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That was a lovely 11 mile hike. A fair bit of up but the down was actually worse. And though I started off with a woolly hat I really should have taken a sun hat and sunscreen 🥵.

Here’s a slightly wobbly 360 video tour from the summit of Pen Pumlumon Fawr.

#walking #Cymru
#walking #cymru

Not the top of the world, or Wales even, but I am at the top of Ceredigion…Pen Pumlumon Fawr at 752 metres. I’ve been wanting to come up here for ages and the weather is almost perfect. Time for lunch.

#walking #Cymru
A landscape photo taken from a high point in the Cambrian Mountains looking towards the distant coastline of Cardigan Bay. In the near distance is a large reservoir surrounded by high moorland and forestry plantations. The sky is a hazy blue with fluffy and wispy white cloud. It’s a sunny spring day.
#walking #cymru

According to #Cymru #CONservatives, WFH equates with shirking.

#NastyParty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjyjk42l0lo

Tories want to end Welsh gov working from home and freeze top pay

Conservatives in Wales pledge to freeze pay to some government workers and end working from home.
Nicholas Bourne (BBC News)
#conservatives #cymru #NastyParty

The very funnest thing about digging new flower beds when you live on a mountain is the mahoosive rocks you always find 🙄 🥵

#Life #Gardens #Cymru
#gardens #life #cymru

"This is not how it looks"

Lady's Smock near #HopeGarden, #Pembrokeshire, #Cymru

#NativePlants
Filtered faded photo of 4 petalled whiteish flower
#cymru #nativeplants #pembrokeshire #hopegarden

"Here you are, rushing in again at the last minute, settling where you will. From a distance I could confuse you with the others lining the road in bright yellow spring. But of course you are a delicate flower, no staid daffodil or trenchant dandelion. I can see as I get closer that you will always be young, your hat always blowing, half-covering your face now caught in laughter, your hand half up to hold it on."

'Welsh Poppy', by Patricia Debney

#Poetry #Flowers #Nature #Cymru
Close up of two yellow Welsh poppies in a field, with grasses out of focus in the background.
#Nature #Poetry #flowers #cymru

"If you come my way that is ...
Between now and then, I will offer you
A fist full of rock cress fresh from the bank ...

A sit by the hearth with blue flames rising,
No talk. Just a stare at 'Time’ gathering
Healed thoughts, pool insight, like swan sailing
Peace and sound around the home, offering

You a night’s rest and my day’s energy.
You must come - start this pilgrimage
Can you come? - send an ode or elegy
In the old way and raise our heritage."

#Poetry #Nature #Cymru
Photo of trees in the sunshine, surrounding a stream in Llanybri, Caerfyrddin, Cymru. A stony paath leads towards the stream in the foreground. The poem in the main body of the post is 'Poem from Llanybri', by Lynette Roberts
#Nature #Poetry #cymru

Morning Friendlings 💕

Here's a photo from my most recent wander on the moors. Wishing a peaceful weekend for you all 🕊

#photography #Cymru
A small, leafless silver birch on a gently sloping area of red-brown heather moorland, a sparse scattering of small spruces in the distance. Bright low sunlight from behind enriches all colours. Mostly clear blue skies above
#photography #cymru

A few snaps of the moors from my walk yesterday -

a) A bronze age mound/cairn at the high point of the moorland

b) A view across the moorland as it descends, with a few solitary spruces

c) One of countless small ponds and saturated peat bogs scattered around

d) an okay (relative to my usual standard) capture of a red grouse fleeing my disturbance. There are black and red grouse here. I only heard the cooing, bubbling of the black grouse but saw numerous red

#Cymru #walking #photography 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
A far off red grouse flaps across the view from right to left, camouflaged against the backdrop of red-brown heathers
3 isolated spruces, in a natural line from the foreground into the distance, springing from uninterrupted heather moorland. The hazy low sun is just above and partially silhouettes them, also casting a blue light on the distant rolling high hills
A low, wide mound, a heather covered bronze age stone mound, at the high point of the moors (511m elevation). There are numerous small cairns, mostly forgotten and lost deep jn heather, around this area and this central mound was assumed to be some sort of ritual centre point. A track, barely visible, winds towards the mound. Hazy partially clouded skies above
A boggy area of the moorland. Whatever doesn't have heather growing on it gets very swampy. A small bare tree marks an algae covered pond in the midfield
#photography #walking #cymru

Morning Friendlings 💕

I promised you sheep so..

#Defaidodon #Cymru
5 windswept white ewes above, on a rocky limestone ledge, against partially clouded skies, looking down at their visitor
#cymru #defaidodon

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Like Scotland, Wales EXPORTS more energy than we use.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgejg76pxno

#UKPolitics #EnergyPoverty #Cymru

Wales: Electricity zone plan 'may push up bills across country'

Renewable energy leaders warn energy bills could rise under proposals to split the UK into different pricing zones.
Steffan Messenger (BBC News)
#ukpolitics #cymru #energypoverty

Looking east to the moon and west to the sunset #cymru
Moon and a bare oak tree with the red lamp in the polytunnel for ducklings visible
Our neighbours’ house with the evening sky behind and the last light disappearing
#cymru

The morning sunshine didn’t last but the impressive scenery of the Doethie valley made up for it. A lovely, peaceful walk through high moorland and river valleys. I’d like to have come here before the winter storms tore through. So many trees down (which made walking challenging in places) and many wooded valleys will have been greatly altered. Still, stunningly beautiful. I started and finished near the remote Soar Y Mynydd chapel, which sadly saw some storm damage too.

#walking #Cymru
Landscape photo of a view down a small upland river valley. The steep slopes are golden brown with dead foliage of grasses and bracken. A few scattered conifer trees with denser forest on the hills in the distance. The sky is pale blue with wispy clouds but thicker clouds brew on the horizon. The winter sun glows bright in the top right corner of the frame.
A photo of an expensive view over a river valley surrounded by high moorland. The slopes are shades of green and brown. The silver ribbon of river snakes along below. The sky is thick with grey cloud, just a patches of brightness in places.
Photo of another river valley, narrower than the last. A small waterfall shows white in the centre of the frame. A narrow path follows the steep valley-side on the right, a thin green line cutting through the red-brown bracken. The sky is grey with cloud, hanging heavy over the hills.
A photo of a remote chapel beside a moorland river, a small stone bridge over. The whitewashed walls of the chapel are flaking due to weather damage. Several large trees surrounding it have been felled by recent storms, their huge root plates lifted up. Patches of blue sky and sunshine break through the clouds.
#walking #cymru

#FootpathFriday comes from the Pembrokeshire Coast Path today. Only a short stroll around Cemaes Head due to reasons, but it’s a beautiful day for it.

#Cymru
Photo of an open gateway on a coastal footpath, a wooden style adjacent on the left. Beyond it is a view of a bay with a grass covered coastline on the opposite side scattered with white houses. A small island sits off the coast to the left. To the right, waves break on a wide sandy beach at the mouth of a river. The sky is an almost cloudless blue, a haze on the horizon inland.
#cymru #footpathfriday

Pink cloud over Yr Wyddfa this morning. #Cymru #Wales #mastodon #fediverse

#Wales #fediverse #mastodon #cymru

Gorgeous pattern on the windscreen this morning - enlarge to see the detail #cymru
Frozen windscreen with feather and fan frost pattern
#cymru

A walk along Ceredigion coast path blew some cobwebs away today. A lovely remote and rugged section from Cwmtydu to Llangrannog then back inland along quiet lanes and wooded paths, 10 miles in all. Mostly cloudy but the snow topped peaks of Eryri and the Llŷn peninsula were gleaming in sunshine.

#FootpathFriday #walking #Cymru
Photo of a view from a cliff top path, down to a rocky cove with a shingle beach, and along the coast of Cardigan Bay with the Llŷn peninsula a line on the horizon. The sea and sky are similar shades of dark grey-blue but there’s a strip of pale blue in between, clearer sky above the peninsula. Mountain tops gleam white with snow.
Photo of a view along the coast path in the opposite direction. A green ribbon of path snakes along the steep coastal slope, brown with bracken. A thin, finger-like headland juts out into the flat, grey-blue sea. There is an interesting pattern of clouds, almost mackerel-like, with glimpses of blue peeking through.
Photo of a view back along the coast path. The coast here is rugged. Gently sloped grass fields give way to sheer, dark cliffs, with inaccessible coves and jagged rocks at the base. Again, a thin strip of blue sky over the mountains on the horizon, sandwiched between grey-blue sea and sky.
A photo of a fork in a path through woodland. A mossy bank marks the divide. The surface of the paths are littered in red-brown leaves. The only trees holding their glossy green leaves are the hollies.
#walking #cymru #footpathfriday

#introduction I've actually had this account for a few years, but I didn't have an introductory post, so here it is.

I live in Cymru (Wales) and speak Cymraeg (Welsh) as a second language having learned as an adult.

I'm now retired so have more time to enjoy my interests which are photography, improving my Welsh and I've started writing fiction again. I also enjoy knitting, crochet, walking with my husband.

#Cymru #Wales #Cymraeg #Welsh #writing #crochet #knitting #walking #photography
#Wales #introduction #photography #writing #walking #knitting #welsh #cymru #crochet #cymraeg

Ever heard of hyperbole, Tales Online?

