"Croeso i ddyfnderoedd fy isymwybod: Welcome to the depths of my subconscious. Shark Fishing in Wales is one man's odyssey to understand the land of his birth through anecdote, observation and reminiscence! By learning about his country, perhaps he can learn more about himself. A process of individuation which Carl Jung suggests we should all go through. Less assuming one nationhood and more working towards one nationhood before we become Independent." Daf Williams
Cymru/Wales: Bipolar Nation
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https://linktr.ee/lucyreidarts 'I can play the piano' whispered 5-year-old me to our deputy head teacher Mr. Dennis who was s...
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As a Ffrinj Nutter who had a dalliance with the Welsh Nationalist Party/ Plaid Cymru/ The Party of Wales many, many years ago I was p...
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January 1988 sees me starting work (Kairdiff Vernacular) at 'The Printers' on Broadway, Roath Cardiff. It looked less like the o...
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'Gizza Job'! I will be 46 years of age on St David's Day. I have been a Head of Drama in a tough, inner city secondary scho...
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The Hero's Journey from David Williams on Vimeo . I know that some of you read this blog especially the very popular Guest Blog P...
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+ = My life can be distilled into the above arithmetical equation. Capel(Chapel) + Ysgol(School) = Carchar(Prison) There ...
Friday 30 October 2015
Thursday 29 October 2015
High Anxiety
Half Term Halitosis
"So where have you been, Shark Fisherman? we've been so worried about you, you haven't been posting!" said nobody ever, not even my followers. Well I'm back to the blog after doing my usual Aber-Cardiff and back again but this time by train. The guy in the ticket office in Aber said I sounded like Frank Hennessy and I said "Do you know why Scousers and Cardiffians speak out of the side of their mouths? Because of the Irish influence. The Irish accent has melded and moulded with the indigenous Lancashire and Glamorgan and that's why they sound so bloody conspiratorial even when asking for a cup of tea. No offence but offence taken I'm sure.
This week was half term and all the school children in all the land were pulled like magnets to the shops, Cardiff and Aber the same. Whilst not meeting up with old friends, I was avoiding the 'critical mass'. I think I must now be allergic to young people, having been a teacher, and whilst the Welsh and English were holidaying inside and outside shops, a 16 year old from Aberdeen was lying dead on the floor of an Academy school. A good school in a good area? What are good schools and what are good areas? They have shut the school out of respect until next Monday. Did they do this in Leeds for the Teacher Anne Maguire? I don't think they did. Business as usual. That is what education in Britain has become a bums on seats, results business. "We don't care about your self worth, amongst your peers" "We don't care about Anorexia and Mental Health" "We don't care about Bullying, because we have a piece of paper, well lots of them actually that tell the world that we have an Anti-Bullying policy"
Monday 19 October 2015
Saturday 17 October 2015
Shell of a Man
SHELL OF A MAN
no sleep,
bed.
Friday 16 October 2015
In Solidarity with a 10 year old Japanese Boy
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/15/boris-johnson-knocks-over-10-year-old-boy-during-rugby-game-in-japan?CMP=fb_gu
Wednesday 14 October 2015
LUMP
LUMP
'LUMP'
but not
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Toilet Blocker 2
From aspiring playwright & wordsmith yesterday to toilet un-blocker today. I don't know whether it's karma or a metaphor but today I had to go down to 'Charlies' in Aberystwyth to buy a his and hers matching toilet plunger. I went into Bum Bargains First (B&M) and then into B&Q where the staff had the 1000 yard 'Vietnam' stare knowing that their superstore is about to close. Every time I enter a large retail unit, a part of me dies because I don't want to be there but today I had to be there because I had to unblock a toilet. Whether I am so full of shit or just unlucky I don't know, but today as a metaphor for my life, traipsing across a Mid Wales town, everything just felt so fruitless and hopeless. A life led without purpose leads down and around U bends. Only 1 person can give your life purpose and that person is you, but any more blocked toilets and I am just going to walk away.
