"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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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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"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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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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I read the book in my twenties and finally I have made the pilgrimage. I liked Wigan town centre immediately. It was wide. The fact that it...
Thursday 29 March 2018
Sobbing Selfies for Mental Health
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Stigma & Taint
Stigma & Taint
Whatever happened to Bleddyn Bowen?
Anti-Semitism is afoot
What is fame when mortality beckons
How long you gonna live, what do you reckon?
Unemployed Russian Diplomats queuing for soup
Theresa May going "Whoop Whoop"
Cold War, Phoney War, Putin shows us the door.
In string vest and Donkey Jacket he crosses the floor.
The impudent West, oh give it a rest.
Time to rub some Vic on to our collective chests.
BBC and LBC won't give you a lot of tlc
You have to make a choice between your mental health and wealth.
You can't have both.
Poor and well or rich and crazy
Like a Sunday Lunch but without the gravy.
Wittering on in doggerel won't pay for some fresh or secondhand bog roll.(Recycled Line)
I should really try and find some work
but at 52 I'd be a berk
to trade my freedom for wage slavery.
They don't give you medals for civilian bravery.
I'd like to promote myself as a purveyor of mirth
But cheap laughs are two a penny from someone of my girth.
I should really set up my own examinations board, if in trouble just pull the red cord but no one would attend because they know I'm going round the bend.
Euphemisms for madness are ever so quaint,it beats me why there is stigma and taint.
El loco, the mad un, the nutter on the bus
crazy, demented, she's lost it, what's all the fuss?
Mental Illness and Melancholy
Is a great leveller from hunter to hunted, sick in fox fur.
Out on the town, they are admired for being 'off their head' but they are the statistics that usually end up dead.
Making others laugh, putting others first is a dependency that gives you a thirst.
alcohol, drugs & gambling are not lifestyle choices for the ambling,
these are the past times for those that inside are burning.
It's all very well saying "Life is what you make it" but how do we know that you're not faking it.
You can pull yourself up by the bootstraps and then use them to hang yourself.
Scratch Cards & Bonus Balls
Bad Poetry, Your Call.
Thursday 22 March 2018
Anweithredol yn Economiadd
Doeddwn ni ddim yn siŵr beth oedd y label diwethaf i mi gael ond ar ôl darllen darn yn 'Fwrlwm y Bae' yn Gylchgrawn Golwg wsnos hon, sylweddoli na 'Anweithredol yn Economaidd' ydw i ag dwi wedi bod fel yna am dair blynedd ar ddeg bellach. 13 years, anlwcus i rai. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyhoeddi cynllun newydd i geisio lleihau'r nifer o bobol sy'n ddi-waith yng Nghymru a chyrraedd yr un lefel a chyfartaledd y Deyrnas Unedig. Wastad chwarae catch up da ni wedi bod yn gwneud yn yr hen Gwalia, nawr rydym eisiau dal fyny gyda'r nifer o ddi-waith yn weddill GB PLC. Well, dyna uchelgais i chi, ras i'r gwaelod os fuodd un erioed. Mae o'n edrych fod Gweinidog y Gymraeg a Dysgu Gydol Oes Eluned Morgan gyda rhyw fath o hudlath!
"Os oes cyfrifoldebau gofal gyda chi, allwn ni rhoi rhyw fath o strwythur mewn lle i'w helpu gyda nhw." Mae hi hyd yn oed yn mynd i ddatrys problemau iechyd meddwl. Nawr mae hwn yn dipyn o hudlath neu Magic Wand i'r Wenglish amongst you. Dwi ar bigau'r drain fan hyn nawr oherwydd dwi'n disgwyl gweld pobol mewn siwtiau yn dod i'r drws a chynnig gwasanaeth gofal i'm annwyliaid ag iddynt sortio allan fy mhroblemau iechyd meddwl sydd wedi bod gyda fi ers yn las lanc o 13 ag dwi'n 52 eleni, felli edrychwn ymlaen yn enfawr i weld beth sydd gyda nhw i gynnig yn y cynllun newydd yma. Ond i chi yn gwybod be, dwi'n eithaf hoffi'r label yma.
Does dim mawr allai gwneud am y label 'Anhwylder Dau Begwn' oni bai am beidio sôn amdano fo ond mae yna rywbeth reit nobl a dewr am y teitl "Anweithredol yn Economaidd". Mewn byd cyfalafol, cystadleuol, neo-rhyddfrydol dwi falch o ynganu fy mod yn anweithredol yn economaidd ac efallai, efallai fydd rhaid iddynt dynnu fi nol i ryw fath o waith yn cicio a sgrechian. Gwyliwch y gofod yma.
