By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-10-05
By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-10-05
Last night it was the Cymric Celts, now this morning Crumlin is in Glamorgan. It would have been a wondrous piece of engineering indeed to cross the Ebbw river and the Glamorganshire Canal.This is taken from Jan Morris's 'Wales':
By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-10-04
This is copied from the Encycopaedia Britannica (Micropaedia), does anyone else find the mention of Cymric Celts odd?
By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-10-04
Apparently I've upset somebody; if "Bant 'r cart ar unwaith' is directed at me, it must be for pointing out that no English man previous to the Act of Union of 1707 would have referred to himself as British. 'British' is a Welsh word which historically applies to the people of the Western sea-board from Glasgow in Strathclyde down through Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and eventually Bretona in Galicia. This is an historical criticism of present Welsh people refusing to admit that they are British, giving over the term to the English, as in the French context, when in fact the reverse is true. I am speaking about history and common modern terminology and not racial politics which abhors me: thank you!P.S. I think we generally use 'Gweler' and not 'gweld'.
By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-10-04
By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-09-27
By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-09-26
Byn Walters saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.
** Peak renamed after Welsh princess **
A ceremony takes place to mark a mountain being renamed after the daughter of the last native Welsh prince.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8275729.stm >
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By Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise, 2009-09-23
I've had a stinking summer,practically no tourists, raining every day since June, three years bad weather on the run, although nobody comes to Brittany for the weather; two years ago the holidaymakers pulled up their tents and headed south, last year fewer came and this year fewer still. I usually work with Belgians, Dutch and Germans, and since the Wall has been knocked down, the odd Tcheque and Ukranian, but not this year; fortunately for me the Welsh continue to make an effort and today it was the turn of Geraint Criddle, who works as a translator for the Assembly, and who's father is a councillor in Pontllanfraith and Alun Evans from Coedpoeth near Wrexham who works for Plaid; they've just gone to spend the night in the tent that Iestyn left here last year, and tomorrow they're off to Kemper/Quimper on their pushbikes.
