US Policitical System Infographic via A Welsh View
... The Shooting War via A Welsh View
Photograph by Paul Lowe
A collection of work by the world's most acclaimed conflict photographers.... Tatw Datblygu via Beibl Datblygu
Ar flog Huw Stephens heddi, Y Tatŵ mwya’ cŵl erioed. Sarah Datblygu sy biau’r fraich, ac felly’r tatŵ:... Video: Stop Kicking The Window via A Welsh View
He was......
Postal workers fuck over the customers. via The Lone Voice
Well, ain't they lucky as fuck.
Under the terms of a new three year Royal Mail pay deal, which has been criticised for allowing postmen to get paid more for working less, letters and parcels will be delivered one hour later - 3pm in towns and cities and 4pm in the countryside.
So they get more cash, cash that we pay and in return we get a poorer service. Yeah that sounds great.
Separately, householders could also be deluged by a blizzard of junk mail after the two sides agreed plans to expand the amount of junk mail which postmen can deliver.
No come on, seriously they have to be having a laugh. We get the mail late, no doubt the costs of sending mail will go up to cover this and now we get even more crap to throw straight in the bin.
It was just the other day that these same postal...
National No Smoking Day. via The Lone Voice
Llywodraeth yn ‘camarwain y cyhoedd’ ar y mesur iaith, cwyn swyddogol Cymdeithas via Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru 'wedi torri ei haddewidion' ac yn trio 'camarwain y cyhoedd' gyda'i mesur iaith Gymraeg, yn ôl cwyn swyddogol gan Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg i'r Prif Weinidog. Mewn llythyr at Carwyn Jones, bydd yr ymgyrchwyr yn honni...
Government trying to ‘mislead the public’ on language law - official complaint via Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg
The Assembly Government has 'broken its promises' and is trying to 'mislead the public' over its language law plans, the Welsh Language Society has claimed in an official complaint to the First Minister. In a letter to Carwyn Jones,...
Dirywiad parhaus S4C via Blog yr Hogyn o Rachub
Bydd rhai ohonoch yn ymwybodol o’r stori hon, ac eraill ddim, ond os nad ydych cymerwch bum munud i’w darllen. Dwi’n ei ffendio’n digon brawychus. Os ydi’r Llew neu Rhodri yn darllen, dim dyma’ch math chi o beth, felly waeth i chi stopio darllen rŵan a mynd i wefan y BBC neu rywbeth.Yn gryno mae’n sôn am nifer y bobl sy’n gwylio S4C, ac mai dim ond 16% o raglenni’r sianel sy’n denu dros 10,000 o wylwyr a bod rhai o’r rhaglenni mwyaf aflwyddiannus o ran nifer y gwylwyr yn rhaglenni plant.Dylai hyn fod o ddirfawr bwys i unrhyw un sy’n meddwl bod gan y sianel gyfraniad pwysig i’w wneud – ond mae’n anodd i’w chefnogwyr selocaf gyfiawnhau ei chyllid o £100m gan y llywodraeth o ystyried y ffigurau gwylio. Mae’n cryfhau unrhyw ddadl dros dorri ei chyllid, neu...
Mawddach Goldrush 2010 – Results via A Simple Life of Luxury
The official results for the Mawddach Goldrush 2010 are out. Click here to see them. It’s an excel file with 3 worksheets. Two for solo, one for those who didn’t cross finish line after 1st lap, and the other for those who did. 3rd worksheet are the relay times.
Unfortunately there was quite a mix up with marshalling and sign-posting so the overall results are a little odd and difficult to work out.
How did I do? Not too badly I don’t think. According to the results my overall position was 33rd and I was 13th in my category (Male 31-40). My finishing time was 3:37:46. Mind you, the winners came in at around 2hrs......
Labour lose the plot in Swansea West via Peter Black AM
The battle for Swansea West at the next General Election ia really hotting up as the possible 6th May date approaches. The contest is very much between the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Labour with Plaid Cymru and the Tories as also-rans.A particular area of controversy is the record of Labour candidate Geraint Davies who lost his Croydon Central seat in 2005 and has now been parachuted into Swansea in an attempt at succeeding highly respected local MP, Alan Williams.Mr. Davies, was the most expensive MP in his last year in Parliament, claiming £176,026 in expenses and costs, and sending £38,750 worth of mail and 130,000 first-class stamps. Funnily enough that was a massive increase on his previous expense claims but was still not good enough to help him hold his seat.In his latest...
Fuck the fuck off Gordon, you mono eye’d scum sucking pig. via The Lone Voice
And stop boiling my piss each and every day by turning this once great land into a fucking dystopian nightmare.
