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It may sound silly to some to worry about such were used to on cosmetics and other trifles, just a thing as beauty while your town is being thinking about what our grandmothers went bombarded and people are dying all around through and, even today, what’s happening in you. But a swipe of lipstick or using hair dye other parts of the world where people are BUTTER was a way to retain their humanity and dignity affected by natural disasters, wars and poverty, (wars always bring out the worst in people) and just puts everything in perspective, doesn’t it? Butter is made when femininity, to put on a brave face, to boost their We’re so lucky and can’t often appreciate it! morale as well as that of the soldiers, and have lactic-acid producing (Source: beautifulwithbrains.com) some fun, even if only for a little while. bacteria are added to cream and churned to During the war cosmetics were expensive and

make an emulsion. It hard to find. That’s because everything, doesn't sound very including the ingredients used to make them, DAI AND THE GORILLA enticing but the flavour were used mostly for war efforts. The little left over for civilian life was rationed. of butter is hard to beat. Dai wakes one morning to find a gorilla sitting Butter can be bought salted or unsalted. Salt is Back then, even taking a bath or washing your on his roof. So he looks in the yellow pages used for preservation and for flavour but the hair wasn’t easy. and sure enough, there's an ad for "Gorilla latter also varies according to the breed of cow You would have Removers". He calls the number, and the gorilla and its feed. only a few inches of remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes. water available, Butter is around 80 per cent fat and for this which certainly The gorilla remover arrives, and gets out of his reason, many people prefer to use alternatives. weren’t enough to fill van. He's got a ladder, a baseball bat, a Low-fat spreads are generally not suitable for a bath tub. shotgun and a mean looking pit bull. baking so read packaging carefully. Shampoo (if you "What are you going to do?" Dai asks. Some cake recipes replace butter with a mild- were lucky enough "I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof, THE COKE VAULT tasting oil such as sunflower oil which is ideal to get it) was then I'm going to go up there and knock the for those with a dairy intolerance or allergy. rationed. Soap was another luxury during the gorilla off the roof with this baseball bat. When Cakes made in this way tend to be moister and war and most of the time, people washed Nothing beats an ice cold the gorilla falls to the ground, the pit bull is last longer but they don't have the rich, buttery themselves using only that little bit of water they Coca-Cola on a hot day, trained to grab the gorilla by his privates and taste. could get. and millions around the not let go. The gorilla will then be subdued world agree. The recipe for Keep butter wrapped in its foil packaging or a Because everything was scarce, women had to enough for me to put him in the cage in the our favourite fizzy drink is butter dish in the fridge. Keep it away from be creative and resourceful: if they wanted to back of the van." one of the most closely pungent foods as it has a tendency to pick up dye their hair they could only use vegetable So the guy puts the ladder up, gets the bat and guarded secrets in the world. There are claims the flavours. dyes and if they wanted to shave but didn’t the shotgun and walks towards the ladder. As that only two people know it at any given time have a razor, they’d use a soapy pumice stone For rubbed in cake mixtures, use butter straight he gets to the base of the ladder, he hands the and they can never travel on the same plane in instead. As for hair, it was usually wrapped in from the fridge. For creamed cake mixtures, shotgun to Dai. case it crashes. you'll need to take the butter out of the fridge a scarves or hairnets which served two purposes. As a back-up plan, just in case disaster did few hours before you are planning to use it as it It would hide a bad hair day (after all, not "What's the shotgun for?" asks Dai. strike, the legendary mystery formula is secured needs to be soft in order to cream it together everyone had shampoo, remember?) and, if the "If the gorilla knocks me off the roof, shoot the in a vault in Atlanta. And you’d need more than well with the sugar. women had a job (and many did as they had to damn dog!"

THE QWERTY KEYBOARD Though the Rocket was not the first steam LLANELLY FROM STEAM TO JELL-O locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations to produce the most Heron of Greece invented steam power in 50 advanced locomotive of its day. It is the most BC. But the leaders of the day thought that it famous example of an evolving design of would cause unemployment and the invention locomotives by Stephenson that became the ran out of steam. template for most steam engines in the The steam engine reappeared in the 1600s in QWERTY (Pronounced kwer-tee) refers to the following 150 years. Ferdinand Verbiest’s steam car and then years arrangement of keys on a standard English Stephenson designed Rocket for the Rainhill later again, in 1804, when English inventor computer keyboard or typewriter. The name trials, and the specific rules of that contest. As Richard Trevithick introduced the steam derives from the first six characters on the top the first railway intended for passengers more locomotive in Wales. alphabetic line of the keyboard. than freight, the rules emphasised speed and In 1815, George Stephenson built the world’s The arrangement of characters on a QWERTY would require reliability, but the weight of the first workable steam locomotive and in 1845, keyboard was designed in 1868 by Christopher locomotive was also tightly restricted. Six- another steam engine manufacturer, Peter Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. According wheeled locomotives were limited to six tons, Cooper of New York (who built the Tom Thumb, to popular myth, Sholes arranged the keys in four-wheeled locomotives to four and a half The first beginnings of Llanelli can be found on the first American steam locomotive), their odd fashion to prevent jamming on tons. In particular, the weight of the train concocted a gelatin dessert made almost mechanical typewriters by separating the lands of present-day Parc Howard. An Iron expected to be hauled was to be no more than entirely of sugar…which became popular as commonly used letter combinations. However, Age hill fort once stood which was called Bryn- three times the actual weight of the locomotive. Jell-O. there is no evidence to support this assertion, Stephenson realised that whatever the size of Caerau (hill of the forts). Evidence suggests except that the arrangement does, in fact, previously successful locomotives, this new that there were many as 5 hill forts from Old inhibit fast typing. contest would favour a fast, light locomotive of Road to the Dimpath.

