Myfanwy Alexander

Weekend's coming. Time to get the Vanished Wales box set on ITV X and immerse yourself in lost heritage. The Clywedog Dam story's in the most recent series. Come and meet presenter Adeola Dewis and producer Carwyn Jones at Monty Lit Fest. montylitfest.com/?page_id=9086 @SerenBooks

@plaidifanc I'm not sure REEN is a good enough suggestion. I have just been telling my Welsh class to pronounce every letter Rh Een not Reen

English Speakers, here is a guide on the pronunciation of Wales’ First Minister’s name: Rhun = REEN (think Green without G) ap = APP (this is ‘child of’, like ‘Mac’) Iorwerth = Yorr-Where-th (think ‘Your Worth, but with an E instead of O) Thank you.

@The_PBS Would you consider a swap for this house? I can sit stroking my Precious books in shop doorways.

Do you happen to need a first edition of The Lord of the Rings, the first printing of all three volumes, beautifully bound in full red leather, sitting within a custom made clamshell case? And oh, did I mention the actual Tolkien signature bound into the endpaper of Vol 1. ?

@JacotheNorth Please may I sit next to you at 'Respectful Wild Butchery?' I feel your observations would enhance my learning experience

Was in the Co-op this morning. This advert caught my eye. So I went to the WP site. Wow! rewildeverything.wordpress.com Tracking – as a decolonial, animist paradigm Foraging – as liberation from Capitalism Queer ecology – unlearning supremacy-based systems I'm signing up today!

@TimGuile @EWTNGB @McCrimmons Thank you. I guess Walsingham but much to learn...

@lodeslan @EWTNGB @McCrimmons stmarys.ac.uk/events/2023/th…

A new shrine in Ipswich reconnects the town with a devotion nearly lost to history. At St Pancras Church, devotion to Our Lady of Ipswich is alive once again.

@TheNorfolkLion A couple of thoughts. First, that very impulse towards belief can be framed as the action of God's grace. Second, try church attendance instead of/as well as Bible reading. Being around other people who belief is inspirational at first, then aspirational. Certainly in prayers

As some of you who have known me for a while here know, I’m an atheist. However, I’ve also said that I wish I could believe. I was christened as a child and used to believe. As I’ve got older, I’ve become adamant that there’s no such thing as God. But over the last few years, I’ve been softening and trying to believe again. I’ve asked for so-called enlightenment, but nothing has happened. I read the Bible when I was a child but not since, so I’ve decided to start reading it again. It’s now my nightly ritual before bed. Please send prayers 🙏🏻 let’s hope some enlightenment or something meaningful happens. If God or Jesus don’t come to me after that, I’ll have to carry on being an atheist/realist.

@TimGuile @EWTNGB @McCrimmons How interested. Which were the others?

@EWTNGB @McCrimmons I wrote an article on Three medieval Marian shrines. Ipswich was one of them.

Political speech in English: Hard working families. Let me be clear. Reaching across the aisle. Political speech in Welsh: Allow me to quote an inter-war pacifist poet from Pembrokeshire... who my entire audience will be familiar with...

@anniegarthwaite Hooray! For creativty boosts, move westwards....

@lodeslan We're looking to stay in the area. We won't stray too far!

After 28 years in this lovely house, we're on the move. Gulp. So, if now is the moment for your #EscapetotheCountry in the Shropshire hills, take a look! rightmove.co.uk/properties/878…

Thus far, in the Senedd Elections, I have attended 3 hustings and organized 1 (Meifod, tomorrow evening, 7.30pm, since you ask). I think it remains very important to be in the same room as those asking for your vote, to see the whites of their eyes. Go on, be an active voter.

@ClerkofOxford And, in the same area, they used to call them pharisees

Tonight is the eve of May Day, an especially magical time of year. It's said that on May Eve in Herefordshire, early in the last century, 'folk used to put trays of moss outside their doors for the fairies to dance upon'.

@TimGuile @neilojim1972 And to my knowledge, no other monarch has sanctioned the use of rape against her opponents. She was well aware of the tactics Topcliff employed to catch priests

@neilojim1972 Queen Elizabeth I’s reign was a terrible time for members of the faith practiced by her forefathers. Facts matter

I'm going to need a bigger room for my head to explode.The Elizabethan rule in Ireland ended in an orgy of destruction and civilian massacres.

@DonnaWarburton1 I agree. Choice is the real goal. Many of us are prepared to make lifestyle sacrifices to spend more time with our small children and some form of transferable allowance which could be spend on nursey or support family income in general would be ideal

All families could have the option to spend more time with their young toddlers/infants. That time is so precious and goes so quickly. Maybe that’s what politicians could be working towards? Btw, dads should also be included in that option. 3/3

I don’t know what I think about this story. I’m not particularly offended by what he said, I worked 2/3 half days a week when mine were small and my dad looked after the first two as he retired early. I looked after them myself on my days off while Simon worked until 1/3

'The Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary' did not disappoint

Good news! farminguk.com/news/farmers-w…

@mattswaim Early Sunday. Makes the whole day special

I know at least 3 distinct philosophies among devoted Catholics RE: how they pick which Mass to go to: -Saturday Vigil, then leisure all Sunday -Early Sunday, set the tone for the day -Later Sunday, as the centerpiece of the day Would love to know your own philosophies here

Have that point in my life when my pulse is racing because I have discovered that an 1831 book 'The Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary' is available in the @LLGCymru and I will be able to read it this very Tuesday. On my way to @BBCCymruWales poetry comp Talwrn y Beirdd.

@dcsandbrook @Cathyofnusle @Tabitha1278867 @bookclubpodhq I hope they are doubling your fee to compensate for the tedium caused by reading V Woolf

@Cathyofnusle @Tabitha1278867 @bookclubpodhq It makes quite a change from Beloved and Mrs Dalloway, put it that way.

Thank you for all the great suggestions for our BOOK CLUB podcast. Here's what's coming next... 21 April EAST OF EDEN 28 April THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES 5 May A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES 12 May THE WOMAN IN WHITE 19 May BELOVED 26 May MRS DALLOWAY 2 June THE HUNGER GAMES

@holland_tom @northumbriana Some of us get a bit weepy in the Lake District or Y Gwir Gogledd, thinking of how were we severed from our friends in the North

A sombre moment, as @northumbriana ponders the sad loss of the Alsace-Lorraine of the North-East

We visit the site of the battle of Carham, where in 1018 (probably) a Scots-Strathclyde army defeated the Northumbrians, truncating Northumbria forever, sundering the patrimony of Saint Cuthbert, & creating a border that endures to this day: that between Scotland and England.