Eisiau diwrnod allan i’r holl deulu’n rhad ac am ddim?
Dewch i Ffair Nadolig Menter Caerffili ym Maenordy Llancaiach Fawr ar y 30ain Tachwedd 2008.
Bydd yna gweithgareddau celf a chrefft i blant, dros 30 o stondinau gan fusnesau lleol, perfformiadau gan ysgolion lleol ac ymweliad gan Sion Corn!
Dyma’r manylion:
30ain Tachwedd 2008,
11yb-4yh Maenordy Llancaiach Fawr, Nelson
Mynediad am ddim
Nid oes llawer o lefydd i barcio yn Llancaiach Fawr, felly bydd Bws Wennol am ddim yn rhedeg o Somerfield, Nelson, i’r......
Menter Caerffili is a charity whose main objective is to promote the Welsh Language in the Communitites of Caerphilly County Borough. Our Christmas Fair at Llancaiach Fawr Manor is an excellent day out for the whole family and entry is free! There’ll be free arts and crafts activities for children, performances by local schools, a chance by buy unique gifts and foods from over 30 local businesses, and a visit from Father Christmas in his sleigh!
Here are the details:
30th November 11am - 4pm
Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Parking at Llancaiach Fawr is limited, but we will run a free shuttle bus from Somerfield,......
If Only I knew yesterday what I know today...
This evening I came back to Aberdare Coliseum to see Frank Vickery’s Erogeneous Zones for a second time this week.
I saw it from a different angle.
This new perspective was nothing to do with the change of seating.
More the fact I was alone.
“Alone” save a few hundred other theatregoers and my feelings for company.
This feeling of joyful alienation.
This feeling of enchantment.
This feeling of escape.
This feeling of being mesmerised listening to the rhythms of Frank’s writing.
This feeling of being delighted by split dialogue and conspiratorial narrative.
This feeling of sadness.
In a reverie in the play’s interval my thoughts dwelled on Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen.
At Rhydfelen, the drama department was for many...
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I just heard the 9:08 train to Cardiff Central roll past. For some reason, that made it official for me that Christmas is over.For those of you playing along at home, trains and buses don't run in Britain on Christmas Day or Boxing Day. Everything stops -- only the godless Spar stays open. Now that Christmas is passed, we'll slip into a half-speed routine for the next week, with everything again coming to a standstill on New Year's Day. It was a good Christmas, starting with Alesha Dixon winning "Strictly Come Dancing." I voted for her twice, which is a clear sign that I am coming unglued; I am phone voting for celebrities on camp television. I try telling myself that doing this is simply an extension of my love for all things British -- obsessing over reality television is a national...
If you haven't had enough Christmas spirit, my latest column is...
At the local WHAT SHOP in Penywaun we discovered a Santa stacking shelves on the eve of Christmas…
Mair - smartly dressed as Santa in the photo - works as part of the team at the local What Shop superstore near Penywaun.
As it’s Christmas week it’s the busiest time of year for staff at the What [...]...
This is Paul Simon and Steve Martin performing a sort of Christmas monologue. Reportedly the track comes from a "Saturday Night Live" rehearsal, but never made it to air for some reason. For our friends in the Home Nations, "Saturday Night Live" (or simply "SNL") is a long-running television programme that has served as the starting point for most of America's comedy catchphrases. Americans always struggle with the fact that SNL doesn't exist in Britain. We'll say something like, "It was better than 'Cats,'" and you will just sit there and stare at us in that way you always do.One thing I find interesting is that I can hear my own comedic timing in this. That's not surprising, I guess -- when I was a boy, I listened to Steve Martin records over and over and over (perhaps a questionable...
This picture both amuses and pains me. It is me, Sara, and Sara's best friend Michelle back in 1995. Damn it we were cool. So, so cool. Really cool.Maybe if I keep saying it to myself that will make it true.Great googly moogly, we were cool.Did I mention how cool we...
It feels like winter in Yr Hen Ddinas, which means that it is wet and windy and miserable. It's not all that cold, admittedly; by Minnesota standards it is spring-like. But the conditions make you want to stay inside, wrapped in a blanket and refusing to move, unless to shuffle to the kitchen for more port. This is Christmas in Cardiff.We are supposed to get 80 mph wind gusts overnight, but already the tree in our garden is dancing a strange sort of solitary mosh in the wind. On top of the house across the garden, there is a magpie clinging to a TV aerial (FTYPAH: "antenna"). He looks absolutely miserable and it strikes me as a particularly odd place for him to attempt to station himself. Surely birds instinctively understand things like wind and know better than to position themselves in...
Hirwaun Library is starting to glitter with trimmings … Christmas is coming soon!
