I’m writing about it now, and though the Dilys Davies episode concerns Yes Cymru you’re right to extend it to Plaid Cymru.

You have a point about the ishoo cliques but I suspect Dr Dewi Evans will not mistake a melanoma for a wart, or a hernia for a gut worm. Some of those who have an ‘ishoo’ as their primary concern will move on to other fads, some will grow up, some will get a life, and those who seek money or status from the ishoo of the day will move elsewhere to satisfy their needs.

I don’t think there is any need for amputative surgery, but a prophylactic or an anti-biotic would be good, on party administration and candidate selection. This is useful for patient stability. This may result in the parasitic ishoo infection seeking host elsewhere, or possibly being re-absoarbed into functioning tissue.

The only surgery needed will be in the form of an attempt to reattach recently severed limbs like Cardiff West, and Llanelli. For recovery the doctor needs to be on-shift and present, otherwise the sickness will fester. It will inevitably grow to other areas. Should a doctor not be available, the trolley is loaded for the morgue. There are newborns are in the waiting room.

At the moment I feel like the experienced nurse standing by, awaiting instruction.

Sums it up nicely. However some of these ishoo driven cliques divert a great deal of attention and energy when collective energy is at a premium. Identifying and terminating them would be an immediate palliative and restorative procedure. Scalpels in the hands of likes of Dr Dewi Evans and Dr Dilys Davies could be applied with precision. Even Dr Dai Lloyd might pitch in. They could be counted upon to make less of a mess than likes of us wading in with billhooks, hatchets, cleavers etc

There are some in the independence body of Wales that appear to think that amputation is the solution to all illness. The abrasive personality held by Neil McEvoy is an in growing toenail, the cutting off the foot is not necessary. The views of Dilys on transgender recognition is a form of indigestion, removal of the bowel is not necessary. The independence movement in Wales need to learn that all headaches are not cancer; otherwise they will find the operation a success when the patient dies.

Just for you Gruff:

And:

Nice girl, only someone forgot to tell her how she should behave as a responsible politician. The same politicians that are now moaning about the language used in recent debates in Westminster!

It seems to be the flavour of the month when it comes to crude language by Welsh politicians. One in Y Senedd and the other at Westminster. Same horse, just a different jockey, and they both represent two political parties that seem to be joined at the hip. Sad.

I know, I know – I have a great respect for ravens myself. In fact as a boy my ambition was to have one as a pet. A pair always nested in the same place, about 500 yards from our homestead on Mynydd Bach. I wanted to steal a fledgling and tame it as my personal pet. How cool would that have been? Walking around with the other mountain lads, with a raven perched on my shoulder!

My father wouldn’t hear of it, and I got a lecture about them pairing for life and often living for over a century, so I was told never to disturb them.

I would have likened Deryn to vultures, but you don’t get many of those in Cymru do you? Besides, it was the mythological association that ravens have with death and bad omens, that made me liken Deryn to this mystical bird that brought death, bad omens and was associated with witchcraft and sorcery – quite fitting I thought. Especially as the Welsh name for raven is ‘cigfrân’, and they do congregate around carrion for their food.