Mike Parker @mikeparkerwales Twitter profile

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Winter storms have stripped the beach at Borth, and exposed its ancient fossilised forest, to an extent I've never seen before. It's astonishing. (diolch @Traedmawr am y heads-up!)

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Ah, the trad sounds of rural Wales at Xmas...the wet whoosh of DPD vans lost in the lanes, the slither of mud & unearthly howl of sheepdogs, the sobbing of ex-Londoners as they realise that their new £1/2 million lockdown cottage is a sunless hovel with its own indoor stream.

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Mike Parker

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1 year

Didn't know Nick Robinson spoke Welsh.

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2 years

pssst...while they're not looking, seems like we've annexed Herefordshire.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

After 25 years of deafness, was fitted with a bone-affixed hearing aid today. Went for a walk afterwards, to Llanymynech rocks, a massive old limestone quarry now colonised by jackdaws and hawks. My god, the volume! Like being in my own Hitchcock movie. A noisy new world awaits.

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3 years

Crack open the bubbly. We won’t have to see this arse any more.

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3 years

Oh the irony. Scrub out, obliterate, forget this small farm’s old name, one that tells you of its place in history and the landscape, to give it a twee and meaningless English one instead. We need legislation against this cultural vandalism.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Bore RIDICULOUSLY da

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Mike Parker

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1 year

OK, had a ranty day after an awful train journey home from Cardiff. So, here's the crappy cherry on the cake. Cardiff Central is a beautiful station - how on earth have we let its surroundings be turned into such a hellish dystopia? It is the worst possible Croeso i Gymru.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

Keith Morris has been a one-man Aberystwyth and Ceredigion PR unit for years. He did more to promote the area he adored than almost everyone else combined. His photos were kind, joyous, inquisitive and radiantly beautiful. Such a sad day.

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Mike Parker

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1 year

For the end of #LGBTHM23 , a few of my favourites from the archive of Reg & George that has just gone to @AmgueddfaCymru . They were together from 1949 until their deaths in 2011. My book On the Red Hill tells their story. Lots of mid-century glamour and glitz to come... 1/

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Mike Parker

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1 year

Last train from Cardiff to the north cancelled. This one just 2 carriages to take us all (many, many more behind me in the pic) on a hot midsummer day. Same yesterday coming down. When ⁦ @tfwrail ⁩ is this appalling service going to improve?

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Mike Parker

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4 years

A man clinically executed his wife and four children, then spent 24 hours in the house with the five corpses before killing himself, and this report paints it as a mystery, in a “perfectly loving and happy” family. Stop normalising and excusing psychopathic men.

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4 years

Remembering Catherine Mochrie and her children James, Sian, Luke and Bethan, 20 years after they were murdered at their home in Barry ❤

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Mike Parker

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3 years

These 🇬🇧 masks on middle aged men look so dodgy, like they’re sniffing a lap dancer’s knickers in some grim club just off the Harlow ring road.

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Mike Parker

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4 years

Lleuad yn codi dros y dyffryn.

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Mike Parker

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4 years

Beyond grateful for all the support and love for 'On the Red Hill', and now the Wales Book of the Year non-fiction prize. Wow! So many thanks, but most of all to darling Reg and George, who made it all happen, and who are with Preds and I every single day. Diolch xx #WBOTY20

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3 years

Diolch am bopeth @LeanneWood . You can hold your head so high. So proud of you. X

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Mike Parker

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3 years

The Honourable Member for Bridgend. We in Wales are truly blessed with the quality of our elected Conservatives. #WTFF

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Mike Parker

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4 years

The Jan Morris shelf in my office (there are more in the house). She left so much joy and wisdom.

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Mike Parker

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4 years

That Rees-Mogg stab at Drakeford and the Welsh govt... It’s just pathetic. Lame, factually nonsense, spiteful, pointless. If it wasn’t delivered in a posh drawl, no-one would listen. Let one lesson of this shitshow be that we never again let ourselves be gaslit by Etonians.

