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ANOTHER YEAR... Llangoed:

February is upon us already...  Clwb Garddio Llangoed the Christmas festivities and Gardening Club: the third the New Year seem to have Monday of the month at happened a lifetime ago. It’s 7.30pm, Llangoed Village not too late, though, for us to Hall; see also page 2. say 'Blwyddyn Newydd  Martial Arts: every Dda/Happy New Year' to Monday, Tuesday and all of our readers. Friday, all at Llangoed The Puffin cannot survive Village Hall: without the help that it (1) karate for 3-6-year- receives from its friends and olds, 4.30pm-5.00pm (2) karate for 7-12-year- supporters, sponsors and donators, anonymous or December 2010: , hiding behind the trees on a small hill olds, 5.15pm-6.00pm otherwise. These include The off the path between Llangoed and Lleiniog (J Briggs) (3) habit fitness class,

Bull Hotel, Janet Bell Gallery, 6.15pm-6.45pm Bishopsgate House Hotel, the  (4) adult kick-boxing, Tavern on the Bay, Echo 7.00pm-8.00pm. Beach, Spar, , and  Knitting Club: the third McColl’s, Llangoed, to name Monday of the month at just a few...apologies to Pont y Brenin hub, anybody whose name isn’t 2.00pm-3.00pm. mentioned; our anonymous supporters will know who  Clwb Ifanc Ffermwyr they are! Llangoed Young

To all of you: a big 'thank you' Farmers Club: every Monday, 7.30pm-9.00pm, from all of us at The Puffin, in (not and our best wishes for 2019. Llangoed) Community

The winter weather was December 2010: looking from , Llangoed, towards , Hub, Maes Gwyn. unseasonably mild and with the in the background (J Briggs) Telephone Delyth Owen surprisingly dry until the end on 01248 810385 for more of January, when it became information; see much more wintry. For a Llanddona below, and also flavour of it, feast your eyes page 3. on a couple of beautifully wintry-looking photographs of  Llangoed WI: the first a few years ago from The Wednesday of the month at 2.00pm, Llangoed Village Puffin’s archives. Hall; see also page 2.

 Zumba: every WHAT’S HAPPENING Wednesday, 6.30pm- WHERE 7.30pm, Llangoed Village Hall. Here’s our usual round-up of  Whist group: alternate what’s on in the locality. It doesn’t cover everything 31 December 2018: roll on 2019! Llanddona’s new Village Hall in the Thursdays, 1.30pm- making; see page 2 for an update (A Perrott) 3.00pm, Pont y Brenin Hub. that’s on, so if you think that an event is missing and should be mentioned, do let us know,  Men’s Shed: for men aged 18-108: the chance to please; our contact details and submission deadlines are meet and chat. Every Thursday at 10.00am, Pont y Brenin always given on page 8. Hub.

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 Bingo: the third Friday of the month at 7.00pm, Pont y  Antiques & collectors’ fair: the third Sunday of the month, Brenin Hub. 10.00am-4.00pm, at the Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure

Llanddona: Centre; refreshments are available. Contact morganfairs@ hotmail.com or telephone 07516 277794 for information/  Neuadd Bentref Newydd Llanddona New Village Hall: the bookings old Village Hall finally closed late last year, ending 84 years of service to the community with a bumper Christmas Fair  Players Amateur Dramatic Society: A Night at the on 1 December. This Movies, a homage to means that organisations cinema and the 'glamour' that used to use it are of Hollywood and the taking a rest or are using Silver Screen at an alternative venue for Beaumaris Town Hall, the time being. Friday 22 February and Saturday 23 February at Works to the new Village 7.30pm; see also page 5. Hall – the old primary school – started before

