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  • Yn ei nofel ddeifiol newydd Hunllef Nadolig Eben Parri mae Arwel Vittle yn anelu ei arfau dychanol at dargedau niferus yn y Gymru gyfoes.  Un yw pobl sy’n ysgrifennu a chyhoeddi.  Mae bron pob grŵp yn ei chael hi’n arw…

  • My parents used to tell me that when I was small I’d tell them that York Minster was, in my opinion, the best building in the world.  Of course, I’d not seen much of the world then, just bits of…

  • Roedden ni’n trafod amser y Nadolig y dydd o’r blaen, a sut mae e wedi newid dros y blynyddoedd.  Sut, er enghraifft, mae’r tymor yn dechrau – neu’n ymddangos i ddechrau – yn gynt ac yn gynt bob blwyddyn –…

  • There were two other people, a man and his wife from Caerffili, at St Mary’s church when I visited Capel-y-ffin last week.  They stood and shared my wonder at the wonky beauty of the tiny building, with its wooden bellcote,…

  • On 12 December 1775 Gilbert White, the naturalist of Selborne in Hampshire, wrote a letter to his friend Daines Barrington in which he recalled a remarkable character who had lived in the village ‘more than twenty years ago’.  He doesn’t…

  • I’ve written before about Francis Place, late seventeenth century artist and potter, and about Coxwold in north Yorkshire.  This piece brings the two together. Place was a landscapist ahead of his time, in vision (he anticipated the watercolour painters of…

  • The three of us were talking, as we strolled along the front at Porthcawl the other day, about modern icons.  J. had just been for a return visit to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, so the Angel of the North in Gateshead soon came…

  • Beth yw rhodd neu anrheg?  Gwrthrych neu wasanaeth y mae person yn ei gynnig i rywun arall, heb dâl.  Nid yn unig heb dâl, ond hefyd heb ddisgwyl tâl neu gymwynas yn y dyfodol.  Beth yw anrheg, gan unigolyn neu…

  • The National Gallery is celebrating its 200th birthday with a very special exhibition.  Surprisingly, it’s the first show it’s every mounted devoted to the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh.  To be able to look at them intently and quietly, in…

  • It’s a question that wouldn’t have been asked, let alone answered, before Rebecca Solnit’s pioneering book Wanderlust, published in 2000.  Solnit is a writer probably best known for her books on women – she was the first to formulate the…

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