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Pan oedd y gymdeithas ar-lein yn freuddwyd o hyd yn ein llyfrgelloedd … gwallter.com/libraries/ha...

'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.
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‘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.

Cytuno, Heledd. Beth sy'n bod ar yr Amgueddfa? Maen nhw wedi rhoi gorau i ateb ymholiadau hefyd, mae'n ymddangos. Ar ol dau ymholiad am y casgliadau, a dim ateb, halais i lythyr at y CEO. Dim ateb ganddi hi chwaith. Ai dyna'r polisi newydd: anwybyddu'r cyhhoedd?

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

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Alexandria: The Library Natalie explores the great library of Alexandria. With Edith Hall and Islam Issa.

@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...

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'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.'
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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.

Fired US librarian of Congress details callous dismissal in new interview Carla Hayden, first woman and African American to serve in role, details firing by Trump administration to CBS

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.

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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

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'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).
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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-...