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Celf, cerdded, blogio (gwallter.com), sgrifennu / Art, walking, writing, blogging (gwallter.com)
'Gwell byth fyddai gweld y llywodraeth yn gweithio i ryddhau egni a chreadigrwydd cyrff, unigolion a phawb syân awyddus i greu gwlad decach, cryfach.'
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Ar ĂŽl yr etholiad â gwallter
https://gwallter.com/politics/ar-ol-yr-etholiad.html
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Llyn Ogwen and Tryfan: 'The end of this stretch, after a Second World War gun emplacement and just before the path joins the A5, is downright dangerous, at least for over-70s, with its chaotic pile of huge rocks (âan up and down scrambleâ is the guidebookâs euphemism).'
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9 days ago
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'We climb towards a wood, to the north of the Machno. Sounds drift up to us on the still air, of young children at play outside the primary school and of young lambs in the fields below.'
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16 days ago
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
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Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)
Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-second-floor-of-cardiff-university-s-arts-and-social-studies-library-assl?source=bluesky&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=7b14c94a-0dd4-4d40-b109-087eb04ff36a
21 days ago
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'Thereâs not a cloud in the sky, but the wind was lashed itself into a gusty fury. It threatens to push us off the path, and constantly saps us of energy. Somehow, whichever direction we walk in, weâre battling against it.'
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23 days ago
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great philosopher, came to stay in Swansea many times in the 1940s. Join Dr Alan Sandry for a guided walk around some of his haunts: Saturday 16 May, 11:00am, Cwmdonkin Terrace.
29 days ago
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A Llechwedd relic. Could Blaenau Ffestiniog be the highlight of Llwybr Llechi Eryri?
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about 1 month ago
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Sgwrsio rhwng pobl fyw a phobl marw: placiau coffa ar feinciau cyhoeddus
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about 1 month ago
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Tickets are now available for Cader Idris and the Artists Book Launch at The Turner House, Penarth.
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about 1 month ago
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'Communion is that rare thing, a novel thatâs totally rooted in place and time but that tussles throughout with universal matters of belonging, commitment and action. It will be a while before Port Talbot finds a better novelist.'
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about 1 month ago
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Like walking? Or art? Or Wales? Come and hear about walkers and artist-walkers in Wales, tomorrow (Friday) at 10:30am in Newton House, Dinefwr, Llandeilo Fawr
#LlandeiloLitFest
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Andrew Green - Hanes Cerdded yng Nghymru | Voices on the Path: A History of Walking in Wales â GĆ”yl LĂȘn Llandeilo Lit Fest
Voices on the Path: A History of Walking in Wales Historian and writer Andrew Green presents a fascinating talk exploring the history of walking in Wales. From ancient tracks and pilgrim routes to l...
https://www.llandeilolitfest.org/programme/a-history-of-walking-in-wales
about 2 months ago
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âAnother crop of Mr Whistlerâs little jokes.â Or one of the best series of etchings ever made?
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about 2 months ago
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'His dad remained a staunch socialist, republican and puritan, who felt nothing but contempt for the throwaway consumer society that was gathering pace in the 1960s.' Geoff Dyer's 'Homework' and the art of the memoir:
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about 2 months ago
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'As you slog along these forestry tracks, that fine balance between mind and world gets disturbed. Faced with an unceasing line of trees, and lacking the longer views that the eye desires, your mind turns in upon itself, and gloomy, existential questions start to loom.'
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2 months ago
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'Astonishingly, Swansea Council doesnât have its own transport strategy. It seems quite content to let the roads clog with ever-increasing quantities of motorised traffic, while devoting a pittance to other forms of transport.'
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2 months ago
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'Ar ĂŽl peth sgwrsio am hyn aâr llall, byddai eu hamrannau yn dechrau gostwng, a chyn hir roedden nhw ill dau ym mreichiau cwsg, Wncl Jack Ăąâi ben yn gorwedd ar ei law aâi anadl yn chwibanu trwy ei fwstas.'
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3 months ago
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'Calm reflection, independence of thought and questioning of authority, rational dialogue with other minds, verbal fluency, creativity â all are threatened when the airwaves are dominated by streams of 20-second TikTok videos made by teenage âinfluencersâ.'
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3 months ago
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'If you donât know the art of Gwen John and your mind is open to her subtle talent, the National Museumâs exhibition, 'Gwen John: strange beauties', will be a revelation. If you do, it will still be a revelation.'
