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Updates, etc: Cardigan Castle, Organ Harvesting, Overseas Aid Programme, Housing Associations, Labour Leadership Contest - Jac o' the North
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Updates, etc: Cardigan Castle, Organ Harvesting, Overseas Aid Programme, Housing Associations, Labour Leadership Contest. I don’t want anyone to think I’m picking on the women running and wrecking the Cardigan Castle project (nor would I want anyone to think I plan on ignoring them! But I couldn’t write this post without a mention of developments since my previous post. Here’s a selection. Another informant sent me a copy of a letter sent to the. I am indebted to a third informant for this link. Which su...
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Merthyr: All Aboard the 'Welsh' Labour Gravy Train - Jac o' the North
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Merthyr: All Aboard the ‘Welsh’ Labour Gravy Train. MERTHYR: DIC PENDERYN TO S.O. DAVIES. The town of Merthyr holds a special place in the hearts of those Welsh who know their history. The Rising of 1831 is still celebrated. And the execution of Richard Lewis aka ‘Dic Penderyn’ still resonates, with yet another petition. 8217; . . . in Welsh, and like most of the rioters, Dic Penderyn himself spoke no English. One of the details BritNat Labour revisionists tend to overlook. Frequent jollies in the sun.
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Gardening for Merchant Bankers - Jac o' the North
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Gardening for Merchant Bankers. A Guest Post by ‘Blodyn Tatws’. Illustrations supplied by ‘Green Fingers’ Jac showing some of the gems you might encounter at the Garden). To what extent the Garden can claim to be a national garden for Wales is also debatable, and it bears all the hallmarks of those countless third sector charities and trusts whose primary purpose seems to be to find something to do for members of the British establishment now that the market for. UP THE GARDEN PATH. Dr Plummer is nothing...
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'Vote Plaid Cymru - Get Labour' - Jac o' the North
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8216;Vote Plaid Cymru – Get Labour’. Leanne Wood, leader of Plaid Cymru, has announced that her party will not go into coalition with the Conservatives after next May’s elections to the Notional Assembly. ( Read all about it! From where I’m sitting, this would appear to condemn Plaid Cymru to either impotence or a pact with Labour. Not an attractive choice,. E dropping since then, will not win 30 seats in 2016. Labour has in previous Assembly elections gained less than other parties from the regional lis...
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Gardening for Merchant Bankers - Jac o' the North
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Gardening for Merchant Bankers. A Guest Post by ‘Blodyn Tatws’. Illustrations supplied by ‘Green Fingers’ Jac showing some of the gems you might encounter at the Garden). To what extent the Garden can claim to be a national garden for Wales is also debatable, and it bears all the hallmarks of those countless third sector charities and trusts whose primary purpose seems to be to find something to do for members of the British establishment now that the market for. UP THE GARDEN PATH. Dr Plummer is nothing...
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Cardigan Castle: Connections Keep A-Coming - Jac o' the North
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Cardigan Castle: Connections Keep A-Coming. Such as the fact that while Lady Tucker and her gang were adamant there should be as little archaeological work as possible carried out at ‘their’ castle, there is now a small army digging away and investigating. And gems are coming to light. Well, laff. In case they found something! This rejection of history and heritage in favour of crass and very. Unimaginative commercialism is being funded by the. Lottery Fund. Or to be more exact, the Fund’s man ...Another...
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Cardigan Castle - It's Getting Worse! - Jac o' the North
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Cardigan Castle – It’s Getting Worse! While in the castle I took the opportunity to enjoy the views, and among the sights to be seen from Rhys ap Gruffudd’s old pile were a couple of James Lynch’s establishments. He, you will recall, is a son-in-law to a long-standing trustee of the castle project, a local. Who appeared in the previous post. Here’s the view across the river to his holiday accommodation. In a converted warehouse, and here’s the view of his pizza joint. Click to enlarge on all images.).
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Cardigan Castle: Gang of Four + One - Jac o' the North
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Cardigan Castle: Gang of Four One. My two recent posts on Cardigan Castle have generated an incredible response. On Thursday the 9th – when I was away in Pembrokeshire – my blog received a record 2,223 visits, and the ‘Cardigan Castle – Ready to Fall? To recap: Cardigan Castle is an old pile that changed hands many times over the centuries, and as castles go, in a land that has so many, Cardigan is not one of our great castles. But for the people of the town it’s. July 7), and Cardigan Castle – It&...
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Cardigan Castle: Guest Post by 'Dyn Deche Rhys' - Jac o' the North
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Cardigan Castle: Guest Post by ‘Dyn Deche Rhys’. It was quite a week for the trustees of Cardigan Castle. What was supposed to have been a gradual build-up of excitement culminating in the Grand Opening Concert featuring Bellowhead, the English folk-rock group, turned instead into an epic PR disaster for the board, headed by Aberporth’s answer to Sepp Blatter, the 80 year-old Jann Tucker MBE. Two former trustees and a third prominent volunteer wrote to the. This is a multi-million pound undertaking led a...
