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June | 2014 | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Monthly Archives: June, 2014. An anniversary of sorts. June 2014 is here can it really be forty years ago that Australia played Chile in Berlin on 22 June 1974? It’s a commemoration of sorts for me, as it has … Continue reading →. June 13, 2014 · 2 Comments. Every day for a decade and a half now on the way to and from work I drive down Princes Street in Carlton, tracking the snail trail of peak hour … Continue reading →. June 8, 2014 · 2 Comments. On Vale Nigel Jenkins.
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Espresso dreaming | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Every day for a decade and a half now on the way to and from work I drive down Princes Street in Carlton, tracking the snail trail of peak hour traffic past the florist on the corner of Canning Street, diagonally opposite the Dan O’Connell Hotel. On the wallaby through Victoria. Spoke of over half a century before, as she turned from the ‘dreary drabness’ of Melbourne’s central streets to the byways of Little Bourke. Why am I reminded of all this? Ric’s nonna’s maiden...
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May | 2014 | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Monthly Archives: May, 2014. Blitz on Jaywalking sidesteps ongoing questions about the car in the city. Police in Melbourne stage their periodic blitz on jaywalkers. Police have issued over 600 $72 on-the-spot fines. These always elicit the common response of “haven’t they got anything better to do and … Continue reading →. May 12, 2014 · 1 Comment. Modern British Studies Birmingham. Families in British India Society. Family and Colonialism Research Network. Just anot...
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December | 2012 | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Monthly Archives: December, 2012. In the last few days I have encountered three elephants in Copenhagen. We took the kids to Tivoli gardens the other evening, and while they defied gravity on death-defying rides … Continue reading →. December 30, 2012 · 2 Comments. Christmas Eve, Valby. In the afternoon, C, M and I went for a walk to the nearby park in Valby, past Jesus Church at the end of our little street, where Carl Jacobsen … Continue reading →. Modern British St...
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Catching cold | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. In a long tradition of British exploration, Richard Eilers reported in the Guardian. On ‘India’s undiscovered gem: the hills of Meghalaya’, an enchanting idyll where ‘women own the land, Christianity dominates and the landscape is straight out of the Hobbit’. It seems that simply going places still equates with ‘discovering’ them. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Shillong, 11 March 2004. Shillong, February 2013. I was sorry that journalist and activist Patricia Muk...
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Summer swoon | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. This slideshow requires JavaScript. 2 comments on “ Summer swoon. January 18, 2014. Move to Eltham- its all about Natives out here- the Grevilleas have come through the heatwave smiling! Hanutdodd@depi.vic.gov.au. January 20, 2014. I think I want to go to Kennett River. Manager – 4×4 and Fire Tankers. Policy and Implementation. Department of Environment and Primary Industries. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). Enter your ...
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Cherra | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. This slideshow requires JavaScript. The table-land and station of Churra, with the jheels, course of the Soormah River, and Tipperah Hills in the extreme distance, looking South’ in J.D. Hooker, Himalayan journals (1854), volume 2, Figure X, p. 277. Cherrapunji, February 2004. Or ‘Mrs Jones’s lake’, where one of the early missionary wives apparently used to come and do her washing. Cherrapunji was where the Welsh established their missionary activities in 1841. Th...
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50 rockpools | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Shallow set in rock,. Salted, ochred, shelled and beaded,. 2 comments on “ 50 rockpools. January 14, 2014. The world in a grain of sand Andy! January 15, 2014. Lovely photos – and poetry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Follow Blog via Email.
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March | 2014 | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Monthly Archives: March, 2014. Parents wanna go to Moomba? Kids what’s Moomba? A B&W film from 1965 makes it look like the 1860s, but there are some interesting floats including the Department of Science … Continue reading →. March 9, 2014 · 3 Comments. Modern British Studies Birmingham. Families in British India Society. Family and Colonialism Research Network. Australasian Urban History / Planning History Group. On Vale Nigel Jenkins. Danny Pariat on Cherra. Connect...
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Delhi: the same dust | Bryn Cymro
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Words and images from home and away. Delhi: the same dust. An expeditious trip to India in February for a symposium and launch of Welsh missionaries and British imperialism. In Shillong in Meghalaya, and some seminars in Delhi. I hadn’t been to Delhi previously, knowing it only vaguely from the pages of Dalrymple (though I have just started reading City of Djinns. So my mental map of Delhi is from a frantic few hours of being driven around, glimpsing the 1930 column marking the Commonwealth connection be...
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