@mateoy
Author of Seascape - Notes from a changing coast published by Calon Books in 2025. Founder of walking site, Tramping, and Executive Nature - biz writing & comms coaching. Also wrote Return to My Trees, Trust Inc. and lots more. matthewyeomans.com
Looking at the news this morning about targeting desalination plants, it might be worth revisiting Michael Klare's insightful book from the early 2000s titled Resource Wars.
It's a funny old St. David's Day when you find yourself in Malaga writing a book chapter about the effect of the Welsh Methodist Revival on the uplands of Wales. Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi Hapus!
Navel gazing. Report the story, don't make it about you....
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/i...
Really @nation.cymru....this is a story? There was a reason I gave up on Wales Online and this isn't it.
It's a really good book that takes a complicated period of history and brings it to life for people like myself. It informed my last book about the coast of Wales and continues to do so with my new project about the uplands of Wales.
Just started watching BBC Wales' Boom Town - the story of how Merthyr Made the World. It should be great....and then they outsource their own research and credibility to an AI LLM and reproduce it (gushingly) as if it's fact without checking its output. Words fail...
Is she walking the chutzpah trail?
What fantastic advice for this era of ours...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
βWith student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of βdebtβ that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.β
Lewis Goodall
A wonderful display in Waterstones Cardiff's window!
'Return to My Trees' by @mateoy.bsky.social is @waterstones.bsky.social Wales Book of the Month for January π
Make sure to pop into your local Waterstones to browse.
If this was your grandfather....you'd put him in a home.
While we're on the subject of national security.....
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rather than bothering to read every news headline in 2026, I've come up with a workaround.
HED: There is no precedent....
Next story.
Now available in paperback!
Order your copy of 'Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands' by @mateoy.bsky.social through the link below!
π www.uwp.co.uk/book/return-...
I'm hoping there is some great market research behind Wales Online's decision to instigate a paywall for premium content. But seriously, have they read their own content?
Now in Paperback! βThis is an inspiring story about one man's determination and the power of trees. It should not be missed.β Dame Judi Dench
A new years resolution that you will actually want to keep? Reading more!
Start off with @waterstones.bsky.social's January Wales Book of the Month, 'Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands' by @mateoy.bsky.social!
This is unverified but abhorrent if it is real.
Ouch...I was keen to be swayed by the appeal of Tiny Forests.
A nice start to 2026 - @waterstones.bsky.social featuring the new paperback edition of Return to My Trees.
Filth personified
Bet that Joseph Nye never thought Monroe would come back to trump his soft power....
Cuba first by the sounds of things.
How to build an extremist army in plain sight. Wonder what it's real purpose might be?
I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Congrats!
Nailed on semi-finalists then.....π
Nice to see @mjtoma.bsky.social bringing some calm and gravitas to the amped up frenzy of Morning Joe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmht...
Covers of Seascape, Hafren, and The Water Remedy
Covers of Tir, Return to My Trees, and Shaping the Wild
Just one month to go! With only a few weeks until the big day, why not wrap up your present shopping with some books from our gift guide?
π www.uwp.co.uk/genre/Calon/
Who could have imagined that Andrew was so willing to make a sacrifice for Labour?
