What a cracking bit of the Coast Path!

Motorcyclists.

Look, I get it. It’s been a beautiful day and the longer days are here. The road between Chepstow and Monmouth is absolutely stunning on a day like today.

I have absolutely no issue with motorbikes or their riders. It’s not my cup of tea, but it looks quite exhilarating.

I absolutely have issue with the absolute idiots who blast past at 100mph+, dangerously overtake on corners or get abusive towards car drivers when they do the 20mph limit through Llandogo or Tintern.

It’s staggering that I saw so many without leathers or even helmets today. Is this as common as it seems?

My girlfriend and I have just moved to a small town in Carmarthenshire and we are kind of shocked to see so many people in the surrounding area who look like stereotypical “crackheads”

Has my world view been twisted by city living or is there a drug problem in the small towns?

Just wondering. It's arguably the biggest gap in the UK's rail network, and i won't be surprised if it actually happens. Do you think it'll ever be made? let me know

(Betws y Coed, last May)

i was walking along Deganwy Beach today and took some photos of the beach then puffin island also penmaenmawr and then over to Weshore and the little orme then panned over to Deganwy mountain and the remains of deganwy castle, then over to marl mountain and llanrhos,

I took these beautiful photos today from the top of Deganwy mountain overlooking the estuary to Conwy castle and the Conwy marina then panning round to penmaenmawr mountain,

By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh

Dagrau: tears Dagrau: daggers

Deigryn: a tear Dagr: a dagger

Pan fydd dagrau f'anwylyd fel gwlith ar y gwawn: When my beloved’s tears are like dew on the gossamer.

Ai hon yw dagr a welaf o'm blaen i?: Is this a dagger I see before me?

Maen nhw’n eu dagrau: they are in (their) tears

Roedd hi yn ei dagrau: She was in (her) tears

Roedd e'n ei ddagrau yn chwerthin: He was in (his) tears laughing

Ro'n i yn fy nagrau: I was in (my) tears

Hey, 16 year old here. Me and a few friends just wondering where / what are the best way to find out what local events or places to go to online.

Be great to hear some advice and what could be good :)

I unfortunately couldn’t clip it but a character walking past said about how if she ever gets out of the quarantine zone, she’ll go on holiday - “maybe somewhere exotic, like Rhyl.”

Actually laughed out loud!

I heard yesterday that Michael Sheen was producing a play based upon the life of the last true Prince of Wales.

Much as I am wanting to watch this as it is a part of our heritage and historical background, do you think that it will have similar success to Braveheart, a broadly similar figure from Scottish history.

Or mine is anyway - from £78.91 to £105.20 per month.

That's a 33.3% increase.

We're unmetered so it's not that we've used more. Their calculator says being metered would work out about the same cost.

Really confused as to how the robbing bastards think they can justify an increase so far above inflation when they're still dumping sewage into our rivers and seas. It's not like we can switch to another company either.

I love this old North Wales half penny with a druid on the obverse. Such a cool design! I collect coins with Y Draig Goch, but couldn't resist this one.

Noswaith dda / feasgar math uile!

I'm a researcher from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. I recently purchased a rare text written by a Welsh polyglot (Edward Lhuyd) relating to the historic dialects of Argyll and NW Strathspey/SE Inverness in the Highlands.

Lhuyd provides a very rich collections of essays, independent research and close correspondence with friends who are native speakers from these regions during the late 1600s. Sadly much of his work went unfinished in relation to Scottish Gaelic or was lost during a house fire.

One section of this in particular is very helpful in which he lists roughly 1600 words relating to different topics. The main problem is that he scribes the dialectal words in Welsh orthography and phonetics. Fortunately, as both Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are part of the same language family though in two separate branches, almost all the sounds found in Scottish Gaelic are present in Welsh, with some exceptions.

I was wondering if there is a resource or website out there in which you can type in some text in Welsh writing (even if it is not a Welsh word) and it will produce a sound approximate to what has been written?

This would aid massively in my research and would allow us to reconstruct or at least greatly increase our understanding of the dialects in both these areas during the early modern period. Both dialects have now undergone standardisation in part due to the loss of monoglot native speakers, the introduction of formalised "one-Gaelic" education in the 1970s and the almost complete absence of Gaelic education between the 1872 act in which no provision for Gaelic was provided and the education revival in the 70s.

Many thanks one again! As an aside, commiserations about the rugby - you'll be back to kicking our cunts in soon enough no doubt!