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Mike Parker

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9 years

Jamie from Aberystwyth meet Frank from Welshpool. You have so much in common. Your exact words, for instance: http://t.co/S0DOYgo5eG

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Mike Parker

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7 months

A shopkeeper told me he gets calls from pensioners asking if the parking machines in his town take cash. If they don't, they're too afraid to come to that town. Are there any discussions going on about the v real social & mental health effects of galloping automation on the old?

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Whatever your thoughts on Starmer, that Kim Leadbetter, the new #BatleyAndSpen MP, went out day after day into that febrile atmosphere stoked by a binful of fascists, on the very streets where her sister was assassinated only 5 years ago, takes astonishing grit. Good luck to her.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

In such awe of the team on @Channel4News in Ukraine. @mattfrei and @lindseyhilsum are doing an incredible job, in such heart-rending circumstances. Thank you so much.

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Mike Parker

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4 years

If we can’t keep them away, let’s just mess with their minds...

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

6 years

Just realised that I failed to become an MP by the same margin as Farage’s most successful attempt (of 7). Please form a queue, broadcast media, to find out what I think about absolutely fucking everything.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Oddest sight of my week: a tree that has grown to swallow up a teddy bear. I suspect it was tied to the tree, possibly as a memorial to someone?

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

1 year

My new book - All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the places between - is out on 30 March. History, geography, identity, death, sex & taxes - it's all there: Want to tour it as widely as possible. Interviews, readings, debates, podcasts - get in touch.

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

5 years

My piece (and the view from our front door!) in tomorrow’s Observer:

Land of song or savages? Why the English get Wales so wrong

For those who cross the border dreaming of a mythic retreat of crags and castles, reality can bite hard

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

4 years

With the new quarantine rules for travellers coming into Britain, it’s time for everyone to learn the finest Welsh idiom of all: “codi pais ar ôl piso” (“lifting your petticoat after pissing”).

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Towards Cadair Idris this morning.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

A joyous day of church crawling in southern Herefordshire. Of the many wonders seen and smelt, this 900 year old redundant chapel down a farm track was the winner. Extraordinary place.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Greens roundly beat Abolish on the regional #Senedd2021 vote (4.4% to 3.7%). Urgent questions need to be asked about why Abolish were granted such a disproportionate media profile. (And while we’re at it, Greens even beat the LibDems too on the list, and they bagged a seat).

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Mike Parker

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2 years

For the record, saw my Tory MP Craig Williams on Sunday and asked him his take on Rwanda. He's 100% for the policy, bullishly so. He parroted all the trigger phrases of a Daily Mail editorial, and supported Johnson in last week's VONC. Montgomeryshire deserves so much better.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

I know we still hear about Trump a lot, but when it stopped being every bloody day, all the time, like tinnitus, it was such a joyous relief. I cannot wait for the same to happen with Johnson. Please god, let it be soon.

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Mike Parker

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9 years

In 1993, I had to fight for a separate Rough Guide to Wales ("who the fuck will buy that?" I was told). Now Wales is in their top 10 places!

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Mike Parker

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4 years

With all the kerfuffle about The Crown this week, here’s Jan Morris in witty, withering form on Charles’n’Di (from her book A Writer’s House in Wales):

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Mike Parker

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4 years

All political parties have inevitably called it badly at times, but from both a UK and Welsh perspective, only the Tories have called it wrong so badly, so often, so consistently and with such hard-boiled arrogance.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

So many things here to loathe, but one that rarely gets mentioned: when Welsh people sycophantically applaud someone using two or three words in Welsh, as if they’ve just cracked the bloody Enigma code.

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@10DowningStreet

5 years

Wales plays a unique and precious role in our United Kingdom. We celebrated the country and its people at our #StDavidsDay reception 👇

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Mike Parker

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5 years

Alun Cairns was very good on Wales Today.

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Mike Parker

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6 years

Mensh da o @ManonSteffanRos yn Private Eye newydd!

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Yup. Not a single visitor went to Spain, Italy, Croatia, Belgium, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Bali, Malaysia, Barbados, Jamaica, California or Texas since they introduced tourist taxes. Not one. Tory FACT.

