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Kate Celyn

@katecelyn.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, photographer, gardener, knitter (LSG), hand spinner and ex-archaeologist in glorious Gwynedd, Cymru / Wales. Proud European 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FBPE (Unsolicited DMs will be ignored)

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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I love this - some thing never change, like the pattern of yarn on a nostepinne. Wound some like this yesterday.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not-so Daily Wales with a meadow best described as ‘crispy’. We had a bit of rain yesterday. Emphasis on the word ‘bit’. We usually strim this in September; the only reason it’s still uncut is the fear of sparks from power tools. Time to break out the scythe.
Dry grasses bent over; a scatter of brown and yellow leaves.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Oh yeah. They called it in and legged it. Nice.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Natural Resources Wales haven’t covered themselves in glory. The farm found a private helicopter who dropped water on Sunday, farm paid for it. NRW said he hadn’t got the proper paperwork so a) they wouldn’t use him or b) compensate the farm. Still no heli. Well, NRW are busy at the Royal Welsh
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thanks - definitely safe, just smoky. How are you?
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Daily #Wales has been anything but daily of late, just busy. Not as busy as our retained firefighters though, currently on Day 9 of our local wildfire in the Rhinogydd (camping stove fell over, ffs). AOK here except for smoke. Village, Saturday pm…
Looking down a hill
Into what appears to be mist
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
No wonder they try to discredit Rachel Reeves. Belittle her with names. Question her qualifications. Undermine her in every way. The truth hurts. Rachel Reeves is one of the best, most consistent Chancellors we have ever had.
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Posh Nigel @nigel-hewlett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wevdo need to ensure that Meloni, Le Pen, Farage and Badenoch don't get to walk away. The stain needs to remain.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The President of the United States is Unhinged. Frankly, many believe he’s crazy. The GOP lets this demented old man remain in power. SHAME! Another night of ranting... as we gear up to attack Cuba!
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
… she’d dig great big holes in those beaches, so anyone walking along after the tide came in might break their ankles (we used to try and fill them in)
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It’s horrible…
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Mind you, dog treats always came a poor second to anything that complete strangers were eating…
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Cleared the dog treats out of the car 😢
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Without doubt. Now blagging sausage sandwiches from picnickers in the afterlife 😉
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Daily #Wales has often involved Not My Labrador - inevitably, given her ability to photobomb almost any shot of the landscape. No more, alas - yesterday the vet visited my friends, and Not My Lab. She was over 14, adorable, embarrassing, incredibly cute - and deserves to star in at least one pic.
The mountains in the background, and a yellow Labrador in the foreground with two balls in her mouth (she could manage three - what a skill).
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Except that’s exactly what you’ve just done you snivelling, pathetic, disingenuous, hate stirring moron.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Daily #Wales from yesterday, as it began to clear and turn into a lovely afternoon. Looking south from Castell Deudraeth, Portmeirion
Patches of light on hills and water, grey clouds breaking up

This is 3/10 of my alt txt test. If nobody responds by saying they’ve read it, I’m going to stop writing alt txt. Detailed descriptions are pointless if nobody is 
actually reading them.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I particularly like the baby dragon …
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Daily #Wales with several Welsh cliches in knitting and crochet and sitting on a postbox in front of Castell Harlech… And why not?
What it says on the post, but add bright sunshine.

If you’re reading the alt txt please let me know. I’ve no indication that it’s worth it.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Daily #Wales is currently in second winter (fool’s spring lasted four days). Have some summer… and Yr Wyddfa, with Traeth Harlech in the foreground. Warmth. Not blowing a hooley. Absolutely no hail.
Sunset mountains, sunset dunes.

