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Religions of England and Wales (2021 census Local Authority Districts)
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llyfrenfys · 22 hours
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Sometimes the commodification of non-US cultures on this website is really frightening. If you boil down your whole understanding of a country based on a single actor, what are you even doing?
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alexmurison · 3 days
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Get me back in those mountains!
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robbielewis · 3 days
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Lambing Season 2024
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Oi, how did this chap get into the post.
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Lambing an ewe
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New born lamb
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Hall Hill Farm, County Durham 
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Whitehouse Farm, Northumberland 
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Schmallenberg outbreak hits early lambing flocks
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Growing numbers of flocks are being struck by the deadly Schmallenberg virus in the south of England, Midlands and Wales.
Vets are urging farmers with deformed lambs to send them for post-mortem so they can be tested for the virus. This can be done free of charge through the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha).
Currently, a vaccine is not commercially available, but vets are hopeful this might change if more flocks are identified as infected.
Lincoln lambing event 'paused' for 2024 over fears of disease spreading
A Lincolnshire lambing event has been partly cancelled over fears of disease spreading. The annual springtime event at Riseholme Park Farm will not go ahead in 2024 after a rise in national cases of Schmallenberg, which only affects livestock.
It was scheduled to take place on the first weekend in March, between March 2 and 3. A spokesperson for the University of Lincoln said: "The University has taken the decision to pause our lambing event at Riseholme Park Farm for spring 2024, in light of the recent national increase in cases of the livestock-specific disease Schmallenberg.
"Although we have not identified any cases in our flock, pausing our lambing event for this year will allow our farm team to safeguard their wellbeing. Educational activities at the farm will continue as usual."
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'Bumper' lambing season despite wet winter - BBC
As lambing season gets into full swing, a Cumbrian farmer has reported a "bumper" year despite the wet winter.
Tom Wilson, from Wood Farm, near Carlisle, welcomed back a live-in lambing assistant to help cope with the round-the-clock demands of the two-month long season.
This year, that has included the rare birth of quads.
"It's very unusual to carry four that big and after the winter we've had," he said. "I'm surprised she even still had them in her."
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Four lambs from a single ewe is "not unheard of", a spokesperson for the National Sheep Association said, but it is certainly a far from regular occurrence.
"Ideally a ewe will give birth to two lambs as she has two teats from which to feed them.
"When an increased number of lambs are born often they are removed from the mother and either fostered on to another ewe or are reared artificially.
"Most commercial sheep farmers will experience quads on their farms every once in a while."
'Not for the faint-hearted'
March and April are peak lambing time in the UK, although the main season runs from February to April.
Wet weather over the winter means ewes and lambs are more prone to infection, while some fields they would usually roam in become waterlogged.
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Lambing assistant Beth Menzies, who is working her second season at Wood Farm, said: "It takes its toll on you through the night, but it's so worthwhile. It's really, really rewarding."
Mr Wilson said having an assistant was absolutely crucial.
"I couldn't do it without her now, definitely not, especially the numbers we do."
Ms Menzies added: "It's not for the faint-hearted.
"Farming in general, it's not a job that you should do unless you love it.
"When something does go wrong, when something doesn't make it, it does take it out of you.
"It's not about the end product, it's about that life and that moment."
It’s Lambing Time…again at St. Oswald's Farm, Wall, Northumberland
It’s March and lambing time is upon us again here at St Oswald’s Farm, so what is lambing time all about and what’s it really like?
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Although I’m a farmer’s daughter, I had little to no knowledge of sheep and of lambing time, dairy cows were more my area of expertise so marrying a sheep farmer also meant I had much to learn in my new role and I discovered I had little idea of what lambing was all about. I knew people said it was hard work, but farming is, so what could be so hard about sheep giving birth and all the lambs running off into the fields to frolic and skip! I really couldn’t understand what the fuss could be about. I was in for a bit of a shock!
Marked as a triplet
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Labour ward
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Tiny Tim…small and oh so cute!
