Keyword noise: photography, rheilffordd, railway, train, steam train, Cymru, Wales, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, Rheilffordd Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog Railway, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Porthmadog, Dduallt, Merddin Emrys, David Lloyd George.
Or, Photo post of the week under another name
Published at 9:03 pm on May 26th, 2022
Filed under: Dear Diary, Photobloggery.
Some South Wales railway history that is still around, but not for long
Published at 9:53 pm on May 12th, 2022
Filed under: In With The Old, Geekery, Trains.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, hanes, history, hanes lleol, local history, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, trains, Gaer, Cyffordd Parc, Park Junction, Tredegar Park, Great Western Railway, signalbox, signalling, Monmouthshire Canal, modernisation, Network Rail, maps, RCH, Railway Clearing House.
Or, something from the depths
Published at 5:43 pm on May 1st, 2022
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, wildlife, animals, jellyfish, sea, seashore, seaside, The Children.
All quiet on the surface, but flapping away frantically underneath.
Published at 7:25 am on March 24th, 2022
Filed under: Meta, Linkery.
Or, a number of notes played together and in sequence
Published at 7:17 am on February 18th, 2022
Filed under: Artistic.
On the mountains of Wales
Published at 9:47 pm on August 24th, 2021
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Or, a special locomotive
Published at 6:04 am on June 12th, 2021
Filed under: Geekery, Trains.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, Rheilffordd Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog Railway, rheilffordd, railway, train, steam train, Merlen Cymraeg, Welsh Pony, Porthmadog.
A journey of discovering a book didn't need to be read
Published at 11:17 pm on May 30th, 2021
Filed under: Artistic.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, hanes, history, hanes lleol, local history, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, trains, Pye Corner, Great Western Railway, Monmouthshire Canal, maps, RCH, Railway Clearing House.
And exercising my rights
Published at 5:07 pm on May 7th, 2021
Filed under: Dear Diary, Political.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, hanes, history, hanes lleol, local history, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, trains, Pye Corner, Great Western Railway, Monmouthshire Canal, maps, tithe maps.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum of Wales, Sain Ffagan, St Fagans, museums, history, bees, bumblebees, sheep.
And more than once, too
Published at 10:07 pm on April 5th, 2021
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
Or, a trip to the wetlands
Published at 5:52 pm on March 21st, 2021
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Or, the mountains and the lowlands
Published at 5:12 pm on March 2nd, 2021
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, water, dŵr, afon, river, Afon Ebwy, River Ebbw, mountains, mynyddoedd, camping, gwersyllaf.
Keyword noise: photography, Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, rheilffordd, railway, Bassaleg, rural, countryside, river, afon, church, eglwys, Brecon & Merthyr Railway.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, Tŷ Du, Rogerstone, camlas, canal, Monmouthshire Canal, rheilffordd, railway, railway history, Great Western Railway, hanes, hanes lleol, history, local history, walking, cerddediad.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, moving house, rain, countryside, afon, river, railway, rheilffordd, Brecon & Merthyr Railway.
Keyword noise: Books I Haven't Read, reading, religion, paganism, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Goodbye To All That, poetry, history, mythology, fake history, fake mythology, Ancient Britain, anthropology, archaeology, Blodeuwedd, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Gwydion, Mabinogi, Mabinogion, Cad Goddeu, Cymru, Wales.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, rheilffordd, railway, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Rheilffordd Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog Railway, Mountaineer, The Alco, train, steam train.
On stories set firmly in a particular place
Published at 9:27 pm on November 5th, 2020
Filed under: Artistic.
Keyword noise: Alan Garner, The Owl Service, books, literature, mythology, Blodeuwedd, Mabinogi, Math fab Mythonwy, Wales, Cymru, Gwynedd, Llanymawddwy, Vale of Ffestiniog, Dyffryn Maentwrog.
Or, some completely fictional history
Published at 10:26 pm on October 16th, 2020
Filed under: Geekery, Trains, Being Crafty.
Keyword noise: railway, fake history, narrow gauge, model railway, model trains, Porthdwyryd & Dolwreiddiog Railway, Cymru, Wales, Ardudwy, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, Rhinogydd.
Or, some of your questions answered
Published at 9:18 pm on October 14th, 2020
Filed under: Meta.
Keyword noise: Readers Letters, Battle of Hastings, history, counterfactual, alternate timeline, Cymru, Wales, Books I Haven't Read, Francis Bennion, E Shrdlu, blogging, Sarah from Ipswich.
In which we hunt for fossils
Published at 7:53 pm on September 22nd, 2020
Filed under: Photobloggery.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, De Cymru, South Wales, Bro Morgannwg, Vale of Glamorgan, Bae Dwnrhefn, Dunraven Bay, traeth, beach, môr, sea, fossils, ammonites, garden, walled garden.
Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, Porthmadog, Rheilffordd Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog Railway, rheilffordd, railway, steam train, Boston Lodge.
In which we explore past times
Published at 9:27 pm on January 25th, 2016
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
Keyword noise: The Children, Cymru, Wales, Caerdydd, Cardiff, museums, National Museum Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru, dinosaurs, Palaeolithic, Ian Allan.
In which I rant about Being Human’s writers not being able to coherently plot from series to series
Published at 8:44 pm on October 23rd, 2011
Filed under: Media Addict.
Keyword noise: BBC, Being Human, drama, filming, ghost stories, Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, television, vampire, werewolf.
In which we remember how cold it was in Wales
Published at 9:01 pm on April 3rd, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary, Photobloggery.
Keyword noise: Blaenau Ffestiniog, Caernarfon, Eryri, Ffestiniog, Llechwedd, Afon Menai, Menai Strait, Cymru, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, photography, rain, seasons, Snowdonia, Wales, weather.
In which we’re weatherbeaten
Published at 9:54 pm on March 27th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary.
In which we worry about the weather
Published at 10:49 pm on March 19th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary, Geekery.
In which we recognise someone
Published at 8:36 pm on March 8th, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary.