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31 October 2008 – 6:00 pm
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10 July 2008 – 11:00 pm
Rhagor | Help us find out more about the mysterious alien “Ghost Slug”
New species found in Wales: 'Unlike most slugs, the Ghost Slug is carnivorous, killing earthworms at night with blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti. It is also unusual in having no eyes (it is probably blind) and is almost completely white.'
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‘The Mabinogion’ trans. Sioned Davies
29 May 2008 – 11:19 am
I didn’t do my normal thing of looking for appropriate reading materials before going on holiday — I mean, I’d already read How Green Was My Valley and Under Milk Wood, so there didn’t seem to be much point in looking for anything else.*
But when I was running out of reading matter and went to [...]
Araf
28 May 2008 – 8:14 am
One of the few ways that being in Wales is noticeably different to being in England is the presence of Welsh everywhere. Not spoken Welsh — there was some of that, but not much, at least in the part of Wales I was visiting — but written. Every piece of public information — every road sign, every [...]
Wales photos
26 May 2008 – 3:35 pm
I’ve uploaded a set of photos from Welsh trip to Flickr. Here’s one of them, a singing whitethroat:
I somewhat felt the lack of a wide-angle lens, with all that scenery all over the place, and I’ve held back some of the best ones for my photoblog Clouded Drab (there’s a couple already posted), but I hope you can find some [...]
I have returned!
24 May 2008 – 2:02 pm
I am back from Wales. Debriefing, holiday book report, lots of photos, and musings on the Welsh language and widescreen television to follow. Possibly. In the meantime, here’s a shot of ox-eye daisies with cliffs and sea in the background.
Not only does it illustrate some of the many pretty flowers to be seen in Pembrokeshire, [...]
Rain, rain go away
17 May 2008 – 3:18 pm
Don’t get me wrong, this place looks beautiful even when it is raining, but I think I’m ready for some more sun now.
I would say it was no more than I expect of Wales — it’s not a coincidence that the principality is famous for sheep rather than, say, vineyards — but in fact I [...]
I’m in Wales
16 May 2008 – 2:36 pm
In a cafe in St David’s to be exact. I spent the last couple of days in the southern part of Pembrokeshire, in a village called Marloes; it’s the kind of place which, in England, would be one street, one pub, one shop and one church; being Wales, it has a pub, a shop, a [...]
Napowrimo #21: The Seal Voice Choir
21 April 2008 – 10:37 pm
If you stand on the beach on Holyhead
and listen attentively,
you may hear, above the sound of surf,
an unearthly harmony.
Upon a tiny rocky islet
out of sight of land
the world’s one and only seal voice choir
are sprawled on a patch of sand;
and sometimes, when the waves are still
and the breeze is off the sea
you can pick out [...]
Fairy rocks
21 November 2005 – 2:50 pm
The Times reports today that a property developer in Scotland has had to come up with new plans for a housing estate to accomodate a large rock after locals protested that digging it up would disturb the fairies that lived there. Or possibly because Pictish kings had been crowned on it - their stories seem [...]
Radio Cymru
16 August 2005 – 4:25 pm
Languagehat led me to discover Morfablog. I have no idea what any of it is about, but several of the pictures on the front page feature waterproof clothing, which chimes with my experience of Wales.
It reminded me of being at university in Bristol and listening to Radio Cymru. Since Welsh takes quite a lot of [...]