Felly neithiwr mi gyrhaeddais Rachub fach drachefn. O fod yma ychydig ddyddiau’r flwyddyn mae’r ddelwedd berffaith sydd gennyf yn fy mhen ohoni yn dueddol o gael cnoc go hegar ond fydda i wedi hen anghofio unwaith y byddaf nôl yng Nghaerdydd. Weithiau dwi’n meddwl fy mod yng Nghaerdydd o hyd, am lawer hirach na thybiais, megis estrys â’i phen mewn bell dywod. Haws ydi hi, wedi’r cwbl.Ond, na, er gwaethaf popeth fy Rachub i ydyw o hyd, ar ei newydd wedd ai peidio, a’m Arfon innau ‘fyd. Canai Nain o hydShow me the way to go homeSir Gaernarfon neu Sir FônA dwi wastad wedi uniaethu gan fod Môn, Mam Cymru (sy llawn blydi weirdos a dyna ddiwadd arni), wedi bod yn rhan lawn cymaint o’m mywyd ag Arfon gadarn. Doedd dim yn well gen i na phan fues yn nhŷ Nain ‘stalwm bob...
As per usual, the children go back to school and the weather is gorgeous. According to the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station it was the 2nd warmest day of the year, the warmest being back in May. Not only that but the surf was really good yesterday as well. It wasn’t huge but it was big enough with a really well organised, long-period swell.
I obviously went for a surf and at times the offshore winds and the strong rips meant that the waves were almost atationary. They were holding up for ages with gorgeous long, steep faces. I was able to take what would normally be suicidally late take offs and get away with it. Lefts and rights were peeling off the sandbanks perfectly and I had all the waves I wanted.
It was a lovely evening too. Morgan went off to beavers and Anna and I had...
We’re into September, the nights are cooler, autumn is on its way and the range of moths we’re getting in the moth trap is changing to reflect this.
There were a few new ones in the trap last night along with large numbers of Setaceous Hebrew Characters, but the Large Yellow Underwings and Dark Arches that were so prevalent during the summer are in decline.
1 x Flounced Rustic
44 x Setaceous Hebrew Character
7 x Small Square Spot
13 x Flame Shoulder
8 x Large Yellow Underwing
1 x Archer’s Dart
2 x Dark Arches
3 x Gold Spot
2 x Purple Bar
1 x Tawny Speckled Pug
2 x Dark Sword Grass
2 x Rosy Rustic
1 x Common Wainscot
1 x Large Wainscot
2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 x Common Marbled Carpet
2 x Sallow*
1 x Square-spot Rustic*
1 x Mouse Moth*
Here are the new ones, and a new...
Below is a section from my novel The Way Forward. Buy it now from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.----------------------------------It made an interesting sound, my brain slamming around in my skull. If I had to re-create the sound, I would take a two-by-four, encase it in Jell-O, and bang it against a pipe while dropping a piano down an elevator shaft lined with old mattresses. I'd probably also do something unpleasant to a cat.My eyes partially focused and I was on the floor, staring up at a group of Chinese girls peeking out at me from behind their doors. The group melted into four girls, then three, then two, then one and a half."Hello," I said, offering a weak smile.The 1.5 Chinese girls looked at me in horror. Her heads darted back behind the door, and I heard the lock turn. Before...
Dim ond rhywbeth bychanDim digon, dim gwerthDim gymaint a ti'n haedduDdim yn berffaith, na'n brydferth.Cadw fo yn saff ond paid a'i guddiadNid ar silff y mae o fodNid ei golli na'i falu yw'r bwriadOnd ei ddangos a bod yn falchEfallai nad ydio'n euraidNa'n sgleinio fel tonnau haulOnd dyma'ng nghalon, dyma'n enaidY gora geidi genai, fythHwyl a sbriiBach yn rybish sori, oni jesd isho trio neud wbath gwahanol i ddiwrnod pethau...
