CalligrafaeI don't know if there's anyone here who's local and would go, but I've been talking to a Trans friend about RCT Pride and the people who run it are Tory supporters, have big police presence at their Pride events, staged a racist comedian, and got the cops to raid a Trans guy's house under false pretenses because he was complaining about them on social media 
The rain is starting to turn to snow, and mum just sent me a pic someone shared of one of the local mountain roads (the Rhigos, for anyone local) where the snow is sticking to the road at the top. #Goretti #StormGoretti #SouthWales #Rhondda
Not sure how many people this is local to, but here, I'm running this in the new year :)
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKA 52 year old #Welshman has been #arrested for racially aggratvated public disorder for flying a #Nazi #swastika flag in a village in #Rhondda valley #Wales
Someone the same age as myself who harbours such views has very likely been doing so since a teenager, and probably felt emboldened to do this in the current climate...
It was really foggy here yesterday. At one point we drove up the mountain road by the house to get up on top of it, and were greeted with this ^.^ (More pics in the next toot)
katharinaDoes anyone have the number for a good tree surgeon in Rhondda-Cynon-Taf? My parents in law want to make sure their trees are safe during storms.
#Rhondda #Wales #southwales #trees #treesurgery
#Rhondda #Wales #southwales #trees #treesurgery
Rosie Walters"I’m going to begin with a single word, a word you might not associate with the Rhondda: if I said “Corona”, you might wonder if I was going to talk about the virus. But for people of my generation, in the Rhondda, and well beyond – across Wales and all over southern England – Corona means something else: pop!"
https://nation.cymru/feature/a-brief-history-of-welsh-pop-icon-corona-3/
A brief history of Welsh pop icon Corona
John Geraint I’m going to begin with a single word, a word you might not associate with the Rhondda: if I said “Corona”, you might wonder if I was going to talk about the virus. But for people of my generation, in the Rhondda, and well beyond – across Wales and all over southern England […]
"A mural commemorating "the last pit of the Rhondda" has appeared in a historic mining village."
"And in August 1976, meeting in Grenoble, the IAU’s Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature decided that a crater in the Tritonis Lacus Region of Mars would be called… Porth."
https://nation.cymru/culture/up-the-rhondda-gateway-to-the-stars/
Up The Rhondda! Gateway to the Stars
Nation.Cymru is delighted to bring you another extract from ‘Up The Rhondda!’ by John Geraint, which has just been published by Y Lolfa. John Geraint I’m a sucker for space travel. Oh, I know there are better ways humanity could spend its money; but I can’t help myself. It’s not so much the technology of […]
R S Thomas (poet)