Sunday 11 October 2015
World in Union? You're aving a larff ain't ya?
Every time I hear some tenor pedaling out that lie in a quivering voice as eulogy for the egg shaped ball I snort with derision. This is not a world in union is it? or do you think it is? Is the Global goblet half empty or half full? 95 people blown up in Ankara yesterday, stabbings over the unholy land. Suicide Bombing appears to becoming a lifestyle and career choice. Why sign on the dotted line for 43 years and a pension or a zero hour contract when you can go now, with the added benefit of taking a few others with you. Have you never walked around a superstore especially at Christmas and looked at the people and wished that you had a bomb strapped to your back or a Glock sub atomic machine gun? Glock don't make sub atomics!!! Well I don't know I'm not really into guns or bombs but they appear to be the currency of communication at the moment. We have to carry on our mundane 2.4 children existence because we can do nothing about the global peace/war project. We've lived through it the last century but perhaps have been blissfully unaware of it because take it from me, if you care too much or really if you care at all, it will destroy you and it will destroy your mental health. You must not show emotion and feeling and empathy. You must not care. Be hard, be surly, be a man or indeed be a woman. Be what you choose to be but please don't warble on about a World in Union and giving Peace a Chance because it won't happen while there are still human beings walking or rather driving this earth. Ignore the bible saying and please turn the other cheek and cross to the other side of the road. We are living in a world of bitterness and hate and I say that not because I'm looking for it but because that is what is happening. Every time Jihadi John and ISIL behead somebody on camera they are actually holding a mirror up to the West. They are showing us. "This is you, this is" Not nice is it?
Wednesday 7 October 2015
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Tankies & Trots
Sunday 4 October 2015
Yr Eliffant yn y Stafell
Well dyma fi yn sgrifennu yn Gymraeg eto ar ôl i mi gael pwl o gydwybod. Dwi ddim yn gwneud digon dros yr iaith mae hwnna yn amlwg. Oni bai am siarad gyda theulu a ffrindiau yn Gymraeg beth all dyn neu ddynes ei wneud? Beth bynnag fydd yr awgrymiadau, dwi'n siŵr fydda nhw yn cynnwys gwneud pethau cymdeithasol. Ildiwch yn y fan ar lle. Gwneud mwy ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol siŵr o fod gan fy mod yn gwario rhan fwyaf o fy mywyd arnynt ond cyn lleied o ffrindiau sydd yn medru'r iaith efallai oherwydd fy mod yn gyndyn i wneud ffrindiau a pam son am sothach yn Gymraeg. Trafod y pethau pwysig ydy'r angen ond crefydd neu rygbi gan amlaf sydd ar y fwydlen a beth am yr eliffant yn yr ystafell..na dim yr eliffant yna..yr eliffant fancw, honco mhonco. Yr eliffant ogleddol ag yr eliffant deheuol a ni wnâi'r ddau byth cwrdd. Tybed beth ydy canran yr hwntw sydd yn byw yn y Gogledd? Dwi'n siwr fod 'na llawer mwy o Ogleddwyr yn y De yma. Pam? Oherwydd dyma ble mae'r Brifddinas, dyma ble mae'r iaith ar waith yn y cyfryngau ar Gynulliad, dyma ble mae Clwb Ifor bach a Rygbi a Chrefydd. Rygbi a chrefydd ydy'r un peth yng Nghymru a dwi wedi bod mor euog â neb yn yr hen ddyddiau ond dwi'n hynod o falch na yn yr hen ddyddiau mae'r euogrwydd. Dwi'n edrych ymlaen at golli'r gemau rŵan. Dwi'n cymryd rhyw foddhad rhyfedd o feirniadu yn erbyn y tair pluen, i syrffed weithiau. Mi welais bobol yn gwneud ei ffordd i gymryd rhan yn hanner marathon Caerdydd bore mha. Bob un yn edrych yr un