by Catrin | Sep 11, 2025 | News
Something Told the Wild Geeseby Rachel Field Something told the wild geeseIt was time to go,Though the fields lay goldenSomething whispered, “snow.” Leaves were green and stirring,Berries, lustre-glossed,But beneath warm feathersSomething...
by Catrin | Aug 3, 2025 | News
The Curlew Nothing sounds more like spring and summer than the bubbling call of the curlew – or Pegi Big Hir – Peggy Long Beak – as she’s sometimes known in Welsh. (The Big in the Welsh name is pronounced in the same way as the English word Beak but with a...
by Catrin | Jul 4, 2025 | News
A Brief Overview of the Geology of the Gelligaer and Merthyr Common At the summer’s zenith, there is nowhere more beautiful than the Gelligaer and Merthyr Common. It’s a moorland that lies at the north end of the South Wales Coalfields. Looking across the landscape,...
by Catrin | Jun 3, 2025 | News
Rhos Las Pond (Rhaslas on the OS map). Beautiful scenes near the lost Pantywaun and Blaen Carno area. In June 1831, in the town of Merthyr, just beyond the Cefn Merthyr ridge, one of the biggest uprisings by workers against the ironmasters and the capitalist class...
by Catrin | May 5, 2025 | News
May is here with summer fast approaching. The wildlife of the Common is flourishing and in full colour: the yellow of the gorse, the fresh green of the new grasses and rushes, the frothing and unfurling of pinks and lilacs, burgundy too in the hedgerows. The sound of...