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Mike Parker

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6 years

Leanne has been punished for refusing time and again to play the cheap populism card. History will judge her entirely right to have done so. She’s been brave and principled, and almost alone. Diolch o galon @LeanneWood

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Mike Parker

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4 years

On the topic of Harri Webb, who'd have been 100 this month, let's never spurn the chance to wallow in his nigh-on perfect Synopsis of the Great Welsh Novel.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

One-man ego trip parties (Galloway, Salmond, McEvoy, Hamilton, Reckless) comprehensively shown the door in both 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Has the tide finally turned on these gobshites? 🤞

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Mike Parker

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5 years

Get out of your comfort zone! 4 yrs ago, as Plaid candidate in Ceredigion, I was smeared viciously, mostly by the LibDems. I was spat at, screamed at, had doors slammed in my face. It took 2 years to recover from the trauma. Tomorrow, in Montgomeryshire, I'm voting LibDem.

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Mike Parker

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6 years

The news we’ve all been absolutely dreading. Goodbye and diolch o galon to the whip-smart, utterly principled and charming Steffan Lewis. So many tears will be shed tonight. You blazed so bright Steff, but far too briefly. Nos da.

Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

6 years

Cyfweliad anhygoel: mor drist, onest ac ysbrydoledig. Diolch o galon i ddau o’r gorau ⁦ @steffanlewis ⁩ ⁦ @bethdimoyn ⁩ Beti a'i Phobol - Steffan Lewis - @bbcradiocymru

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Mike Parker

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1 year

Perhaps the ultimate C12 Herefordshire Romanesque #FontsonFriday is Eardisley. It leaves you utterly breathless.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

After Ceredigion 2015, I've more reason than most in Plaid to dislike the LibDems, but I still support us standing down in the B&R by-election. Tribalism is killing us. That Andrew RT, Jac and the Welsh Lab press office are trying to cause trouble only confirms it's right.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Your occasional reminder that Desmond Swayne MP, maskphobe and now boo-hisser of Afghans who are trying to get out, when Tory candidate in Pontypridd in 1987 seriously proposed imprisoning all LGBTQ people as a way of combatting HIV and AIDS. The man is an utter moron.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Just opened a book (on Monmouthshire, ex Southport library book) that I bought in a second hand shop, and this wedding photo fell out. 1970-ish, I’d guess. Can Twitterpower identify the happy couple?

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Have we met my MP Craig Williams yet? He represents the beautiful rural county of #Montgomeryshire . Despite it being the source of both the Severn, Britain's longest river, and the Wye, our loveliest, he voted to let them - and us - be pumped full of shit.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

To save £200K, Powys are trying to close 10 libraries. £200K = 3 metres of the M4 Relief road; 0.000005% of HS2 costs so far (nothing yet built); two thirds of Boris Johnson’s fee to knock out a Telegraph column; a 2 bed semi in Brecon. We have gone mad.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

In Wales, our trains are so bad that they literally make you shit yourself.

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Mike Parker

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4 years

As a resident of "lovely...Machynlleth", as well as someone who's written for @SimonCalder in the past, this thread is spot on. Simon, please learn something from this. Our rural health service is stretched to breaking point already. Tourism has responsibilities, as do you.

Mathew Browne

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4 years

I doubt Simon Calder had a malign intent in recommending Wales as a tourist destination, but instead of taking one on the chin and acknowledging his misstep, he's come out with a defensive, entitled response then inflamed things further by shopping the reaction as news. 1/4

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Mike Parker

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6 years

You know those Welsh words - cwtch, cariad, hiraeth etc - that have jumped into wider usage and get sewn onto cushions to be sold in shops run by nice ladies called Lowri? Can I suggest 'pwdi' (sulk) as the next one? Such a brilliant word. Would quite like a pwdi cushion.