Librarian Paul Wigley and the team at Hirwaun Public Library have put the trimmings up ready for Christmas and sent the following news :
Talkabout Team Surestart Session
Friday 7th 1.20pm - 3pm Talkabout Team Surestart session. Songs and activities for toddlers and mums
Weekly [...]...
Aberdare Police show their Community Spirit and help make the Santa Parade events in Aberdare run smoothly this week.
Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers from Aberdare and surrounding villages were at the event to help ensure everything ran smoothly.
Although it was cold, it wasn’t wet and many, many people came to line the route, see the procession with reindeers and the Town Christmas Lights being switched on by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Mayor Jane Ward.
There was an old-fashioned Town Cryer with bells and a horn, and Scooby Doo too!
In the photograph : Aberaman South PCSO Samantha Llewellyn Jones joins in the fun...
Richard Reyes (aka Pancho Claus) has commented on a post I wrote about him some time ago. With all due respect to any other famous people reading my blog, having Pancho Claus drop by is easily this blog's greatest moment (even better than when I encouraged Huw to drink a gallon of milk in an hour). Some day when I get time, I will take it upon myself to write the Wikipedia entry that Pancho Claus so rightfully...
Despite having hit the internet sales (big style), it was down to Swansea today for the house of DDWT in search of some bargains (well a half-hearted search for bargains).We went around quite a few shops - but avoided Next as it looked like a scene from the Arms Park in the early 70's (for those of you that don't know what I mean - packed like sardines and rather unpleasant). The visit to M&S was also quite amusing as the Menswear department had definately been taken over by lots of saga louts - I don't think I've ever seen such a ruck in M&S for mens trousers and jumpers!!Having said all that, in recent years when I've ever gone sale shopping I've been very aware of how much that good old human trait of good manners has gone out of the window (traded in for a bargain no doubt). Not...
To all my readers, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Stick with me, this site is going to undergo some changes in style during 2007, and that doesn’t mean by look.
I’m tired of the writing style that iis being used at the moment, as you can probably tell from the lack of posts.
Watch this space during January.
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Some time ago, my friend Anthony confided in me that he and another friend, Dan, had developed a sort of points-based system for mentions received on this blog. I recently found myself thinking about this running competition when I finally switched over to the new version of Blogger.For me, of course, the biggest difference in the two versions has been the end of my bullet-point system, and my attempting to use labels. I get the sense that I'm not using them to their full potential. But, how much potential could possibly exist in a label? Nevertheless, whatever-the-hell else labels are good for, they can at least keep track of who's winning Dan and Anthony's blog-mention battle. "Awesome," I thought, "from this point forward, 'Anthony' and 'Dan' will be labels. My only problem is that I...
Am I the only white person in the world who remembers Pancho Claus? He was a Mexican lowrider-Santa-Claus-fella in Houston who showed up everywhere when I was a kid. When my family moved to Minnesota, I was shocked and appalled that people there had never heard of him.There was at least one TV special featuring Pancho Claus bringing toys to all the cool girls and boys. His elves were a mix of Pachucos and cholos and at some point there was a mariachi band*. Most of Pancho Claus' actions involved standing at an angle and flipping a silver dollar. I remember, also, that at some point a kid laments that he will not see Pancho Claus because his family's house doesn't have a chimney."I don't use chimneys," says Pancho Claus. "I'm not getting this suit dirty."Apparently he's still around, but I...
What a great feeling it was this morning to get out of bed and not have to go to work. It was even better contemplating this routine for the next 10 days as well - bloody marvelous.I've decided to document my day in the form of pictures for a change and becuase I'm in a snap happy Christmas frame of mind. God how I love Christmas and all the festivities it brings. Anyway, as you can see from the picture below the Swansea Valley didn't escape the fog that has descended across the UK (and caused chaos) and it made somewhat bleak viewing outside this morning.My spirits were raised somewhat though by the sight of Mrs DDWT putting together some bacon and egg filled bagels. Upon munching them it felt like a flashback to the latter stages of our honeymoon in downtown New York in June 2000....
Remember to wear your Sunglasses in Aberdare this week for the Christmas Sales. There are bright red ’sale’ signs everywhere.
The garish signs enticing people to spend even more money adorn nearly every shop window in our humble little town in the Welsh Valleys.
The fifty per cent Boxing Day Sales started on Christmas Eve in Aberdare.
Aberdare is an eccentric town and so it’s no surprise to see that the Pound Shop in Canon Street are having a sale making many items… fifty pence. If they go any lower, they’ll be paying people to buy from them.
