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Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Can you see the Liver Building from Birkenhead Park?

Can you see the Liver Building from Birkenhead Park? 


I found it, the memorial stone to Hedd Wyn,
Yr Ysgwrn Dafydd, roedd yn bererindod oedd wedi dod a fi draws ar y fferi
Dim syniad ble i fynd, gofyn i ddyn caredig
“ It’s miles away” 
First a breakfast in the Wimpy, Grange Precinct, Princes Pavement, Pyramid shopping centre, spotlessly clean and hand sanitisers on the door 
“ Give us a mention on trip advisor would you, it’s the out of towners that keep us going” 
A gentleman of the old school variety, so polite that I thought I’d entered a time warp to the last century. 
He was like a man from the 1970s and 80s 
Dapper Dan 
And then I found it, 
Birkenhead Park, again what I remember parks used to be like, untouched by human sanitised hands, natural, organic, rustic. 
Are you reading the Bosses of Bute Park? 
The rain clouds start their darting hit and runs. 
Maybe this was how the weather was that day on Pilkem Ridge 31/7/1917



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