Whinery<p>Will Hayward <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a> <br>I’d moved around many places but never found the place that spoke to my heart.</p><p>“Be careful, it’s really rough up there,” responded several people not from the area. While I tried not to judge, I won’t pretend I wasn’t nervous. My accent is <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> though since arriving in <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> it is more often described as “posh”. Was I about to get eaten alive in these former pit villages?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/wales-english-cymru-journalist-home" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/dec/30/wales-english-cymru-journalist-home</span></a></p><p>CC: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@jaz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jaz</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://undefined.social/tags/Llynfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Llynfi</span></a> <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/LlynfiValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LlynfiValley</span></a> <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/GB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GB</span></a> <a href="https://undefined.social/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a></p>
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🏴Stuart Bain<p>Enjoyed exploring the disused Llynfi railway line stretching into the village of Aberkenfig alongside the River Ogmore as part of my Pyle Sarn Slow Ways adventure. Had the wait for the very protective and aggressive swans to saunter across the path to the nearby pond. <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Llynfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Llynfi</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Aberkenfig" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aberkenfig</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Ogmore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ogmore</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Pyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pyle</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Sarn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sarn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SlowWays" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SlowWays</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cerdded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cerdded</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Swans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Swans</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Bridgend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bridgend</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Railway</span></a></p>
🏴Stuart Bain<p>Another Slow Ways completed from Pyle to Sarn running primarily along the old Llynfi to Porthcawl train/tram line. Route surveyed and 5⭐️ review given. It’s perfect for wheels as it’s flat, mostly tarmac and squirrels running everywhere! <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Sarn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sarn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Pyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pyle</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Porthcawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Porthcawl</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Llynfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Llynfi</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SlowWays" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SlowWays</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Squirrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Squirrel</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Tram" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tram</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Train" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Train</span></a></p>
🏴Stuart Bain<p>Maesteg to Sarn Slow Ways walk today. Fantastic views across the Llynfi valley and Bryngarw country park. Perfect planning on my part as I managed to get home on time for the rugby! <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SlowWays" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SlowWays</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Maesteg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maesteg</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Sarn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sarn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Bridgend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bridgend</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Bryngarw" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bryngarw</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Bettws" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bettws</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Walking</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/LlynfiValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LlynfiValley</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Llynfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Llynfi</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wales</span></a></p>
Gosunkugi<p>Reading A History of the <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/Llynfi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Llynfi</span></a> Valley by <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/BrinleyRichards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrinleyRichards</span></a> and I'm struck, or confused, by a line he writes about <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> in the area, He makes mention that we've never had an anti-Semitism problem, and I trust that to be true, at least up as far as the book was published in 1982.</p><p>But he also says that "we've never had a colour problem." I don't know quite what to make of that wording, and unfortunately, my first instinct is not that we didn't suffer acts of racism...</p>
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