Os ydym i gredu'r cyfryngau mae peth optimistiaeth ynglyn a'r trafodaethau rhwng llywodraeth Israel a gweinyddiaeth Glan Orllewinol yr Iorddonen. Mae gen i ofn bod yr optimistiaeth hwnnw yn ol pob tebyg wedi ei seilio ar dywod ac yn ei dro mae hynny oherwydd bod problem sylfaenol ynghlwn a strwythur y trafodaethau. Mae'r gwendid yma wedi tanseilio ymgeisiadau yn y gorffennol i ddod a heddwch i'r Dwyrain Canol - ac yn nes at adref na hynny.Mae'n hawdd anghofio heddiw bod sawl ymgais wedi ei wneud i ddod a'r rhyfel yng Ngogledd Iwerddon i ben cyn y cafwyd llwyddiant cymharol gyda chytundeb Dydd Gwener y Groglith. Un o'r methiannau cynnar oedd Cytundeb Sunningdale yn 1973. Ceir dyfyniad eithaf enwog gan gyn ddirprwy arweinydd yr SDLP (y blaid genedlaetholgar gymhedrol yn y Gogledd),...
This 'guide pony' was spotted in an Apple Store somewhere in the US.
You may also be interested in watching a video of pub that visited a......
Ers 2007 mae’r cwmni sy’n casglu breindaliadau cerddoriaeth ar ran cyfansoddwyr – ‘PRS for Music’ wedi bod yn torri’r taliadau ar gyfer cerddoriaeth sy’n cael ei chwarae ar Radio Cymru; cam oedd yn bygwth bywoliaeth nifer o gyfansoddwyr ac artistiaid Cymraeg. Fe ffurfiwyd mudiad ‘Y Gynghrair’ gan y diwydiant yng Nghymru i ymateb i ac ymladd yn erbyn y newidiadau.
Fe gomisiynwyd adroddiad i edrych ar y posibilrwydd o greu corff Cymreig i gasglu breindaliadau. Awduron yr adroddiad yw Arwel Elis Owen a Deian ap Rhisiart a mae’r adroddiad nawr wedi ei gyhoeddi ar wefan Y Gynghrair.
Mae’r adroddiad yn argymell sefydlu corff newydd i Gymru fel dewis amgen i’r PRS.
Yn yr adroddiad, nid yw S4C na’r BBC yn gweld angen am...
Dydd Iau oedd ein diwrnod cyntaf yn ol yn yr ysgol ar ol gwyliau yr haf.Yn anffodus mae Lowri wedi symud i fyw i Bwllheli sydd yn golygu ei bod hi wedi symud i Ysgol Cymerau.Tywysogion Cymru ydi ein thema y tymor hwn a cawsom wneud gwaith am furlun o Llywelyn ein Llyw olaf yn Llanelwedd – sydd yn dangos lle cafodd ei ladd. Cawsom hefyd gem o griced yn y prynhawn.Hefyd mae yna nifer o blant newydd yn yr Ysgol – Megan, Deio, Caio, Cai, Owain, Osian, Erin, a Harri.Ac ar ol amser chwarae cawsom ni gyngor ysgol. A chawsom bledleisio i weld pwy oedd yn cael swyddi yn yr ysgol.Y cadeirydd ydi Steffan Toplis a’r is gadeirydd ydi Owain Hedd. Yr ysgrifennydd ydi Elliw Haf Lewis a’r is ysgrifennydd ydi Geraint Davies.Elan a Charlotte(Lluniau i...
I’ve just been out to try out my new open-water swimming wetsuit again. This time I went for a swim in the estuary in perfect condition. Warm, sunny and with no wind so the water was as flat as could be. It was pretty much high tide too so not much in the way of currents.
I swam from the beach out around the cockle beds and into the Leri, around a buoy there and then back. last time I did an open-water swim I wore my GPS watch on my wrist but I think the movement of my arm meant that it over-recorded the distance I’d traveled.
This time I wore it on my ankle to try to overcome that problem but for some reason it didn’t seem to record at all. Don’t worry, I have a ‘Plan C’ – Next time I’ll try putting it under my swimming cap.
This is where I...
Prin iawn bod chi ddim wedi clywed am hyn eto, ond mae’n ddiwrnod Pethau Bychain heddiw ’ma, ac mae’r rhithfro ar dân fel Ysgol Fomio Penyberth ers talwm. Yn anffodus, bydd rhaid i mi golli’r rhan fwya o’r miri wrth iddo ddigwydd, gan ein bod ni’n disgwyl ymwelwr arbennig yn y man, ond byddai’n trial dal i fyny nes ymlaen.
Dw i wedi dechrau blog bach ar yr ochr, sy jyst yn gasgliad (dyddiol? gawn ni weld) o gerddi dw i wedi dod ar eu traws ac yn hoffi am un rheswm neu’r llall....
