Simon Panton

@IanByrneMP Well done Ian. Stick to your guns.

@OW_Photography @CasegFraith We descended back into Cwm Lloer from Rhos Bodesi. This little pool is in the stream right by the main CL path, quite low down (not far above the fridd wall) and very obvious. It's just below where Clogwyn Mawr is marked on the OS 1:25000 map.

@CasegFraith @SimonPanton1 would you be able to direct Phil to where that pool was?

Time to think of best bits of the year and this was my best bath of 2025 🙂 Not often I have a bath above the clouds and with a beautiful view of Tryfan! Amazing weekend of temperature inversions!

@Oncle_Seins That's ace!

I'm going to watch a documentary about a lighthouse, I think. And have another can. It's my hour. I'll do what I like with it. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?si…

Free hour, lads. Extra hour. What you doing with your hour? I might take stock. Might just have another can. A whole hour!

@OW_Photography I bet it did!

@SimonPanton1 Took me a few days to recover after 3 of them!

Pre dawn temperature inversion nr the summit of Pen yr Ole Wen overlooking the Ogwn valley. This was about 40 mins before sun up so the light on @SimonPanton1’s face is just the pre dawn glow :) Will put a blog together this weekend of these images and how to plan for them...

@FrayneJack34043 Incredible band, who always put on a great show! I managed to get tickets (on the fan pre-sale) to one of the extra gigs they announced, and have since been walking round with the biggest of smiles on my face.

issuing a correction on my previous comments regarding the Welsh,, weighing up buying Super Furry Animals tix

@superfurry Diolch yn fawr iawn am yr ail gig yn Llandudno! Methu aros!

More dates added due to phenomenal demand! We've added another three shows in Glasgow (9 May), Llandudno (15 May) and London (23 May) - get your tickets quickly: fanlink.tv/smspresale 🎟 🎟 All remaining tickets across all shows will go on sale on Friday 3 October at 10am ⏰

@superfurry Link didn't come through until 10 past, then it blocked me, saying I was using a suspicious IP address or outdated browser. Then it let me in, only to find no tickets were available. Fingers crossed there won't be the same nonsense on Friday

Tickets for all shows on our Supacabra 2026 tour are on sale on Friday 3 October at 10:00 ⏰ Sign up for access to pre-sale tickets, on sale on Wednesday 1 October 👀 superfurryanimals.os.fan/super-furry-an…

@FrayneJack34043 Great stuff! I missed that at the time, so thanks.

absolutely mega youtu.be/ie46jOrQ2Hk?si…

George Smith this afternoon on the FA of My Gull's Mad at Me (7A) in Ogof Aber Geirch, underneath the south side of the Nefyn golf course, north coast of Pen Llŷn. Wild 3d jamming, kneebar rock action!

@KevinASchofield More lies again from Starmer. Governs only according to the wishes of his donors. Disaster at home for the people he's supposed to represent, and supporting a genocide in Gaza. Sickening.

Keir Starmer told the Cabinet: “The Tories get 96% of things wrong and focus on the 4% of things they get right, whereas Labour gets 96% of things right but agonise over the 4% we get wrong.” huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-sta…

Stunning performance by @_the_tubs_ in @llangollenfring last night. My new favourite band. Like the poppy end of Husker Du with a touch of Richard Thompson on vocals. Great lyrics, loads of energy, and funny banter from the drummer. Go see 'em!

@dicewright100 @ewangibbs Agree about farm workers, but self-employed tradesmen and small business owners are petit bourgeois/lower middle class. Nothing wrong with that, it's just a class description. As for public sector workers - they are too varied to be defined as one class.

@ewangibbs Rubbish . The working class will include farm workers as opposed to farm owners .Plus self employed small business owners eg plumbers &builders,many ex miners.Not public sector workers,they are by definition ,middle/lower middle class , even though they maybe born working class.

The British right is redefining ‘working class’ to include landowning farmers and business owners whilst denigrating unionised public sector workers as ‘parasites’.

@Super_Charles @ewangibbs My dad was a farm labourer. He was working class, but the farmer he worked for (despite working hard and facing financial insecurity) was petit bourgeois/lower middle class. It's not an insult, it's just a fact, that's all.

@ewangibbs Have you ever worked on a farm, shovelled muck, rotting grain, bloodied your knuckles to keep a machine running, cut maggots from a living sheep as they eat it alive, pulled a lamb covered in viscera in the middle of the night to save both it and the ewe? You know nothing.

@AjpOxford @ewangibbs Obviously, running a small business (especially a pub these days) can involve financial insecurity, and you might have grown up working class, but you are petit bourgeois (lower middle class). The people who work for you are working class.

@ewangibbs I run a pub, I am definitely working class and a business owner.

@ThreeShiresHead @ewangibbs Obviously they're not the same as the professional/managerial middle class, but they are petit bourgeois (self employed or small business owners). And yes, I agree that farmers work hard and often have financially precarious lives. Lots of petit bourgeois are in that boat.

@ewangibbs I come from the Peak District & despite being landowners hill farmers here are not remotely middle class in cultural habits, accent or dress. They are rural working class, in debt up to their eyeballs, working 16hrs a day speaking in local dialects 100s of years in the making.

@troutman831 Absolute banger!

@PenderynDic It's so grim.

My god the images

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack C4 now

@phased_bemused Annual population survey had it at around 28% recently.

'Just' 17.8%

Retired mental health nurse, Phil Targett (so keen he climbs nearly every day), on Trawsnewid 7A+, a killer new line on the arch at Traeth Penllech (Pen Llŷn north coast). Took a few visits for us to achieve the elusive state of transformation. Got there in the end, though.