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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-...

'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.

Don't miss @mikeparker.bsky.social. Stand-up is his forte - on the stage or on the path.

'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...

That's a very good point, Fiona. I should have thought more about the pre-backpack era. Just finished Llwybr y Bannau / Beacons Way - would have been hard work without a good backpack.

'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...

Brigflatts! One of my favourite places.

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