Traeth Towyn, TudweiliogO'r hyn dwi'n cofio gefais fy nghyflwyno i Draeth Towyn gan fy nwraig dros chwater canrif yn ól. Dwi ddim yn cofio mynd efo fy rhieni fel plentyn (er mi aethon ni i bron pob cwr o Gymru fach!), ond roedd teulu fy ngwraig yn hoff iawn o'r llecyn bach hyfryd o amgylch Tudweiliog, ac yn aros yna pob haf mewn amrywiaeth o fythynod 'sylfaenol' ond cartrefol. Roedd traethau gogledd Pen Lly^n yn canolbwynt i'w gwyliau nhw - ac yn enwedig Traeth Towyn, un gymharol anghysbell i sawl, ond yn weddol hawdd i'w gyrraedd er hynny.Pan gyrraeddon ni'r traeth dydd sul, roedd hi'n braf ond yn chwythu'n gryf. Mi brofion ni lli go lew, a chanlyniad yr heulwen ar ein cyrff, a chuddwyd rhywfaint...
So [wi’n joio shwd ma’r Americanwyr yn dechre’u blogs gyda “So” o hyd], co ni ma unwaith eto ar drothwy ymgyrch rhagbrofol arall gyda tim Cymru. Montenegro oddi cartre heno am 18:30 (yn fyw ar S4C) yw’r gem gynta, a wi’n siomedig ofnadw mod i ddim mas yna gyda’r tua 500 o Gymry sydd wedi neud y daith Trains Plains and Automobiles-aidd i gyrraed Podgorica. I fod yn onest, wi wedi gadael i’r busnes mynd i weld Cymru oddi cartre fynd ar gyfeiliorn dros yr ychydig flynyddoedd dwetha. Ma fy ‘ngyrfa’ wedi mynd a fi i Oslo (2 waith), Helsinki, Milan, Baku, Vienna, Dulyn, Manceinion, Limassol, Bilbao a Belgrade dros y 10 mlynedd dwetha, ond sai di bod “away” ers Bilbao yn 2006. 4 mlynedd o dosturi. Ma unrhywun sydd wedi teimlo’r wefr o ddilyn Cymru oddi cartre yn...
Peidiwch gofyn sut ond dwi wedi cael gafael ar raglen sy’n cael ei ddefnyddio yn fewnol gan S4C. Dwi wedi ei roi ar y we i bawb gael ei weld.
Mae’r teclyn yn creu syniadau ar gyfer rhaglen, ar hap, gan ddefnyddio cronfa ddata helaeth. Os ydych chi’n gynhyrchydd, efallai bydd hwn yn gymorth i chi feddwl am raglenni rhad wrth i’r toriadau ddod i mewn flwyddyn nesa.
Braidd yn ‘hit and miss’ yw hi, ond nawr ac yn y man mae’n dangos awgrym ar gyfer rhaglen fyddai’n berffaith ar gyfer gwylwyr S4C.
Os ydych chi am awgrymu unrhyw welliannau neu ychwanegu unrhyw wybodaeth i’r gronfa ddata, dwedwch wrtha’i isod!
Ewch ati i greu......
Anybody reading the lead article in this morning's Western Mail, reporting that Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt has signalled his intention to allow ITV to ditch its commitment to regional news, could be forgiven for thinking that there has been a major government announcement. However, the second sentence in the article gives the game away. It reads:Mr Hunt confirmed he is to persevere with a policy of introducing a network of smaller, city-based local broadcasters, freeing ITV up from its obligation to provide a Wales-wide service.In other words the Culture Secretary is following precisely the same policy, unchanged from when he came into government. How ironic that a lead newspaper article on news provision is not in fact news.Nevertheless, there are some important issues raised by the...
Dwi bron yn teimlo’n ddiog ar ddiwrnod Pethau Bychain yn blogio achos, i bob pwrpas, gwneud yr un peth â dwi wedi’i wneud ers saith mlynedd ydw i. Dwi’n siŵr, ac yn gobeithio, y bydd y we Gymraeg yn llawn gweithgarwch heddiw. Fyddai’n braf meddwl y bydd pawb yn blogio ac ambell flog newydd yn dod i’r amlwg. Ar y llaw arall fe wyddoch be dwi’n ei feddwl am drydar...Gyda thaith i’r gogladd ar y gweill, a’r paratoadau meddyliol dwys sydd ynghlwm wrth hebrwng y Dwd yno, dyna’r oll ‘sgen i ddweud am heddiw. Yn fuan eto,...
