KateCelyn

KateCelyn, 6 hours ago to cymru

Two days of great weather and then the haar rolled in. Daily #Wales watched it approach early evening from the sea, almost - but not quite - like something from a John Carpenter movie…

KateCelyn, 1 day ago to cymru

A quiet beach for Daily #Wales, where it has finally decided to warm up.

KateCelyn, 2 days ago to cymru

Bank holiday today, so Daily #Wales is staying at home (lots of visitors around; unbelievably terrible driving, narrow roads) and contemplating the garden. The Melianthus major is flowering, so it qualifies as a #bloomscrolling - and an example of what happens if you don’t cut a Melianthus back. Good!

KateCelyn, 3 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales; #SilentSunday

KateCelyn, 3 days ago to cymru

We didn’t have local ejections (oops) in #Wales on Thursday, but we did have PCC elections. We have four police and crime commissioners in the country; three are Labour, one is Plaid; two are women and two are men. And one of the women is the first black female PCC in the UK. Ever.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2le985g3gyo.amp

KateCelyn, 4 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales today is the result of a beach crawl (much the same as a pub crawl but with added sand). It’s addictive - once you’ve got your eye in & spotted the first cowrie lurking, you just have to continue…

(Arctic and Spotted Cowries, Flat Periwinkles, a very worn Pelican’s Foot Shell - but mostly cowries)
#beach #shells

KateCelyn, 5 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales and #FensterFreitag…

KateCelyn, 6 days ago to random

Are we supposed to sympathise or hang out the bunting??? Aw, diddums, and JFO…

Tycoon speaks out about the end of non-dom tax status https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

KateCelyn, 6 days ago to random

Re England’s local elections and some people planning not to vote:

Some years ago, a black friend was living in the north of England (Burnley). There were local elections and I asked him about voting; he said he wasn’t going to bother as he was very busy and they were ‘only local elections’. The next day he had a BNP councillor - and was kicking himself.

If you don’t vote, you are effectively handing your vote to someone else.

KateCelyn, 6 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales today comes with an added reminder to a) vote, if you are somewhere with local/PCC elections today and b) remember your photo ID (thanks, Tories, in an attempt to restrict voting by solving a problem that didn’t exist). Also an exhortation not to vote for anything wearing a blue rosette.

Haven’t got an appropriately angry pic, so let’s have an unrelated one. Here’s my garden helper (infinitely more useful than any Tory politician).

KateCelyn, 7 days ago to cymru

Happy May from Daily #Wales - with a first of the month pic from 2021. When the sun shone and it was warm enough to be on the beach for the early morning walk with Not My Labrador without wearing 85 layers of clothing. Hrrrumpf.

KateCelyn, 8 days ago to cymru

Back to the bluebells for today’s Daily #Wales…

KateCelyn, 9 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales is flying the flag for the start of the week (and please let the fecking Tories get a fecking bashing in the local elections on Thursday, not that they apply to us here - but let them be hammered in their heartlands).

KateCelyn, 10 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales, #SilentSunday in the meadow

KateCelyn, 11 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales this weekend should be coming from an extraordinary event, Wonderwool Wales, except I’m not going this year. So here are a couple of pics from previous years (yes, there are sheep as well as LOTS of wool)… and no, it’s not cruel. These are some of the most pampered and loved sheep ever.

A couple of pens with long-wool sheep; some fleeces in the background and a display of yarn made with their wool in the background.

KateCelyn, 12 days ago to cymru

Break from the bluebells for today’s Daily #Wales as it’s Friday and therefore #FensterFreitag. Castell Harlech making a contribution with a window useful if you wish to pour boiling oil on beseigers (please can we reenact with Tory MPs as targets?)

KateCelyn, 13 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales and a bluebell #bloomscrolling - they’re popping up everywhere ATM. Great.

KateCelyn, 14 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales is back in the woods - because it’s bluebell season. Yet again, we need smellovision, because the scent of all the flowers is stunning. Sigh.

KateCelyn, 15 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales with a random pick this morning …

Before the much needed Porthmadog bypass opened in 2011 - diolch, EU funding - there was a ‘walk the bypass’ day. Parking areas at each end, shuttle buses, hog roasts etc: a day for locals to do things they’d never be able to do again, such as walk their dogs on it or cycle three abreast. It has made an enormous and positive difference to Port. So here are people walking (and cycling) the bypass, 25 September. I said it was random!

KateCelyn, 16 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales today is a #bloomscrolling - gorse in the background, blackthorn in the foreground. Every autumn I come up here to pick sloes from the blackthorns for sloe gin. Must decant last year’s production…

I wish there was smellovision - the gorse is astonishing, a coconut overload. As though the trees had smeared themselves in suntan lotion.

KateCelyn, 17 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales and #SilentSunday…

KateCelyn, 20 days ago to cymru

Daily #Wales today is a bit urban. Well, as urban as we get round here - welcome to Barmouth. Oh yes it is…

(Seriously, too many visitors miss exploring the area known as ‘the rock’, which might delight friends who live there, but IMO is a bit of a shame. It’s a labyrinth worthy of a Mediterranean hill town … er, I might have had too much coffee.)