#BadJournalism #Cymru

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/huge-fish-faster-porsche-washes-30712768

Huge fish which is 'faster than a Porsche' washes up on Welsh beach

The dead adult Atlantic bluefin tuna, a top predator with few natural enemies, was found by wildlife watchers on an undisclosed beach on the island of Anglesey in North Wales
Wales Online
#cymru #badjournalism

Here comes the big snow cloud #cymru
A small farmyard looking west across an old gate. In the distance there is a large dark grey cloud with yellow edge
#cymru

"Whilst a third of children in Wales are growing up in poverty, with cash-strapped local authorities buckling under economic strain, money from our Crown Estate is extracted from Wales to Westminster and the Royal Family"

#wales #cymru #WalesPol #Gwleidyddiaeth

https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-crown-estate-a-constitutional-crisis-looms/

The Crown Estate: A constitutional crisis looms

Steve Wilson A campaign has been growing in Wales to devolve the Crown Estate ever since Scotland took control over the assets of their Crown Estate back in 2017.
Stephen Price (Nation.Cymru)
#Wales #cymru #WalesPol #Gwleidyddiaeth

Tories, always on the wrong side where facts are concerned.

#CONservatives #racism
#Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-tories-withdraw-call-for-anti-racist-body-to-be-defunded-after-making-factually-inaccurate-claim/

Welsh Tories withdraw call for anti-racist body to be defunded after making factually inaccurate claim

Martin Shipton The Welsh Conservative group at the Senedd has withdrawn a letter calling for the defunding of an anti-racism group after falsely claiming that one of its employees was engaged in antisemitic activity.
Mark Mansfield (Nation.Cymru)
#conservatives #racism #cymru

While no-one was looking, #Machynlleth moved several tens of kilometres to the north from mid Wales.

#Cymru #BadJournalism
Headline - Ed Sheeran visits North Wales to have dinner at famous restaurant
#cymru #badjournalism #machynlleth

Sky at sunrise #cymru
Dark trees behind a field and the sky has stripes of pink cloud with blue sky
#cymru

Plaid calls for parity with Scotland re devolved powers.

#Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/call-for-parity-of-powers-with-scotland/

Call for parity of powers with Scotland

Chris Haines ICNN Senedd reporter Plaid Cymru called for Wales to be given parity with Scotland on devolved powers.
Stephen Price (Nation.Cymru)
#cymru

Sunset #OverTheGate #cymru
An old metal farm gate with a black dog. Behind it is a field and a row of conifers with the bright sunset showing through
#cymru #overthegate

"There are 2,573 disused coal tips in Wales, and it is estimated there are more than 20,000 other disused tips across the country."

#Cymru

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/09/new-authority-proposed-wales-oversee-safety-coal-tips
#cymru

Breakfast wars

#CONservatives #Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-tory-leader-davies-i-was-undermined-by-muesli-and-croissant-brigade/

Welsh Tory leader Davies: I was undermined by ‘muesli and croissant brigade’

Andrew RT Davies has blasted a “muesli and croissant brigade” of Welsh Conservatives for destabilising the party and leading him to stand down.
Mark Mansfield (Nation.Cymru)
#conservatives #cymru

Da iawn, Sports Direct!

#Cymru

https://nation.cymru/culture/sports-retail-giant-misspells-cymru-on-bobble-hat/

Sports retail giant misspells Cymru on bobble hat

The nights are closing in, the temperatures are plummeting and many people venturing out into the arctic wasteland beyond their front door are thinking of how they can best keep themselves warm.
David Owens (Nation.Cymru)
#cymru

Reasons to be cheerful.

#CONservatives #NastyParty #Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/andrew-rt-davies-resigns-as-leader-of-the-welsh-conservative-senedd-group/

Andrew RT Davies resigns as leader of the Welsh Conservative Senedd group

Emily Price Andrew RT Davies has resigned as leader of the Welsh Conservative Senedd group. It comes just a few short hours after he won a motion of confidence in his leadership on Tuesday morning (December 3).
Emily Price (Nation.Cymru)
#conservatives #cymru #NastyParty

Tories' gammon in chief in #Cymru to face vote of confidence.

https://nation.cymru/news/andrew-rt-davies-to-face-vote-of-no-confidence/

Andrew RT Davies to face vote of confidence

Emily Price The leader of the Senedd Conservatives Andrew RT Davies will face a motion of confidence next week after members of his group raised concerns about his leadership.
Emily Price (Nation.Cymru)
#cymru

Your choice of snack for delivery could get you arrested in #Rhyl.

#Cymru

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/fugitive-run-three-years-caught-30461903

Fugitive on the run for three years caught after ordering a kebab in Rhyl

The takeaway delivery led officers to Robert Kemp's hideout
North Wales Live
#cymru #rhyl

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