Sometimes the familiar just catches your eye. I see these things everyday of my life and something about the contrasting reds and greens always catches my eye. I can never do them justice in a photograph – probably a failing on my part rather than that of the subject. They probably only appeal to me as they are so familiar but maybe someone else will like them too....
The tape shows two police officers, on foot and in riot gear, slam McKenna into the......
The stupider of our two cats, Donna, went missing on Monday.
I came home Tuesday night expecting her to have returned: nothing. I supposed she’d jump onto the bed in the middle on the night…but she didn’t. We called from the garden, from the back bedroom window out across to the bowling green where she would go to watch pensioners play bowls matches on summer afternoons. We walked around the streets, shouting for her. Nothing.
We found her on Thursday night, miaowing from behind the locked doors of the garage of a house in a cul-de-sac just around the corner from us. Once we’d found the owner and had the garage opened up Donna appeared from a dark corner, very grubby and big-eyed. Back home she gulped down two portions of catfood, spent five minutes lapping...
Helen’s new laptop came preloaded with some sample music, including some by sub-Nyman minimalist bore, the Italian Enaudi. She’s hurriedly deleting the tracks just in case anyone should think she chose the pap.
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We’ve started planning our trip round Eastern Europe this summer and I’ve just learned about Hungarian. Well that’s us done for.
So most Hungarians today are Magyar – and the language isn’t Indo- European , I believe, but Finno- Ugric, distantly related to Finnish and Estonian.
Go to a bar and make a stab at ordering a wine by asking for a ‘vino’ and you’ll get a blank look. The Hungarian for ‘wine’ is ‘bor’, I believe.
I once worked with an Indian guy who knew some Sanscrit and I discovered that counting 1 to 10 in that ancient language wasn’t too dissimilar to couting 1 to 10 in Welsh. Don’t know how much I can rely on a vague familiarity with rudimentary Welsh to help me through the strange languages...
We didn’t get quite as far as Billings, Montana last year, when we visited Yellowstone last year. I had no idea tornadoes got up that far north....
Oliver Kamm had a widely-read blog, which he moved to The Times. Then The Times put up a wall.
It’s a piece of bad news: that when its paywall goes up, the Times will be putting behind that wall, not only its regular journalism, but also its blogs. This means that Oliver’s blog, which I’ve been reading daily since it began, will no longer be freely accessible … it is regrettable in any case if one of the most formidable bloggers in the ‘sphere is now lost to a proportion of his readership
This is also confirmation – here of an unwelcome kind – of a point I’ve made before about the distinction between the free blogosphere and the blog-space that is merely an extension of the mainstream media. It’s a distinction to the advantage of the...
Helen’s been managing with her Nikon D80 for a few years now but a looming holiday has been the nudge to get her to agree to upgrade to the Nikon D300s. I doubted we’d be able to get it delivered in time but Amazon offered a guaranteed delivery date of 1pm on Friday 16th July, just in time for a last weekend of practising.
Friday 1pm came and went with no camera. I phoned Amazon. They will look into it.
Saturday morning I phoned Amazon. They will look into it. No alternative delivery date given, website still giving an estimate in the past.
Saturday afternoon, phoned Amazon. They will look into it. No alternative delivery date given, website still giving an estimate in the past.
This was just silly. It was a camera I wanted, not Amazon’s excuses so I phoned...
Once you’ve seen what’s possibly the World’s most interesting museum of ethnography, the marvellous Pitt Rivers in Oxford, other ethnographic collections may seem rather dull by comparison; but the Budapest Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography) seems to have gone out of it’s way to disappoint.
The terribly polite DK Guide suggests that the Budapest collection is overshadowed by the building in which it’s housed, which is certainly true. Half of one floor is devoted to the permanent exhibition, a collection of artefacts from the last 200 or so years (excepting the period of communist rule).
Particularly concerning is the scant representation of the Roma in Hungary’s national ethnographic collection and as far as I could see absolutely no...
Must do some research into this sometime. You might have expected the BBC, being our world-renowned national broadcaster, to employ website editors who can write English properly. Not so much.
