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#cymru

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Dionne (Greenseer)

This evening I thought I'd share a taste of the human lives I pass by on my many, many walks 💕🚶‍♀️

I see some great barges on my walks along the canal. The ones that are peoples' permanent homes become a wonderful canvas for individual expression and the types who would opt for that lifestyle are an interesting and diverse bunch, from ageing hippies and dropouts, to retirees who wear a skipper's hat and I bet insist their long-sufferings wives call "Cap'n" when they bring them something from the "galley", to tech obsessives who run large screen TVs powered by solar panels and connected to the world via satellite dishes, tall CB radio aerials and classy neon lighting, to political statements with Palestine flags flying and rainbow themed gay couples living the dream, to creative artists selling their wares on the towpath, to luddites sitting in the gloom at night reading from their compact libraries, by the light of an oil lamp you can smell in the air, long before you spot their boat, to hoarders with barely space to scratch, to gardeners who turn the roofs into colourful beds of flowers, to people running their off-the-books cafe..and more than one witch

One such barge I pass often and quite close to home.. an eclectic collector with a childish innocence 🧸

A barge moored by the towpath, seen from the front, on a rural stretch of canal, covered in everything from a large teddy bear wearing a trilby, to plastic puffins and rubber ducks, scallop shells, tyres, horns, pot plants, lamps, a plush giraffe and a vast array of other paraphernalia
Same barge, just a closer view of the objects found around the teddy with a trilby
#CanalLife#Cymru
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Greenseer (Dionne) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️

Morning sweet ones 💕

I'm still working out (inventing) a point to having three Mastodon accounts. Trans joy for transfem.social is easy. But beige.party (not a cult)? I think, with a 11001 character limit, that'll be for long-winded weirdness. But toot.wales will always remain my everyday. For local, community, walks, nature, cameraderie and cats

Love you all dearly. Here is a stonechat that was chirping prettily to me, as I ambled home yesterday evening 💕😘🥰 #birdsofmastodon #Cymru

A stonechat perched atop the highest bare branch of a tree, seen against clear blue skies. A small, finch sized bird, with an orange red breast, white collar and black wings, tail and head
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JanPV

Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St. Winifride (RC) church, Amlwch, Anglesey. The only other example I've seen is in Lima, Peru.

It is mostly concrete, including the ribs, which have design and material flaws, long leading to a leaking roof, though restored and reopened in 2011. In 2021, it was closed again due to continued structural problems.

Low drone view of the church. The form is often said, even in official circles, to be an 'upturned boat', but this is questionable, as the style is seen elsewhere, though rarely.
Vertical drone view of the concrete ribbed roof. The ribs were too thin at their apexes and roof leaks have plagued the church since the beginning. The structure continued to deteriorate, even after a 2011 restoration and is currently closed.
Level drone view of the star window above the entrance. Glass fragments from blue bottles were set in mortar, many having since fallen away.
Interior view from near the entrance towards the altar. The arched glass windows overhead are a striking feature of this church.
#photography#churches#heritage
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cwtshycwtsh

"To every LGBT+ comrade, know you are not alone. The revolution will be built by all of us, or it will serve none of us. This is not the time for quiet outrage or legal appeals. This is the time for mass mobilisation, for direct action, for solidarity that does not waver. The British state has made their position clear. Now we must make ours."

#PlaidGomiwnyddolCymru #UK #Transrights #Wales #Cymru

communists.wales/2025/04/18/pa

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru · Party Statement: On Anti-Trans RulingStatement from Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / the Communist Party of Wales & The Welsh Underground Network The UK Supreme Court’s ruling of April 16th is a disgraceful assault by the British state u…
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cwtshycwtsh

"To every LGBT+ comrade, know you are not alone. The revolution will be built by all of us, or it will serve none of us. This is not the time for quiet outrage or legal appeals. This is the time for mass mobilisation, for direct action, for solidarity that does not waver. The British state has made their position clear. Now we must make ours."

#PlaidGomiwnyddolCymru #UK #Transrights #Wales #Cymru

communists.wales/2025/04/18/pa

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru · Party Statement: On Anti-Trans RulingStatement from Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru / the Communist Party of Wales & The Welsh Underground Network The UK Supreme Court’s ruling of April 16th is a disgraceful assault by the British state u…
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JanPV

North Wales is a dystopian tourist hell today.

