Mae rhifyn Gorffennaf y cylchgrawn Plan B yn cynnwys erthygl wych ar Datblygu. Mae’r cylchgrawn ar gael am £4.00 o fan hyn. Wna i bostio PDF o’r erthygl yn y man, ond dyma cwpl o dameidiau i aros pryd:
A photo in the booklet for Wyau/Pyst/Libertino, the essential collection of Datblygu albums, shows a temporary stage housed on a huge truck, someweher in Wales, covered by a tarpaulin and occupied by Datblygu themselves. You have to look twice to notice anyone apart from vocalist David R Edwards, who’s standing on the lip and barking at six children sitting on the grass wearing anoraks. It’s an image so dreary and purgatorial, you imagine that despite being a black and white picture, it was taken using colour film. Intentionally or otherwise, it conveys the notion...
The Ecstatic Storyteller - adolygiad o ddau lyfr a chyflwyniad gwych i waith a bywyd John Cowper Powys yn y Wall Street Journal ddoe.
Y cyntaf o’r ddau lyfr yw Descents of Memory gan Morine Krissdóttir, y cofiant llawn cyntaf am Powys - arwydd heb ei ail o’r “academic neglect” soniwyd amdano gan Robertson Davies [...]...
Mae Maff (darllenwr di-Gymraeg y blog di-Saesneg ‘ma) yn pwdu gan fy mod i wedi dechrau blogio yn ddwyieithog, ac wedyn stopio. Pwdu cymaint, ei fod e’n bygwthio dechrau ei flog ei hunan, yn lle jyst ebostio fi bob tro mae’n ffeindio rhywbeth doniol ar YouTube.
Ar ei gyfer e, felly, dyma fi ddychwelyd y ffafr, [...]...
Mae’r Flickiwr JayT47 â sawl llun hyfryd o’r hen Waun. Maent dan hawlfraint llawn, felly dw i’n methu eu dangos fan hyn (wna i ofyn caniatâd nawr), ond fy ffefrynnau yw:
Y Clwydi Pert
Gwesty’r Llaw
Y Waun gyda’r Nos
Tandoori’r Waun (dyma lle clywais i fod fy nhad ar farw, felly yn fwy noir-aidd i fi’n bersonol, debyg)
Lôn [...]...
(Yr isod wedi’i gopio o wefan Canolfan Crannog.)
Bydd GWRANDO yn cynnal preswyliad yng Nghapel Crannog o 23/6/07 i 1/7/07.
Fe sefydlwyd y gydweithfa gelf sonig GWRANDO ym mis Ionawr, 2007 gan Lou Laurens a Jacob Whittaker. Mae’r gydweithfa gelf yn bwriadu darparu fforwm i’w aelodau, ac i gynnal a hyrwyddo digwyddiadau celfyddydau byw yng Ngheredigion a [...]...
Llongyfarchiadau mawrion (ac hwyr) i Hywel Griffiths ar ennill ei ail gadair yr Urdd. Hywel wrth gwrs, yw Cadeirydd Cymdeithas yr Urdd. Gyda cymaint o gadeiriau ambyty y lle, bydd rhaid iddo fe ffeindio tŷ newydd cyn bo hir.
Welsh Language Society chairman Hywel Griffiths has won his second Chair in the Urdd eisteddfod....
Lluniau Flickr o’r penwythnos diwetha.
Cawson ni benwythnos penigamp gyda theulu Philippa. Nos Wener gyda ei chwaer, ei merch hithau, a’i theulu ifanc hithau, sydd i gyd yn byw ym Mholperro, Cernyw. Wedyn ddydd Sadwrn i Totnes, Dyfnaint, i gwrdd â chwaer arall Philippa, ei phartner a’i phlant, ar gyfer Darlith Coffa Bina Gibson, sef mam [...]...
