"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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Looking back to the playground of St. Osmund’s RC Primary School in the district of Breightmet in the Lancashire mill town of Bolton I re...
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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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Six days in to 2020 and I haven't written a blog post yet! I haven't missed a month since January 2012 when this crazy adventure fir...
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My second spoken word event in 4 days. I am turning from an anti-social moth into a social butterfly all in the name of 'Spoken W...
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Seventeen years ago today, I had a Spiritual Breakthrough and it all began at a table outside the above coffee shop in Amsterdam, the Neth...
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Saturday 28 November 2015
Bullied into Bombing
We are being bullied into bombing Syria, not by America but by the Conservative Party. The Tories are bullies. That's why the electorate voted them in. There's a touch of the masochist about the British Public. How else can you explain their return to power after 11years of Thatcher. Blair softened us up and he was bullied into bombing Iraq by Bush "Yo Blair"! Now Cameron is getting his collar felt by Francois Hollande "Maintenant David" and who will be the fall guy? The only man of integrity in this sorry mess, Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Party, his Labour Party are still full of Conservatives/Blairites who cannot get their head around the fact that he is the leader of their party and for them to use this, this matter of life and death to destabilise him is unforgiveable. Despite my impressive credentials of insanity, I am not able to call on the Intelligence of the Security Services. I can't look at the maps of Northern Iraq and nod my head sagely and say
" Mmm, yes, bombing seems to be the only option ". Now is the time for mystic intuition. You will not be able to defeat ISIL with the 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' strategy'. Western Democracy is on the precipice. America is imploding from within if we are to believe 24 hour news. The Twin Towers go down, lets attack the invisible enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Russia has taken a couple of body blows recently and they must be remembering back to their occupation of Afghanistan. This is essentially an invisible enemy, the erstwhile 'enemy within'. Although it might not appear that way now, they might be doing us a favour, a horrific and bloody favour, by making us take a long hard look at our holy Roman Empire before it crumbles. However painful it may be for the relatives of the Paris dead and yet another scar on the tissue of the collective unconscious, now is the time to 'Suck it up Buttercup'
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Tuesday 24 November 2015
BRITISH VALUES BLUES
I can't get enough of
MY BRITISH VALUES BLUES
We'll be taught about traffic jams and stiff upper lips
we'll learn about queuing and upper class twits
chavs and the mis-named working class
sing to me of Britain and its 'rude poor'
Austerity makes you mean and nasty
when you've finished...
can I have your pasty?
Being British has sucked since we learned about our history
and how we caused a lot of global misery.
Sing to me of Royalty and the Queen's Christmas Message
and explain to me how there is homelessness
You want me to learn the Lord's Prayer as well?
Is your God not a British Value? or is that more the Middle East?
Are you and yours getting ready for the Festive Feast?
Teach me about how being British is different to being French
We haven't had as much carnage on the old school bench.
cwtches piws
Saturday 21 November 2015
Comedy Club
https://uk.pinterest.com/RedTheatre/comedicomedy/
Below are links to previous posts about my as yet un-launched stand up comedy career
http://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/stand-up-comedy-routine.html
http://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/working-on-my-new-routine.html
http://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/vichy-france.html
http://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/comedi-cymraeg-after-fashion.html
Thursday 19 November 2015
Father & Son
On Monday at the top of town (Aberystwyth) right beside Siop y Castell I saw a man place a plastic gun around a child's head. I presumed that it was his father and the child was about five. It looked like a Kalashnikov rifle. I was stunned. A woman came out of the shop with a bag of sweets and the child mumbled something and the woman laughed and said 'Bullets'. They woz your 'white working class'. Like Tintin I walked swiftly passed.
This was three days after Paris. So three days after the atrocities in France, this is what is happening in a sleepy Mid Wales town. It didn't occur to me that he might have won or bought it at the fair which has brought its own sense of sinister to the ghost town. Empty dodgems and wurlitzers, donut stands and enough opposition to Poundland from the covered markets. It was like something from a David Lynch film. Children learn what they live so give it twenty years and we'll have a 'Bataclan' at the Academy Night Club where a man had his earlobe bitten off two weeks ago by another man in an Orange wig! As you can imagine, the Cambrian Snooze had a field day! The front page stories of this rag had up until last week been 'Human waste dumped on road at Bow Street' ' Man trapped under Grass cutter in Cemetery'. Now there are stories of global importance that are having repercussions in Birmingham by Sea. We played with toy guns as kids but seeing and hearing this was perhaps more shocking than the 24 hour rolling news which after 24 hours actually loses its shock value. Well one kid in Aber has already had his gun and bullets for Christmas, Dear Santa, please don't forget the grenades and rocket launcher next time.
Tuesday 17 November 2015
The Foreman went to France 'Part Deux'
Penblwydd Hapus/Happy Birthday
Friday 13 November 2015
I want to become a Columnist
Wednesday 11 November 2015
Shark el-Sheikh
Sunday 1 November 2015
Coward of the County
The fact is, the poet does not want admiration, he wants to be believed.
— Jean Cocteau Quotes (@CocteauQuotes) September 21, 2020
Death by Taxes
"Individuals and businesses not paying the tax they should deprives the government of the funding it needs to provide vital public serv...
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Bottom of the Ottoman
Bottom of the Ottoman from David Williams on Vimeo.
Crying in your Beer from David Williams on Vimeo.
Hitler navigates the A487 from Aberaeron to Aberystwyth
I shall never wear tweeds from David Williams on Vimeo.