Watching that BBC doc on Twitter, looking at my earliest Tweets - throwback to that time one of myself students made a tiny snowman and brought it into class. twitpic.com/1fb06
31.03.2025 20:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@antheald.bsky.social
Interested in everything. Made in Yorkshire. Stayed in Wales. @antheald.substack.com #dysgwr #mdant
Watching that BBC doc on Twitter, looking at my earliest Tweets - throwback to that time one of myself students made a tiny snowman and brought it into class. twitpic.com/1fb06
31.03.2025 20:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stellar Welsh writers showcased in @foldingrockmag.bsky.social, launched today
At a time when artistic and cultural austerity seem to be shutting down every avenue to fresh expression, the new Welsh literary periodical Folding Rock pushes back.
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
My grandad died before I was born, but as a young child I remember brothers Percy and Reggie (there had been 9 siblings altogether). But not until much later had I any sense of what they (& their parents) must have endured. Thinking of Edgar prompted this:
antheald.substack.com/p/in-memoria...
@lindamaynard.bsky.social glad to have been thrown into yesterdayβs mingle room with you by the @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social Zoom gods - I now have βBrothers in the Great Warβ on my Kindle. My great Uncle Edgar and three of his brothers enlisted - Edgar didnβt come home.
20.02.2025 08:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Call for poetry submissions!
Forgotten Ground Regained is open for submissions of alliterative poetry on the themes "Mythic Tales and Sacred Truths." Submit by April 1, 2025.
alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/
#CallForSubmissions #alliterative #poetry
#PoetSky #BlueSkyPoets #alliterativeverse
A screenshot of part of a presidential executive order reading: βMenβ or βmanβ and βboysβ or βboyβ shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively.
The Proud Boys are going to love that.
23.01.2025 01:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh - and now - Iβm wandering in your website, wading in its word-flood, skimming its song-stones across my eveningβs sound.
21.01.2025 21:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks for the clarification - I hope that βwhat Iβm used to seeingβ showed I wasnβt suggesting right vs wrong - presumably both are arbitrary impositions on a primarily oral form?
21.01.2025 21:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0An Apple Intellegence iPhone notification summary for a Nest doorbell camera reads βMultiple people and an ant were spotted by Front Door cameraβ.
Apple Intelligence notification summary still needs a little fine tuning.
09.01.2025 20:58 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Layout in that link places on separate lines what Iβm used to seeing as two half-lines with two stressed syllables each & separated by a caesura that alliterate with each other. This (with ModEng translation) uses the latter form skaldic.org/m.php?i=1436... Lovely to reconnect with this stuff!
09.01.2025 20:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I studied Old English as part of my degree in the late 80s at university and my first thought was it sounded similar to how our tutor read OE poetry - but Iβve had a long time to forget the details.
09.01.2025 20:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My hand is holding a tangled knot of lights *in the middle* of a rope of lights *already decorating* a tree that was inexplicably delivered earlier today.
Two dimensional images cannot do justice to knot theory problems.
20.12.2024 16:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The more I hoover, the fonder I become of dust.
I would like to spend more time with it in its natural habitat.
I didnβt notice as the sentence works perfectly well with βcarveryβ (I assumed the lower case βcβ was a typo).
19.12.2024 16:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βIl Postinoβ - of course. Havenβt read any Carver. I will correct this forthwithishly.
19.12.2024 09:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Last night I re-watched βPatersonβ having somehow forgotten Iβd seen it before. Now I think it will remain one of my favourite films. And it reminded me of βPerfect Daysβ which I also adored. What other films/novels/poems/art have that sense of quotidian transcendence?
19.12.2024 08:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fantastic Katy! (Copy just ordered)
03.12.2024 16:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm working on not not working.
28.11.2024 07:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A mainly white cat with ginger, brown and black patches sleeps on a cushion that is mainly white with black, brown and mustard circles.
Good morning Bluesky. Snowy still at beginner level on her camouflage course but making good progress.
28.11.2024 07:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sunset over the calm waters of high tide on the Llwchwr/Loughor estuary.
Mustnβt grumble.
27.11.2024 20:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A snow covered gravestone in Reykjavik with a little glass βhouseβ in front of it containing illuminated fairly lights.
Oh yeah - really struck and quite moved by this.
25.11.2024 11:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pricy, but remarkably accurate (got one cheap at TKMaxx) truegrace.co.uk/products/lib...
23.11.2024 22:04 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Very much enjoyed seeing (and hearing) the film at @hiddennotes.bsky.social festival last year, with Caroline Catz in conversation afterwards. (Anyone not familiar with Hidden Notes do yourself a favour and put that right now).
23.11.2024 21:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Makes every place-name on there sound like a euphemism (well, apart from Tongue, obviously).
18.11.2024 22:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ok- happy to join in with this. My snap may not be as aesthetically pleasing and colourful as those posted so far but I like to think it tells it as it was - August 2017.
18.11.2024 12:51 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A morning sky taken from an upper window in Llanelli just before sunrise - a scattering of grey cloud over the gradient of soft browny-orange to deep blue over a silhouette townscape.
Good morning Bluesky.
Will post imperious cat pics and fulsome endorsement of libraries later. #amidointhisright?
(Seriously, there does now seem to be enough traction for this to be the new place. Are we sure itβs safe?)
You seem to have a better class of charity of shop than Iβm used to and/or got very lucky. And thatβs exactly the usual kind of thing I listen to. Well played.
12.11.2024 21:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0