Wednesday 21 March 2018
Fit to Work
FIT TO WORK
Fit to Work
Tuesday 20 March 2018
The Thief of Joy
Self Driving Cars
Non Alcoholic Bars
Back to Rehab Stars
News just In, it wasn't Putin
Wenger has come under suspicion
Because the Emirates is in Islington
Photoshopped hats on Communist cats.
Climate Change
Coral Reefs are Dying
What's your beef?
I am the thief of Joy
I have come to steal your new found toy.
A new for old Cold War.
The BBC news is a bit of a bore
We are over populated to f*ck and controversially it's quantity not quality.
You can hear the food chain being pulled down the Khazi.
We've over fished, over consumed and now we're over fuc*ing.
"Excuse Moi mon brave, what are the issues you are ducking?"
You can only be famous and tell it like it is cos if you are a common man, they look at you as if you were jizz.
Film Executives wear black to remember those who were power played into the sack.
Bozo and Mogg the porcelain frogs ribbitting on about Mother Russia.
Don't you realise that they could crush yer.
The beastly Brits are a bunch of shits.
Tommy Robinson on Speakers Corner wants to get rid of yer if yer a Foreigner.
You might want to check your label to see if you are.
Angly Dangly Saxons and their off shoots the Windsors are planning a wedding for which you must pay.
The Picts and the Celts as usual don't get to have a say.
Let us hope there will be snow in May.
I told you I am the thief of joy.
What do you mean "what's my ploy?"
I'm here to steal your fun, here do you want that hot cross bun?
we are surrounded by the new Victorian.
Across the Pond they want to confiscate my gun just because I am Mental.
Sugar and Gambling the old fashioned addictions.
We're meant to be fighting the fundamentalists but are turning into them ourselves.
Simple pleasures, Hidden treasures
All substances to be banned, don't let the human stand unaided
They must face their mortality cold turkey.
Put them into a room and give them a broom and let them sweep up the debris of their past.
Standing at the Exit Door, the thief of joy will give them a score out of ten for resilience.
Thursday 15 March 2018
Salisbury Scratch and Sniff
Salisbury Scratch and Sniff
Mother, there's a Spy in me Pie.
There we were minding our own business and a former undisclosed agent and his daughter walk in.
I've just this minute finished incinerating my clothes.
Honest to God, there is no peace to be had.
Come summer the kids will be swopping footy cards with pictures of Russian Ultras.
Bored by Brexit, they needed a distraction and boy did they get one.
Farage's gravelly gavel banging out the European anthem.
This is meat and potatoes to the Patriots.
Beware the Ides of March.
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote".
This has gone nuts in May
but I the Shark Fisherman of Wales have to say
this is all about spreading fear, control and co-ercion.
ISIL could only go so far, now Russia have walked into the bar.
Paranoia, distrust and self loathing stalk the walls of White Hall.
From being soft on Brexit she is being hard on Putin.
"Oooh we do like a strong leader, yearning for a Churchill to do a Yalta"
Imagine the bloke who does nothing but watch 24 hour news.
No Horror film could match their views.
It has been non stop since 9/11
Lee Rigby, don't forget, 7/7
It's not only Novichok that is playing on our nerves.
There is an emotional pain that the wind, snow and rain cannot disdain.
We are experiencing a collective trauma as we wait for the train.
The silence of commuters, the memory of Parsons Green,
CCTV, no sight unseen.
Once again I state the bleedin obvious because I can.
As yet, I haven't been given a ban for speaking my truth.
Stopping does not appear to be an option.
The world turns and we revolve with it.
There is always hope but we are spinning out of control.
Throw the Polar Bear a life belt!
Hold my Subway and Tuna Melt.
Eve confronted by the apple and snake prefers a Big Mac milk shake.
We are rattling round on pills and for better for ill, this is yet another drill for the four minute warning.
Get under the stairs with your very own food bank because the Russians are coming.
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Bataliwn Brwynen
Bataliwn Brwynen
Saturday 10 March 2018
Aros
rhwng gŵyl a gwaith
rhwng bywyd a marwolaeth
aros oherwydd oedran
aros
i henadur arall cnoi'r llwch
i gael ei anfon allan mewn cwch
i flasu angladd y Llychlynwyr
unrhyw un sydd wedi byw mor hir
yn haeddu ennill tir
yn ein cof
haearn a dur bywyd yn cael ei saer gan gof.
murlun ta cerflun i gofio Tryweryn?
beth bynnag all cael ei weld o fynydd y Berwyn
mae bywydau ni fel Cymry yn dioddef oherwydd ffawd Cymru
gwlad ffwrdd a hi erbyn hyn
gwlad llawn ffwlbri
de a gogledd wedi rhannu gan feddylfryd ar ffaith fod y bobol ifanc eisiau teithio’r byd
Friday 9 March 2018
Dust
Dust
Yet we play a game whilst our particles are stuck together of delusion.
