bethan davies

@RetirementTales You most certainly have done just that. Will miss your tweets, insights and nostalgia. Wishing you both a happy and healthy re retirement. We need more Geoffs and Margarets in the world 💪🏻

Our Purpose #2 When we first started answering The Call, it quickly became apparent that many people in this fine profession were feeling exhausted, under-valued and even jaded. We wanted to express our gratitude to them all. We wanted to make all educators feel valued again.

🇿🇦 Taith 2024…. Ni ar y ffordd 👋

@twistybonce My daughter is a redhead and wore green to her prom - I wholeheartedly agree, wish they could see what we see 🥰 your daughter looks beautiful 🧡💚

This is an absolute first!! My youngest daughter who NEVER 'does photos' has for the very first time, agreed I can post this. Proud mum moment, prom practice. If only she could see what I see 💚

Pencampwyr @jrnbawales wrth gynrychioli’r Houston Rockets @HoustonRockets yn Aberystwyth heddiw. Diwrnod gwych a pherfformiadau campus trwy gydol 🏆

@GwneudYTro @mabonapgwynfor @vaughangething @Neal_Soils @guyadams @WillHayCardiff @ShiptonMartin @GwynLoader @HSJEditor @BBCHughPym @eleanorhayward @carolecadwalla @theWCRC @VelindreTrust Just three years too late…if Plaid hadn’t done a u-turn then, perhaps things wouldn’t have progressed this far.

Takes opposition health minister @mabonapgwynfor to research what @vaughangething should have done 4 yrs ago. VG ignored 163 clinicians, External Advisory Board & based stand alone model on fictitious Barret Rpt which he obviously didn’t read! …top it off @Neal_Soils involved🤨

@DeputyGrocott Rucola Grana Rocket with Grana Padano shavings 😋

Best pizza toppings?

@Phil_Sledge Grumpy dog

Post the last photo of your pet I’ll go first. No cheating 🏖️

Show our community your pets hard at work I’ll go first.

Am ddiwrnod ddoe i orffen tymor arbennig… X3 Pencampwyr Cenedlaethol Cymru!! Diolch i bawb am eich holl cefnogaeth 💙

PENCAMPWYR CYMRU 🏀 D13 a D18!!

Thank you for everyone who attended our Presentation Evening last night, celebrating the wonderful achievements of our schools and county squads. Thank you @StanwellPE for the beautiful venue.

Dan18 🏐 Ail🥈yng Nghymru 👏 Perfformiadau campus gan y criw yma trwy’r dydd heddiw, er yn dorgalonus i golli’r rownd derfynol yn amser ychwanegol. Tymor gwych 💙

@GlantafPEMerch Diolch i’r staff! 🏐❤️

🏐 Taith Liddington 2024 🏐

Huge congratulations to our U18A & U18B squads who were runners up and silver medalists in the @WalesNetball_ Inter Area Competition. Amazing!!!!💙🩵

@PintSizedFarmer Surely after different sweets 🍬🍬 Bon Bon, pips, dib dab, smartie, skittles, all sorts ….I could happily go on all day 🤣🐑

@mark_joubert Dal ati Gus bach 💙 love and prayers from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hello everyone! Latest update on our Gus: This has been a long day already, and it's only 10:45 AM as I write this. If you've been following our story closely, our son Gus experienced complications yesterday which took him off ECMO abruptly. Thankfully, at the time, it was an option to do so because his new heart was regaining momentum. What followed was a long, touch-and-go afternoon of trying to maintain his blood pressure. Regardless of what our team did, and they tried everything, it continued to fall precipitously. For some uncertain reason, he stabilized last night. We enjoyed a few hours of relief, but by 3 am this morning, his situation was deteriorating again. This time, it brought him to edge of death, and we were forced to put him back on ECMO. Thankfully our team acted quickly and he was brought back on ECMO successfully. He is now mostly stable, though they are trying to find a good balance with his fluids. What caused this stubborn blood pressure issue remains uncertain. However, our team has a good operating theory. It is now believed that the emergency that forced him off - a clot that formed during the ECMO clamp trial (which is a known risk to evaluating whether or not a patient can come off) - while not entering Gus in its entirety, may have sent "micro-clots" into his body. Based on x-rays, it looks like his right lung took the brunt of it. Our team believes the damage his right lung has sustained led to an inflammatory response that has effected how his vascular system retains fluids, and therefore, how his body maintains good pressures. The only option he had this morning was to go back on ECMO in hopes that a few more days will offer him the stability his lungs need to heal. They will do treatments to remove inflammatory markers from his blood in the meantime. Thankfully -- and we are so relieved to be able to report this -- his other organs seem to still be in good shape. Liver, kidneys, and brain do not seem to have sustained any significant damage from these periods of hypotension. Praise God! The other good news is that it does not appear to have significantly injured his new heart, which has retained much of the progress it made up until yesterday. In theory, if ECMO provides the buffer of time needed, he should be able to come off again in a more controlled manner. Still, being on ECMO again presents significant risks and our team will have to balance caring for a damaged lung while trying to avoid clotting or bleeding throughout his body. Our team has an incredible balancing act on their hands, and they have done so well -- we ask that you all pray for them as they work so hard to keep Gus alive. They have done so much so well -- we are so grateful for each doctor, practitioner, and nurse. So here's where we sit: take several days more on ECMO to allow the lung to recover and reduce inflammation while sustaining good pressures, monitoring him neurologically, and protecting his other organs. Please pray with us for God to give our doctors wisdom. Pray that Gus' lung would recover; that this time on ECMO would be free from complications an provide the time he needs to finally come free and soar. Amanda and I are exhausted and burnt out from this. Please pray for all of us as we continue to go through this with Gus. We are at a point where we are timid to hope and tired from the up and down swings. Truly, we are at the end of ourselves. We feel only God can, if he wills, preserve Gus' life. We are impotent. But we can pray, so with weakness, we continue to offer simple, tired prayers: Lord, please help. Lord, please spare our son. Lord, please have mercy. Again, the Lord supplies language for that painful paradox at the intersection of beauty and suffering: "It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD…Though he causes grief, yet he will show compassion according to the multitude of his mercies." Lam. 3:26, 32 Thank you, everyone.

Diolch | Thanks to Bishop Childs, @ysgoliolo, @MelinGruffydd, @YsgolPenyGarth, @RadnorCanton, @SJLCARDIFF, @SchoolTrelai & @yberllandeg for participating in our Primary Fives event. Diolch | Thanks to our Primary Fives sponsor, @Introteach. @WelshSchoolsFA

@RoseUnwin Nadolig Llawen 🎄🥂

Happy day, all. 🙏

@widow_waiting @CherryMorrello We took our dastardly dog to the beach and made sure we smiled at, and wished every stranger and their dog who passed a Happy Christmas for @CherryMorrello 🎄🐶🩷

I could listen to this on loop for hours. I’m not religious but this piece soothes my soul. I wish you all peace tonight. Christmas can be so bloody hard. Go gently, dear tweeps. And, for @CherryMorrello, make sure you #SmileAtAStranger #AndTheirDog