Is anyone reading the Alt Txt? Please let me know if you are.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Oh boy, suddenly feeling my age! Loved, loved, loved it. Worth every minute in the queues (yup, went back the next day).
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Oh dear, Daily #Wales hasn’t been so daily lately. And the holiday season is upon us - stuck behind the first motor home scared of stone walls last week. Only took 20 minutes. Never mind, have something calming…
Blue sky, bright sun and an empty beach
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/03/2026
"If Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, and Kemi Badenoch are telling you to go to war – it's pretty damn obvious you should not go to war." The UK's right-wing were calling for Keir Starmer to offer full support to the Iran war – but now they've changed tune www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
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‘The UK’s right wing is suddenly silent about supporting war in Iran’ | The News Agents
Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and even Tony Blair – has Keir Starmer proven his critics wrong in refusing to join America’s assault on Iran?
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
😂😂😂
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Nigel Farage’s history of spurious election fraud allegations. 2014: Farage claims voting fraud happening “on a third world scale”, no evidence found. 2015: South Thanet elections, Farage fraud allegations dismissed.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Daily #Wales for a little light relief… And a walk up into the hills one summer
A track leading beside a stone wall, heading towards a rounded hill. Blue sky, sunshine.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I know I’ve not posted for a while but … after all, it is Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, and Daily #Wales wishes everybody a happy one (Even if they aren’t eating entire raw leeks, like new recruits to the Royal Welsh) #dyddgwyldewihapus
A bright yellow double daffodil in sunshine
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Closer examination of the Epstein files provokes fresh questions about Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy and his brother Christian’s development of the One Hyde Park super-prime apartment block: messages within the latest release appear to contradict their tax-avoiding account of the project.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Daily #Wales with a random pic… Hah - from years and years ago: a train crossing Barmouth bridge, the Cader Idris range in the background.
Lots of blues: blue sky, blue sea, blue train going over the bridge
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Hah! After a spontaneous discussion over coffee yesterday, I became very scone centred too… the undoubted influence of Llandudno is (as yet) unsatisfied…
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We made it! No thanks to the weather - bloody freezing, heavy snow meant a hairy drive. Feral grannies sensibly stayed at home. Unlike us 😱❄️
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tracking Putin’s agents through Westminster Reform MPs were conspicuous by there absence at a debate on malicious “Russian influence campaigns” 🖼️ @willdunn.bsky.social
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Tracking Putin’s agents through Westminster
Reform MPs were conspicuous by there absence at a debate on malicious "Russian influence campaigns"
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Daily #Wales for a Friday (which will be spent shopping in the den of sin and villainy that is Llandudno). So here’s a little part of Wales which isn’t any of those things. Shhhh.
Sunshine on the beach; silent rock pools reflecting the light, sea like a mirror.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
👍
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Daily #Wales with my favourite chambered tomb for #TombTuesday (It’s not the one almost next door, but the one a little bit further on - yup, surrounded by NBI archaeology, pure coincidence that this was my undergrad degree subject, honest)
Trees and the partly collapsed dolmen in mist
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Daily #Wales for the start of the week, with a pic from ten years ago today…
A crescent moon in a late-sunset sky. The horizon - just visible between trees and a roof silhouette - has a deep purple blue sea meeting orange-tinged clouds
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Justin Ng @justin-ng.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Happy Sunday from The Boss. A week til he celebrates his 15 Year Anniversary in Downing St. He was meowing at me today, a rare but surefire sign that snacks must be provided as the before and after pics show.
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Ian Lance Richardson @ricojosh.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Ten years on from the referendum many of us feared that Brexit would be bad, it's turned out to be catastrophic. Stanford University have revealed the economic devastation - the figures are eye-watermg - & we live daily with the social consequences. It's a tragedy.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Daily #Wales still needs reminding of summer. Or at least of days when it didn’t rain…
Looking inland from the boardwalk over the dunes - a purple mountain rises into the blue sky
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Another stormy, wet day for Daily #Wales - so more memories of summer… Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon with Harlech beach (empty, it must have been out of school holidays or very early when I took this - not that it’s ever rammed)
Pale blue sky, the symmetrical triangle of the mountain almost purple on colour. In the foreground, a line of dunes and golden sand, and even nearer a strip of sea
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
and plenty of storms to go, I suspect 😬
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Another storm outside, more bins barrelling down the hill, more brief power cuts - Daily #Wales needs a calm walk in a summer beach, very early in the morning so it’s empty… Llandanwg, near Harlech.
Blue sky, a curve of cloud which follows the curve of the bay. Empty beach.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Daily #Wales still harking after summer… A green lane (now) which heads towards the old drovers’ route skirting the mountains and - ultimately - heading for England and the markets of London.
Bright, bright sun; deep blue sky, green trees and grass in the lane which runs between stone walls (one clear, the other overgrown)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why isn't this a major news story?
Churchwarden linked to
foreign-born billionaire is
behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will
not discuss where the money came from, nor
his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not
hold citizenship


Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor
Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times


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A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works
for the family of a highly secretive,
Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as
the man behind £200,000 of donations to
Reform UK.,


John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Bang on 👍
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Kate Celyn @katecelyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
👍❤️
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/02/2026
Israel says it will ban MSF from operating in Gaza aje.news/13btyf
Israel says it will ban MSF from operating in Gaza
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Here is BRETT RATNER, the scumbag director for the film "Melania " ... All cozy with Epstein and an unidentified teenage child #EpsteinFiles SO MANY VILE SCUMBAGS and this one a friend of PEDO POTUS and his "SweetPea" wife as Ghislaine Maxwell likes to call her We Stand With the Victims
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