by Meilyr | Jan 4, 2022 | new publications
Happy New Year. And it’s always an honour to be able to write this column. Now is the time to announce the royal honours for this dame or other or knight after knight. The most perplexing step was to make Tony Blair, for his deadly ventures in Iraq a Knight...
by Meilyr | Nov 28, 2021 | new publications
There is a campaign to stop buying new clothes for a year. No, I won’t promise yet not to buy anything for a whole year but I do have admiration for those who have started the campaign for the sake of the environment. I’ve been slowly trying to get rid of...
by Meilyr | Nov 14, 2021 | new publications
What a good word ‘strength’ is? We can put so many words to boost it and now we have a new word in Welsh cyfnerthydd for ‘booster’ which is a jab to join the other two. One must praise those whose job it is to do this kind of work. It can’t be easy to retell...
by Meilyr | Oct 31, 2021 | new publications
A century ago, there was an attempt to classify the rivers according to the fish that were there. We did plenty of studying when we were children and the fish to be seen – seemed so transparent. Catching them of course was another matter but my brother managed to...
by Meilyr | Oct 16, 2021 | new publications
I remember thinking as a child that the word ‘oes’ in Welsh was a question – (is there?) but that was before I learnt ‘yn oes oesoedd’ at the end of the Lord’s Prayer which meant ‘forever and ever’. So it became a very ordinary and extraordinary word to me, to...
