We have for some time been featuring our selection of the best and most recent Anglo-Welsh literature. Today we decided to supplement this with our new "Album of the Month" feature. To nominate your choice for best new Welsh album each month please join the Welsh Music Group and leave your suggestion on the comment wall.

We are very happy to announce that our first selection is "Catraeth" by Taran currently available for download from Amazon. We urge all our members to support the band and buy your copy now. In our humble opinion this is as fine a musical offering as we are likely to hear all year.

Hear tracks from the bands new album on their MySpace page here:- Taran on MySpace

Buy the album here:- "Catraeth on Amazon"

The Coast-2-Coast USA boys, including our own members Gareth Evans and Andy Edwards, are on their way to starting their cycling trip across the southern continental US.Show them your support with pledges and, if you're on their route - especially at the end in St Augustine, Florida - turn out and welcome them, put them up or feed them or just buy them a beer!From their blog : A last Hurrah for the 'Tw o Fat Cyclists' at The New Three Mariners, Laugharne. Match funding by Barclays Bank means there will be a lot of money raised for the charity - not sure how much yet.New songs found the large drunk audience singing along. 'Fulsom Prison Blu es' and ' Daydream Believer ' seemed to really oil the inebriated voices of the clientele. So much so that they wanted to create their own set list with impromptu renderings of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' in respect of the landlords' favourite football team's dismal performance against Liverpool and 'A Horse with No Name' for no reason at all except for the pub singer from Ants Hill Caravan Park knowing the lyrics!Phil and I, cleverly tried to follow Rhys' fingers through a very drunken 'Good Riddance' . Rhys, aswell as Phil and myself, eventually gave up the gig as the crowd got drunker and took no interest in the dulcet tones of of 'The Two F at Cyclists' . Thank you Richard for all your help.

yesterday i bounded up the moss-covered, concrete steps up the hill to our porch as is my habit, caught my toe on a step and sprawled full length on the stairs, threw out a hand to stop my nose from smashing on a concrete step and broke my f'ing right wrist. i get a cast and ceri gets to learn to cook. the children wait impatiently to get to paint on the cast. hopefully, this shouldn"t slow us down any.

Now we can all have an AmeriCymru toolbar on our browsers - just one click to go to the site, the blog, the Welsh calendar, the Welsh Web Ring, and MORE!

1. Go to this link to download it: http://AmericymruToolbar.OurToolbar.com/ 2. Click on the big button which says download and it will download.3. Restart your browser to see it.You can choose from different styles, the super simple I picked above (for those of us with tons o' toolbars as it is) or something more pleasantly aesthetic, like this:

Enjoy! Bravo, Ceri!

Go to the poll at the bottom of the Left Coast Eisteddfod page to vote on a name for the dragon on David's lovespoon and this week on his blog he's exposed the wings on the Dragon and cut them out:

On a Wing And a Prayer!

This week the dragon finally gets his wings clipped! He might also have a name fairly soon too.

There are a number of ways I can approach the wings in terms of how I shape them. Many times I carve a concave 'dip' between the spine of each wing section to give them a bat-like appearance, but for this spoon I am going to cut in evenly. This will create wedge shaped section which will cast more shadow and have a vaguely art deco feel. I think that with the bold scales running along his back, the bolder and more stylized look of the wedge tapers will work nicely.

More on David's Blog here

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Who can forget those classics like, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" and "Stairway to Heaven"?In the very early hours of the morning, Ceri has inexplicably added 20 Rolf Harris Party Classics to his page for us all to enjoy and almost certainly destroyed our social life. So if you've been missing some of that odd but mainly very cheerful sound, you know where to find it: Ceri's page .

Ceri's built an embedded Amazon store ( http://astore.amazon.com/americymrucom-20 ) for us under the Stores tab, above, ( also see advert in the center column ) and we want this to include every book, movie, album by Welsh authors, musicians, filmmakers, etc. If it's in Wales, about Wales or by a Welsh or Welsh-descended artist, we want it listed!We're going through to include whatever the two of us can find or know about and this is something everyone can help us with. If you've got a moment now and then, please have a look and suggest items for inclusion to either Ceri or myself. You can get to the store from the Stores tab or from the big honking ad in the top of the front page. If you've got something good to say about a work on Amazon, please give it a positive review so other people know it's good and it's Welsh!Thank you very much!

Money to create a Centre for NanoHealth at Swansea University have been promised by the Convergence European Regional Development Fund.From Medical News Today :"These nanoscale technologies, for example, will enable researchers and scientists to apply engineering methodologies to successfully build, repair tissues such as cartilage and skin using advanced cell culture techniques including adult stem cell methods."Dr Chris Wright, Portfolio Director for Process Engineering and Senior lecturer at Swansea University explains: 'The School of Engineering has been applying advanced nanoscale techniques to develop materials for nearly a decade. By applying techniques typically used in process engineering to regenerative medicine, we are able to not only predict and control the way cells and structures behave, but test these before they are reintroduced or implanted in the body to give better results in healthcare applications.'"Read the rest of this article here .