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Russell Todd

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Sylfaenydd | Founder: Cymraeg @YesCymru #542

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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After The Avenue cinema closed in 1960 Howell of Cardiff converted it into a high end garage (Rolls Royce, Porsche, Lotus). Was famous for its lift that took cars up to the first floor The Porsche franchise eventually transferred to Pendragon, moving to North Road c.1997 Now shops #thenandnow
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Est. 6k people turned out to repel the Blackshirts famously saying that "not even one Welsh sheep will hear the Mosley message” As tempers grew and violence erupted, the fascists were protected by the police and eventually escorted out of the Rhondda
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is the Zenith Data Systems Cup back?
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When a Glasgow City XI brought Celtic and Rangers players together (😱) plus Queens Park and Partick Thistle players to face a Football League XI to mark the Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Hello sir, we have a special offer on Gobis and Saharas, but we're all out of Atacamas"
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What's the point of the death penalty if after trying to kill them you end up offering them 'live-saving measures'?
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What a way to go
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Asa Tribe is a talent but if he wants international honours it's not runs he needs, but to sign for Surrey or Essex
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This will probably come as some surprise to him
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thomas's reputation continues to go down the tubes
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This Carolyn Harris? To talk about independence? What did they expect?
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
er...
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Name the film
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The plaque in his memory that was at Ninian Park got moved across the road to the new ground
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Buon compleanno to Federico Gasperoni, 50 today 🎉 Played in goal for San Marino 41 times b/w 1996 and 2005 He tasted victory just once: 1-0 vs Liechtenstein in 2004., also the only time he kept a clean sheet In total he picked the ball out of his net 165 times, incl. 10 in one match vs Belgium
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Do they breed young Tories in a lab somewhere using a mould? They always look the same
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
people dressed in black and conceal all but their eyes are usually a problem for the type of folk who gathered in Dover
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Barry Horns are in Tenerife
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Mitre pub, on the corner of Bridge Street & Mitre Place, Llandaff Renowned for its scrumpy, The Mitre dated back to at least the 1830s. Had a large yard at the rear which later served as a car park Closed in the mid 80s and was sold by Brains to property developers #thenandnow
The former Mitre pub, Llandaff Mitre Court in Llandaff, houses built on the site of the former Mitre Inn
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Cardiff's former main Post Office on the corner of Park and Westgate Streets. Opened in 1897 when post offices were expressions of civic pride, prestige and state power These days they are tucked away in the far corner of the deserted first floor of a cut price version of WH Smiths...
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Best British film of the C21st has just landed on Prime
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Glamorgan's batters are having a stinker at Grace Road but there's no excuse for Josh Hull being allowed to trudge down the pitch with his follow through
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just spoke to a chap who was in the Azteca Stadium for Argentina-England match at Mexico '86 🤯
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What happens when you knock off early from your parrot naming job and leave the bird to do it
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I skipped the #eclipse and watched Apocalypto instead
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fans will have to ask for permission to go to the loo, have their bags searched after each game, will be constantly surveilled, and will be required to fulfill algorithm drive targets for cheering and scarf waving
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Current mood
John Barnard Jenkins at Waterloo Station after his release from prison on the Isle of Wight, July 1976
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For when you want to go fucking fishing
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You want to see a picture of Elton John training with George Best at the LA Aztecs in 1976? Here you go
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"A table for 26 please" "But there's only 13 of you" "Yes, but we're all going to sit on the one side"
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How's Reform led Suffolk Council doing? Oh...
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Aladdin Sane outtakes #Bowie
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I see your Jo and Val and raise you Eddie and Kev
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
cf. Gwyn Alf Williams' suggestion that Wales only exists b/c its people choose to remake it over and over Perhaps Glamorgan only persists because people want it to?
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And in an era of boundaries based on bureaucratic efficiencies it's a curiously reassuring throwback But it's pretty much only pro cricket that persists with a sense of Glamorgan-ness (other than largely irrelevant ceremonial baubles like high-sheriffs and its ilk) so does it have a future?
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I went to the cricket in Neath last week and it was a reminder how badass a county Glamorgan is From Llanedeyrn and Caerffili in the east, to the River Loughor in the west, to Dowlais in the north, it's huge, diverse and storied
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pengam Sidings on Newport Road, c.1975 Home to coal merchants Jolly Coal and servicing a number of other #Cardiff coal businesses Still trading in 1983 by 1989 the area's retail character had extended eastward, with TGI Fridays a flagship arrival opening in 1989. It closed in 2024 #thenandnow
Pengam Sidings on Newport Road in Cardiff. Picture taken in 1975Picture taken in 2026 from Rover Way Bridge of the derelict TGI Fridays on Newport Road in Cardiff
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
All the astuteness and class of the playground bully
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Of course he fucking did. Under daddy's thumb
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yet still not Milla's greatest headline
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The sonic boom caused by Enzo Fernandez's tackle took his own left back out
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Interesting curio from that day in Swansea is that Cymru great Trevor Ford fielded as 12th man earlier in the day
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tales of his efforts at St Helen's versus Glamorgan were like mother's milk when I was young Fittingly, there's a plaque at the ground in honour of his achievements www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sad news about Garfield Sobers. How good was he? Put it this way, he was one of Wisden's Five for the C20th and is the only player that got anywhere near Bradman. That's how good
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Dan Burn is on
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Vote Mac Allister. Vote the DUP
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Evil Dead Brum Someone buys the Necronomicon at a car boot sale in Smethwick and Deadites cause havoc in the Balti Triangle
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