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  • Dan yr haul llachar a’r awyr glas daeth miloedd o bobl, o ardal Abertawe ac o bob rhan o Gymru, ynghyd yn Wind Street ddiwedd y bore ar 20 Mai, dan adain y faner Yes Cymru, i alw am annibyniaeth. …

  • A week later, and I’m back at Furnace, this time with a companion, C.  It promises to be sunny all day, with a slight breeze to offset the heat.  We’ve walked up from the bus station, past the small villas…

  • It’s a local enough path, but I’ve never walked it before.  St Illtud’s Walk, invented by Colin Davies of Llanelli Ramblers in 1994, joins two country parks, Pen-bre and Margam, passing through three counties and some very varied terrain.  As…

  • In Volume I, Chapter XVIII of Laurence Sterne’s great novel, Tristram Shandy’s mother, as soon as she finds out she’s expecting him, absolutely insists that, when the time comes to give birth, she will be attended by no one but…

  • Fel y weriniaeth agosaf i Gymru, Iwerddon yw’r hafan amlwg rhag y panto brenhinol, a dihangfa dros dro o’r wlad lle ‘does dim byd yn gweithio dim mwy’.  Nod arall inni oedd cael teithio’n araf ac ysgafn, gan groesi’r môr…

  • As pubs have closed, so coffee shops have multiplied.  This must surely be a progressive social trend, at a time when most social trends are depressing.  Making a coffee at home, if you have the right equipment, has its advantages,…

  • We’re having some work done in our bedroom, so I’m currently sleeping in the attic, my normal place of work during the day.  In other words, the attic is now my bedsit.  It’s a slightly strange experience, and it’s got…

  • I’ve been reading Teju Cole’s celebrated novel of 2011, Open city, set mainly in central New York.  It’s an unusual piece of writing.  The book captures the experience of Julius, a young Nigerian-American (Cole himself being one) who’s in training…

  • Technical innovation is a strange thing.  We tend to think that the growth of new and improved technologies is a constant.  Engineers, we imagine, are always searching for better ways of organising the way things work.  And, beyond perfecting existing…

  • Yn ei cholofn yn Barn yn ddiweddar tynnodd Catrin Evans ein sylw at y rhaglenni radio hynny sy’n trafod pynciau diwylliannol sylweddol trwy gyfrwng sgwrs neu ddialog.  Ei hesiamplau yw In our time gyda Melvyn Bragg ar Radio 4 a…

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