Jyst rhag ofn bod rhywun heb glywed am hyn, bydd Chris Cope, internet superstar (Welsh div.) ar raglen S4/C O Flaen dy Lygaid nos yfory am 9 o’r gloch. Wrth feddwl, mae’n bosibl bydda i ar hyn hefyd - wnes i ffilmiau vox pop i ryw raglen am Chris yn y Steddfod, ond mae’r boi [...]...
Dw i’n hwyr gyda hyn, dw i’n gwybod, ond nid un o’r “blogwyr gwleidyddol” ydw i, felly does dim ots. Does dim lot alla i ychwanegu at y sylwadau byddwch chi wedi darllen eisioes, ond i (ail-) bostio araith olaf Brian Sedgemore fel aelod seneddol Plaid Lafur. Des i ar draws hyn nawr wrth fynd [...]...
[Newydd ffeindio hyn yn fy “nraffts”.]
Newydd ddeall, ar ôl 23 mlynedd, yr odl ym mhennill cyntaf y clasur yma:
Sometimes, I walk sideways
To avoid you
When I’ve annoyed you.
Athrylith.
Dw i wedi bod yn mymblan y llinell yna ers 1984.
Mae rhywun wedi gofyn ar y maes yn diweddar pwy yw’r band mwya dilynwadol yn y Sîn Roc Gymraeg™....
Wedi dweud wrth y darllenwyr di-Gymraeg bod hi’n bosibl tanysgrifio i ffrwd y categori Saesneg, dw i’n sylweddoli nad oes ffrwd o’r fath ar gael. Wna i sorto hyn yn y man, ond rhaid i fi fynd ma’s nawr.
Unrhywun yn digwydd gwybod sut i wneud hyn (creu ffrwd RRS o gategori unigol ar WordPress) [...]...
Back in the olden days (1999), when I first had web access, the were no blogs or maes-e to waste my time on, in fact I can't think of any websites I'd actually visit regularly, appart from one by the author Mike Parker which had lots of interesting articles which I liked. I can't find it now though. I also own the Rough Guide to Wales by him which is very good.Anyway, he's just launched a book called Neighbours from Hell?. The sub-heading 'English attitudes to the Welsh' explains what the book is about. Now, I haven't read the book, so I'm in no position to judge it. According the BBC, Mike Parker got the idea for the book after hearing one comment too many about the Welsh (by English folk) The idea for the book came when I was reading some snide aside about the Welsh language in one...
SO, ESTATE agent Les Probert predicted in The Western Mail yesterday that property prices in the Llandovery area are set to boom with the revelation that Charles (and Camilla, apparently) have bought a tiny coach house in the area. The Western Mail clearly thought this was a matter for great rejoicing since it devoted five full pages to the story.The article alluded to "huge benefits for the West Wales economy" and mentioned the "warm welcome" given to the news by unnamed "business experts and economists" but the article failed to spell out why, exactly, we are expected to accept this as good news?Property prices throughout Carmarthenshire have been booming for some time, driven ever higher by the insatiable demand in England for holiday homes and investment property. It is already the...
This time it's cultural.The Department for Culture, Media and Support has been running a project to choose England's foremost icons.And the rest of the world will be surprised to discover what's deemed to be iconically English these days:- a cup of tea- the local bobby- Fish and Chips- the oak tree- rugby- the V sign...and even THE WEATHER.What a petty, misguided and divisive project for a government ministry to run.Tessa Jowell, if she's serious about this, can come down to the Millennium Stadium in the pouring rain. 70,000 rugby fans, I'm sure, will show her that the V sign is alive and well outside of...
A design company is taking on the Japanese over their 'lame English'.It's currently a fad in Japan to wear t-shirts printed with a litany of English nonsense.This is one of them:But London-based Ichikoo is fighting back.They've have launched a range of deliberately bad Japanese t-shirts, which feature phrases like "Ignorant foreigner using Japanese to appear sophisticated," and "I eat small carpets with much enthusiasm".The problem is that you could never wear them in Japan.Japanese people are already convinced that foreigners are stupid idiots and the irony, I fear, would be lost.Then again, at least we know our...