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Read more at: https://www.stoswaldsfarm.co.uk/blog/2019/lambing-time-stoswalds-farm/
Lambing in Cheshire
All the lambing events to head to this Spring. Pictured is the Farm Weekend which will return to Alderley Park (Image: Jody Hartley)
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Lambing Week is back at Tatton Park in April (Image: IYA)
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Lackham Lambing Weekends (Wiltshire College & Uni Centre)
16 March 2024 10:00 - 16:00 17 March 2024 10:00 - 16:00 23 March 2024 10:00 - 16:00 24 March 2024 10:00 - 16:00
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cincinnatiburgoo · 6 months
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I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣😂🤣
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celestial-kestrel · 3 months
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It's that time of year again where Mari Lwyd starts to be talked about and shared around and an INCREDIBLY misleading post gets shared a lot. As someone who grew up with Mari Lwyd I wanted to clear some things up.
Also hello, if you are unaware who Mari Lwyd is. This is about the Welsh tradition of the horse skull who visits houses during the Christmas to New Years period in Wales asking for alcohol.
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First off and probably the most important one:
Mari Lwyd is not a cryptid!
I can not emphasise this enough. She. Is. Not. A. Cryptid. There is no story or mystery about a ghost or zombie horse roaming the Welsh valleys. She's not even supposed to be a ghost or a zombie. It's just a horse skull on a stick with a guy under a sheet. She's a hobbyhorse and a folk character used to tell Welsh stories and keep songs alive. When people spread the misinformation that she's a cryptid, it's the equivalent of saying Kermit the Frog is a cryptid.
She is actually only one character in a wider cast of characters who go door to door or, in more modern times, pub to pub. The cast of characters can change town to town and village to village but there are some common ones I see time and time again. The Leader, the Merryman, The Jester and The Lady are just some I see regularly. Punch and Judy used to be more popular a few years ago but I haven't seen them in a while as their tradition has mostly fallen out of popularity. In most cases, almost the whole cast will be played by men. Even the characters are considered and referred to as female. Though this again depends and varies by which group is partaking in the Mari Lwyd tradition.
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This point also goes onto my second point,
Mari Lwyd does not rap.
I think this comes from a very common misunderstanding of what rap is vs spoken word. Rap is a very specific style of music originating from the African American communities of the USA and has it's own structure and motifs unique to it. It's a lot more complex than people give it credit for as a style of music and just flippantly assign anything similar to it as being rap. If someone is talking fast or reciting poetry, it is not rap. Or anything that is an exchange of words between two people is not a rap battle. Mari Lwyd does not do rap, actually something that gets left out of these posts is the fact Mari Lwyd does not even speak. It's actually the Leader, who does all the speaking and song based banter between the house/pub owner for entry. Mari Lwyd just clicks her mouth, bites people and bobs her head around.
I think Mari Lwyd is a really beautiful and unique part of Welsh culture. She's not actually as wildly celebrated as a lot of the posts make her out to be. Actually, I think most Welsh people themselves learn about Mari Lwyd through the internet as well. Her popularity is increasing thanks to the drive of local groups wanting to keep the traditions alive and a renewed desire to document Welsh traditions before they're gone. Which is why it's such a shame that she's turned into something she's not to earn horror points on the internet. I think this is why it bothers me so much to see the misunderstandings of the culture and the folk tradition. Mari Lwyd's origin is very hot debated as well as how long it's been going on for. But I think it's thanks to a lot of traditions like this that the Welsh language and our stories weren't lost forever. Welsh culture is recovering as is the language. But it's still in a very fragile place. I think it's why it's important to document and correct information when it's spread.
Anyway, if you want to see the tradition in action, here's a lovely video from the Cwmafan RFC going to one of the pubs for charity. It includes the song exchange with the pub owner for entry and the whole pub singing and joining in once Mari Lwyd and the rest are inside.
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As well with another video from St Fagan's showcasing the more traditional and door to door form with the larger cast.
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illustratus · 1 month
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Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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daianotherday · 11 months
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I'd love to bask in this and laugh my arse off at the disconnect between the propaganda and the actual feeling of people, but ...