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Mike Parker

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10 months

Aberystwyth, HELP! Just got a train & left my walking stick on the platform at the station. It was my granddad's, and of huge sentimental value. If anyone is in town, and could get it & let me know, I'd be so grateful. It's against the wall to the right of the ticket machines.❤️

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Mike Parker

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3 years

On my A level results day I was given a police caution for lying prone and pissed in a freezer in Marks & Spencers, and quite frankly, it's all been downhill from there.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

After the wildfire success of ‘Cofiwch Dryweryn’ mugs, T-shirts etc, how about this for the next design? There’d be no shortage of potential buyers.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Reckless, seatless! 🥂

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Mike Parker

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8 years

Made some rubbish decisions in my life, but one I've never once regretted is moving from England to Wales, and taking part here. #WeAreWales

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3 years

Mam a mab bore ‘ma.

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1 year

it's such a deeply inhuman space. Nothing there to lift the heart or gladden the soul. Buildings to chill you, street furniture to intimidate. The main design remit appears to be that it can be hosed down with the minimum of effort and disruption, like an animal enclosure.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

10 years ago today, Reg died. The sweetest, kindest and most generous man I ever knew, someone who changed my life for ever and incalculably for the better. And he was gorgeous, as pretty as a harebell and just radiant with light, right to the end. #OntheRedHill

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Mike Parker

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4 years

The new guardian angel of my study, a print from Jan Morris’s last photo shoot, for the Observer, in the spring of last year. She’s looking out over the hills of Wales, and the Carreg y Noddfa standing stone.

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Mike Parker

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1 year

The thirteenth spring at Rhiw Goch, and I’ve never seen the hawthorns quite this drunk with blossom.

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

5 years

This GIF is like all of the DUP’s nightmares rolled into one. Gorgeous.

PCS Proud

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5 years

This morning members in Northern Ireland are waking up to a more equal society after same sex marriage and abortion legislation came into effect at midnight Congratulations to all those who have fought and campaigned over the years in the name of equality

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4 years

Checkout chat, Aberystwyth. “Oh, that looks nice. You cooking something special for your wife?” “My partner’s a man, actually.” “Oh!” One beat pause. “I love that Dancing on Ice.”

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11 months

An open letter, signed by 143 Welsh writers, calling for urgent action to address the financial precarity of news/culture periodicals and websites in Wales. The situation is desperate. Please read and RT.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Ni di colli Mirain, a mae Cymru yn llawer tlotach. 💔

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Mike Parker

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5 years

Pob lwc @BenMLake ! You deserve to storm it, as you've done a wonderful job over the past 2.5 years. It's been such a pleasure to see. Hope there's the largest ever crew of Plaid MPs with you on the other side (+ a few more Greens from across the border too, while we're at it).

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

3 years

Tiny house - little-used holiday home for decades - above us, only accessible in SUV, sold recently for way over the already mad asking price. Buyer signed, all going through, at 11th hour seller demands another 20K or he’s putting it back for sale. This is a 🏠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 emergency.

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4 years

Bottom of the geography class I’m afraid ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩

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2 years

I genuinely thought this was one of Cold War Steve’s.

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3 years

Golygfa tuag at Cadair Idris heno. Diolch a ffarwel mis Mehefin.

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Mike Parker

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1 year

A suckerpunch to lose Paul O'Grady. He was the real deal, a man of fierce intelligence, rock solid values, profound kindness (but no messing) and wit that scorched the paint off the walls. I interviewed him a few times in the 90s, and it was always the juiciest treat. 1/

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Mike Parker

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5 years

Have had this window sticker for 30 years. The message remains the same: Wales in Europe - vote Plaid.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

I know it’s all a bit cheerless, so here’s something to perk you up: we’ve not seen Neil Hamilton on our tellies for nearly six months now. We might never see him again! There, that’s better, isn’t it? Night x

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Mike Parker

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4 years

Thrilled with this, diolch i bawb! And always forget to say, if you're on Instagram (I'm not), @rhiwgoch there is my far artier partner's images of the house, garden and surrounding countryside. He wields a fine camera.

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4 years

The truly wonderful On The Red Hill has been longlisted for the @wainwrightprize for nature writing! Please join us in wishing a huge congratulations to @mikeparkerwales ! #WainwrightPrize #WainwrightPrize20 #OnTheRedHill

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Mike Parker

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4 years

So, Sir Keir v Sir Ed v Alexander Boris de Pfeffel. Welcome to 1885.