With the emergence of ball-head electric only moderate hauling power. During the dark ages a saint named Elli or Ellyw typewriters and computer keyboards, on which who in legend is the son or daughter (gender jamming is not an issue, new keyboards The locomotive had a tall smokestack chimney not known) of King Brychan set up a church on OH DEAR! at the front, a cylindrical boiler in the middle, the banks of the Afon Lliedi. It was around this designed for speed typing have been invented. I wish I hadn’t said that about computers… The best-known is called a Dvorak keyboard. and a separate firebox at the rear. The large time that the people of Bryn-Caerau began to front pair of wooden wheels was driven by two Despite their more rational designs, these new come down the hill either to the Felinfoel area “But what ... is it good for?” - Engineer at the keyboards have not received wide acceptance. external cylinders set at an angle. The smaller or to near Saint Ellyw's church. This was the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, The AZERTY keyboard is the French version of rear wheels were not coupled to the driving start of the building of the town and its church. commenting on the microchip. wheels, giving an 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. the standard QWERTY keyboard. Originally the church would have been a “64K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill (Source: Webopedia.com) wooden or partly stone thatched chapel. It Gates '81 Stephenson's most visible decision was to use wasn't until the 1200s that they built the stone a single pair of driving wheels, with a small “Computers in the future may weigh no more tower and a stone church. However the church carrying axle behind. This was the first 0-2-2 than 1.5 tons”. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the (excluding the tower) was rebuilt at the and first single driver locomotive. The use of relentless march of science, 1949 Pity there’s no gym for your face. beginning of the 20th century. The reason the single drivers gave several advantages. The “There is no reason anyone would want a church still looks old is that it was rebuilt with weight of coupling rods was avoided and the the same stones to the same plan. computer in their home.”- President and founder of THE ROCKET second axle could be smaller and lightweight, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 as it only carried a small proportion of the Historically a mining town, Llanelli grew weight. Rocket placed just over 2½ tons of its significantly in the 18th century and 19th Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam 4¼ ton total weight onto its driving wheels, a century with the mining of coal and later the locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was higher axle load than Sans Pareil, even though tinplate industry, the copperworks and built for, and won, the the 0-4-0 was heavier overall at 5 ton, and steelworks. DID YOU KNOW Rainhill Trials held by officially disqualified by being over the 4½ ton The spelling 'Llanelly' is an anglicised form the Liverpool & limit. Early locomotive designers had been Manchester Railway in which was used until 1966, after which it was Meat production causes 1/5 of global concerned that the adhesion of a locomotive's changed following a local public campaign. 1829 to choose the driving wheels would be inadequate, but greenhouse gases. best design to power Stephenson's past experience convinced him the railway. that this would not be a problem, particularly Everyone has the right to be The tall chef’s hat is called a toque. with the light trains of the trials contest. Rocket was designed stupid but you're abusing the by Robert Stephenson priviledge. - Shiv Daddar in 1829, and built at The locomotive is preserved and on display in The term “soda water” was coined in 1798. the Forth Street Works of his company in the Science Museum in London. Newcastle upon Tyne. (Source: Wikipedia COCA-COLA STARBUCKS

PWLL OF YESTERYEAR tarbucks started out as a one-store coffee Coca-Cola was first served in an Atlanta S drugstore bean retailer. The very first Starbucks was opened at No 1912 Pike Place, Seattle on 31 March 1971 by three University of San Francisco grads and only sold coffee beans. The company stayed super-small until entrepreneur Howard Schultz bought it out in 1987 and embarked on an ambitious expansion plan.

Georgia-based pharmacist and morphine addict John Pemberton, who was desperate to cure his addiction, invented an alcoholic drink in the 1860s containing cocaine and caffeine. When Atlanta enacted prohibition legislation in 1886, Pemberton worked with drugstore owner Willis E Venable to create a non-alcoholic variant, which was named Coca-Cola. The drink was first served in Atlanta's Jacobs' Pharmacy on 8 May 1888. The last trace of cocaine in the formula was eventually removed in 1903. TESCO

Tesco started out as a market stall.

One of the world's largest supermarket groups,

Britain's Tesco, which operates stores in seven

countries in Europe and Asia, was founded in McDONALD’S 1919 by Polish immigrant Jack Cohen as a stall

in Well Street Market in the East End of cDonald's started as a food stand. M London. Cohen sold war-surplus groceries and

didn't open his first store until 1931.

After relocating to Hollywood in the late 1930s, the McDonald family opened a food stand called the Airdrome on Route 66 adjacent to LA County's Monrovia Airport. The compact stand started off selling hot dogs – hamburgers were

added later, along with all-you-can-drink orange I am an example to others. A bad Event at Electric Club (Early 1960’s) photo: courtesy of Sheila Thomas juice. The octagonal stand was moved to San Bernardino in 1940 and the family started example. franchising the concept in 1955.