I took the above photo before Wales' game against Slovakia in Cardiff. In the background you can see a banner with WelshNotBritish.com on it which is one of Cymuned's websites. The organisation uses occasions like internationals to highlight their campaigns. Here's Cymuned's Flickr group which has a lot of striking photo's!
Strangley enough, Eric posted a stori on his blog under the heading Welsh not British this week, which tells a story and gives his view of the way that the BBC Sport treat 'us all' (everyone in Britain that is) as English, and explains how this leads to a certain disliking (to put it mildly) by the Welsh (and Scottish, and Irish and .....) towards English national teams. It would do this 'Welsh' woman no harm to have a read.
(llongyfarchiadau Eric for being...
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Tynnais y llun uchod cyn gêm Cymru v Slofacia yng Nghaerdydd. Yn y cefndir fe welwch banner WelshNotBritish.com sef un o wefannau Cymuned. Mae'r mudiad yn defnyddio achlysuron fel gemau rhyngwladol i hyrwyddo eu hymgyrchoedd. Dyma gyfrif Flickr Cymuned sydd â llawer o luniau trawiadol arno!
Yn rhyfedd ddigon, dyma Eric yn postio stori er ei flog o dan y pennawd Welsh not British yr wythnos hon, yn adrodd ei hanes a'i deimladau o'r modd mae'r BBC yn trin 'ni i gyd' (hynny yw pawb ym Mhrydain) fel Saeson, ac yn esbonio sut mae hyn yn arwain at deimlad o gasineb gan Gymry (ac Albanwyr, a Gwyddelod a.....) tuag at dimau cenedlaethol Lloegr. Efallai byddai'n syniad i'r 'Gymraes' hon ei ddarllen.
(llongyfarchiadau Eric am dy enwi'n Flog y Mis ar gyfer mis Tachwedd gan gylchgrawn...
Yes, cyclists must dismount, but, if you were reading the Welsh, you wouldn’t necessarily know that, in fact, you might be quite alarmed at what that little yellow sign was telling you.
This sign can be found at the roadworks between Cardiff Bay & Penarth.
The top, is obviously English, and, as usual for Wales, it’s Welsh translation is below, or..it should be.
In this case, it’s totally irrelevant, but admittedly quite funny, drivel.
CYCLISTS
DISMOUNT
BLADDER DISEASE HAS
RETURNED
Tags: welsh, english, cymraeg, bladder, cyclist, roadworks, sign, cardiff,...
Cerdyn oddi wrth Peel i David Edwards, 13 Gorffennaf 1988.
Dear David, thanks for the letter. Grateful no Melanie figure came to sing to me - but there plenty of them about, aren’t there? Look forward to your L.P. Feel embarrassed about not having offered Anrhefn another session but I don’t think they are the most interesting Welsh band. What do you think? Someone wrote to complain one of the Welsh language bands was advocating violence - presumably against we Englanders. Do you know who it was? Apparently the replacement for Bogshed, Phillips Law, are very good too. I certainly hope so. A final word - don’t get kidney stones. Strictly no fun. May have to have an operation yet. All the best, John.......
Cerdyn arall gan Peel i David.
Dear Dave, thanks for the card. Just come back from Caernarvon (sorry, can’t remember the correct spelling) (is it Caernarfon?) Your name came up a lot and I was given a cassette of the new LP. It sounds like a serious return to form. I’m glad about that - you’re something of a national asset, you know. I hope you look after yourself accordingly. It’s not just Welsh music that would be impoverished if anything happened to you. Seriously, John......
SUDOKU!
For you enthusiasts this version has a slick interface and sweet features. It appears with four levels of difficulty and the option to turn hints on or off, there's no reason you, too, can't become a Sudoku master.
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ESCAPA!
This one is infuriatingly simple and frustratingly difficult. All you have to do is click and drag the red box around the screen while avoiding the blue blocks and not touching the walls.
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So, don't ever complain I don't give you anything!
Have fun!!!
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