Well, the novelty item last night on our local news here in sunny Chester was about the 200th Observer's Book .... I've still got all mine from when I was a kid, complete with my name and address inside ( Britain, Europe, The World, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe of course). Anyway, you'll never guess, the 200th Observer's Book is Welsh Bards... The Observer's Book of Welsh Bards. It's only fair because apparently the 193rd one was The Observer's Book of English Poets and the 196th one was The Observer's Book of Scottish Poets. So nowadays kids can "spot" poets as they go past them in the street or when their pictures appear on telly or in the papers. There's been a bit of fuss about them not including "established" Welsh performance poets such as MabApMab and Calon Cwningen ....
But the really amazing news today is that the Eisteddfod is going to be on the telly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, it's generally on S4C but not normally on ENGLISH telly.
BBC4, Sunday 16th August ..... wake up, it's only a few days away .... 11 pm.
That nice Alex Jones is on it, and she's being inducted into the Gorsedd ! Should be worth a look. Mind you, the article about it in Yr Amserau Radio is mainly interested in what she's going to wear under her robes. I've also got a horrible feeling that the picture up at the top might be the wrong Alex Jones. It looks nothing like the one in the article.
But now, after all that excitement , here's that Gwenno again ... "Calon Peiriant" ...
One of the "blogs of mine that disappeared" just over a year ago was pretty much full of things I made up. The Blue Tit Molecule ( of which Blue Tits were entirely made) , "Expeditions" which ,though described in great detail, never actually happened, species of birds, moths, dinosaurs etc that don't actually exist ( The Spring Crosby, The Busticle ac ati), a detailed scientific account of how the supposedly extinct Moa had been brought back to life ( that got about 80 hits a day until the blog vanished)( god only know who) ... birds that DO exist though they sound unbelievable ( MacGregor's Gardenerbird, Rifleman ),( yes, just "Rifleman." !) a new bird-feeder that you can switch off with a remote when you go out or go to bed which would save people a fortune and make sure that they were only eating when you were watching, a new Government plan to give everybody a PhD at birth, and every time they did something seriously wrong it would get downgraded ( but no lower than a 2/2 which would be harsh).... and so on.
It was wildly more popular than any of my blogs about real things. Typical. Hold on, I think she's coming !! ...