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1 year

Coming this month…

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2 years

The Brondanw estate is a wonderful example of how to do rural housing. Great community and so many enterprises there started up because young people can feel secure in their housing. Left to the open market, it would be all holiday lets and retirees.

Housing: Fairy tale estate aimed at keeping young people local

Brondanw estate is the brainchild of the architect behind the Italianate-style village Portmeirion.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

Was in @CovCathedral today. It might just be my favourite building. Every detail is perfect, and all the artists & craftspeople who made it happen dug so deep to produce their very best. It is a powerful, soaring bulwark of faith & love against fascism. I really needed it today.

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Mike Parker

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4 years

3 years ago today, full-on Cwm Narnia.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

Sad to see Plaid under-performing, and will be so sorry to see Leanne lose if that happens, but actually feeling quite chipper. There’s a real sense that Welsh politics is becoming ever more its own thing, not just a pale shadow of whatever happens over the border. Bodes well.

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Mike Parker

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7 years

If Dafydd El wants to market Wales as Prince Charles’ play-fiefdom, he’s more than welcome to use the official Caernarfon version of royal crest:

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3 years

Those lovely - and very discerning! - folk at @momamachynlleth have awarded me this year's Glyndŵr Award for contribution to the arts in Wales. Ceremony (including intro by the fab @ManonSteffanRos ) at lunchtime on Thurs 5 August, details and tickets here:

Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival: Glyndŵr Award - MOMA Machynlleth

With Mike Parker, this year’s recipient of the Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales.

moma.cymru

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Ninety-three thousand, eight hundred and thirty-seven words just sent to the publishers ( @HarperNorthUK ). I will be mentioning it again.

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Mike Parker

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5 years

New arrival today, a bouncing baby book. 1lb 6oz. Father and child doing well, if a little over-excited.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Has a single Welsh Tory uttered the slightest squeak of doubt about Johnson? Ever? Had a look at a few MPs’ Twitter feeds and they’re total tumbleweed. What a spineless bunch.

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Mike Parker

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3 years

The slate landscapes of northern Wales, and their histories and culture, are thrilling in a quite visceral way. Unexpectedly made up to see that recognised by UNESCO.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Superb few days on Ynys Môn. Such a fascinating island (even if it is a bugger to get on & off with the Menai Bridge shut!). Finished the trip with a couple of Môn ⁦ @friendschurches ⁩: Llantrisant and Llanfigael, both so atmospheric on a dark, wet October morning.

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Mike Parker

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2 years

Joyfully reacquainted today with Llananno and its staggering C15/C16 rood screen. It pulses life and energy down the centuries. Thanks to @friendschurches for its upkeep.

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Mike Parker

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7 months

Shocking news. Planet has a heft and a reputation that goes far beyond Wales, and has done since Ned Thomas founded it in 1970. To chuck it overboard is petty, short-sighted and a terrifying sign of the priorities and values of those in charge of our evolving nation.

Planet magazine

@Planet_TWI

7 months

A statement from our Board 👇

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Mike Parker

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7 years

That is one lovely map! Llongyfarchiadau @BenMLake . Absolutely thrilled.

Ruth Dawson

@ruth_dawson

7 years

Wales results: Labour take 3 Tory seats; Lib Dems wiped out after Plaid takes Ceredigion; Plaid now has 4 MPs #GE2017

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3 years

2021: quite a crud year, but oh my, the highlights were glorious. And so very fluffy.

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

5 years

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

4 years

Unexpected Covid emotions: stumbled on an open church at Llanegryn, nr Tywyn, the first I’d been in since March. Its rooted beauty, sense of sanctity and smell of musty prayer brought me to tears.

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

2 years

I know this is all very entertaining, but I am heartily, viscerally sick of this country being held to ransom by the psychodrama of posh kids (in politics and the media) who have never grown up.

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Mike Parker

@mikeparkerwales

4 years

Middle-aged morning: “Ooh, look!” “Where?” “On the seed table. Really colourful.” “Oh yes! That’s a beautiful red.” “Bullfinch maybe?” “Probably, yes.” We both squint harder. Long pause. “Ah. It’s a beetroot.”

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