DUTCHMAN LOOKING FOR THANK YOU FERRYSIDE throughout Bristol, and then through much of HIS DESCENDENTS the rest of the country. A typical menu was of the form:  Starter: melon boat with maraschino cherry, or prawn cocktail  Main course: steak, gammon steak or plaice with chips and peas ooking for descendents of Elisabeth Ann  Dessert: Black Forest gateau or a L choice from the cheese board (Danish Blue, Evans and William John Evans. Stilton or Cheddar)

In 1916 William T Taylor married my Elisabeth  Irish coffee and After Eight mints Ann Evans, daughter of Samuel Evans Pwll The most frequently ordered meal, even as late Llanelly. The village takes its name, Glanyfferi, from the as the 1980s, was prawn cocktail, steak and Samuel Evans, son of my Timothy Evans, The Pwll Action Committee and the Bônau old ferry across the Tywi estuary to Laugharne Black Forest gateau. This is sometimes called ggggrandfather from mother’s side (Welsh girl). Cabbage Patch would like to say a huge and Llanstephan. Christian pilgrims travelling the Great British Meal. As Simon Hopkinson from South Wales to St Davids in and Lindsey Bareham note in their 1997 book Samuel’s brother was Daniel Evans who lived thank you to all NHS staff and all Key Workers who have been working on the Pembrokeshire crossed the Tywi here rather The Prawn Cocktail Years, "cooked as it should at the Talbot Inn. Samuel died in 1916 and front line to keep us all safe in the last 6 than at Carmarthen, seven miles up river. The be, this much derided and often ridiculed dinner Daniel in 1931. Both buried at Bethlehem Pwll. months or so. Without your dedication and ferry survived until 1948, when motor transport is still something very special indeed". Father Timothy Evans had lived at Thomas hard work we would undoubtedly be in a far made it uneconomical. The Great Western Berni Inn was sold to Whitbread in 1995, who Railway reached Ferryside in 1852. Terrace, Pwll and died there in 1891. His third worse position than we find ourselves. For converted the outlets into their own Beefeater this we send you our eternal and heartfelt wife Mary Evans died later in 1910, daughter of and Brewers Fayre restaurants. thanks. The site of some of the most spectacular the Rev. Rogers Bethlehem Pwll. marine biology in West Wales is a short walk over the level crossing to the river. The Samuel Evans also had a son, William John shoreline in both directions is a birdwatcher's DAI’s TRAGIC DEATH Evans. He was at Michaels Terrace Pwll in DAI’s HORSE paradise with species such as herons and 1939. I was told he had four children Samuel RACING oystercatchers wading side by side, and Blodwen is home making feeding in the calm waters. Well into this Dudley, William Victor, Don Ivor and Mair STORY dinner, as usual, when Ieuan century the famous cockle women gathered up Cathlin. arrives at her door. "Blodwen, to 650 tons of seafood every year. The women ai was sitting quietly may I come in?" he asks. "I've Elisabeth Ann Evans and William Taylor also D were reputed to be richer than their farming or somethin' to tell ya." had a few children. I know of Doris Margaret reading his paper one morning, peacefully fishing husbands. Even in the 1990s the cockle Taylor who married Byron D. Bowen in 1958 enjoying himself, when his wife, Blodwen, crop has been so abundant that it spawned so- "Of course you can come in, and seems to live in Llanelly. sneaks up behind him and whacks him on the called 'cockle wars' with predatory outsiders. you're always welcome, Ieuan. back of his head with a huge frying pan. Sister Hawys Kathleen Taylor married John But where's my Dai?" Morris Reginald Webb in 1939 and may live in Dai: "What was that for?" "That's what I'm here to be tellin' ya, Blodwen Carmarthen. Blodwen: "What was that piece of paper in your BERNI INNS There was an accident down at the Felinfoel trouser pocket with the name Marylou written brewery..." Sister Rita possibly left for America. on it?" Do you remember Berni Inns? "Oh, God no!" cries Blodwen. "Please don't tell If somebody knows any of the mentioned Dai: "Oh honey, remember two weeks ago me...." people, please let me know. Brothers Aldo and Frank Berni, when I went to Ffos Las horse races? Marylou alongside their partner Paul "I must, Blod. Your Dai is dead and gone. I'm I hope somebody keeps old photo’s or was the name of one of the horses I bet on." Rosse, opened the first Berni Inn sorry." Finally, she looked up at Ieuan. documents on mentioned ancestors and is Blodwen looked all satisfied, apologises, and on 27 July 1956 in central Bristol. "How did it happen, Ieuan?" willing to share them with me. goes off to do work around the house. More outlets were opened, and the company went public in 1962. "It was terrible, Blod. He fell into a vat of My mother from Burry Port married a Three days later Dai is once again sitting in his Felinfoel Double Dragon beer and drowned." Dutchman in 1951 and came to live in chair reading and she repeats the frying pan The chain offered slick service and value for "Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me true, Rotterdam since - now deceased. I am her swatting. money, achieved partly by offering only a Ieuan. Did he at least go quickly?" eldest son. Dai: "What was that for this time?" limited meat-based menu and a relatively small "Well, no Blod... no. Fact is, he got out three Elwyn Schreuder – Netherlands. wine list. It had a loyal and regular following and Blodwen: "Your horse phoned." times to have a pee." [email protected] quickly expanded through the 1960s, first PWLL ATHLETIC F.C. LETTER TO THE EDITOR League positions as at cessation of play due to the Coronavirus

