20th April 2019 - Cofiwch !!!

Thought for the day :"friend told me to bet all my money on a horse named ‘Landfill’... Turns out it was a rubbish tip..."

The Chickens are getting pretty large now, and are needing to be culled soon. Particularly as we are to be away in a couple of weeks time and they seem to need feeding at least twice a day.

Seems Legit !!

In other news there appears to be a new trend across Wales. Ever since a sign that is on the road to Aberystwyth was vandalised - these signs are cropping up everywhere. "Cofiwch Dreweryn" means remember Treweryn - the village drowned to make a reservoir for water for Liverpool - without the consent to the residents...

The wall was overpainted with ELVIS which was a real shame - so volunteers went in the middle of the night and repaired it - and then someone decided to knock the top of the wall down in the night .. and now the signs are appearing everywhere.

Wiki:
A graffitied stone wall next to the A487 at Llanrhystud, outside Aberystwyth. The words "Cofiwch Dryweryn" were painted by journalist and author, Meic Stephens, at a time of nationalist unrest following the decision to drown the village of Capel Celyn to create a reservoir for Liverpool City Council in the early 1960s.[1]

Due to the prominent location and stark message, the wall has become an unofficial national landmark.

Following parliamentary approval, Liverpool City Council pursued the flooding of Tryweryn Valley without the consent of Welsh authorities and against the opposition of most Welsh MPs. The council also failed to respond to formal planning inquiries presented by residents to explain their concerns in reference to the proposal. Despite protesting and negative response in Liverpool, London, and Wales, the valley was flooded in 1965, and centuries old communities ended.

Even before the flooding was carried out, many saw the decision and process as dogmatic and controversial. The decision became a central discussion in the wider national discourse. The event is now seen as a pivotal moment in twentieth century Welsh nationalism with militant groups and Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party, gaining significant support

Meic Stephens, a Welsh author and scholar, had painted numerous slogans across the South Wales Valleys in 1962 and 1963. Having decided to go further afield to paint the Cofiwch Tryweryn (sic) slogan, he encouraged his friend and "prospective lawyer," Rodric Evans to drive him around Wales to find a suitable location. Stephens painted the message in "fifteen to twenty minutes" with Evans keeping watch. The original Cofiwch Tryweryn is grammatically incorrect and has been repainted correctly as Cofiwch Dryweryn ever since.

The wall Stephens used is part of a ruined cottage named Troed-y-Rhiw. In a 2006 interview, Stephens revealed that he "didn't choose the spot for any particular reason" and that he "didn't expect it to turn out any more iconic than any other slogan."

The message itself is a two-word graffito asking the reader to remember the Tryweryn Valley at a time when it was about to be flooded, yet it has come to represent defiance, sedition, militancy or cultural dissonance to people on both sides of the Welsh nationalism debate. Since it was first painted by Stephens, the impact and notoriety of the message has been highlighted by the numerous occasions it has been the subject of vandalism, restorations and the continuing debate regarding its place in a protected Welsh cultural landscape.


Since its first appearance, the message has been both vandalised and restored on numerous occasions.

Schoolboys Rhys ap Hywel and Daniel Simkins from Ysgol Penweddig repainted the message in 1991. They painted the wall white and painted over the original letters in black and initialled their work. In doing so they misspelled "Tryweryn" as "Trywerin". Hywel's Welsh teacher admonished him for the error. Consequently, he repainted the wall correcting his mistake, and adding "Sorry Miss!"[7]

In 2003, the Ceredigion Urdd repainted the phrase onto the wall as part of a show commemorating the events of Tryweryn at Theatr Felinfach.  By 2007, a section of the wall had fallen and the writing had been replaced with stencilled white letters on a red background.

The 21st century saw an increase in vandalism of the wall. In May 2008, the message was altered to Angofiwch Dryweryn (English: "Forget Tryweryn"; correct spelling Anghofiwch).

The monument was again defaced in April 2010, prompting a spokesperson for the Welsh Government to say that they felt "disappointed" at the incident. The vandalism and decayed state of the wall saw calls to preserve the structure as a monument. A fundraising campaign was launched, with Cadw agreeing to contribute to the fund. However, no formal[clarification needed] changes to the wall's status were made, and there were further incidents of vandalism in 2013 and 2014.[10][3]

In 2017, the words Cofiwch Aberfan 1966 ("Remember Aberfan 1966") were added underneath the original message, referring to the Aberfan disaster. But this addition was not included when the wall was again repainted in August 2018.

The wall was defaced once again in February 2019, but was repainted within twenty-four hours following a social media campaign. The incident saw renewed calls for its protection, most notably from Bethan Sayed, Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for Heritage, Welsh Language and Sport, with parallels drawn between this work and Banksy's recent anti-air pollution work Season's Greetings in Port Talbot

On 12 April 2019 the wall was partially destroyed, with the top section containing the word Cofiwch (remember) being demolished overnight. This came within 24 hours of the words i’r Gâd! ("to battle" or "to arms!") being added at the base of the mural. The wall was rebuilt and repainted on 13 April by a group of eight volunteers.

In the days following these incidents, a second wall next to the original was painted with Fe Godwn Ni Eto (We'll rise again) and the campaign organisation YesCymru reported that new Cofiwch Dryweryn murals had been painted throughout Wales.

Dyfed-Powys Police responded to the attack by placing CCTV at the site, and confirmed that they were treating the incident as a hate crime.

In other news I saw this PLAN G - seems legit

worth a try ?

Cheers !!