Christmas. External works CLWB GARDDIO were well under way within LLANGOED GARDENING days, including the construction of access CLUB

ramps. Another gardening year has At the time of writing it is started and, at the time of hoped that the new writing we have had some premises will be opened in very mild and dry days to the spring/early summer, follow on from the dry and still so keep your eyes open Christmas period and start of locally and on Facebook the new year. Bulbs are well for updates: https://www. on their way and some facebook.com/groups/ people even have snowdrops Llanddona/. in flower. The birds are staring to twitter, so let’s hope  & that spring is on its way. Dog Training Club: usually meets every Llangoed Gardening Club Wednesday at Llanddona ended 2018 with a very Village Hall at 8.00pm, but enjoyable meal at Harry’s

is taking a break until the Bistro, and we look forward new Village Hall opens in the spring; the monthly dog walk now to a varied programme of speakers and visits for 2019, towards the end of each month is still taking place. For starting on 21 January with a presentation by Anna Williams more information contact Andrew Perrott at ajbperrott@ from North Wildlife Trust. yahoo.co.uk. We wish all our members a very happy and healthy new year,  Llanddona Book Reading Club: the second Tuesday of and look forward to seeing you all. Meetings take place on the the month at the Owain Glyndŵr pub. For more information third Monday of the month at 7.30pm at Llangoed Village Hall. contact Kirsty Simpson at kirstyalisonsimpson@ For more information please contact Jean Whitehead on hotmail.com. 01248 490813.

 Village Knit Club: every Monday at the Owain Glyndŵr (Keith Whitehead)

pub at 7.00pm. For more information contact Meg Marsden on 07913 223435. LLANGOED WI Beaumaris: November: at our meeting on 7 November three of our  Pioneers Walking Group: every Wednesday, 2.00pm at members – Sue Flack, Jean Whitehead and Margaret Furlong the Canolfan Iorwerth Rowlands Centre, Steeple Lane. – had a favourite item with them and gave us the story Telephone Howard Jackson on 01248 810050 for more connected to them. This was very well done by each of them information. and was very interesting.

 Beaumaris Film Night: the first Thursday of the month at The winners of the competition were (1st) Chris Linford, (2nd) 7.30pm at the Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre. Beti Brimecombe, (3rd) Anne Lindley, and the winner of the Telephone 01248 811200 or e-mail enquiries@ raffle was Sue Flack. canolfanbeaumaris.org.uk for more information. December: at our meeting on 5 December we made a  Table top sale: the first Sunday of the month, 10.00am- Christmas tree and decorated Christmas cards with Gwyneth 4.00pm, at the Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre; Adams. She had a table full of all sorts of interesting and refreshments are available. Telephone 01248 811200 or e- colourful bits and bobs to decorate our cards and a selection mail [email protected] for more of different shaping/crimping paper scissors and a press for information. making stars, so there was a lot of fun.

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The winners of the yr hen Neuadd competition were Bentref. Hefyd (1st) Olga Lloyd- oedd yna cwpl o Jones, (2nd) bobl wnaeth Margaret Charles, cymryd rhan yn y (3rd) Anne Lindley, gwasaneth and the winners of Nadolig yng the raffle were Nghapel Peniel. Margaret Furlong Cinio Nadolig neis and Stephanie iawn yn y Dummzer. Arms,

January: at our Biwmares i gorffen meeting on 9 y blwyddyn i ffwrdd. December, Jane Marsh from the Clwb Ffermwyr Woodland Trust Ifanc Llangoed gave us a very hefyd wedi gorfod interesting and dweud ei hwyliau illustrated talk diwethaf i’r hen (with the voice of Neuadd Bentref

Sean Bean, no Llanddona. Rydym less), about the work of the Woodland Trust. It noted that ni’n lwcus iawn I cael ddefnyddio yr adran bwyllgor yn Maes Great Britain has the smallest percentage of woodland in Gwyn, Llanddona. Europe. As WI members of the Anglesey Federation of WIs, A busy time! We have had a busy time in Llangoed Young some of us have been participating in monitoring certain trees Farmers. Wales Air Ambulance came to speak to us. Elin in our area over the past 12 months, choosing trees in the Owen did a great Halloween party with games for us all. We area by type as listed by the Trust, looking at their size by went out on a trip to Halen Môn Brynsiencyn, which we really measuring them, and their health by observation and enjoyed. We also had a quiz night in Rugby Club photographs. with all the other clubs. In December we had a stall in the old The winners of the competition were (1st) Margaret Furlong, Village Hall. . A couple of us also took part in a carol service nd rd (2 ) Edna Price, (3 ) Jenny Martin Jones, and the winner of and did some readings in the Capel Peniel Christmas Service. the raffle was Norma Martin. We had a cracking Christmas