Dear Sirs, Premier Division P W D L GD Pts I recently read an article on Rees & Richards Ammanford Reserves 17 15 1 1 71 46 pool aerated waterworks in Pwll, very Dafen 13 11 2 0 39 35 interesting! I have a old Rees & Richards bottle Pwll Athletic 17 11 2 4 21 35 with an ebonite screw top, there is a name on Tumble United 13 8 2 3 14 26 the bottle telling of its contents. F C Carmarthen 13 8 2 3 5 26 I think it says bumpen drink … would this be Llandovery 15 8 1 6 22 25 lemonade or one of their different brews? Bancffosfelen 17 7 1 9 -31 22 Perhaps some of your older readers could Camford Sports 18 7 0 11 -12 21 share some light on this, I would be very Kidwelly Town 13 5 2 6 -1 17 interested to find out as it maybe a rare bottle. Felinfoel 16 4 3 9 -15 15 The bottle I have would have roughly contained about 2 pints. Llangennech 15 4 1 10 -5 13 Johnstown 17 2 1 14 -46 7 Hoping for an answer, Llandeilo Town 18 1 2 15 -62 5 Yours sincerely, Robbie Evans,

Penclawdd.

(If anyone has any information concerning this Rees and Reserve Division 3 P W D L GD Pts Richards drink please let us know and we will pass on the Camford Sports Res 17 11 1 5 18 34 information to Robbie. – Ed)

Ammanford A 13 10 1 2 37 31 Llangennech Res. 16 10 1 5 28 31 I never let my schooling interfere Pwll Reserves 13 8 1 4 20 25 with my education. Pontarddulais 13 8 1 4 16 25 - Mark Twain (1835-1910) Pembrey Reserves 14 7 3 4 18 24 Carmarthen Town Utd 14 5 4 5 -3 19 Res

CK Swiss Valley A 15 4 3 8 -3 15 WYNNE’S CHARITY QUIZES AT Bancffosfelen Reserves 13 5 0 8 -29 15 THE COLLIERS ARMS Caerbryn Reserves 13 4 1 8 -2 13

Burry Port A 18 4 1 13 -52 13 The pandemic has wrecked any chance

C P Suburbs Res 15 2 1 12 -48 7 of holding Wynne’s charity quiz at the

Colliers Arms.

The Easter, May and August quiz had to * Points Deducted be cancelled due to the Government

social distancing regulations. Hopefully

things might be back to normal soon and

Wynne’s Christmas Charity Quiz will be I feel so miserable without you, held. It is normally held between

it’s almost like having you here. Christmas Day and New Years Day.

- Stephan Bishop, a gentle needle If we have any news concerning the

Christmas Quiz we will publish it in the next edition of the magazine.

CANADA PWLL VILLAGE NOTICEBOARD FACEBOOK GROUP CHRISTIAN AID Here we are with more than half the year already CAPEL LIBANUS CHAPEL gone. It has been such a worrying time for all of us. Bellach, mae drysau Libanus wedi bod The world as a whole has ynghau am bum mis ond hyderwn y byddwn been taken over with the wedi llwyddo i ailagor erbyn i’r rhifyn hwn gael pandemic, with things ei gyhoeddi. happening that no-one would have expected. Our Yn ystod cyfnod y clo, gwelwyd llawer o bobl yn The second largest country in the world, with a hearts go out to everyone meddwl yn fwy creadigol am syniadau a dulliau population just over half that of the United who has lost love ones o gyrraedd eu cynulleidfaoedd. Gwelwyd llawer Kingdom. and also to everyone who yn troi i ddarlledu ar y we drwy gyfrwng Facebook, Zoom a YouTube. O ganlyniad i’r Indeed, space, sheer space, is the salient The Pwll Village Noticeboard facebook group has been touched by the feature, with cold a close second: The latter virus. gweithgaredd hwn, aeth Cyngor yr Ysgolion Sul was set up in April 2020. I decided to do this / beibl.net ati i sefydlu sianel deledu ar un o’i explains why three-quarters of the population The one thing that has come out, at this time, is because as I was looking through facebook I gwefannau, sef www.cristnogaeth.cymrugan huddles within a hundred miles of the United the coming together of many communities and could see many villages and towns with their enwi’r sianel yn Teledu Cristnogol Cymru. Trwy States’ border. people. own groups. I saw this as a way for the people ymweld â’r wefan fe ddowch ar draws adran Ontario is the most populous, most prosperous, of Pwll to share information and communicate We thank God for all front line people who have sy’n edrych yn ddigon tebyg i ambell sianel most powerful, most urban, and most during this pandemic. I did not realise at the worked so hard in whatever job that they do. deledu boblogaidd fel yr iPlayer gan y BBC neu industrialized of the ten provinces and three time that so many people would want to join the Things have started to improve in many ways. S4C Clic. Mae cyfoeth o wybodaeth yma gan Arctic territories that make up the country; it group. At the moment there are 744 members gynnwys oedfaon cyflawn, myfyrdodau, ffilmiau, also has the capital, Ottawa, and the biggest, as at 18th July 2020. At the beginning there We have a very long way to go and some things will never be the same again. gwersi Ysgol Sul ac ati. most cosmopolitan city, Toronto. were so many posts it was difficult to keep up with all that was being posted. The amount of Er nad yw Libanus wedi mentro i’r maes Quebec is the largest and second most Third World countries have also been affected, photos being shared and commented on was technolegol newydd hwn hyd yn hyn rydym populous province, with what used to be the as the rest of us. We see that in Africa some amazing - photos of Pwll school, the Pwll wedi llwyddo i gadw cysylltiad â’n gilydd drwy biggest, most cosmopolitan city, Montreal, plus gangs who would have been terrorising their carnival, personal photos plus many more. gyfrwng y ffôn ac ambell neges e-bost neu the bulk of the 23 percent French-Canadian neighbours have turned to helping people During this worrying time of uncertainty there WhatsApp. Fodd bynnag bydd yn dda cael minority. instead. At least some good has come to these was some comfort in sharing memories of areas. cymdeithasu gyda’n gilydd wyneb yn wyneb The concept of the Pacific Rim has been a real family and friends. unwaith eto. shot in the arm for British Columbia. Let us hope than in our own areas the kindness Although the posts have been less over recent and goodness that we have experienced will Mae’n meddyliau, felly, yn dechrau troi at y Neighbouring Alberta has most of the world's weeks - this I have noticed with others facebook remain with us for years to come. dyfodol. Sut le fydd Libanus yn y dyfodol? Sut second-largest oil reserve (after Saudi Arabia) groups I have joined - the group is still there for oedfaon fydd gyda ni? Beth fydd y ‘normal We hope that life will get better for everyone and therefore all the money, and is the province people to share information. What came out of newydd’ i ni yn Libanus? Bydd angen tipyn o however long it may take. that winds up providing big subsidies— this is the passion for the Pwll carnival and drafod, blaengaredd a mentergarwch wrth i ni equalisation payments, they call them—to all there were suggestions whether it could be Please look after yourselves. Keep safe. geisio datblygu model fydd yn gweithio i ni, model fydd yn holl gynhwysol ac yn ystyried but one of the other provinces, grudgingly. started up again. Wynne's weekly Wednesday Cadwch yn ddiogel. Phob bendith i chi gyd. lockdown quiz has been very popular and anghenion pob un o’n haelodau. Saskatchewan and Manitoba are the prairie. challenging. Many thanks Wynne! Also due to Phob bendith i chi gyd. The Maritimes, northeast of New England, cast Bydd cynnal oedfa heb ganu gydag ymbellhau the reduction in traffic and people were sitting in May God bless. cymdeithasol yn brofiad rhyfedd iawn i ni. their nets and work their mines, and hope that their gardens they noticed more of what was If you would like to know more about Christian Tybed ai cyfuniad o’r traddodiadol a’r modern today's the day the equalisation-payment going on in nature - the call of the cuckoo had cheque arrives. Aid, the numbers to call are:- fydd gyda ni drwy i ni arbrofi a gwneud mwy o not been heard in Pwll for years. ddefnydd o oedfaol ac adnoddau eraill sydd ar 01554 758023 or 01554 772441 Thank you all for joining this facebook group gael i ni yn electronig?

