On the eighth of September 2022, Elizabeth the Second, Queen of the United Kingdom, died. What followed, at least in the United Kingdom, was a protracted period of pantomime tragedy.

Un o’r ffermdai uchaf yn Sir Benfro oedd Cwmcerwyn. Ac un o’r adeailadau hynaf ym mhlwyf Mynachlogddu.

Monday 4 January Low sun, long shadows. The girls collect ice slivers To smash into shards.

Dear Prospective Employer, I’m now even nearlier forty than I was when I began writing this Curriculum Vitæ just over a year ago, and I think I’m now either over my Midlife Crisis, or I’m in the eye of the hurricane. I feel… well: fine, really. I mean, I’m bed-bound with a bad back. And I still have no Job—