Meetings: meetings begin at meal/party in the Liverpool Arms, Beaumaris, to end the 2.00pm on the first year Llangoed Young Wednesday of each month in Farmers also said goodbye to Llangoed Village Hall. We are the Llanddona Village Hall. a lively group of mixed ages, We’ve had a great time there so, ladies, do feel welcome to over the years and we are join us. very grateful to the (Anne Lindley) Committee for its use. We are lucky enough to be able to

carry on with Young Farmers CLWB IFANC FFERMWYR in the Maes Gwyn hall in LLANGOED YOUNG Llanddona.

FARMERS CLUB

(Amy Pritchard) Llangoed Young Farmers and members of the Wales Air Ambulance Team Amser prysur! Rydym ni (via L Hennessey) wedi cael amser prysur yng LLANGOED FOOTBALL Nghlwb Ffermwyr Ifanc Llangoed. Rydym ni wedi CLUB: CHRISTMAS 2018 cael ymwelad o’r Ambiwlans RAFFLE WINNERS Awyr Cymru hefyd. Gwnaeth Here’s a list of the winners of Elin Owen barti Calan Gaeaf Llangoed Football Club’s wych gyda gemau i ni i gyd. A Christmas 2018 Raffle. hefyd wnaethom ni mynd ar daith i Halen Môn, All prizes have been claimed.

Brynsiencyn, mi naeth pawb 1 £20 Midland Tapas voucher: cael hwyl yno. Tracey (Llangoed number) 2 Sunday lunch for two, the Harp, Wnaethom ni hefyd cael Bangor (Beaumaris number) noson cwis yn Clwb Rygbi 3 £20 voucher Seawake Ribride trip: Llangefni hefo i gyd o’r Trevor ( number) 4 Afternoon tea for two, the clwbiau eraill. Yn Rhagfyr Bulkeley, Beaumaris: Hannah wnaethom ni cael stondin yn Llangoed Young Farmers at Halen Môn, Brynsiencyn (L Hennessey) (Llangoed number)

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5 Two vouchers, Flip Out leol yn Llangoed. Trampoline Park, (Llangoed number) Bydd y confensiwn yn para 6 Pair of John Deere child’s overalls wythnos, gan ddechrau ar 10 (mobile number) 7 £40 Vitaplex treatment: Steve Mawrth a chloi gyda diwrnod (mobile number) agored i’r cyhoedd ar ddydd 8 Bottle vodka (Llangoed number) Sadwrn 16 Mawrth. Y nod yw

9 Bottle whisky: Kath (Beaumaris dathlu’r sgiliau traddodiadol number) sy’n gysylltiedig â’r hen ddull 10 Castle Garage petrol voucher: hwn o reoli coetir. Dion (Llangoed number)

11 Christmas cake: Emma (mobile Gan ddefnyddio’r adnoddau number) naturiol, cynaliadwy sydd ar 12 Christmas cake: Craig (mobile gael ar Ynys Môn, bydd yn number) gyfle i ddysgu technegau ar 13 Wine: Wendy (Llangoed number) gyfer defnyddio deunyddiau a 14 Wine: Rhys (Beaumaris number) gasglwyd o goetiroedd wedi’u 15 Wine: John (mobile number) bondocio, gan gynnwys 16 Christmas pudding (mobile number) 19 October 2018: the BAAFTAs event at the Bulkeley Hotel, Beaumaris Aberlleiniog. Bydd y Left, going up: Keevan Anker, Stroma Pallett, Jill Anker, Arfon Thomas, confensiwn yn annog pobl i A big 'thank you' to all for Belinda Thomas ddefnyddio deunyddiau supporting the raffle and Centre, going up: Bethan Jarrett (her brother Jude won the Junior Giant wedi'u bondocio, gan roi weekly draw! Pumpkin of the Year competition) on Fergal Jarrett’s knees; Chrissie gwerth i gynnyrch coed lleol a Newsham; Steve Blight Right, going up: Andrew Dixon (Chairman, (Owen Williams) Beaumaris Allotment Society); Ian Davies, Sulwen Roberts, Vanessa hybu safleoedd newydd o goetiroedd wedi’u bondocio, Greveson (J Anker) a fydd yn gwella amrywiaeth BEAUMARIS ALLOTMENT ecoleg bywyd gwyllt a SOCIETY: THE BAAFTAS thirwedd Ynys Môn.

The 2018 BAAFTAs Yn ystod yr wythnos, cynhelir (Beaumaris Annual Awards tri gweithdy deuddydd, gyda for the Allotments) rounded phob un ohonynt yn edrych ar off an eventful year. ddefnyddio coeden benodol wedi’i bondocio drwy greu The Beaumaris Allotment cynnyrch traddodiadol o’i Society’s final awards list is phren. Ar y dydd Sul a’r dydd given below. Llun, byddwn yn defnyddio  The Joan Hopkin Award pren onnen i greu gatiau hollt Junior Giant Pumpkin Grower of pum-bar gyda hoelion wedi’u the Year Winner: Jude Jarrett (plot 14a) gwneud â llaw. Bydd y Highly commended: Bethan Jarrett sesiwn hyfforddiant yn cael ei (plot 14a) gynnal gan James Carpenter  The Joan Hopkin Cup o Goed Llwynonn. Ar y dydd

Heaviest pumpkin 17 November 2018: From left to right: Rhian Wyn Owen (RNLI); Matt Day Mawrth a’r dydd Mercher, Winner: Stroma Pallett (plot 6) (RNLI); Andrew Dixon (Chairman, Beaumaris Allotment Society); bydd y meistr gwaith  The Bulkeley Hotel Award Paul Blackwell (RNLI); Claire Williams (Assistant Manager, The Bull Hotel, glasgoed, Mike Bithall, yn Best scarecrow Beaumaris); Bill Hopkin (Beaumaris Allotment Society); Will Roberts defnyddio pren cyll i ddangos Winners: Arfon & Belinda Thomas (RNLI); Tony Green (Red Boat, Beaumaris) (J Anker) (plot 25) sut i wneud clwydi 'defaid' Highly commended: Beaumaris  The Janet Bell Award chwe throedfedd, ac ar y dydd Iau a’r dydd Gwener bydd yr Beavers (plot 42) Best shed enwog Mandy Coates yn defnyddio pren helyg i wehyddu Winners: Paul & Cheryl Howard  The Happy Valley Pavilion Award (plot 32) basgedi gyda myfyrwyr ei chwrs hyfforddiant. Bydd y niferoedd Best newcomer  The Ronnie Parry Award sy’n cael cymryd rhan yn y gweithdai hyn wedi’u cyfyngu Winner: Steve Blight (plot 36a) For services to the Allotment (oddeutu 8 i bob sesiwn) a bydd pawb sy’n cymryd rhan yn Community  The Keevan and Jill Anker Award cael mynd â’i gampwaith adref. Winner: Chrissy Newsham (plot 27) Tallest sunflower Winner: Jill Anker (plot 3)  The C M Haynes Cup I gloi’r wythnos, ar y dydd Sadwrn, cynhelir Diwrnod Agored i’r For outstanding commitment to cyhoedd a fydd yn cynnwys arddangosiadau, gweithdai a  The Castle Garden Award the Allotments Society gwybodaeth ymarferol ar yr uchod, yn ogystal ag ar greu Longest runner bean Winner: Jill & Keevan Anker Winner: Ian Davies (plot 49b) (plot 3, plot 21) siarcol, chwilota a sgiliau byw yn y gwyllt, celf a chrefft ysgol goedwig, plannu coed a gwrychoedd, impio a thocio coed (Jill Anker) ffrwythau.

Bydd y rhai sy’n cymryd rhan yn y gweithdy yn dod yn fwy WLWM EIRIOL ONFENSIWN REFFTAU C S : C C hyderus a chymwys o ran defnyddio, diogelwch a chynnal a BONDOCIO/COPPICING CRAFTS CONVENTION chadw amrywiaeth o offer gan gynnwys bilwgau, cyllyll

Confensiwn Crefftau Bondocio: mae prosiect Cwlwm Seiriol deugarn, tocwyr, sisyrnau tocio, cynion a cheffyl llyfnu. yn falch iawn o gyhoeddi y bydd ail Gonfensiwn Crefftau Byddant hefyd yn dysgu sgiliau goroesi syml, gan gynnwys Bondocio Ynys Môn yn cael ei gynnal yn y warchodfa natur cynnau tân, adeiladu cysgodfan a gwaith gof sylfaenol.

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Bydd marchnad crefftau lleol Those participating will gain a lluniaeth ar gael hefyd. increased confidence and

Am fwy o wybodaeth neu i competence in the use, gofrestru ar unrhyw un o’r safety and maintenance of a gweithdai, cysylltwch â Delyth variety of tools including Phillipps, Swyddog Prosiect billhooks, drawknives, Cwlwm Seiriol, ar 01248 loppers, secateurs, chisels 725710 neu 07815 709240, and shave horse. They will neu drwy e-bostio delyth@ also learn simple survival mentermon.com. skills including fire starting, shelter building and basic Coppicing Crafts blacksmithing. A local craft Convention: the Cwlwm marketplace and Seiriol project is excited to nd refreshments will also be announce that Anglesey’s 2 available. Coppice Crafts Convention will take place at the local For more information or to nature reserve in Llangoed. register for any of the This will be a week-long workshops, contact Delyth convention, starting on 10 Phillipps, Cwlwm Seiriol March and culminating in a Project Officer, on 01248 725710 or 07815 709240, or public open day on Saturday 16 March. The aim is to Gareth, Mark and Jo in action at Cwlwm Seiriol’s event last year at Llangoed e-mail delyth@mentermon. (D Phillipps) com. celebrate the traditional skills associated with this ancient (Delyth Phillipps) form of woodland management. CASTLE PLAYERS: A Using the sustainable natural resources available on NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

Anglesey, participants will be Our homage to the golden trained in techniques utilising age of the cinema will take the materials collected from place at Beaumaris Town coppiced woodlands, Hall on Friday 22 February including Aberlleiniog. The and Saturday 23 February at convention will encourage the 7.30pm. There will be use of coppiced materials, cabaret-style seating, so why giving value to local timber not book a table with friends? products and promoting new coppice woodland sites which Tickets are priced at £12.50 and will include a buffet will improve the diversity of Anglesey’s landscape and At last year’s Woodland Festival, Plas Newydd, Llanfairpwll: making supper and glass of wine wooden spoons in a Cwlwm Seiriol workshop (D Phillipps) (more available to purchase), wildlife ecology. as well as entertainment and During the week there will be a Movie Quiz. What more 3 two-day workshops, each could you want on a dull specialising in the use of a February evening? specific coppiced tree by crafting a traditional product Tickets are available from the from its timber. On the Bulls Head Hotel and Tinkers Sunday and Monday, ash will be used to create cleft 5-bar & Belles, Castle Street,Beaumaris, or you may buy them on- gates with hand forged nails; the training session will be run by line via http://castleplayers.yapsody.com/. James Carpenter of Coed Llwynonn. On the Tuesday and See our poster on page 6. Wednesday, master greenwood worker Mike Bithall will be using hazel to teach the making of 6 foot ‘sheep’ hurdles and (Sharon Churchman Morris) on the Thursday and Friday the renowned Mandy Coates will use willow to weave baskets with her training course students. These workshops will have a limited number of participants OUR (NOT SO) NEW HOME IN LLANGOED

(approx 8 per session) and each will be able to take home Just over three years ago we moved to Llangoed from their creation. where I’d lived for 45 years and my wife for her whole life. The culmination of the week, Saturday 16 March, will be a public Open Day that will include demonstrations, workshops Llangoed is just a bit different! Listening to the accents we and practical information in the above, as well as in charcoal hear about the place it is obvious that we’re not the only making, foraging and bushcraft skills, Forest School arts and 'incomers' to the area, though I know many of you have been crafts, tree and hedgerow planting, fruit tree grafting and here a lot longer than us. However, we also hear a lot of pruning. Welsh accents and language, so many of you are either local

[email protected] 5 OF 8 The Puffin  ISSUE 26 FEBRUARY 2019 born, or from Wales at least. I that not all of Anglesey is hilly thought it might be interesting but my part is. Did you like for you in particular to hear a that: 'my' part? I cannot tell few of our thoughts about our you the pleasure that writing move: why we came and that gave me. From our whether we have any regrets, windows we can see glorious for example. (what I think they call

I grew up in Devon, a part of 'pastoral') scenery in one the world to which, for all my direction and and life, people have headed for the Straits in the other direction. holidays. For me, though – as a teenager with hormones – it Then there are the villages, was a dump; there was towns and beaches of the nothing to do, and when area. Many Anglesey villages you’ve seen one tree you’ve – and, indeed, Welsh villages seen them all! To be fair, in generally – are not pretty in later life I did appreciate my the conventional sense (well, childhood home (in in the Devon sense, anyway). retrospect, definitely paradise In general, they’re not on Earth), but it occurred to beautiful little whitewashed me that some of you, like me, cottages with roses around might find it hard to know why the windows and doors. outsiders find somewhere, They’re often rather grey, but which to you is just home, so they have a sense of appealing. permanence about them.

To be honest, it’s a bit hard to They’re built as working know where to start. We lived places and to last. Bangor in a very pleasant part of may not be the biggest city in Manchester on a leafy lane the UK but it has a hell of a overlooking a golf course, but High Street. With the student if we wanted to go anywhere body in particular and its ...as soon as we got to the regular markets occupying end of our road we were in the street, it has a feeling of heavy traffic, almost around bustling busy-ness about it. the clock. We have been amused hereabouts to see is a working the occasional road sign town with everything you connected to road works actually need available, advertising 'long delays'. including just about the What?! A long delay?! So far, world’s best hardware shop. we’ve had to wait perhaps Our own village, Llangoed, is five minutes. I can assure you a welcome relief from the that 'long delay' is a phrase hecticness (I may have just which must be taken in invented that word) of context. The other day, too, I holiday-time Beaumaris. I found myself in a traffic was fascinated to see children going to the queue. There were two cars Snowdonia from Anglesey: brrr..., with Ffridd Ddu and playground dumping their in front of me and at least one Moel Wnion looking decidedly chilly (J Nunn) behind. Heavy traffic, bikes on the pavement indeed...and the temporary outside in the knowledge that traffic lights are often set up they would still be there when to turn green as you they get back...this from approach as there is often someone who, as a family of nothing coming the other five, had at least four bikes way. Bliss! stolen over a number of years. That’s not to say that I Then of course there is the don’t appreciate Beaumaris, scenery, which is stunning! with such a wonderful For me after living for 40+ atmosphere in season; I want years in a flat part of to shout out 'I live here you Manchester I have to tell you know; I’m not a tourist' (what that the hills can almost move we used to call a 'grockle' in me to tears. I had forgotten Devon). how important the rolling hills What a contrast! The Dingle, Llangefni: tranquil reflections on a summer’s of Devon were to me. I know day (J Nunn) The island appears to be

The Puffin  ISSUE 26 FEBRUARY 2019 6 OF 8 www.facebook.com/groups/llanddona absolutely cross-crossed with disease and depression. stunning walks. I’ve described  Loneliness is likely to a couple close at hand in increase your risk of death earlier articles: the walk to by 29%. 'our' local castle, Aberlleiniog, Older people and the walk down to the sea from Caim.  The number of over-50s We’ve also been totally experiencing loneliness is seduced by the beauty of set to reach two million by various parts of the coastal 2025/2026; this compares path, the nature reserves and with c.1.4 million in the Dingle at Llangefni...and 2016/2017; a 49% the beaches?...to die for! increase in 10 years.

