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Chris Berry
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Organist Penarth. For professional palaeontology see @christophermberry@bsky.social
Rainbow over Caerffili right now….
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🚨If like me you were unaware of these devastating cuts to a vital fund that supports some of the most vulnerable children and young adults in England please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social by signing their open letter 🙏
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Add Your Signature: An Open Letter to Josh MacAlister MP, Minister for Children and Families - Action Against ASGSF Changes
12 October 2025 Re: The urgent need to restore the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) Adoptive, kinship and special guardianship families across England continue to feel the signif...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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The Elenydd are the closest Wales has to a wilderness -- one of the last places where you can truly lose yourself in nature. As wind farm plans gather pace, the planned desecration of these mountains is nothing less than an emergency ✍️ Jane Eynon
Remember the Heart of Wales?
Jane Eynon Back in 2022 I was one of over 20,000 signatories to a petition to the Welsh Senedd calling for the Cambrian Mountains to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), a desig...
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October 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Some fine Welsh voices this morning, as men from the Cor Meibion choir sing for ITV outside Capel Rhondda

Still time to donate and save a little bit of Welsh history

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-capel...
July 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-capel...

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

To me, and I'm sure to my followers

SAVE CAPEL RHONDDA

Capel Rhondda is where 'Cwm Rhondda' (which you might know as 'Bread of Heaven') was sung for the first time in November 1907
Save Capel Rhondda / Achub Cartref 'Cwm Rhondda'
We hope that the Welsh Baptist Union will give us more time to raise the £47,500 required to buy Capel Rhondda. The fundraising continues...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Music by Bach, Beethoven, Ireland, Spicer & Guilmant in St John the Baptist, Cardiff city centre 1:15pm this Friday, 11 July 2025.

Full details here:
www.paulcarr.co.uk/diary/herita...

More about the historic Father Willis organ at St John’s here:
sites.google.com/view/father-...
July 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
May 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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“The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including inherited EU legislation which even the Tories promised to uphold.”
Please read & share.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5
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April 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Current ep of Choral Chihuahua. Her music really does ‘that thing’.
February 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…”
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - The Dark Is Rising - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Dark Is Rising on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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My excellent new mugs from HAFOC.

We are facing the loss of all undergraduate teaching on the Lampeter campus. UGs have been taught there for 200 years. More than a decade of disinvestment & the wider political attack on the humanities have led to this.

petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
December 10, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Enjoyed watching Trump and Musk have to sit through 20 minutes of fairly niche French organ improvisations……
December 7, 2024 at 8:41 PM