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Andrew
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Love all aspects of music, literature, cooking & all types of sport & travel.
Proud companion to a bonkers Collie 🦮❤️ (oh, and the wonderful woman that is @ladyintrigue.bsky.social😊)
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All dogs go to heaven ❤️
February 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
TikTok - Make Your Day
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January 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Ogmore Castle Stepping Stones.

#wales #cymru #castles #history #welsh
December 18, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Labour's budget doesn't even touch the sides when it comes to the challenges confronting our public services.

We were promised things would be better with two Labour governments in power, but this budget is more about papering over cracks than addressing the real challenges facing our communities.
December 15, 2024 at 4:16 PM
December 16, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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Welsh Labour is no more than obedient lapdogs to Westminster.

They bow to Keir Starmer’s Tory-lite agenda, crossing their fingers that scraps will be thrown our way.

We must stand with the Party of #Wales Plaid Cymru.
Our future depends on it.
December 15, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Saint David’s Episcopal Church, Aurora, Illinois

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on March 1, 1958. A cornerstone of gray Cambrian limestone, shipped from Saint David’s Cathedral in Wales, was laid and sealed on the eve of Saint David’s Day, February 28, 1959.

#ChicagoWelshHistory
December 15, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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When someone asks me what I want for Christmas ... But I cant say the Infinite Library from the Timeless Fate Series filled with infinite books of all the knowledge in the world and ancient texts, infinite couches, fireplaces, perfect reading spots, and a creepy librarian who is as old as time
December 15, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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A new live circuit aims to reintroduce live Welsh music to rural areas across Wales and to audiences who might not normally have access to live music locally - with headline performances from Gwilym Bowen Rhys wp.me/p8Mk4U-ShN
New live circuit aims to kickstart community gigs across Wales
A new live circuit aims to reintroduce live Welsh music to rural areas across Wales and to audiences who might not normally have access to live music locally – with headline performances from Gwilym B...
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December 15, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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Some pics of the Millennium Falcon being build in Pembroke Dock, Wales in 1979 for ‘The Empire Strikes Back’.

www.atlasobscura.com/places/pembr...

#WalesInTheMovies
#maythe4thbewithyou
#StarWarsWales
December 15, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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On May 24th, 2007, Tori James from Pembrokeshire became the first Welsh woman to summit Mount Everest.

She was also part of the first all-female team to complete a 360-mile ski expedition to the Magnetic North Pole.

Tori holds the record for the longest open-sea kayak journey in UK waters.
December 15, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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True Person of the Year!
December 13, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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‘Woke Up This Morning’ the theme tune for ‘The Sopranos’ was written and sung by Rob Spragg from Troedyrhiw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

After leaving school in Troedyrhiw, near Merthyr Tydfil, Robert went to university in Aberystwyth where he honed his musical talent.

www.loudersound.com/features/ala...

#WalesInTheMovies
“Initially, we signed it away for $500 because we didn’t have a very savvy manager”: Alabama 3 on how their song Woke Up This Morning became the theme tune for The Sopranos
Don’t worry, the London country-blues rave crew did make some money eventually from soundtracking the show’s iconic opening sequence
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December 14, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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A Welsh publisher has released a new translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel The Hobbit in Welsh wp.me/p8Mk4U-SfE
Yr Hobyd: A perfect Christmas stocking filler
A Welsh publisher has released a new translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel The Hobbit in Welsh. One of the most popular and most-translated books of the twentieth century and the prelu...
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December 14, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Cymru:
December 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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December 14, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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This is who Wales will play in qualifying for World Cup 2026
Wales discover opponents in World Cup 2026 qualifying draw
Wales have been drawn against Belgium in their World Cup 2026 qualifying group. The two nations who must be sick of the sight of each other by now given how many times they have played each other in t...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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A Plaid Cymru MP has called for collaboration between the Welsh and UK Governments to ‘futureproof’ Holyhead Port following damage suffered during Storm Darragh last weekend
MP calls for long-term safeguards to protect strategic Welsh port
A Plaid Cymru MP has called for collaboration between the Welsh and UK Governments to “futureproof” Holyhead Port following damage suffered during Storm Darragh last weekend. The port will remain…
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December 13, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Favorite small Welsh-American businesses

Pretty Lethal Designs in Virginia 🇺🇸 who designed the Chicago Tafia logo.

www.prettylethal.studio

#SmallWelshBusiness
#SmallWelshAmericanBusiness
December 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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My new substack just dropped! And you can get a festive 25% off a full subscription until Christmas. It's the perfect stocking filler, and it will hyperboost my crusade to take the political trash out! OFFER here: countbinface.substack.com/blackfriday

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Binface v Boris: Five Years On...
There could only ever be one winner.
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December 13, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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OK, so everyone is showing off their pets on the new app. Fair enough. Here's a photo my rescue dog Griff 😊
November 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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In a timeline full of cats, be a border collie.
November 16, 2024 at 4:38 PM