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EDITORIAL Any photographs we use are first ALL SAINTS’ DAY – In north-east Derbyshire and south scanned and then the originals are 1st November Yorkshire villages, children would engage Welcome to edition No 22 of returned to their rightful owners so don’t in a bout of Jolly Minering. A local variant The Bônau Cabbage Patch. be shy or fearful in sending us your In the year 835 AD the on Penny for the Guy traditions, the aim We have put a lot of effort into photographs. It would be handy though if Roman Catholic Church was to raise money for sweets and preparing this edition for you and we you wrote your name and address on the made November 1st a fireworks. hope you enjoy it. It has all the usual back of the photo (in pencil) or you could church holiday to honour features plus, hopefully, some you will attach one of those ‘post-it-notes’. all the saints. This feast Their alms song started like this: find educating or amusing. Enjoy. day is called All Saints' Day. “We're three Jolly Miners, and we're not Thanks. ( The colour cover is only temporary – we worth a pin, All Saints' Day used to be known as All revert to our usual style next edition) . - Ed DATES FOR YOUR So give us a piece of coal and we'll make Hallows (Hallow being an old word the kettle sing”. DIARY meaning Saint or Holy Person). The feast day actually started the previous evening, THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS The song itself comes from an earlier the Eve of All Hallows or Halloween, time when the aim of the activity was to which has its origins in the Celtic feast of We would like to welcome our new 2nd Sept First Day of Ramadan gather coal, either for the 'bonfire hole', or nd Samhain, when people carried out sponsors to the magazine and hope that 22 Sept First Day of autumn simply to light fire to cook and 'make the th various activities to frighten away evil our association will be a long and 30 Sept Jewish New Year kettle sing'. nd spirits which were thought to accompany enjoyable one. 2 Oct End of Ramadan th the long hours of winter darkness. 9 Oct Day of Atonement Christians adopted the festival believing We would also like to express our thanks 21 st Oct Trafalgar Day and gratitude to all our sponsors without th that goodwill always conquers evil, and 24 Oct United Nations Day that Jesus, the light of the World, defeats REMEMBER, whose generous contributions this edition 26 th Oct Summer Time Ends REMEMBER of the magazine would not have been all the fear of darkness. 31 Oct Halloween possible. st On Saints' Day, Christians remember all 1 Nov All Saints Day Remember, nd We ask our readers to patronise our 2 Nov All Souls Day 'men of good will' (saints), great ones and remember the fifth of TH sponsors whenever possible and please 4 Nov Mischief Night forgotten ones, who have died through November th mention the Bônau Cabbage Patch when 5 Nov Guy Fawkes Night the ages. The gunpowder th you make your purchases. 9 Nov Remembrance Sunday treason and plot. th Saints are men and women from all ages 30 Nov Advent Day I see no reason why gunpowder treason th and all walks of life, who were 30 Nov St Andrews Day outstanding Christians. Some are martyrs Should ever be forgot. BÔNAU DEADLINES and they died for their faith. The church honours all of them. Guy Fawkes, twas his intent he deadline for the Christmas edition of CLOCKS GO To blow up king and parliament. T All Saints' Day, together with All Souls' Three score barrels were laid below The Bônau Cabbage Patch is 25 th BACK Day are know collectively as Hallowtide. th To prove old England's overthrow. October for your articles or reports or 20 'Spring Forward' October for any amendments to your and 'Fall Back' - By God's mercy he was catched advert. that's how to With a dark lantern and lighted match. MISCHIEF NIGHT – Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring remember when to change the clocks. th CONTACTING US This year, 2008, we 'Go Back' early 4 November Holler boys, holler boys, God save the Sunday morning October 26 - so King. To contact The Bônau Cabbage Patch remember to put your clocks back one or The Pwll Action Committee please call hour, officially at 1am GMT (2am BST) or November 4th is known as Mischief Night in some parts of the 755665 or 755260 or 777420 or drop for some of us that will be before we go My interest is in the future because country. This was the night when all sorts your articles or reports through our to sleep on Saturday night! I am going to spend the rest of my of naughty things were done - the main letterboxes at 43 or 53 or 81 Pwll Road or life there. idea being to put things in the wrong you can send us an e-mail at: Nostalgia is a thing of the past. place. [email protected] TO A PHENOMENAL WOMAN himself, 'Watch me make them A WALK ON THE whilst the owner was rounding up the scamper,'" she said. Earhart, who felt WILD SIDE sheep. Just as they were capturing the When I was in my last animal there was a mass breakout. younger days, a mixture of fear and pleasure, stood Shortly after they were sighted down in I weighed a few pounds her ground. As the plane swooped by, Believe it or not the Ger-Y-Coed. Where next? less, month of May turned something inside her awakened. "I did DAY 2 I needn't hold my tummy in out to be the warmest not understand it at the time," she Some of the sheep were still at large and To wear a belted dress. since 1914, where mean temperatures said, "but I believe that little red had ventured across the main road But now that I am older, were generally a few degrees above towards the park, plenty of juicy grass I've set my body free; airplane said something to me as it average. down there; surely they would be There's comfort of elastic swished by." On December 28, 1920, Just missing the rounded up today. That’s what we all Where once my waist would be. pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that previous edition, the thought. Inventor of those high-heeled shoes would forever change her life. "By the end of April saw a large My feet have not forgiven; DAY 3 time I had got two or three hundred black and white moth I have to wear a nine now, The animals had now been spotted on feet off the ground," she said, "I knew visiting a local drinking establishment, But used to wear a seven. which caused quite a stir that night as Pwll Road and later that day they I had to fly." reappeared back in the gardens of Elgin And how about those blasted tights -- nobody could identify it. Many thanks to Road. Some attempts were made to They're sized by weight, you see, Alan Peters of Pwll Road who informed capture these sheep but were So how come when I put them on One afternoon in April 1928, a phone me a few days later that in fact it was a unsuccessful. The crotch is at my knee? call came for Amelia at work. "I'm too male sloe emperor moth native to Italy I need to wear these glasses busy to answer just now," she said. and eastern Europe, but obviously was DAY 4 As the print's been getting smaller; enjoying a Saturday night out in good old At last no sightings that morning and it After hearing that it was important, And it wasn't very long ago downtown Pwll. appeared that they had been caught, but Amelia relented though at first she I know that I was taller. Thursday May alas after a resident departing a public Though my hair has turned to grey thought it was a prank. It wasn't until 22nd and the house thought he was hallucinating when And my skin no longer fits, the caller supplied excellent following days seeing three sheep at the top of Tyle- On the inside, I'm the same old me, references that she realized the man could only be Catherine, they were still at large. How The outside's changed a bit. much longer were they going to roam the was serious. "Would you like to fly the described as a bizarre turn of streets of the village? Since then there (Poem submitted by Pat Lewis) Atlantic?" he asked, to which Amelia events. Early that afternoon six sheep were no more reported sightings, hooray! promptly replied, "Yes!" After an The animals were believed to have come were sighted in the car park of Pwll interview in New York with the project School, where on earth had they come from a smallholding on the Trimsaran Road. 80 YEARS OF AMELIA EARHART coordinators, including book publisher from? An unfortunate member of staff and publicist George P. Putnam, she was became startled by their presence and off One unusual sighting in hen 10-year-old they went on a merry tour of the village. I W asked to join pilot Wilmer "Bill" Stultz June was that of a wonder were they attending the school kingfisher flying from Amelia Mary Earhart and co-pilot/mechanic Louis E.