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Rockpool explorer and vicar's husband. Cymro. Yn dysgu ac yn defnyddio Cymraeg. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hoffwn fyw yn Gymraeg 📍Ger Abertawe, Gweriniaeth Cymru
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Ganwyd Vernon Watkins, Bardd Cymreig, ar y diwrnod hwn yn 1906 ym Maesteg. Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet, was born on this day in 1906 in Maesteg.

‘The White Tiger’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

‘Synopsis’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Crynodeb #Synopsis #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

The Daily Rothno is a #MaintenanceHoleMonday on Southwark Bridge

Drws Tŵr Cloch, Eglwys Teilo Sant, Llandeilo Ferwallt. Belltower door, St Teilo’s Church, Llandeilo Ferwallt. #Gŵyr #Cymru

‘The Other’ - #RSThomas (Destinations, Celandine)

‘After Jericho’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

‘Emerging’ 1978 - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

‘The Place’ - #RSThomas (Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis)

Sarn y Plas, Rhiw, near Aberdaron. Welsh poet RS Thomas and his artist wife Elsi Eldridge lived in this very old cottage for many years following his retirement in 1978.

Now the World Test Championship is over, the eyes of the whole cricketing world focus on the next international battle of huge importance. That's Iceland versus Lithuania in the Euro Cup 2025, 10th July, in Warsaw.

Sarn y Plas, Rhiw, near Aberdaron. Welsh poet RS Thomas and his artist wife Elsi Eldridge lived in this very old cottage for many years following his retirement in 1978.

‘Welsh Landscape’ - #RSThomas (An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)

#Aberdaron #Llšn #Cymru

#Aberdaron #Llšn #Cymru

Malak Mattar, 2021 Palestinian artist

‘Cofiwch Dryweryn’ yn Aberdaron #Llŷn #Cymru

‘A Blackbird Singing’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis)

‘Perhaps’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Efallai #Perhaps #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

This flew over us at Pennard Cliffs an hour ago… #Spitfire #Pennard

For Pentecost here’s RS Thomas’ antidote to his own perception of God as elusive/hidden/absent: ‘Suddenly’ (1983) - #RSThomas (Later Poems, 1972–1982 Macmillan London)

‘The Chapel’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)

ㅤ I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence... when we think we’re alone. — Charles de Lint ㅤ

‘Travels’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Teithiau #Travels #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia. She leaned over and whispered “They’re right behind you.” #library #librarian #books #paranoia 😱

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth." ~ George Eliot Two Swallows in Flight 🎨 James Lynch

#ProudBlue #RU #Pinks Good Thursday morning, friends. Many of us are able to function outwardly and participate in daily life while still struggling with the emotional weight of loss or adversity. Although it might be invisible, it still exists. We are all carrying more than we show. #BeKindAlways

I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia. She leaned over and whispered “They’re right behind you.” #library #librarian #books #paranoia 😱

‘In Great Waters’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

2 poems by #RSThomas … ‘Patterns’ (Between Here and Now, Macmillan) ‘Gift’ (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan)

Meadows in Giverny - 1888 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10317

@catsbearsandme.bsky.social Diolch, thank you for following back 😊 I used to procrastinate, but I just don't seem to get around to it any more. 🙄

Before English, before empire, before the state – there was Welsh. The first voice of this land. It’s not a “minority language.” It’s an indigenous language. A language that shaped Britain. —- New from me:

United (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red) #artbots #rothko https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4861

Please tell your MP to attend the debate and vote for an arms embargo and other sanctions… secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

‘Album’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan)

Work in Progress in Brighton this Saturday at @brightonfringe.bsky.social! 3.30pm at Secret Comedy Club (Artista)… www.brightonfringe.org/events/matt-...

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Mumbles CC in Wales #cricket #cricketgrounds #cricketground #villagecricket #clubcricket #beautifulcricketgrounds #cricketuk #cricketuk🇬🇧 🏏