Gaynor Madoc Leonard
@madocleonard1.bsky.social
Author of The Carmarthen Underground. London and Cymru. This is my second account here. I still haven't worked out what went wrong!
PLEASE NOTE THAT DMs ARE ONLY APPROPRIATE FOR PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM PEOPLE I KNOW.
PLEASE NOTE THAT DMs ARE ONLY APPROPRIATE FOR PRIVATE MESSAGES FROM PEOPLE I KNOW.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Washington Examiner: Trump hinted at the construction of a new monument in Washington, D.C., in a social media post early Saturday.
Please let it be this one.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Please let it be this one.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
October 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Washington Examiner: Trump hinted at the construction of a new monument in Washington, D.C., in a social media post early Saturday.
Please let it be this one.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Please let it be this one.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
A previously unknown (to me) Michael Powell film called The Phantom Light (1935). One actor in it rejoiced in the name of Fewlass Llewellyn. Set in Wales, mainly in a lighthouse, it starts at Tan y Bwlch railway station, where the station mistress wears Welsh costume, including the hat! #WalesFilm
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A previously unknown (to me) Michael Powell film called The Phantom Light (1935). One actor in it rejoiced in the name of Fewlass Llewellyn. Set in Wales, mainly in a lighthouse, it starts at Tan y Bwlch railway station, where the station mistress wears Welsh costume, including the hat! #WalesFilm
I came across a TV show called M Squad (1959), starring Lee Marvin as a police captain trying to catch arsonists in Chicago. The guest actors were James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy, as the arsonists. #YouTube
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I came across a TV show called M Squad (1959), starring Lee Marvin as a police captain trying to catch arsonists in Chicago. The guest actors were James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy, as the arsonists. #YouTube
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Arkan is a popular circle dance of the Ukrainian Hutsul people🙂
October 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Arkan is a popular circle dance of the Ukrainian Hutsul people🙂
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Jeremy Lipking.
Mesa de café.
Mesa de café.
October 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Jeremy Lipking.
Mesa de café.
Mesa de café.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
🐥 Who did this 🤭🙃🤣
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🐥 Who did this 🤭🙃🤣
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
I quit smoking the easiest way. I simply read Allen Carr's book and, after decades of smoking— and trying everything from nicotine gum to hypnotism—since I finished the book over 20 years, I've never even THOUGHT about smoking again.
October 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I quit smoking the easiest way. I simply read Allen Carr's book and, after decades of smoking— and trying everything from nicotine gum to hypnotism—since I finished the book over 20 years, I've never even THOUGHT about smoking again.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
‼️To destroy the hundreds of Russian drones that attack Ukraine almost every night, Ukraine’s air defense uses every possible method. For example, Soviet, propeller-driven aircraft such as the Yak-52 are used - they are cheaper than the drones themselves.
October 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
‼️To destroy the hundreds of Russian drones that attack Ukraine almost every night, Ukraine’s air defense uses every possible method. For example, Soviet, propeller-driven aircraft such as the Yak-52 are used - they are cheaper than the drones themselves.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Going to university never occurred to him. “I had to get a university standard of education by study in my own time without the benefit of actually attending,” he writes.
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Going to university never occurred to him. “I had to get a university standard of education by study in my own time without the benefit of actually attending,” he writes.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written
October 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."
October 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."
I didn't bother to read the dozen or so messages from GWR today. I've just discovered that the Swansea to Paddington line has been in a right old state today after cows invaded Neath station!
a stuffed animal is sticking its head out of a red truck door
Alt: SWEDISH chef and cow hanging on the back of a train
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I didn't bother to read the dozen or so messages from GWR today. I've just discovered that the Swansea to Paddington line has been in a right old state today after cows invaded Neath station!
I just saw a post at the other place about 2 competing women's college volleyball teams in Canada. One team had 2 men playing, and the other had 3 men, ergo there were 5 men on the court and 7 biological women.
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I just saw a post at the other place about 2 competing women's college volleyball teams in Canada. One team had 2 men playing, and the other had 3 men, ergo there were 5 men on the court and 7 biological women.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Sir Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street while still prime minister, following lobbying by Lord Peter Mandelson, the BBC has confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Sir Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street while still prime minister, following lobbying by Lord Peter Mandelson, the BBC has confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
On this day in 1997, Joe “The Pride of Wales” Calzaghe stepped into the ring in Sheffield to face boxing legend Chris Eubank for the WBO super-middleweight title.
In a career-defining performance, Calzaghe emerged victorious, marking the beginning of his long reign as world champion.
In a career-defining performance, Calzaghe emerged victorious, marking the beginning of his long reign as world champion.
Joe Calzaghe vs Chris Eubank full fight
YouTube video by Boxing Exposure
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
On this day in 1997, Joe “The Pride of Wales” Calzaghe stepped into the ring in Sheffield to face boxing legend Chris Eubank for the WBO super-middleweight title.
In a career-defining performance, Calzaghe emerged victorious, marking the beginning of his long reign as world champion.
In a career-defining performance, Calzaghe emerged victorious, marking the beginning of his long reign as world champion.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Chief Railways in Wales and England In 1898
Man, even back then the trip from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen was way shorter than it is now 😂
Man, even back then the trip from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen was way shorter than it is now 😂
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Chief Railways in Wales and England In 1898
Man, even back then the trip from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen was way shorter than it is now 😂
Man, even back then the trip from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen was way shorter than it is now 😂
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.
October 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
F.A.F.O (FROGS AGAINST FASCIST OLIGARCHS)
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
F.A.F.O (FROGS AGAINST FASCIST OLIGARCHS)
Baffled as to why Amazon thinks I would like Waylon Jennings hoodies.
a man plays a guitar in front of a sign that says waylon eve
Alt: a man plays a guitar in front of a sign that says waylon
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Baffled as to why Amazon thinks I would like Waylon Jennings hoodies.
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
Reposted by Gaynor Madoc Leonard
The end of the road for a young ewe & woodland trail youtu.be/AH85e74i4gY?... via @YouTube Sometimes there’s nothing more I can do except let go&give a merciful death.
It’s been wonderful reopening this trail&filling in holes so I can access with quad.
Lorca gives Ovenmitt a bath
It’s been wonderful reopening this trail&filling in holes so I can access with quad.
Lorca gives Ovenmitt a bath
The end of the road for a young ewe & woodland trail work
YouTube video by Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The end of the road for a young ewe & woodland trail youtu.be/AH85e74i4gY?... via @YouTube Sometimes there’s nothing more I can do except let go&give a merciful death.
It’s been wonderful reopening this trail&filling in holes so I can access with quad.
Lorca gives Ovenmitt a bath
It’s been wonderful reopening this trail&filling in holes so I can access with quad.
Lorca gives Ovenmitt a bath