Found this over at GOT's place and you should also have a read of the excellent post...
Gordonomics in action, or should that be inaction?… via The Lone Voice
Cicero reports that Gordon's five year communist plan has failed.
Despite the fastest and largest depreciation of Sterling in history, British exports in January fell by roughly £1.6 billion: a near 7% fall. The monthly trade gap between the value of our exports versus the value of our imports is now just shy of £8 billion. Exports in January were therefore just below £20 billion, with imports topping £27 billion.
God help us if Brown gets back into No.10, as no one else...
New Labour are barking up the wrong tree. via The Lone Voice
Alan Johnson and Hilary Benn have produced a report which proposes that all dogs in this country should be micro-chipped and that dog-owners should have compulsory third-party insurance. Story
Dog owners face a new pet “tax” in a government initiative to tackle the menace of dangerous dogs.
Compulsory microchipping of every dog — which would cost owners an average £30 — is included in a consultation report published today.
It also suggests that the six million dog owners in Britain should be covered by third-party insurance to cover injuries to victims of dog attacks.
In an attempt to give greater protection from “weapon” or status dogs, owners of unruly dogs would be subject to new antisocial behaviour orders, already dubbed “Dogbos”. These dog control orders...
Stealth taxes from Labour on pubs. via The Lone Voice
Hat tip to Brew Wales for this one.
From the Conservatives on what Colostomy Brown has planned for our pubs:
Community pubs facing tax bombshell
Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps has warned of a ‘tax bombshell’ faced by community pubs this April.
New research by the Conservatives reveals that Gordon Brown’s tax inspectors are hiking up business rates for local pubs across country. Friendly community pubs with darts and pool tables face the biggest threat.
This comes as figures show that a net 3,690 local pubs have closed under Labour, according to official records held by tax inspectors.
"Gordon Brown has pushed local community pubs to the wall", Shapps said, pointing out that at the same time Labour has ignored "the binge-drinking dens that have wrecked our town...
Baroness Ashton of the EUSSR. via The Lone Voice
A hat tip to the Red Rag who points out:
I was not amused to read this in The Times this morning:
Baroness Ashton of Upholland has come up with a suggestion to improve her much-criticised performance as the EU’s top diplomat — her own aircraft.You all remember the bad old days of the Soviet Empire, when the plebs scraped on by with a pittance and longed to bugger off to West Germany and the free world. Whilst their leaders swanned about in fancy planes and fed shit to useful idiots in the west about how brilliant the Soviet Union and communism was.
The Baroness would have fitted in so well into that world.
Not much in the press about this, and yet it puts the greed of our MP's into some perspective, even they have not tried to blag a plane on...
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. via The Lone Voice
Unveiled to much fanfare after months of cogitation, the £95,000 design was derided as complicated, serious, messy and old fashioned.
£95 fucking grand on a design, seriously WTF?! I thought we were in a recession?
I am sure the taxpayers in the land of the tundra are very impressed at their tax money being blown like...
Caersaint… via Clecs Cilgwri
Dwi wedi fy machu erbyn hyn gan hynt a helynt cymeriadau tref y 'saint', sef portread Angharad Price o'r dref lle mae hi'n byw ynddi - Caernarfon. Mae'n llyfr digon swmpus (360 o dudalennau), ond ar ôl i mi ddod i arfer efo'r dull ysgrifennu, a thafodiaeth y Cofi dre', mae'n digon hwylus i'w darllen. Wna i sgwennu mwy amdani ar ôl i mi gyrraedd y diwedd...... efo dros tri cant a hanner o dudalennau i'w darllen, gallai fod sbel...
Derwydd y Wisg Las via BlogMenai.com
Mi fydd y rhan fwyaf o bobl sy'n dilyn blogiau gwleidyddol Cymreig yn ymwybodol o ychwanegiad cymharol ddiweddar i'r teulu dedwydd - blog y Druid.Mae'r Derwydd yn rhyw gymryd arno ei fod yn ymladdwr annibynnol tros Ynys Mon, ond dydi o ddim yn cymryd rhyw lawer o ddarllen i weld mai blog sy'n cefnogi'r Blaid Geidwadol yw mewn gwirionedd. Ceir cymysgedd o ymysodiadau ar Blaid Cymru a'r Blaid Lafur tra'n gor fynegi cyfle'r Blaid Geidwadol mewn etholaeth sy'n eithaf anobeithiol iddynt. Mae'r ymysodiadau ar Lafur a'r Blaid yn amrywio o'r rhesymol i'r hysteraidd. Mae yna ambell i ymysodiad ar y Lib Dems hefyd. Ymddengys bod y ffaith bod ei hymgeisydd yn dod o Lanelwy a'i fod wedi gweithio mewn bar yn y gorffennol yn broblem sylweddol.Nodwedd arall o'r blog ydi'r defnydd o gobyligwc...
