Twisting Trails and Tales (Wales)

10/07/2024

My Hotmail account has been hacked, please do not respond to any of those accounts, e.g. [email protected]

02/06/2024

Yesterday I was informed that I was a 'digital nomad', a 'digital-no-nothing' is closer to the mark; Portugal recently introduce a 'Digital Nomad Visa': Perhaps I should have stayed in Spain/Portugal or Australia before age-discrimination hit. This ageing-lark is not for the faint-hearted!

Matt Goodwin, Peter Hitchins and 'the Great Retreat', 'twenty-somethings' leaving Britain: "the quality of life is deteriorating, public services are deteriorating, quality of leadership is deteriorating ..." and fighting local authorities is a fool's game.

11/03/2024

You are invited to take a look at our proposals which aim to improve Active Travel (walking and cycling) between Pont Marquis and Newborough (via Malltraeth Cob).

As part of the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013, it is a requirement for all Local Authorities in Wales to map and plan suitable routes for active travel.

The purpose of the scheme is to improve the walking and cycling environment for residents and visitors between Malltraeth and Newborough and extent the Lôn Las Cefni network.

Extending the Lon Las Cefni and making improvements to the existing infrastructure aligns with the Glasffordd Mon vision to form a traffic free green corridor which aims to benefit the communities of Newborough and Malltraeth.

Please tell us if you are in agreement and whether the proposed scheme will be of benefit to you. If not, tell us what other improvements are needed.

The consultation will be live from today (11 March 2024) and will last for 6 weeks until 22 April 2024.

To have your say please visit: https://glasfforddmonactivetravel.commonplace.is/

If you require any of the consultation information in Easy Read, hard copy, or any other accessible format, or if you have any queries on the consultation in general, then please contact the Sustainable Transport team on the following contact details:

Tel: 01248 752300
Email: [email protected]

MônFM Medrwn Môn Menter Môn Niwbwrch a'i Phobl. Malltraeth Ymlaen Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru Gog Orllewin / Natural Resources Wales N West Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales

11/03/2024

Ynys Gorad Goch is the most famous of the 20 fish traps in the Menai Strait

11/03/2024

11/03/2024

🏔️ Portmeirion Village backed by the mighty snow-capped Yr Wyddfa | Eryri I Snowdonia Mountains and Coast

📸 I C Images

11/03/2024

🌊 📜 🗺️ 🌟 This International Women's Day, Kirsty Lindenbaum, senior specialist advisor in our marine team dives into the fascinating tales of Ellen 'the Misses' Edwards and Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen) - two pioneering figures in Wales' maritime history.

ℹ️ Discover their inspiring journeys by clicking the link in the comments

11/03/2024

07/11/2023

Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!

07/10/2023

In Wales, where dreams take flight,
The Development Bank shines so bright.
With vision bold and funds to share,
It lifts our hopes and shows we care.

Investing in the future's grace,
Innovation finds its rightful place.
From Cardiff Bay to Eryri's peak,
It's progress that we do seek.

In Wales, we stand together strong,
With the Development Bank, we all belong.
A beacon of hope, where dreams set sail,
In this land of song, it shall prevail.



Poetry Wales magazine . Business Wales . Welsh Government

21/09/2023

Readers have been getting in touch to tell us about what they think makes Llangollen special after it was chosen as Wales' best town.

20/09/2023

I really enjoyed Bertrand Russell's "History of the Philosophers" but when I'd finished reading it I understood little more than when I'd started it.

“If you wish to become a philosopher, the first thing to realise is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing: And Other Essays (1968), Essay I: The Art of Rational Conjecture (1942), p. 7

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The essays found in this book were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War. In those years the author was teaching philosophy at US universities, exercising a growing influence on America’s student population.

Image: Bertrand Russell on the grounds of his home at Penrhyndeudreath, Gwynedd, United Kingdom, 3 March 1965.

19/09/2023

13/09/2023

Plant Alert is a citizen science project for gardeners. Help other gardeners and protect the countryside by warning about invasive plants before they become a problem.

