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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 1d

Update: two men aged 43 and 50 from Northampton have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and are being held in custody. Searches are continuing for the missing items from St Fagans say South Wales Police.

gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 2d

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime

South Wales Police statement on the burglary at St Fagans Museum of History early on Monday 6th October.

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 1d

From an outside perspective, this seems genuinely strange! Perhaps a departmental curry night or something? (!)

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 1d

Crikey! What have your colleagues in Exeter been up to? “Look out - Laura’s coming up the stairs! Hide them! Hide them all! Shhhh! Not a word!” 😅

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 1d

A mad itinerary for a person who *checks notes* was in witness protection.

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 2d

AssHOLES!!

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 2d

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 2d

@teleriglynjones.bsky.social Impressive takeover of the High Street 👏

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 3d

Great sculpture and drawing! So 9th C Welsh hermit Saint Edern moved to Brittany. It turns out there are two Llanederns (Llanedeyrns) one in Cardiff and the other Finistère. Also Edern near Morfa Nefyn in Gwynedd, all in his veneration.

Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 6d

This is my drawing of a spooky sculpture of Ankou, the Breton personification of death, from the church of Lannédern in Brittany. His name possibly derives from the Celtic 'nek', meaning 'to perish'.
The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#FolkloreThursday

A pencil drawing of a carved skeleton on the edge of a building holding a long spear

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely! 😘

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

Ah good. At least I’m not losing my marbles (other terms are available)

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

Propagation and Kate Bush. I don’t know but I’d be happy to develop a conspiracy theory that they are related factors

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

Dale you’ve confused me here! What am I missing? I may be tired.

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

I didn’t know that track or video and it was great! As for band conditions - looked at my reports on PSK Reporter and gave up as QRP. I had lots of fun last week - SSB on 10m and all!

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

This is true. I could bore you to death with how we are stuck with a working world of (for example) rob corp/interview/2112/2/10 which is obviously perfectly memorable. Sadly I was in those BBC meetings. 😬

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

😁 I think I was still in local radio when I splashed out on a Video+ VCR in a Co-Op superstore, maybe 1995. An exciting purchase at the time!

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 5d

Story by my colleague Jack here about Tom Brown from Anglesey who has been reading his rain gauge daily since 1948, when he was just 10. He features in the study and is still going!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale...

Anglesey man has measured the rainfall every day since 1948

Tom Bown, 85, is carrying on the tradition his grandfather started in the late 1800s.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social · 6d

This is the *most* British science story.

Rain ☔️
Enthusiastic amateurs.
Quietly recording 1000s of records.
To be mirrored later by the volunteers who digitised each of those original hand written numbers.

Sometimes it’s not the data - it’s the people that make the story.

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 7d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 6d

What a really lovely church!

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 6d

I want a choice question now! My standard answer to anything is Arsenal!

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 6d

I always appreciate people being helpful like this online even if it has nothing to do with me - simple citizenship.

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 8d

😁

gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 8d

We live quite close by to the Canton depot and whenever there’s any track work they have mandatory honks. It’s part of our rich soundscape here - Cardiff City stadium crowds, testing the sirens at Dow Corning, bird wars!

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 8d

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A good recovery I thought! 😁

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 12d

My thoughts exactly. I’ve had some serious night cramps that have curled my feet. I must invest in or create a longbow.

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