Dust and Delusion
We believe that we are better, inferior, different to others.
Dust, Delusion and Difference.
Holed up in our boxes and rabbit hutches with paper thin walls,
it's the law of the jungle when neighbours meet.
What's it like in your street?
Imagine if we didn't fear each other but worked together.
Nah, it wouldn't work because we'd soon get bored and we can all be bought.
Concrete and Shops and Noise.
Ceaseless Education of Testing and Exams.
Strained GPs with receptionists trained to keep us at bay.
8 minutes with Doctor who could save your life.
How much do you value your life?
More than you value your wife?
Your life or your wife?
What a decision! you ask with precision?
'Partner' please, we don't go in for that old fashioned cobblers.
Ok your partner then?
Is it women or children first?
Or would they be pulling you out of the lifeboat having slaked your thirst?
The rich and wealthy can be selfish and stealthy but the poor just don't realise it yet.
They would give you the shirt off their back and then get stabbed in it for their gesture.
The fact that there is even one homeless person in Westminster let alone hundreds maybe a thousand is a national scandal.
The seat of government allow their bobbies to be target practice for the alienated and the dislocated huddle in shop doorways.
These pompous prats, no longer in bowler hats have been taken down a peg or two by the women.
No longer allowed to be lewd, rude and crude, they take it outside to their gentlemans' clubs so they can give their anima a rub.
Social Inequality starts here, do not pass go, do not collect 200 pounds.
If you are heartily sick of the two party state please put your cross in the box you crafty old fox.
Politics, Playfighting and Protectionism.
I couldn't wait to cast my first vote aged 18 now 52 I dread the opportunity to give some party flunky the opportunity to be first past the post.
I'm dead against gambling but they want us all a fluttering every five years.
Bercow the bookie winks, and my heart sinks as another pantomime begins or is it a play?
How about letting the little people have their say?
'Dim Siawns Hombre' because its always been done this way.
Let's just pray for snow in May
In years from now we will all just be dust (and a good fucking thing too)
Sunday 4 March 2018
Gammon Land
Gammon Land
it's just a shame that he is the one holding up the mirror to our own mortality.
a little something to take the edge off.
Thursday 1 March 2018
Johnny Come Lately
Yn Fwrlwm y Bae yn Cylchgrawn Golwg wythnos yma ar Dudalen 10 mae 'Johnny Come Lately' Plaid Cymru sef Seimon Thomas yn hollti barn am ffrwgwd Llanelli. Dwi yn ei alw yn Johnny come lately oherwydd dyma beth ddigwyddodd gyda sefyllfa Neil McEvoy yn ddiweddar. Y ffrae ar drafferth yn digwydd, McEvoy yn cael ei ddiarddel a Thomas yn gwneud trips rownd y cyfryngau i ddeud pam. Nawr bai arno fo neu fai ar y blaid? Ydy o yn gweithio ar liwt ei hunan neu fo ydy hatchet man y Blaid sydd yn cael ei trotio allan bob tro mae 'na drafferth wrth y felin. Os hynny, mae o yn mynd i fod yn gwningen brysur iawn. Yn ei eiriau fo "Dylai Plaid Cymru ystyried penodi 'pobol cymodi broffesiynol' i ddelio a ffraeo mewnol yn y dyfodol. Nad oedd yn deg disgwyl i wirfoddolwyr fel y Cadeirydd, Alun Ffred Jones, ddatrys problemau fel y ffrae yn Llanelli sydd wedi arwain at ddiarddel cangen y dref dros dro." Os gofiwch chi dim ond di arddel Neil McEvoy dros dro roeddent fod gwneud a nawr gyda digon o amser dan ei beltiau maen't wedi ddi-arddel yn barhaol. Dwi ddim yn siŵr na phobol cymodi broffesiynol sydd ei angen ta gangen cysylltiadau cyhoeddus ar Blaid Cymru. Efallai fod o wedi llusgo o gof y Bnr Thomas ond bobol wirfoddol sydd yn rhedeg cangen. O leua mha Alun Ffred Jones wedi bod ar ffrynt lein y wynebau galed yn y Senedd fel Aelod Cynulliad. Peidiwch deimlo tosturi trosto fo ddyn. Teimlwch dosturi dros Gangen Llanelli ag dros Neil McEvoy sydd wedi gwneud gwyrthiau dros eich plaid arwynebol dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf. Yn amlwg nid blaid y werin datws ydy hyn bellach os fuodd o erioed ond blaid y 'shpin ar 'schmaltz'. Yn hynny o beth maen't wedi penodi'r dyn iawn i dacluso fyny ar ôl y digwyddiad.
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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