Chris Dearden

BBC reporter for Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey. The BBC owns my work & disowns my views.

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@RichardLon34932 Assuming you’re reading all these replies… they can almost all be summed up as “do something/anything with energy and faith”. Spend a moment working out what will hit the spot in that particular community, then keep believing in God and in yourself.

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@RevRichardColes @RichardLon34932 A dog walker in a dog collar. As Samuel Beckett once said, “that idea has shape”.

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@tigerrector @SimoninSuffolk @RevThomasSander @dioceseoflondon @churchofengland You could always use evensong as an evangelistic tool and attract people from outside the pond

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@AngieBeatDown @pigletish That, and during pregnancy, everyone wants to give you advice…… while acknowledging that everyone’s pregnancy and birth (and early years to follow) is different.

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@AineGuy I think it was only five hours ahead…… or was it seven hours behind? Either way, huge thanks for all you’ve done to make Easter a blessed and spiritual time.

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@DafyddPritchar1 @Josie_Godfrey St Asaph Cathedral

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@vocnorth Sorry to hear this; hope you can all stay strong

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@vocnorth Just catching up on this evening’s posts - sharp intake of breath and still can’t quite believe it. Hope you’re OK after a fair dose of stress.

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@looplady @RevRichardColes Taro deuddeg is an idiom; “to ring true”

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@Josie_Godfrey What was it?

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@sionrhysevans @chinmj Out of curiosity, @chinmj, are there any Welsh lyrics in the Revised hymnal?

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@yrieithydd @OurCofELike I hear what you’re saying (John), but as a mere layman in the congregation, my only yardstick to judge whether it makes my heart burn for the gospel (Luke 24:32). I don’t generally see the script. Wouldn’t that be a better marker of a sermon’s success than an academic analysis?

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@Oohgpwales Just in case you don’t see this while you’re in the southern hemisphere - https://t.co/JDcrKxL0Bf

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@RhunapIorwerth On a vaguely related note, did you ever try to look up Anglesey council in the phone book back in the day?

Was it under……
A (for Anglesey) ❌
Y (for Ynys Mon) ❌
M (for Mon) ❌
C (for cyngor or county or council) ❌

No, it was under I for “Isle of Anglesey County Council”

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@RhunapIorwerth ……and when I was working for commercial radio in Wrexham, the newsreader who talked about a plane belonging to “e-i-a-i…… sorry, that should be EL AL”. (Producer had presumably written El Al).

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Fire in a flat in block of sheltered accommodation for older people called Twr Llewelyn in Conwy. No official word on casualties, but ambulance treating one man.

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@ParchKevin @mjbeecroft @tracyjanejones @alededwardscym I think that counts as a change of forename, so would need a deed poll. IIRC, you can double-barrel maiden name and partners name together without one though. But you might need a definitive answer from someone better qualified than me: @chinmj ?

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@vengeoffrey @attentivepriest They only tend to get sooty if you use a snuffer on them. Blow them out and they stay white.

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People power in action; volunteers repaint the benches in Conwy’s Lancaster Square