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_bydbach_

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Professionally dappling in #Literature and #CulturalStudies, specialising in #WelshWritingInEnglish, #history & #heritage of #Wales in the long C19. Unprofessionally enjoying photography and a good classic film. Smatterings of wry humour.

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_bydbach_, to photography
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Since the short thunderstorm this afternoon, the weather has called it a day. At least I got my plants out into the flowerbeds.
#Machynlleth #SilentSunday #photography #Wales

_bydbach_, to cymru
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Bore da from #Machynlleth. It is very hazy this morning. You can tell some weather is on its way.
#Wales #SilentSunday #photography

_bydbach_,
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@purplepadma oooooh, anarchy on the washing line.

_bydbach_, to cymru
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Funky, hazy evening at the northern end of #Machynlleth.
#Wales #photography

_bydbach_, to cymru
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This week's roadside offerings.
#Machynlleth #Wales #photography #bloomscrolling

_bydbach_, to cymru
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Went on an early morning stroll around #Conwy ahead of the 4-hour bus ride home.
#Wales #photography

View across the roofs of Conwy from the town wall. The sky is covered in dense cloud.
The smallest and reddest house in Britain snuggled tightly into the row of houses along the waterfront.
View across the Conwy estuary with the tide slowly going out. The smooth water is as grey as the cloudy sky.

sheepnik, to random
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There, I have done my token morning of work (mostly deleting the many emails I have been needlessly copied in to), and now I can have an afternoon of gentle recuperation.

_bydbach_,
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@sheepnik don't forget to exercise your suffrage.

_bydbach_, to cymru
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Fun run-in at the polling station this morning with the officer who refused to recognise an EEA driving licence even though their visual guide issued clearly stated they are accepted visual ID documents because A) th licence was issued in Germany and B) I wouldn't be allowed to use it anyway because I have been in the UK for more than a year. Obviously both of these reasons were clearly wrong and another officer came to the rescue.
#Elections2024 #Wales

_bydbach_,
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So folks, stand your ground resolutely! Particularly in the ironic situation when we are supposed to vote on a policing matter where non-British folks and people of colour of whichever nationality are disproportionately discriminated against in this country.
#election2024 #Wales

nic, (edited ) to random Welsh
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Ddim yn cofio gweld hyn o'r blaen, ond eitha defnyddiol ar gyfer cynllunio gwyliau #diGar - map Cymru o gysylltiadau trafnidiaeth cyhoeddus, ar fodel map eiconig sustem trenau danddaearol Llundain. Fel hwnna, dyw e ddim i ddilyn graddfa a daearyddiaeth yn agos iawn, ond mae'n wneud y tro.

Cliciwch y ddolen am fersiwn maint llawn:
https://trc.cymru/sites/default/files/2024-02/TfW-network-map_High-res_CYM.pdf

_bydbach_,
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@nic that single blue line through the middle that is forking on the left -- TfW are planning to eliminate services on it. Car-free Wales? My carless butt! It's more like car-free M4 and A55 corridors with zero effs given for the 80mile stretch across the middle.

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@nic not having a go at you. And it is a useful map. But it also very much distorts the situation on the ground. As you well know.

_bydbach_, to photography
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Evening settles over the valley. This has been a fine spring day.
#Machynlleth #photography

llamasoft_ox, to random
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And finally here we can see Panda joining Brambles at the mossy branch. His fluffiness levels are getting out of control. He is starting to look like a sphere of wool.

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@llamasoft_ox I once encountered a 🐏 grazing on the flanks of Cader Idris that was wider than it was tall. It looked like a particularly dense cloud.

I think about this 🐏 a lot.

_bydbach_, to cymru
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It's a frosty, but thankfully sunny morning here in #Machynlleth. Fingers crossed the forecast clouds are still some way off.
#Wales #photography

_bydbach_, to animals
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The Fflip has landed.

_bydbach_, to cymru
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Bit of a dramatic sunset in #Machynlleth this evening. #Wales #photography

_bydbach_,
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I'm gone five minutes and the sky goes nuts.
#Machynlleth

_bydbach_, to photography
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It's been awfully rainy the whole week, but it looks like the magnolia enjoyed it. #Machynlleth First signs of #spring. #SilentSunday #photography

White and pink magnolia blossoms under a blue sky.

_bydbach_, to cymru
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I love our cold, pink mornings.
Bore da from #Machynlleth.
#Wales #photography #PhotoMonday

_bydbach_, to photography
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Good morning from .

sheepnik, to random
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I don't seem to have much to say today, so tell me something interesting.

_bydbach_,
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@sheepnik it is absolutely not true that there were no public statues to named Welsh women anywhere in Wales. There has been one on public display in Machynlleth since 1909. https://rcahmw.gov.uk/mary-cornelia-vane-tempest-an-historical-statue-of-a-historical-welsh-woman/

_bydbach_, to cymru
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I'm usually not one for sharing petitions and asking others to sign, but this one is close to the heart. The #heritage and #culture sector in #Wales has been chronically underfunded for decades, but the latest budget announcement was tantamount to an attack. Please help by signing this petition so that Welsh Govt is at the very least forced to discuss this on the floor and face up to their proposed cultural vandalism. https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/246088

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Oh for fuck's sake. My heart sinks when someone posts a link to an article, you go to read it and after a few lines the text starts to fade out. You just know a "sign up to read the rest of this article" thing is going to scroll into view.

Fuck off with that shite.

_bydbach_,
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@llamasoft_ox copy the URL and check whether a readable version has been deposited with the WaybackMachine.

jaz, to Rugby
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:WelshRugby: :ScottishRugby: #WALvSCO

yikes, running late, settling in for some #6Nations #Rugby

#CmonCymru
@rugby

_bydbach_,
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@jaz @rugby hi'self aged about five years watching the second half.

nic, to random Welsh
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Newyddion trist am gylchgrawn Planet, sy’n amau na fyddwn nhw’n gallu parhau ar ôl i’r Cyngor Llyfrau torri eu grant.

https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/

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@nic fingers and everything else crossed. But it will take years before we're going to get it back.

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