and hopefully it will continue to be used to Yn draddodiadol, mae’n capeli wedi bod yn share information and communicate what is I never regret my failures, only gyndyn i newid eu harferion a threfn eu going on in the village for the foreseeable Everyone has a story; some hoedfaon, ond bellach, mae’r argyfwng hwn yn the things I failed to attempt. future. people just have a better way of debygol o’n gorfodi i newid ein ffordd. Boed i

- A. Foard telling it. ni ymateb i’r her honno a symud ymlaen yn Anne Messer hyderus a blaengar i’r dyfodol. - Deb Kell HOLY there have to be stringent measures to PWLL PARK UPDATE appearance of wild flowers. If anyone would safeguard put in place, to comply with the like to help please email me: TRINITY government risk assessment criteria. Where This year we did not sow any seed along the [email protected]. CHURCH these are met and inspected, then church bank in Pwll Park, relying on whatever seed buildings, such as Holy Trinity and St Mary’s was in the soil to germinate naturally after Please also get in touch if you would like to take can offer services again. The services, initially rotavating the top in January. I am pleased to part in our quarterly litter picks organised by As I write this on will be restricted by social distancing, with say this has worked well and around 20 Pwll Residents Association. Due to the behalf of Holy Trinity singing or organ playing not allowed at this different species of wild flowers have appeared coronavirus pandemic and consequent Church in Pwll, society is beginning to adjust to time. At this time of writing, Holy Trinity, Pwll there during the summer. government restrictions we have been unable new-found freedoms as the Covid 19 lockdown and St Mary’s, Burry Port are NOT ready to be to carry out group litter picks since March. As restrictions are slowly lifted. These last moths reopened, as we try to assess the implications soon as these can resume I will publicise the have been an unusual time with patterns of life of the risk assessment needs. date in Pwll Stores, the Colliers Arms and Pwll Pavilion cafe and noticeboard. Meanwhile, changed. Whilst the anxieties and tensions As we journey through these strange and please take your litter home! surrounding the pandemic have been uncertain times, we might reflect on the words challenging and difficult, there have been of Psalm 23, The Lord is My Shepherd. The changes which may be beneficial too. There image is of the shepherd who leads His sheep has been some talk of how the air quality has from pasture to pasture, with the uncertain improved. Some with young families, have said wilderness in between. Jesus said of Himself, “I Accept the world the way it is how much their quality of life has changed for am the Good Shepherd”, the one who does not the better. Instead of rushing to take children to abandon His flock. As we journey through these and allow yourself to be the way football training or, dance classes or, to some times, let us keep our eyes on Jesus, the Good you are. other activity, after a busy day at work, they Shepherd, who is faithful in caring for His sheep have been spending more time together as a - Jack Canfield whether in the church building or out of it. family and enjoying time together. Even for older people like myself, I have spent more time CAPEL connecting with my brother and 3 sisters. As well as looking attractive, this has enticed a BETHLEHEM Usually we would have met up once or twice a WOULD YOU variety of butterflies, bees, beetles and other CHAPEL year. During lockdown, we have connected on invertebrates. Unfortunately the trees in the “Zoom” sufficiently to account for the next 10 BELIEVE IT fenced off area have not fared quite so well and years or so! we have lost a few to the dry spring, however Oh wondrous God, As a vicar, things have also been different for we have another half dozen to plant out later in we reach out to Thee, me as well. Whilst the church buildings I’m Coca-Cola is the the year. The two "wiggly" paths through the most widely with this, our prayer, responsible for have been closed, I have still wild area are being mown regularly thanks to asking to be used as channels for Thy divine been at work, but trying to develop different distributed Gareth Austin and the Grounds Maintenance product on the power, to flow through us, unrestricted, in a ways of doing that work. “Visiting” by phone or team at LRC. stream of radiant light Into our world, where the planet. by email or internet have been the way forward. human race is suffering this terrible blight of the Whilst the buildings have been closed, I have orth Korea is the only two country coronavirus. continued to provide for people to worship God N from home, by emailing resources to those who where coca cola is not sold . Allow us this day to be the instruments of Thy are able to receive them, but also by posting a Buttered fish sperm sacs are a popular Holy Power so that this radiant, healing power video address on our parish Facebook page may help to transmute this deadly virus and delicacy in Japan . It’s called shirako. each Sunday. (The Parish of Burry Port and bring strength, regeneration, healing and Pwll) There have been things that could not be The dinosaur noises in the "Jurassic inspiration to humanity as a whole. done remotely such as funerals, but even these Park" movie were made