13/09/2023

Looking across the strangely named bay called "Abraham's Bosom" from Penrhos Feilw Common ( AKA "The Range") towards Mountain - Mynydd Twr

12/09/2023

CYMDEITHAS RHEILFFORDD ERYRI
( Welsh Highland Railway Society )
AGM WEEKEND...

This weekend there is a special CRhE/WHRS Members' Only event - based at Dinas on Saturday, with a special 'Grand Day Out' train on Sunday...

Further details (including timetables for CRhE/WHRS special trains) are available on our website @ festrail.co.uk/welsh-highland-society-agm-weekend/

If you're not a member already, you can join the Society through their website - https://www.whrsoc.org.uk/

12/09/2023

They are one of the greatest choirs on the planet with a storied history of global acclaim. They have been wowing audiences worldwide since their formation in 1946 with a repertoire of traditional songs and hymns that generations of people know and love. Righly, they are viewed as a jewel in the cro...

12/09/2023

Dame Shirley Bassey’s 70-year career is to be marked with the release of 12 special Royal Mail stamps. Bassey is the first solo female music artist to be honoured with a dedicated stamp issue. Eigh…

12/09/2023

Using Welsh names and retaining historical names is an important part of safeguarding our special linguistic identity.
Did you know that Anglesey has a wealth of place-names. This list is a record of the official names of locations and features within the county's communities.
Learn more here 👇
https://www.anglesey.gov.wales/en/Council/Language/Place-names-streets-and-houses.aspx

12/09/2023

The story of Wales’ first surfing world champion will be told in a brand new ITV Cymru Wales series. Llywelyn Williams won the Para Surfing World Championship in 2022, nearly a decade after he lost his leg after a collision with a car, while riding his bike. The Abersoch native suffered life-threa...

12/09/2023

Born on this day 1914 in Newport and raised in Betws,

Desmond Llewelyn, actor, famous for having played Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.

Llewelyn, the son of a coal mining engineer originally wanted to be a minister but discovered acting by working as a stagehand in school productions. At the outbreak of World War II, he halted his acting career and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. In 1940, he became a prisoner of war at Colditz Castle for five years, when captured by the Germans.

12/09/2023

Born on 9th September 1914, Alexander Cordell was the pen name of George Alexander Graber, an adoptive Welshman who was one of Wales' most prolific writers.

Cordell was born in Columbo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in September 1914. As his father had done so before him, Cordell entered the army and served with the Royal Engineers during World War Two. It was while convalescing from a wartime injury that he was sent to north Wales and it was from here that his love for Wales grew. A Thought of Honour, published in 1954 was his first novel, followed by perhaps his most famous work, R**e of the Fair Country (1959), set in Blaenafon. The second novel in what was to be a trilogy, Hosts of Rebecca, followed a year later. Cordell produced the third novel of the trilogy, Song of the Earth, in 1969. After his death in 1997, Torfaen Council bought his desk and typewriter and put them on display in the Blaenafon Community Heritage & Cordell Museum.

Selected bibliography:

R**e of the Fair Country (1959)

Hosts of Rebecca (1960)

Song of the Earth (1969)

This Sweet & Bitter Earth (1977)

Land of My Fathers (1983)

12/09/2023

Absolutely rammed in Tenby today as people made the most of the late summer sun. It's proper name is Dinbych y Pysgod, which translates from Welsh as "small fort of the fish". Pilchards once controlled the town until the seagulls arrived in 1306.

12/09/2023

12/09/2023

Penrhyn Quarry Railroad is one of the oldest narrow gauge railways in the world.

On 2nd September 1800, encouraged by the success of the one mile long Llandegai Tramway, built in 1798 to connect Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries at Bethesda to a local flint mill that ground clay and chert into flints, the owners of the quarry started construction of the Penrhyn Quarry Railway, connecting the quarry to the sea at Porth Penrhyn. However, by 1874 the railroad was no longer able to keep up with the output of the quarry and a steam locomotive was introduced. It was closed in 1962.

12/09/2023

Will you join us as we hare into the past for Apple Weekend? BYOA - Bring your own apples (and a container for juice) which will be crushed in our Roman Apple press to make fresh juice! We’ll also be joined by reenactment groups, musicians, storytellers, craft groups, and Morris dancers. Save the date! 23rd and 24th September.