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KayeMcLelland
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Late-onset Theology student; otherwise researcher of 17thC sermons; sometime lecturer in Ren Lit; Worship leader (CinW); queer; disabled; parent of 5; contralto; liminal creature; now living in Wales; owned by 2 cats & a galgo; she/they.
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On Sunday I conducted our new little choir (12 people) at our united service for Christ The King (including singing the tenor line on my own, even when I turned round and conducted the congregation for the last verse). I love this pic (have sent it to my old singing teacher and my band-master dad)
A short, middle-aged human with short, curly, grey hair, in a long black coat and gold boots, conducting and singing in front of (actually behind - like, to the East of) a wooden rood screen in a medieval church.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I thought I would get nice cosy pictures of the dog photogenically asleep in front of the fire ... instead I got this!
A ginger sight hound in a space themed fleece, sprawled obliviously in front of the fire with his bum hanging off the dog bed, surrounded by squeaky dog toys
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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And then @beckymynett.bsky.social dobbed me in to @quiresandplaces.com and they made my (fever) dreams come true!
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus to the tune of What a Friend We Have in Jesus, as done by @QuireMemes
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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mae o wedi blino nawr!
Gingerhaired sighthound in a fleecy jumper, asleep halfway off his bed
October 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Aethon ni i gastell y Waun heddiw, gyda'r ci.
Gingerhaired sighthound in a blue coat, standing in front of some grass in the grounds of Chirk Castle
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Also
An image of Margaret Cavendish, author of The Blazing World (1666)
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Theatr Clwyd heno
Sign that says Cymraeg a Saesneg Romeo a Juliet gan William Shakespeare. Cyfieithiad Cymraeg gan J. T. Jones
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I think we're happier about this garden visitor than the other birds are!
a sparrowhawk sitting on top of a stone wall. There are some thin bits of foliage in the foreground. The image is slightly blurry round the edges and was taken through old glass.
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I wanted a literal translation but Google Translate has done me a heresy!
screen shot from Google Translate. A line from 'O come all ye faithful'. The Welsh says 'Gair y Tragwyddol yma'n ddyn ymddengys' (approximately 'Word of the Eternal, here appearing as a man' but the translation says 'The Word of the Eternal here is a man it seems', which is very much not the message
October 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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On Saturday evening I was Judas in a singthrough of Jesus Christ Superstar in my front room. This is the moment that Annas started pelting me with chocolate coins!
A middle-aged woman with short, grey, curly hair, wearing a black tshirt that says 'Judas' in white lettering, and black cargo trousers. She is singing from a tablet and shielding her head from the blurry silver shapes that are coming towards her. In the background on the left is a taller human singing angrily from some sheet music. In the background on the right is the lefthand side of a seated human playing an upright piano.
September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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When you have to step in last minute to be the official Anglican at the Owain Glyndŵr service, and you want to look smart but join in!
Me from the knees down: smart grey skirt, red tights, gold boots.
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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This was my best ever picture of a snail.
A snail on a wet pavement. The rain has temporarily stuck a small, blue flower to the snail's shell.
September 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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We're dog sitting Gadget (my eldest's dog). Bedtime walk achieved ... number of wees: 3 number of frogs eaten: 0 (but they both wanted to)
Black tan and white small dog (jack Russell x border collie) in the foreground, ginger long dog (galgo) behind, both snuffling in the same snuffle mat for treats
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Mozart says hi, but he's too sleepy to put his tongue out.
A long dog stretched out very very long on a bed
August 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I went to a needlefelting workshop and (badly) made a sheep! (I had to be given a special thicker needle for clumsy people because I broke my first 2 needles in 5 minutes!).
Anyway, I've named her Margery and here she is with all her friends!
A light purple sheep with a dark purple head, sitting on a wooden chest. There is a white wall behind, with a red and hold curtain to one side A row of different coloured felt sheep on top of a dry stone wall with actual sheep fields behind.
August 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Me (short middle aged woman with short grey asymmetrical curly hair and glasses) wearing dalmatic (Anglican poncho type garb for deacon at mass - only liturgical deacon in my case) in green brocade (for ordinary time) with red bands. Behind my right shoulder my smiley wife in a purple top. Behind my left shoulder my teenaged daughter in a horizontal striped cream. Beige, and black jumper. They both wear glasses too and they're both at least 6 inches taller than me.
July 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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We've got one on the hill behind our house that's left over from the 1918 eisteddfod
Small Stone circle against a sunrise and some silhouettes of trees
July 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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ci yn yr afon!
A ginger haired sighthound in a turquoise harness and lead, lying in a very clear Welsh river with stones on the bottom.
July 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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This morning's short people's harvest (taller person harvest later)
Wooden trug containing (from left to right) some broad beans, a plastic tub of gooseberries and nasturtiums, a plastic tub of blackcurrants with 7 raspberries on top, and a plastic tub of wild strawberries
July 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Gwasanaeth ffarwelio Parch Cass yn Eglwys Crist Y Bala (cymanfa Ganu!)
Eglwys Crist Y Bala, yn edrych i'r dwyrain
June 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Wow! Martha made vegan ice-cream with wild strawberries from the garden!
A light green bowl with a dark green rim, containing pink ice-cream and a metal spoon.
June 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sesiwn Jamio! ❤️🎸🎷🎤
A beige background with flowers and leaves advertising July's church events (in Welsh). On the 27th July there is a 'Sesiwn Jamio' (Jam session)
June 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Just back from evensong at the beautiful pilgrim church of Saint Michael's at Llanfihangel. What a little stunner! ⁸
View down the aisle of a tiny church with a green east wall and arched east window. Small wooden pews on each side and a wooden roof.
June 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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At least someone is happy about the warm weather #SpanishGreyhound #Galgo
A ginger haired sighthound with a turquoise harness and green tracker, lying in the sun. Wonky leg in the foreground.
June 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Gweddi boreol.
The East window of the Lady Chapel at the church in Corwen. Sun is shining through the window and making a pattern on the wall, the cross is in silhouette against the window, in the foreground is an altar rail, simple altar with white (Easter) altar frontal, two large candlesticks, and a book stand.
May 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM