I'm not incredibly comfortable with defining “Welshness“ as being largely defined by language, owing to the suppression of the Welsh language by the English. Aaaand I think some people would be super uncomfortable with the fact that this book claims the term “indigenous“ for the Welsh (not wrong).
I'm with Glyn Jones for a definition of Welshness:
“To me, anyone can be a Welshman who chooses to be so and is prepared to take the consequences.“
bailedThis one just isn‘t working for me. I‘m not a fan of the writing or the structure, which frequently flips into memoir after a very short snippet of science.
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I‘m using up small amounts of yarn to make a cardigan. The design is End Times by Amy Gunderson.
The age of humans will pass.
Started this one as an library audio loan, but finished as a library book loan. Fascinating learning about the duck women of Vega.
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@ShyBookOwl
#HaikuADay #HaikuHive
Today‘s haiku is inspired by my window seat view on my plane ride home from Hilo, just before sunset.
Note: Kupuna means elder in Hawaiian, to honor the mountain‘s revered status. It‘s the highest peak in Hawaii & when measured base to peak (including the underwater base) it‘s technically the tallest mountain in the world.
Window Seat at Sunset
Mauna Kea sleeps
kupuna crowned in soft light—
my heart, full of awe
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On a remote Norwegian island preparing for the eider ducks to arrive for nesting
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Saw this on my BBC feed today and LOVED it! I only have Litsy has my social, but if any of you can spread the word of this adorable kid so that it reaches Sir David himself for his 99th birthday, that would be incredible!
Here's the link to the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ln8r42ge6o?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=em...
1. I recently purchased the tagged book in April on Kindle. It was a $2.99 Kindle deal so I bought it. I‘m looking forward to reading it and learning about all of the different owls that are out there. Recently, I watched a nature show called The Americas that was narrated by Tom Hanks and it showed burrowing owls. I like them. They‘re so cute.
2. Yeah. I use Goodreads, Storygraph, Instagram, Fable, Storylace and Litsy.
#wondrouswednesday
Random book from our home library:
📖 Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss
As opposed to the one who specialised in translating Icelandic sagas and wrote novels.
Or the figure skater, the English and Welsh football players, the rugby player, the South African/Welsh writer, or the last British governer of Malawi... 1w
Anyway, I speak almost no Welsh and was born in England, but both paternal and maternal branches of my family go back in Wales as far as they've been traced (with some English and Irish mixing in), and I was raised to love Wales and consider it my home. I do wish I spoke Welsh, but not speaking Welsh isn't a barrier to being Welsh. 1w
My dad didn't learn fluent Welsh from his native speaker father because his father thought he'd do better speaking just English, and never taught me any Welsh at all because he felt he wasn't a real Welsh speaker.
It's a whole complicated sad thing. 1w