from recordings We pray that those on the ground may be have been much changed by the of tortoise sex. circumstances. helped in their unselfish work, who have taken personal risks to help the sick and we pray that onald Duck’s middle name is As the restrictions ease, people are also D this healing light now flowing through our world, beginning to think about going back to normal “Fauntleroy”. will have its reflection on the physical plane so routines. Workplaces are beginning to open up. that this Divine essence will bring harmony and Pubs, restaurants, leisure facilities and shops balance to all. which previously had been regarded as, ‘non- Identifying a race, identifies a essential’ are resuming business with racist; there is only one race, During the autumn all the grass in the wild May Thy Divine Will be done this day and may restrictions and safeguards in place. And so "The human race!” corner will be cut. Once more we will be raking all who help in this crisis be filled with Thy Light off as much as we can in order to promote the and protected in their Spiritual calling. too, churches have been given permission to - Serge Crespy re-open (from 19th July). As with other facilities, Amen

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No decision has been made to resume W.I. meetings in Bethlehem Vestry at present until members feel safe to come together following Welsh Government guidelines. This could take some time and also members need to feel more confident to come together. The main priority is that we all still stay safe.

As Autumn approaches we have lived through six very difficult and worrying months. Hope you are all keeping well and are being able to still stay safe as we gradually move out of 'lockdown'. It will be good when we can eventually move around more freely and meet up with friends and family once again.

Members have been keeping in touch with a

Whats App group Chriscochicks set up by our th Above: Dementia bands for Care homes, FASHION SHOW at Bronwydd on Friday 18 President Christine Wheeler-Jones We have knitted by Sue David September. had fun sending and receiving messages of BINGO night at Bronwydd on Friday 2nd what activities we have been involved in. Some October. members have been making face masks, ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING on Saturday 21st knitting dementia bands for care homes, knitting November at QE High School, Johnstown. Above: Members enjoying a meal to celebrate Friendship is the foundation on blankets and bonnets for premature babies and GROUP MEETINGS – last two weeks of our 36th Birthday in February also NHS Heroes mascot bears. Other which true love is built. October. members have been busy in their gardens and - Victoria (Tori) Thompson WINTER FAIR – at Builth Wells on 30th also going for walks in our beautiful area. November and 1st December – entries for the Photographs have been taken and it has been WI stand are - Craft – a recycled Christmas suggested that when we are back together a Gift. Produce – a Christmas cake from another memory book will be compiled. In April one of MISSING SUNDAY SERVICES? Country. our members Lyneth Goulstone passed away WALES CONFERENCE – new date - Sunday after a long illness. Our thoughts and prayers LFEC (Victoria Rd) holds live-streamed 7th March 2021 at Theatr Clwyd, Mold. are specially with her family at this very difficult services on YouTube every Sunday at 10:30am NFWI ANNUAL MEETING – new date - 19th time. She will be remembered with fondness by and 6pm. Everyone is welcome to join us. April 2021 at the Royal Albert Hall, London. all her friends and everyone who knew her. We also live-stream our prayer meetings every Although the Annual W.I. Show was cancelled the literature competition part of the event did Tuesday, starting at 8pm. On the 75th Anniversary of VE Day members celebrated by enjoying tea and cakes at home take place and also Zena's Memorial award for Our services can be accessed through the and decorating the outside of their homes with the best children's story of up to750 words in followinglink: bunting. One of our members Eurwen, either prose or rhyme. https://www.youtube.com/llanellichurch/live remembers vividly as a young woman being The NFWI has been very concerned about the part in the celebrations in London 75 years ago. General web site – www.lfec.org disruption this lockdown period has had on WI Sue decorated stones and gave them out to meetings and activities and the membership members as a memento of the occasion. In July experience this year. As a result there will a some members met in Pwll Park socially three month extension to this year’s distancing but enjoying each others company membership subscription. The next renewal and chatting away. Everyone enjoyed a picnic date for membership subscriptions will therefore It can take a moment to make a in the open air. (See photo opposite) be 1st April 2021. In addition, from this point decision that can take a lifetime It is yet to be decided when our meetings will onwards, membership renewals will always be to deal with the consequences. start again. However here are some of the in April. Above: 'NHS Heroes' mascot bears knitted by events which have been organised or …pto Eve - T. Steckley rearranged but may still be cancelled:

RON HICKMAN – Lotus Europa as part of Lotus's GT40 project LUNDY DID YOU KNOW bid.

