#Ynys Mon

[lymphomalass]

Hope you’ve had a great week!

Today I'd like to share my painting of the flagstaff at Bae Trearddur Bay, Ynys Môn/Anglesey.

The unframed A5 (14.8x12cm) original watercolour sketch is available for £45 including UK postage. Please just message me to arrange your purchase.

Or it's available in all sorts of print options and printed to your order on some lovely things at:

And Redbubble are offering up to 40% off a wide range of items at the moment!

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

[emmashouldbewriting]

I know your squirrel conversation (about how Beckham needs to save them and you'd be so happy to petition BP about it) is a joke but...

I would totally read that book. Just saying. Not that you need to crowd-source your ideas.

It's actually one of the few things I do not joke about. I am wildly passionate about the preservation of red squirrels and consider myself extremely lucky to live in an area that is almost rabid about protecting them. Reds are native to the UK and greys are not. Greys are a pest, and we are actively trying to eradicate them because of the damage they're doing to our ecosystem. (45 were just removed from our neighbouring county this week!!!!)

We're very proud on my little island of our preservation work. Unless you're Anglesey Council and can sell protected woodland to developers for a holiday park - who want to MOVE the woodland to a deserted area. They could build on the empty land but won't because it doesn't have a sea view like Penrhos does 🤡 read it here

We are fighting a very real battle to protect 27 acres of protected woodland from being felled. I know this woodland, I drive past it regularly, and it's unfathomable that it should be cut down for a vanity project.

Just thought I'd put it out there for Becks 🫣😂

[hannahclairillustration]

this is an older series about growing up on Ynys Mon in North Wales. These are images I am keen to revisit and re-create now that I have developed this style.

[aintquiteright]

"Giant's dream" - Ynys Fydlyn, Anglesey, Wales. by anrocordero26

[basstunnicliffe]

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2023 Tour

I have a new project and I'm thrilled to use this run of dates to explore new music from outer space in independent venues around the UK.

Bass Clarinet: Maria Lamburn Drums: Laurie Agnew Keys: Ross Hicks

Shout out to all the venues and to Jack Tyson Charles + Big Hogg for gifting the support slots, Andy Garside for the graphics and Tom for the photography.

16/02 - Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead 17/02 - The Blue Bell, Conwy 09/03 - The Rum Shack, Glasgow 27/03 - The Bell Inn, Bath 20/04 - Cadwaladers, Criccieth 21/04 - Cellb, Blaenau Ffestiniog 22/04 - The Swellies, Caernarfon

[up4itoutdoors]

A wee look back over some of our activities over the years.

[westeroswisdom]

House of the Dragon tourism is contributing to traffic problems in a village in Wales.

A village on Anglesey used to film the House of the Dragon series has seen “road rage” incidents between tourists trying to get to a popular beach, according to residents. Ynys Llanddwyn and the nearby beach have been made even more famous by TV programmes, including the Game of Thrones spinoff, who have used the area as a filming location. But to get there visitors have to drive through the village of Newborough, often causing large and complicated traffic jams. [ ... ] The only road to the beach starts in the centre of Newborough, but it is narrow in places. Parked cars also mean traffic can only pass in one direction at a time. But with thousands of cars a week heading to the beach in high summer, people in Newborough say the road regularly can’t cope.

Maybe Newborough (Niwbwrch in Welsh) might consider obtaining a couple of electric buses to transport tourists from the outskirts of the community to the areas along the beach seen in House of the Dragon. Fares collected for the rides would pay for the cost of the buses.

Newborough/Niwbwrch is an interesting place in its own right.

Llinos Medi, leader of Anglesey council, added: “Newborough is a village steeped in Welsh history. “The local community faces a number of challenges during the summer months, in particular, with visitor numbers increasing significantly."

[hennehirokane]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Capturing the Dark Skies of Wales

The Milky Way and South Stack, Anglesey // Y Llwybr Llaethog uwch ben Goleudy Ynys Lawd

By Gareth Môn Jones

[lymphomalass]

Hi! Do you love beaches in the winter too...?

I just thought I'd show you my painting of the space-hopper racing at Trearddur Bay on New Year's Day, in case you'd missed it!

The framed original is for sale for £95 at the Northwich Art Shop Spring Open Exhibition at Barons Quay (Northwich CW9 5LA) till 4pm on this Saturday! The gallery is Opposite the Wildwood restaurant and is open 10:30 till 4pm, Thursday till Saturday, and is staffed by the wonderful volunteers of Visual Arts Cheshire (VAC)! Thank you!

It's also available in different print formats and printed on all sorts of lovely things at:

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/142214723

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

[invisible-goats]

Writing update: the next one references the first branch, two thirteenth century texts, and a secret third thing

[thesilicontribesman]

Paleolithic Bifacial Hand Axe, circa 300,000 years old, possibly Thames Valley, Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales

[littlebabyyodas]

iain duncan smith kept his seat so i am going to bed in protest

election night all-nighter how long can i last

[sirgawin]

Anglesey / Ynys Mon, August 2024

[up4itoutdoors]

Another Coasteering adventure for some of our returning customers, blue skies and a nice warm sea!

[disparition]

A note on the most recent episode of Welcome to Night Vale, #230

This episode was, I believe, the 11th anniversary of the show. This means it was about ten years ago I was on vacation in Wales with my wife, where I wrote the albums Madoc and Taran Wanderer. It was while on this trip - knowing I was about to lose my day job at a rapidly sinking book publisher - that I first received a communication from a fan in Brazil asking for my permission to use music in a Portuguese “fan translation” of the podcast. The fact that the show had reached so far away and inspired people to translate it was, in retrospect, one of the first signs of what was to come, which ended up completely changing my life. But at the time I simply thought it was neat and moved on, and we spent days tromping through sheep pastures looking at cairns and standing stones in a remote corner of Ynys Mon. While doing so, we encountered a rusty old farm gate that sang a particularly haunting song as it opened and closed, which I recorded. I thought it would be cool to use that sound in this season finale episode, and so it’s what I used (well, a small fragment of it) to play a new version of the main theme music. I thought the sound ending up working well atmospherically with the episode as well.

If you’d like to use that sound yourself, you can grab it here: https://freesound.org/people/earwicker23/sounds/193712/

Also, I’m not going to spoil the plot of the episode but it concludes in a rather dramatic fashion and required a specific sound design element. I’ll admit it had me stumped for a few days, but here’s what I did. I had a canvas sack filled with a few ice packs that had melted, effectively they were just little plastic pouches of water. I dropped this from a height of about eight feet, landing 1.5 feet from the microphone (an sm58). That’s source one. Source two was a ziploc bag filled with a mix of wet and dry cheerios, plus an egg, crushed by foot. The two sources were each slowed down very slightly and then combined, with the first source somewhat louder. So there you go, in case you ever need to do… that.