Let’s enjoy One last Christmas Carol for the year, to the tune of Jingle All The Way :
Chorus
Profits here, profits there, profits everywhere
Christmas time is funny we smell money in the air
Advertise,...
Merry Boxing Day everybody! Hope santa emptied his sack at the end of his bed and left you everything you so desired. Christmas in the Wynne resident was a lot quieter than previous years, some may actually argue it was decidedly unfestive. It didn't help with dad wrapping our presents at 10am Christmas Morning, in front of Soccer A.M., setting a new Wynne record. I even spent a huge amount of time online - ironically I spent ages reading this - though mainly speaking to Han.
I will share some of my new toys which I got online.
My main present is a smoothie maker. Yes, I do drink a lot of real fruit smoothies, (it's all I drink in coffee shops, being caffene intolerent). This gave mum licence to get me anything smoothie related including - but not limiting to - straws, books, fruit, nuts,...
Merry Christmas to all.
Nadolig Llawen i bawb.
Thank you for your support in 2006.
Diolch am eich cefnogaeth ym 2006.
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In the photograph, children of Ysgol Penderyn School in their very last concert in the old school buildings. School children, Headmaster Mr Williams and school staff, and parents are all looking forward to an exciting new school term in 2007. We wish the local school the very best and many more Christmas concerts in the new school building.
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I just wanted to wish anyone and everyone who reads my blog a Merry Christmas!Nadolig Llawen i pawb (that's Merry Christmas to everyone in Welsh).DDWT Junior is still fast asleep (as is Mrs DDWT) so I'm on t'internet trying to do some sale shopping on the Marks and Spencers site. Better dash and grab a bargain.Tech Tags: Christmas...
It has been a quiet, muted, almost sombre Christmas in Aberdare this year.
Local independent shops are feeling the pinch as there is less money to spend in the Aberdare economy.
The biggest employer in the Valley, Ferrari’s Bakery of Hirwaun, went into administration a few days before Christmas. They employ several hundred people in South Wales, many of them from the northernmost villages of the Cynon Valley.
Workers feel betrayed by a glib and cynical political elite who prosper in their jobs-for-life in Cardiff Bay, whilst they battle for the very basics : a job for next year.
Buying cakes for Christmas at Ferrari’s Bakery shop this week, it was hard to ignore the conversation amidst the bakery workers concerning the current Assembly Member for Cynon Valley, who recently...
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Merry Christmas to all.
Nadolig Llawen i bawb.
Thank you for your support in 2006.
Diolch am eich cefnogaeth ym 2006.
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Twas the night before Christmas and all throught the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse
Then all of sudden with a clicking and clacking a lone blogger leapt, a got a posting.
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Well it's not really, but seeing as it's Christmas Eve I wish it was as it never seems to snow at Christmas in these parts, well not for donkeys years anyway.With all the shopping done today has been a day of final preparation, prepare the food for the traditional Christmas dinner, make final arrangements with everyone for tomorrow and leave out a mince pie and glass of milk for Santa (oh and a carrot for Rudolph).As you can imagine DDWT Junior is thriving in all of the pre-Santa visit activities and is like a livewire to put it mildly. We've managed to get him to bed at his usual time of around 8pm but I've a feeling we're in for an early start tomorrow! But hey who can blame him, I remember those days well myself *chuckle*Talking of DDWT Junior, in order to keep him amused earlier...
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse
It was there Rhys sat
Bored off his tits
"I'll have another blogging party"
"They're surefire hits!"
He rang his dearest girlfriend Han
"Bring tunes or this party blows"
"I'll bring my iPod, and my Mac Powerbook"
"No way I'm I trusting your Windoze"
"Fine!" said Rhys, taking Han inside
When suddenly, there was a ringing door bell.
Four jolly americans came through the door!
They were, Merrick, Randi Jessica and Manuel
"Here you go Rhys!", said Manuel, "a gift"
"Wow" said Rhys, "A brand new xbox!"
But no time to speak more, the next guests arrived
Jake, Lottie, Jenny, and the rest of Punclox
It was just bloggers who came to these parties
Mates also flock to these do's
Guy, Sibley, Ian,...
Merry ChristmasNadolig LlawenFeliz NavidadHappy HanukkahHappy Sol InvictusHappy Quaid-e-Azaim's DayHappy Constitution DayAnd on and on and...
Hirwaun sparkles ever brighter at night as December 25th approaches.
Here are some photos from homes in the Maes-y-Cynon area of Hirwaun.
Click on the photograph and a larger version will appear on your screen.
Photo (above) Santa climbing the wall, perhaps looking for a chimney.
Photo (above) a neighbourly display in these semi-detached houses in Maes-y-Cynon, Hirwaun.
Photographs by Joan Rees.
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