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3 months ago
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Bydd Heini Gruffudd yn siarad (yn Gymraeg) am hanes yr iaith Gymraeg yn Abertawe ('O Gasnodyn i Neil Rosser'), nos Iau 5 Mawrth at 6:30pm yn Amgueddfa Abertawe. Croeso i bawb.
3 months ago
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Canu clod y 'tywyswyr iaith'
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3 months ago
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Gwen John's A corner of the artistâs room: "The artist, though implied by her few possessions, is invisible. There really isnât any need for more self-statements, however undemonstrative."
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4 months ago
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'Not long after, the UK government gave Palantir a defence contract worth ÂŁ141m. There was no procurement process.'
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4 months ago
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'2026 isnât a bad year to think about utopian worlds, at a time when weâre faced with so many dystopian ones, factual and fictional.'
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4 months ago
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'One of the pieces, entitled âGanymedeâ, cup-bearer of the gods, concerns Bernardâs insistence on being prescribed Ambrosia custard on the ward.' Embroidered pictures and stories on identity and mortality by Nigel Hurlstone at the Mission Gallery.
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4 months ago
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'Where this exhibition scores is in its inclusion of many sketches and other preparatory works by both artists ... these and other works bring us as close as we can get to the act of making art.' Turner & Constable
@tate.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Dryw (llun gan Carys Evans): rhif 1 mewn cyfres o 'Cyfarfodydd ag adar rhyfeddol':
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5 months ago
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What have the Donro Doctrine and the 1895 Venezuela crisis have in common?
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5 months ago
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Cader Idris and the Artists | Landscape Art and Photography
From the rolling Preseli Hills to its dramatic cliff-top coastline, Pembrokeshire both excites and enthrals with a sense of timeless beauty. And yet there is also a story to be told, one of meaning an...
https://graffeg.com/products/cader-idris-and-the-artists
5 months ago
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Eugénie-Paméla LariviÚre: a good stand-in for Fanny Price?
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5 months ago
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What's political about fonts?
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5 months ago
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Newyddion da o Abertawe!
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6 months ago
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Cardiff blues, anarchic poets and bookshop 'shrinkage'
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6 months ago
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A hymn to the power of imagination: Philip Pullman's 'The rose field'
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6 months ago
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'You could easily miss the farmer in this painting, so camouflaged are his clothes and face against the dark tones of the mountain slope.' 'Kyffin in Bangor talk':
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6 months ago
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Craig Cau, 19 November: one the finest days I've ever had on Cader Idris in 50 years.
7 months ago
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'The Llanboidy Molecatcher', a star of a new book, 'Carmarthenhire in 100 Objects'
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7 months ago
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"âIgnoring the fansâ I find admirable. Heâs come all this way to play and sing for us, what more do we want?" Bob Dylan in Swansea.
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7 months ago
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Want to know what's really going on in the BBC? Come & hear Prof. Elan Closs Stephens, late of the BBC Board, in an RISW talk & discussion in Swansea Museum, Thursday 13 November, 6:30pm. All welcome.
7 months ago
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Aberystwyth: prifddinas llĂȘn - a mwy?
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Aber, prifddinas llĂȘn : gwallter
https://gwallter.com/books/aber-prifddinas-llen.html
7 months ago
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Well done, Aberystwyth, new UNESCO city of literature. More poets per hectare than in any other town.
7 months ago
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'As Walter Bagehot well understood, monarchy continues to exist in order to infantalise the majority of the population.' Thoughts on the Irish presidential election and Andrew Windsor.
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7 months ago
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Curious Travellers
8 months ago
Come join us at
@nhm-london.bsky.social
on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing. For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link!
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Aberystwyth University
8 months ago
Drawn into Landscape â Symposium đż The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newellâs exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks. đ Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00 đ School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr More:
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Has Jesus College Cambridge improved since Coleridge went there in 1791? 'Jesus was an unwelcoming home, âthe very palace of windsâ. His rooms near the Porterâs Lodge were cold and clammy. He caught âflu, which he treated with opium, and suffered from his bad teeth.'
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8 months ago
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"Though, Jan Morris adds later, she may be mistaken in her interpretation: 'those professors are probably company accountants really; the novelist is preparing a computer program and the sages are not contemplating Time, but waiting for the football on TV.â"
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8 months ago
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'Someone counted the number of dashes in Tristram Shandy and reckoned there were 9,560 of them, an average of one dash every three lines.'
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8 months ago
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Pan oedd y gymdeithas ar-lein yn freuddwyd o hyd yn ein llyfrgelloedd âŠ
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8 months ago
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'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.'
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'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.'
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'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.
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