All very sad: everybody causing traffic chaos, parking nightmares, just to take an 'Insta' shot and then leave, often dumping their rubbish on the ground behind them.

Three more years, and I'm out of here. It's become a very, very sick joke.

#cymru#wales#tourism
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team NotLeafy

Up & at 'em today, Roath Market's lure trounced the gloomy weather.

First stop, Lahmacun for a flavour-filled wild garlic flatbread with date & olive paste which we ate greedily on-site. Walked home with a haul of Pasta a Casa's Sicilian arancini & panella, a family-style West African meal from Mami Maggie's Recipes & Lahmacun's upside-down blood orange cake & rhubarb & rose Bakewell tart.
#food #Caerdydd #Cardiff #Cymru #Wales #Vegetarian

Three of Roath Market's stalls set up in a row under blue and green awnings. The Mackintosh Sports Club's cream rendered wall is in the background. Traders from the left: Stronghold Coffee, Mami Maggie's Recipes & Pasta a Casa. It's raining.
A round wood-fired flatbread from Lahmacun sits on a compostable plate. On the flatbread's surface: green wild garlic, red pickled onions, white wild garlic flowers and, in the middle, a rocher of date & walnut paste. To the right, a lemon wedge. To the bottom right, red chipotle sauce and white garlic sauce. The plate has been put on one of the market's tables in readiness for us to sit and eat.
A view of part of Lahmacun's stall at Roath Market with a range of baked goods displayed for sale, including Rhubarb and rose Bakewell tart and Upside-down blood orange cake on the left. The glow of a woodfired oven is in the background.
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Tom

That's a wrap on a busy training week in Eryri. One (1) day of good weather and 5 of wind and rain. I trained 4 days out of 6, with 2 rest days (enforced by the weather, but probably a good idea.)

I seconded some grade 2 and 3 scrambles in the Glyderau as part of a course. It was my first time at this grade and made trickier due to weather conditions and greasy rock. (Routes completed: Idwal Buttress on Glyder Fawr, Chimney Crack on Tryfan Bach, Bastow Buttress Variant and North Tower on Tryfan, plus some grade 1 gullies in descent).

Challenging but highly enjoyable. I also solo ran/hiked/scrambled the Snowdon Horseshoe route, my first time up Crib Goch.

I'd wanted to do two more classic horseshoes (Cwm Bochlywd, Carneddau Southern Ridges), but strong winds and heavy rain looked like too much risk. So I swapped in a low level run around the Ogwen Valley to get some elevation in on rough mountain terrain, with a bit of grade 1 scrambling up False Gribin too.

Advanced Scrambling course day 1 of 2. Two scramblers, wearing orange and end-roped together negotiate a steep, wet, rocky gully. They are belayed by an unseen lead. In the background through drinking rain is Llyn Idwal and the lower slopes of Pen Yr Ole Wen. Stats show 5.1km distance, 440m elevation gain, and 1 hour 48 minutes moving time.
Advanced Scrambling day 2 of 2. A scrambler wearing a white helmet and orange jacket kneels on a ledge overlooking a deep mountain ravine. On closer inspection, they are safely on belay, so the position is not as precarious as it looks. Stats show 5.7km distance travelled, 633 metres elevation gain, and 2 hours 25 minutes moving time (the day was in fact approx 8 hours, but in the steepest climbs it often didn't detect movement).
Snowdon Horseshoe (+Pyg detour). Yr Wyddfa summit rises above the rugged knife-edge Arete of Crib Goch. Stats show 16 km distance, 1,245 metres elevation gain, and 3 hours 23 moving time (elapsed time was nearer 5 hours, the steepest climb up Crib Goch east ridge didn't register as movement as the gradient was up to 50% and progress slow).
The distinctive, reptilian contour of Tryfan (amountain) in the background, rising above a loose rocky ridgeline in the foreground. Llyn Bochlywd (a lake) is visible in the middle ground. Stats show 10.4 km distance, 814 metres elevation gain, and 2 hours 10 moving time (elapsed time was closer to 3 hours).
#TrailRunning#running#mountains
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