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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · 6d

"Though, Jan Morris adds later, she may be mistaken in her interpretation: 'those professors are probably company accountants really; the novelist is preparing a computer program and the sages are not contemplating Time, but waiting for the football on TV.’" gwallter.com/travel/heave...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · 10d

'Someone counted the number of dashes in Tristram Shandy and reckoned there were 9,560 of them, an average of one dash every three lines.' gwallter.com/literature/i...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · 19d

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

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · 27d

'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...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Sep 19

'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...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Sep 12

'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...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Sep 5

'Today the Revival is a distant dream, the quarrymen are asleep, and Sardis long closed.' Dinorwig, Gwynedd, yn y glaw.
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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 29

‘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...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 22

'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

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 15

An improbable Victorian murder: 'Black Hopkin', the gold watch and savage Eryri . gwallter.com/books/george...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 8

Cofio Brinley. gwallter.com/libraries/by...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Trist iawn clywed am farwolaeth Dr R. Brinley Jones, cymwynaswr mawr y genedl, un o'r bobl garedicaf yng Nghymru, a chyfaill arbennig.

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 4

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?

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jul 30

@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...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jul 25

'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...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jul 18

Pont Dolauhirion (1773): the handsomest bridge in Wales? gwallter.com/travel/deep-...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jul 11

'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...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jul 5

'Neu ydy’r cyfan yn gerflun newydd sbon, o bosib, gwaith cysyniadol gan un o’n hartistiaid mwyaf?' Dychmygu Pentre Ifan. gwallter.com/archaeology/...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jun 27

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/...

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jun 19

'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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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jun 14

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gwallter @gwallter.bsky.social · Jun 13

'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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Monty Lit Fest @montylitfest.bsky.social · Jun 8

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.

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