We’ve still a lot to discover A stony beach, perhaps, but what a beautiful spot, no matter what the  There are 1.2 million and visit, but Llanddona, weather! Puffin Island and the lighthouse from the breach at Trwyn Du/Black chronically lonely older Newborough, , Point, Penmon; the lighthouse has been unmanned since 1922, and was people in the UK. Penmon, , and so converted to solar power in 1996 (A Perrott)  Half a million older people on, and often with cafés and go at least five or six days restaurants serving tasty a week without seeing or food, often produced locally. speaking to anyone at all.

I leave the best to last: as a  51% of all people aged 75 small child I moved with my and over live alone. parents to a village in North  40% of all older people Devon. When my parents left (about 3.9 million) say that 27 years later they were still the television is their main classed as 'incomers'! We’re company. 'incomers' to this beautiful  There are over 2.2 million corner of the world, but have people aged 75 and over been made to feel so living alone in Great welcome by everybody, Britain, an increase of 24% regardless of where, when over the past 20 years. and how, and in return we Llanddona beach from the heights above it, looking in the direction of and its uncrowded sandy beaches (J Nunn) People of all ages cheered on Wales at the Euros (admittedly easy to do since England gave up so soon!).  A study by The Co-op and the British Red Cross reveals So...if any of our readers are fellow 'incomers', well, aren’t we that over 9 million people in the UK across all adult ages lucky? (more than the population of ) are either always or

(John Nunn) often lonely.  Research commissioned by Eden Project initiative The Big

Lunch found that disconnected communities could be THE CAMPAIGN TO END LONELINESS costing the economy of the UK £32 billion every year.

When MP Jo Cox was brutally murdered on the streets of her Families

Yorkshire constituency in June 2016 it probably appeared that  A survey by Action for Children found that 43% of 17-25- her past achievements and her plans to tackle loneliness year-olds who used its their service had experienced would die with her. problems with loneliness, and that of this same group less Her determination and energy had so impressed her than 50% said that they felt loved. colleagues, however, that two of them, Seema Kennedy  Action for Children has also reported 24% of parents (Conservative) and Rachel Reeves (Labour), took over the surveyed said they were always or often lonely. work of the Jo Cox Commission to tackle loneliness and Disabled people worked with the dozen or so charities that Jo Cox had already co-opted, and its work has progressed steadily since then.  Research by Sense has shown that up to 50% of disabled people will be lonely on any given day. Loneliness is harmful to our physical health and mental health, More information as well as being a deeply painful experience. It is seen by many as one of the largest health concerns that we face, and A lack of space prevents this article from doing more than has significant implications for health and social care services. touch on a subject that will almost certainly affect somebody Why? Here are some facts. that you know.

Health risks There’s a lot of useful information on the Campaign’s website, https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/, though,  Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as including some useful publications, so do take the time to look bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. at it.  Loneliness is worse for you than obesity.  Lonely people are more likely to suffer from dementia, heart Age Concern’s website, https://www.ageuk.org.uk, is another useful source of information. disease and depression.  Loneliness is likely to increase your risk of death by 29%. (Andrew Perrott)

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RIGHTS OF WAY: Visit http://www.restoring for RESTORING THE RECORD therecord.org.uk/buy more information. Like many rural areas, our (Andrew Perrott) beautiful corner of Anglesey

is crisscrossed by a maze of public rights of way. Some BROADENING The are well-used and others less Puffin’S APPEAL so, and many are probably unused because they have We hope that you enjoy faded from the collective reading The Puffin. Help us memory. to broaden our appeal...

Many people will be unaware, Do you have a favourite walk, like I was, that unrecorded a good recipe, a favourite and under-recorded historic activity or an unusual public rights of way are in pastime, for example? Do danger; they will be you take part in any activity extinguished on 1 January which you think might appeal

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