YOUR WORK- He left Lotus in 1967 and moved to Hoddesdon, Lundy is an English MATE Hertfordshire, where he worked for Cunard on island in the Bristol Some people are born with prototypes for the seating in the QE2 and on his Channel. It forms part of an extra hole in their ear. Ronald Price Hickman own invention, the Workmate. the district of Torridge in The tiny opening, which sits the county of Devon. right where the cartilage meets the face, is a OBE (1932-2011) was a Hickman's inspiration for the Workmate came in condition called preauricular sinus that South African - born, 1961. While building a wardrobe, he had used The name "Lundy" is scientists believe may be an ‘evolutionary Jersey-based automobile an expensive Swedish chair as a sawhorse and believed to come from remnant of gills’. designer and inventor. He worked for both the inadvertently cut its leg off. His wife was not the old Norse word for Ford motor company and Lotus, where he impressed and Hickman came up with a simple, "puffin island", lundi designed the original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Elan multifunctional bench – a combination being the Old Norse Three Gorges dam in China is so massive it +2 and the Lotus Europa. However, he is best sawhorse and vice on a foldable alloy frame. It word for a puffin and ey, has slowed the rotation of the earth down. known for his design of a wood-working bench an island, although an allowed its user to saw through timber without called the Black & Decker Workmate. using the edges of chairs or tables. He then set alternative explanation There is such an expansive collection of books has been suggested with "Lund" referring to a In 1954 on arrival in London from South Africa, up his own design company, Mate Tools, above under the British Library in their archive, that if a copse, or wooded area. he was initially employed by a music publisher, a barn in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, and person could read 5 books per day it would take but quickly found work at the Ford Motor continued to refine his Workmate design. About three miles long and 0.6 of a mile wide, 80,000 years to complete Company at Dagenham first as a clay modeller His request for a licence for the product he Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, and later he helped to style the 105E Ford developed was rejected by several companies, frequently changing hands between the British Anglia. including Stanley Works who could not see a crown and various usurpers. In the 1920s, one KRAKEN self-proclaimed king, Martin Harman, tried to He met Colin Chapman, the famous engineer large market for it. Hickman sold the benches Kraken, a fabulous himself to professional builders at trade shows issue his own coinage and was fined by the and founder of Lotus Cars, at a motor show in Scandinavian sea monster until Black & Decker saw the light in 1973 and House of Lords. In 1941, two German Heinkel Earls Court. After three years at Ford, Hickman He 111 bombers crash landed on the island, perhaps imagined on the moved to Chapman's newly founded company began producing them. Hickman received a £1 royalty on the sales of the WorkMate. By 1981 it their crews captured. In 1969, Lundy was basis of chance sightings of in north London and worked as a production purchased by British millionaire Jack Hayward, giant squids. It appears in engineer and general manager. He worked on had sold 10 million benches and by 2011 more than 100 million. Hickman had to defend his who donated it to the National Trust. It is literature in a poem of Alfred, the first car produced by Lotus, the Elite, which Lord Tennyson’s juvenilia patent numerous times against manufacturers managed by the Landmark Trust, a was deemed beautifully styled and a superb called “The Kraken.” attempting to copy it. conservation charity that derives its income drive, but proved too complicated to build and from day trips and holiday lettings. As of 2007, too frail to be desirable by the public. the island had a population of 28. Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, As a steep, rocky island, often shrouded by fog, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep Lundy has been the scene of many shipwrecks, The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee LADYBIRDS and the remains of its old lighthouse About his shadowy sides; above him swell installations are of both historic and scientific Huge sponges of millenial growth and height; ccording to folklore, a ladybird interest. Its present-day lighthouses are fully A And far away into the sickly light, automated, one of them solar-powered. brings good luck to a person on From many a wondrous grot and secret cell whom it lands. If a ladybug lands Lundy has a rich bird life, as it lies on major Unnumber’d and enormous polypi on a person who is sick, it is said migration routes, and attracts many vagrant as Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. to eliminate the illness. well as indigenous species. It also boasts a There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Each spot on a ladybird's back indicates one variety of marine habitats, with rare seaweeds, Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep, month of good luck. The more spots the sponges and corals. In 2010, the island became Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; ladybird sports, the longer the run of good luck Britain's first Marine Conservation Zone. Then once by man and angels to be seen, a person can expect to enjoy. Most cultures In summer, visitors reach Lundy by boat from In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. throughout the world believe that ladybirds are Bideford or Ilfracombe, and in winter by lucky, associating them with fair weather, helicopter from Hartland Point. Canoeists can

financial luck, granting of wishes or luck in love. also kayak to the island. A local tourist curiosity The difficult is done at once, the