Video: Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009 via A Welsh View
Did realise how many green screens were used in TV shows where you wouldn't expect them to be......
“World’s Smallest Computer” via A Welsh View
A company called USmart has announced what it says is the "world's smallest computer". It's certainly the cutest.
The 4.8-inch MC-1 has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of on-board storage. If the keyboard is too small to use, which it probably is, they also sell a device which is a combination of a trackpad and slightly larger keyboard.
Engadget has more pics and a...... BBC Mistaken Identity Bloopers via A Welsh View
How can a BBC mistake identity bloopers reel...
...not contain Guy Goma?...
Happy Clients Photo …… via
This is a lovely photo taken by the client when they gave the portrait to the recipient for her birthday. The family commissioned me to paint Charlie for them as a surprise gift and I am so grateful when clients take photos when they have opened the painting as it really allows me to be part of the giving process.
Happy St Davids Day too!
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Digg this!... Happy Client Photos ….. via
These photos have just come through from a previous commission I did in 2009 of a dog called Sammy. It was a large 24 x 18 painting as you can see in the photo and the shininess you can see in the painting is the protective sheet I include with the portrait. They are wonderful photos and just perfect for the website. In fact I have added them already!
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Digg this!... Dwyrain Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr via Blog yr Hogyn o Rachub
Oni fo gennych filiynau yn y banc, byddwn i ddim yn awgrymu i chi roi bet ar Ddwyrain Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr eleni. Mewn ambell fan, cewch odds o 1/200 ar Blaid Cymru yn ennill yma – sef i guro punt rhaid i chi osod £200 i lawr. Os ydych chi am ennill tenar bydd angen £2,000 yn sbâr arnoch.Ond mae’n ddigon rhyfedd hynny, oherwydd dim ond ychydig dros ddegawd yn ôl roedd yr ardal hon yn dalcen caled iawn i Blaid Cymru. Er gwaethaf ymdrechion lu gan bobl fel Gwynfor a Hywel Teifi Edwards, arhosai’r sedd yn nwylo Llafur rhwng 1983 a 2001 (ar ffurf Caerfyrddin cyn 1997), gyda Phlaid Cymru ddim yn bygwth mewn gwirionedd. Gellid yn bennaf briodoli hyn i ardaloedd hynod Gymraeg Cwm Gwendraeth a Dyffryn Aman - ardaloedd ôl-ddiwydiannol Llafur, nid yn annhebyg o gwbl i ardaloedd fel...
Update on Tom…. via
Toms getting on well, he’s been with us three weeks today and is much more settled and happy, and we are happier too, as we are getting to understand him, finding out what he understands and what he needs to be taught.
He has learnt a lot already and I have moved on from getting him to sit and wait when I put food down, to sit, lay down, wait and I can now put the bowl on the floor and move away before giving the command to eat. When I give the command he skids across the kitchen floor! We have him on a new food now too which has been recommended to us, Nature Diet which is full of goodness and protein, no nasties in it whatsoever, and I think its filling him up a little more. He is still having some biscuits along with it and I think he’s put on a little weight this week... SIBA wakes up to threat from state funded nannies. via The Lone Voice
Hat tip to Brew Wales
SIBA chief executive Julian Grocock has slammed the “health nannies” he claims are targeting alcohol as the new tobacco.On the second day of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) conference in Stratford-upon-Avon, Grocock criticised the health lobbyists who blame the trade for binge drinking.“I contend that we (the brewing industry) are better organised around people and their health and welfare than any lobby prohibitionists who want to haul us over the coals towards complete oblivion.”He added: “I confess that I view the health nannies with the same kind of mistrust and suspicion that I sued to view those people in my village who I never got to know simply because they didn’t go to the pub.”This year’s conference focuses on people power...
Crime up 44% under New Labour communists. via The Lone Voice
But the New Labour communist party claims that it has fallen.
Violent crime has rocketed by 44 per cent under Labour, official Parliamentary research revealed last night.
The House of Commons Library report is the definitive independent verdict on the 13-year record of the Government.
The House of Commons Library figures take into account changes to the ways police count violent crimes.
Its report says the number of crimes of violence against the person in 2008/09 was 887,942 - an increase of 44 per cent on the adjusted figure of 618,417 for 1998/99.
A Home Office spokesman said: 'The British Crime Survey is the best indicator of long-term trends than police recorded crime because it is unaffected by changes in levels of reporting to the police or police recording practices.'...