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How long are we going to tolerate this?
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maureen2musings · 11 months
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angiethewitch · 10 days
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I am absolutely disgusted to learn that crown owns our castles and the profits are sent to Westminster. Wales is struggling, our economy is struggling, our people are struggling, our health services are struggling, and that money could go to the betterment of our lives - instead it goes to England.
despite the fact we maintain the castles and land, we don't own them. they are in OUR country. ownership should belong to us, the people who built them. we maintain them. we work in them. theyre ours and we should be able to use the profits generated by them to help welsh people, not allow the money be funnelled into the monarchy.
the fact the crown owns so much of wales is such an outdated and medieval concept and has no place in modern society.
petition here:
please sign. I am disgusted.
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deus-phoenix · 2 years
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delyth-thomas-art · 14 days
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Please help the National Museum Of Wales
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Please sign the petition!!!!
You don't need to be living in Wales or the uk to sign.
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llyfrenfys · 23 hours
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Y llyfr heddiw yw 'Forbidden Lives' gan Norena Shopland, a gyhoeddwyd yn 2017.
Mae'r llyfr hwn yn gasgliad o hanes LHDTC+ Cymru. Mae'n un o'r ychydig lyfrau ar y testun Cymru a pobl LHDTC+ (fel Llyfr y Dydd ddoe ac echdoe!). Mae'r ysgrifen Shopland yn goeth a manwl iawn. Mae hi'n defnyddio ei hymchwil yn y llyfr i ddangos hanes bobl LHDTC+ aneglur, fel Edith Gertude Phillips (g. 1886). Mae Shopland yn disgrifio hanes pobl LHDTC+ nodedig fel y Eleanor Butler a Sarah Ponsonby, hefyd.
Mae'r llyfr hwn yn un o fy hoff lyfrau!
Ydych chi wedi darllen y llyfr hwn?
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Today's book is 'Forbidden Lives' by Norena Shopland, published in 2017.
This book is a compilation of Welsh LGBTQ+ history. It is one of the few books on the subject of Wales and LGBTQ+ people (like the Book of the Day yesterday and the day before yesterday!). Shopland's writing is exquisite and very detailed. She uses her research to show the history of less well-known LGBTQ+ people, such as Edith Gertude Phillips (b. 1886). Shopland describes the history of more well-known LGBTQ+ people also.
This book is one of my favourite books!
Have you read this book?
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Could Jump-Start Efforts to Abolish Monarchy in Former British Colonies
As it should! And why stop there? :)
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bodhrancomedy · 1 year
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Listen, for people wanting to call out colonialism, there are way too many of you mocking Irish, Welsh, and Scottish names.
No, they’re not alphabet soup, no they do not look like “you’ve thrown letters at a wall and used what stuck,” they are living, breathing languages which we did CPR on after the British Empire shot them.
Like, people DIED to keep them alive.
Every time I see some (English/American) interviewer make an entire segment forcing Saoirse Ronan to list off Irish names, I die a little inside. It’s particularly galling to see the same people ooh-ing over how “mystical” they sound, or claiming ancient heritage to us.
Realise there’s a world beyond your myopic lens and just accept sometimes you’ve got new stuff to learn. Fuck knows I do.
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archaeologicalnews · 2 months
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Roman-era silver 'toilet spoon' discovered in Wales
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A Roman-era silver "toilet spoon" discovered by a metal detectorist in the U.K. has been declared a "treasure" by experts.
Valentinas Avdejevas made the peculiar finding in 2020 while exploring Vale of Glamorgan, a county in Wales. He surrendered the metal artifact to the Portable Antiquities Scheme for Wales, a local authority that works directly with metal detectorists who have unearthed artifacts. The utensil is currently in the possession of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, according to a statement.
The narrow silver spoon (also known as a Roman ligula) contains a shallow, circular bowl attached to a thin, bent handle and would have been used to scoop out cosmetics and perfume from long-necked bottles. Read more.
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