Just recently there was the fare/fair cock-up (in a piece on A Levels, ironically) and now there’s this peice on Laura Dekker‘s bid to sail around the world. The title reads:
‘Teenager Dekker ‘sets sail’ on world record bid
and in the second paragraph says,
Her manager said she had left in a very good mood despite calm conditions, but did not want to speak to the media.
Firstly, the title. Why put ‘sets sail’ in quotes like that? ‘Sets sail’ is a perfectly well-known figure of speech; and yes it has a delibverate double meaning here because...
I started drawing again on this holiday. I’ve drawn since I was a kid – my father, a skilled draughtsman, taught me the basics. I was quite into cartooning; Searle, Scarfe, you know, the good ones. I let it drift once I became disheartened by realising I wouldn’t be as good as those guys.
But I do enjoy it. So I’m going to keep it up and I’m half-determined to post drawings on this......
"Here you go, Chris," meddai brawd-yng-nghyfraith Lisa yn ddiweddar, wrth estyn peint i mi. "Consolation pint, mate."Roeddem ni i gyd yn sefyll yn nhafarn Glancynon -- "situated in the beautiful village of Hirwaun," yn ôl gwefan y tafarn. Os mae Hirwaun yn hardd, dwi ddim eisiau gweld yr hynny sy'n hyll. Ond mae'n lle. Mae rhaid i pawb ddod o rywle, a lle Lisa yw Hirwaun. Mae hi'n byw lawr yn yr hen ddinas erbyn hyn (Caerdydd: Dinas Breuddwydion), ond aiff lan yr A470 yn aml i ymweld â'i theulu. Roeddwn i wedi dod â hi'r tro 'ma, er mwyn dathlu pen-blwydd ei chwaer."Consolation for what?" meddwn i, yn codi'r peint i'm gwefusau."Fella's stolen your gimmick, mate," meddai fe. "Saw him on the news today, he was. This American fella taught himself Welsh and then put an audition tape on the...
Un peth bach via glas September 2nd, 2010 at 22:00
Gyda thaith i Gaerdydd, diwrnod hir a rhaglen fyw yfory, dwi wedi penderfynu rhoi cofnod atgyfodedig ar y blog hwn (am yr n-fed tro, ie dwi'n gwybod, sori) ar ddiwrnod y 'Pethau Bychain' i fyny ychydig bach yn gynnar.Wel, beth dwi wedi bod yn gwneud ers mis Rhagfyr 2008? Dweud pethau anniddorol ar Twitter a gweithio, gan fwyaf. Ac mae hynny'n iawn. Felly pam ailddechrau'r blog? Ambell waith dwi'n teimlo bod fwy i'w ddweud na dwi'n gallu mynegi mewn 140 o lythrennau a dwi'n casau pan mae tweets pobl eraill yn gorlifo mewn i ddwy neu dair neges.Ond nid dyna pam. Yn raddol, mae'r negeseuon dwi'n trydar wedi mynd o fod yn bennaf yn Gymraeg i fod yn ddwyieithog i fod yn bennaf yn Saesneg, fel mae'r nifer o bobl sy'n fy nilyn i'n cynyddu. Plesio fy nghynulleidfa? Trio dod o hyd i fwy o...
Dani wedi dychweled o Ben Lly^n heddiw ar ól wythnos o heulwen di-baid bron, rhywbeth nad oedden ni'n disgwyl o gwbl. Mae gen i bentwr o luniau i bori trwyddynt, a chyn hir wna i bostio un neu ddau yn fan hyn mae'n siwr.Wnaethon ni siarad á nifer o bobl yn ystod yr wythnos, gan cynnwys Daloni Metcalfe. Dan i wedi ei gweld hi o'r blaen, gan ei bod hi'n ffermio ger Tudweiliog, ac sy'n rhedeg (efo'i gwr) maes carafannau a phebyll uwchben y traeth hyfryd 'na. Mae 'na siop bychan mewn hen gwt ar ran ymwelwyr i'r traeth, ac mae'n braf cael pigo mewn a chael sgwrs yn y Gymraeg efo pwy bynnag sy'n gweithio yna ar y pryd. Ymddiheurais am fy Nghymraeg od i un o'i merched wrth iddi hi ymdrechu i fy nheall tra fy syrfio, ond ymatebodd 'well...
