yn ceisio cysylltu â Chwilog' Celfyddyd cynnil Dafydd John Pritchard. gwallter.com/cymraeg/deud...