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Follow the ebb and flow of the Ramsay family and friends as they holiday on Skye. Little plot but much musing on ageing, childhood, gender roles and forgiveness. Woolf's sentences are too long but this is a lovely, gentle look at the complexity of life and relationships.

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A commanding officer maintains a stiff upper lip as he falls apart in a trench in Flanders. Themes of duty, decency, class and the madness of war in this classic WW1 play. May be a little dated but still packs a punch.

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In the post apocalyptic desert monks try to preserve books and knowledge. 600 years on, Church and rulers argue over the texts. Another nuclear war and the monks take what they can into space. The danger of knowledge, deterrance, euthanasia and why always war? Thoughtful stuff.

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Life, sex, drugs, daily struggles and relationships. These sometimes raw stories tell of the joy and the challenges young people face just getting by in the Valleys. Trezise is honest, fresh and current. I loved these stories.

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How do you get over a coercive, toxic childhood? Can you ever forgive your mum? Perhaps not. I found this brutally honest autobiography at times hard to read. But this work in itself hopefully allows Gwyneth to reclaim her youth, her self. Compelling. #books

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My 'Made in Wales' artistic week. Peter Grimes from Welsh National Opera was outstanding and thought provoking. Figaro was a laugh too. Marc's film about Burton's muse Burton was beautifully told. And Gwyneth's revelatory autobiog was brutally honest. Am wlad greadigol! #SaveWNO

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West meets the Middle East as a British scientist and a sheikh try to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemen. This bonkers adventure lampoons the civil service, Blairite media spin, personal ambition and egotism. Humorous and uplifting. It's all about hope!

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Marvellous production of a play with so many layers that I first saw almost 50 years ago. Father and son, the cruel fiction of the American dream, self delusion and mental disintegration. Timely revival of a timeless classic.

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#Llandâf yn ysblander y gwanwyn. The city within a city in bloom. #MagnoliaWeek

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Opening riff of Hendrix's 'Foxy Lady.' The best ever? Discuss!

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Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

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Today has been mainly about communist war memorials. Arbrofion pensaernïol arbennig yn Krushevo a Kavadarsi, Macedonia. ❤️🇲🇰

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Today's room with a view. You're welcome.

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Would you like a ticket to Wales v Kazakhstan this evening in Cardiff? We have a limited number of tickets available for free. All we ask is you help with our Street Football Wales bucket collection outside the stadium beforehand from 6pm.

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Coffee shop, Cardiff Bay. 'Sorry. Card only.' Ah, gentrification.

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I'll show you mine... #MagnoliaWeek

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Printemps. Merci.

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It's 1972 and Serena dupes an unwitting writer into being paid by MI5. She falls in love with him but what should she do next? Is honesty really the best policy? Brilliant characters, moral ambiguity, smart storytelling and a couple of delightful twists of plot. Thoroughly enjoyed this novel.

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Wow. Perfformiad arbennig gan Daniel Evans. Rwy'n cofio cyfweld e ar ôl iddo ennill gwobr Richard Burton yn Steddfod Cwm Rhymni yn y 90au! Marvellous production of this gripping Marlowe play. They didn't hold back at the gruesome end. Highly recommended.

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Intriguing if challenging book about the 'lost encyclopedia' of the Khazars. 3 narratives entwine as Judaism, Christianity and Islam vie to convert these Caucasian people. I think it's about being caught between cultures and empires. Fascinating magical realism but confusing.

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#worldbookday2025

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Edrych ymlaen at hwn. See you tomorrow morning.

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Mae V yn gadael Rob ar ôl iddo mocha. Si ynw ei phartner amesing newydd hi ond beth am yr atgof hyll, a'r plant? OMG mae bywyd yn really messy. Stori gyfoes, afaelgar gydag arbrawf o ddefnyddio Cymraeg, English, Wenglish. Jest fel ni'n gwneud like. (Diddorol ond oedd gwir angen e?)

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A handful of fans goading a ref. Early starts that end up nowhere. Crap pitches and fat goalies. It's all about the losing! True football fan John D tells it how it is as he recounts the death and rebirth of his beloved Bangor City (1876.) At last a happy ending, aye.

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Thanks Pat for this mossy specimen. #LovingHydrants

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So never mind the rights or wrongs of a war. Military support goes to the highest bidder. Yes? Seems like the ultimate form of capitalist commodification.

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I had to read this twice before realising it wasn't the plot of a Philip K Dick novel.

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Daniel enters a bizarre throuple in London. Disaster sends him home to South Africa but his father's legacy takes him to Tokyo and back again. Great writing and plot twists. As someone else wrote, 'Naudé’s “South Africa is not an historical place so much as a condition to be escaped from”.'

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If only we could. This podcast describes how we have become a vassal state of the USA. It will take guts to break away. www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/coul...

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Italian Sky has a cocktail glass instead of a pint pot on the screen to show the caff has paid for it. Nice. But Milan are still one nil down at the mo. 🙄

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Yes that's an African penguin.

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By night, by day. Loving open roads and wide skies of Southern Africa.

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Eisteddfod Eswatini! Great singing and dancing today. 🇸🇿

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Kumalo searches for his wayward son in 1940s Johannesburg. In the city he finds a killer but dad's not the only one to ask why. A painful tale of racism, love, truth and hopeful reconciliation. Slightly jerky style but a classic, must read for anyone going to South Africa. Cry the Beloved Country!

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Four men swindled out of a million dollars take revenge on the American fraudster. Superb, silly yarns. Archer's England is all about Oxford, class, Ascot, lords, champers, and one 'fragrant' wife! Stock characters with no depth, this is delightful Enid Blyton for adults.

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Sunday street scene Soweto. 🇿🇦

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Gibreel and Saladin are still alive after terrorists blow up an aeroplane. Survival comes at a price but are they really the embodiment of good versus evil? Rushdie's writing is satirical and humorous but there are just too many stories running here for me. The blasphemy? Don't believe in it!

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