fath, yr un siâp, yn wyn, yn ddi gymeriad. Bobol ar yr wyneb na faswn ni ddim yn gwahodd i bryd o fwyd oherwydd dwi ddim yn rhedwr. Dwi ddim yn rhannu'r un siâp o gorff. Un bach tew ydw i heb wddw, jest y teip i chwarae 'Bachwr' a dyna fues i ers U15s bondigrybwyll yn y Gogledd ac wedyn dychwelyd i'r De parhau gyda'r gwastraff amser. Bachwr i 'Hogia Hen Ysgol Cathays' yn chwarae i fyny yn ymyl Ysbyty'r Heath. Beth oedd da'r ddau dîm yn gyffredin? Tîm yr Ysgol a Thîm Cathays? Roeddwn yn colli yn aml. Colli bron bob dydd Sadwrn ac mae meddylfryd y 'loser' yn dechrau treillio mewn i agweddau eraill o fywyd. Ond cymryd rhan fasa rhedwyr bore mha yn deud ydy'r peth pwysicaf a chwarae teg iddynt am y farn yna ond roeddwn yn edrych arnynt fel defaid, dwi'n edrych ar gefnogwyr Rygbi Cymru fel defaid, yn ei chrysau coch ddi gymeriad. Mi wnes y sylwad yn ddiweddar fod yna ddim byd yn Ganol y Ddinas o gofgolofn Aneurin Bevan i lawr y Hayes i'r llyfrgell fasa yn gwneud i chi feddwl eich bod yng Nghymru. All hwn fod ym Mryste neu Caerloyw am y Cymreictod sydd yn hanu ohono. Yr unig beth gwnaeth arwyddo fy mod mewn gwlad Geltaidd roedd 'byscwraig' ifanc roedd yn chwarae'r delyn.
O'r ochrau, ar y lluman pellaf mi fyddaf i yn gwylio bywyd erbyn hyn. Beth bynnag ydy 'Voyeur' yn Gymraeg, well dwi yn un o rheini. Voyeur mewn siâp eliffant.
Saturday 3 October 2015
Pay Up! Pay Up! and play the Game.
I became politicised on the journey towards and in prison. The first book I read from the excellent prison library was the True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey. It came to me all of a sudden this morning that we have two nations playing Le Rugby at Twickers (HQ) who were complicit in the removal of 'so called Undesirables' from one to the other in the late 18th to the late 19th century. 162,000 convicts were transported between 1788 and 1868 some of these 'political prisoners' three of these being John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, and William Jones, the Chartist leaders transported to Tasmania in the aftermath of the Newport rising of 1839. I write this post in light of David Cameron's recent refusal to pay monetary reparations to Jamaica. He will build a prison instead. I am one of these unscientific, intuitive types who believe that 'Trauma' is carried in the D.N.A. Where 'collective trauma' has occurred in history be it slavery or convict transportation, it has involved the oppression of one class, of one race over the other class of it's own or other races. Anger, and Oppression is carried in the genes and it is called resentment. Capitalists and Sugar Traders call it jealousy. They will claim that everybody benefits in the end.
In prison, I was one of very few white men.The Dutch as a Colonial nation had prisoners from Curacao and Dutch Guyana. There was a high population of Muslims during my time there. Historically white men of status decide what to do with people of no status who dare to challenge their privileged position of power.
I don't agree with people who say "Keep Politics out of Sport" All of life is political, even the game of 'Bread & Circuses' devised by the ruling Romans to distract their own populace. Whatever anthems are sung today, God Save the Queen and Advance Australia Fair I wonder how many of those singing it will consider that their own ancestors, their own D.N.A was oppressed by the very establishment that they are honoring. Not many I'll wager.
The fact is, the poet does not want admiration, he wants to be believed.
— Jean Cocteau Quotes (@CocteauQuotes) September 21, 2020
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