Some believe that if a ladybird lands on an is the special "Puffin" postage stamp, a impossible takes a little longer. – object, a new and better version of that object is Hickman worked with John Frayling to head the category known by philatelists as "local carriage team that designed the Elan, which came into forthcoming shortly. labels", a collectors' item. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) production in 1962. He also designed the first (Source: reference.com)

LEFTIES DAI’S DRIVING WARTIME October 1940. His remains were laid to rest in St Illtyd’s churchyard, Pembrey. AIRCRAFT Does anyone recollect anything about this Dai and Ieuan are CRASH IN PWLL In medieval times, driving through Llanelli young pilot and any local residents who may left-handed people when they come up to a – AN UPDATE have tended his grave? We would pass on any information to the gentleman who is in contact could not become red light in West End. (left: F/Lt Waclaw Wilczewski with the pilot’s nephew in Poland. knights because it was Dai hits the throttle and they go zooming past – the crashed pilot) thought that they were descendants of the the red light. devil, it is said. Spiral staircases in castles Ieuan looks at him and says, "Hey, you just run clockwise to allow knights – all right- n the last edition of this magazine we went through a red light." I handed – to battle intruders effectively. published again an article concerning the crash THROWING SALT Dai replied, "Don't worry about it. My brother The word for left in French means gauche of a Hawker Hurricane of No. 316 (Polish) does it all the time." Squadron. and in Latin it means sinister. The Latin word According to superstition, you for right is dexter, from which came So they keep driving and they come to a We have had a response to the article from a should throw spilled salt over your second red light close to the library. Dai again “dexterous”. Ambidextrous means literally gentleman in London who is a member of the left shoulder to ward off the Devil. hits the throttle and zooms past another red Spilled salt is a symbol of bad luck, “both right.” Polish Airmen’s Association UK and light. investigates the lives of Polish pilots from WWII. and the tradition holds that the Thirteen per cent of people are left-handed, Devil waits to pounce on anyone Ieuan, looks at him and says, "Hey Dai, you just He has pointed out that there were a couple of up from 11% a few decades ago. The story so unlucky. Tossing the salt in his face will ward went through another red light. What the heck errors in the article which we would like to that right-handed people live, on average, him off. are you doing?" correct now:- nine years longer than left-handed people is Dai tells his friend, "Don't worry about it. My Salt has been considered lucky or protective for a myth. 1) No. 316 (Polish) Squadron was not the thousands of years by many different belief brother does this all the time." “County of Wessex” Sqn but was known as systems. In the painting "The Last Supper" by Animals also are either right-handed or left- They come to a third red light, the one outside “Warszawski” or the “City of Warsaw” Sqn. handed. All polar bears are left-handed – Leonardo Da Vinci, Judas Iscariot knocks over the Town Hall, and again Dai hits the throttle, 2) The pilot was not shot down a year later and the salt with his elbow, portending the darkness and so is Kermit the Frog. zooming past the red light. killed but, as a S/Ldr, was actually shot down that will eventually befall him.

Ieuan starts screaming at him, "What the heck? over France on 8/11/1941 and captured – he Salt is thrown over the left shoulder because You're going to get us killed! Pull over and let spent the rest of the war as a POW and then the left side is traditionally considered sinister or me out." emigrated to Venezuela where he eventually unlucky compared to the right died in 1982 aged 74. BACCHUS Dai screams back at him, "I'm telling you: don't (Source: reference.com) worry about it. My brother, he does it all the The gentleman enclosed a copy of an entry in Bacchus was the time." the Squadron’s operations record book which reads as follows: Roman god of So they keep driving and they come to a green agriculture, wine and light at the junction of Station Road and Queen Unit No: 316 Squadron / Location: Pembrey

fertility, equivalent to the Victoria Road. Dai slams on the brakes. 17th May 1941 - While on shipping patrol at Greek god Dionysus. A TIP FROM Ieuan looks at him and says, "Are you out of 15.15 hours F/Lt Wilczewski noticed his engine He was the child of Jupiter and Semélé, a your mind? What the heck is wrong with you? vibrating strongly and he tried to reach his DAI’s human whom Juno had tricked into asking to You go flying past three red lights, almost home aerodrome. However when near Llanelly GRANDFATHER see Jupiter as he really was. Since she was a getting us killed, and then you slam on the the engine got worse and he looked for a mortal, she was burned up by the sight of landing spot. A sports field nearby could not be brakes when you have a green light?" ai grandfather, a Jupiter in his divine form. So Jupiter sewed the used on account of the number of people on it. D infant Bacchus into his thigh, and gave birth to Dai looks at Ieuan and says, "I had to stop; my He gained height and endeavoured to forced tough old sheep farmer him nine months later. As a child, Bacchus was brother might have been coming." land in a small field but saw it was impossible from Pwll gave some good advice to him. He tutored by Thanos, who was a great lover of and had therefore to crash the aircraft at 70 told Dai that the secret to a long life was to wine and often had to be carried on the back of m.p.h. on the right wing. The pilot was unhurt. sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder onto his porridge every morning. a donkey. Before he took his place at Olympus, 10 shipping patrols, involving 30 hours 25 Bacchus wandered the world for many years, Promises are like babies – Dai followed this dictum religiously until his minutes, were flown by the Squadron. going as far as India to teach people how to They’re fun to make but hard to death at the venerable age of 103. grow vines. The same gentleman is gathering material deliver. about P/O Stanislaw Piatkowski, the Polish He left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 45 (Source: Wikipedia) Battle of Britain pilot of No. 79 Sqn RAF, who great grandchildren, 25 great-great was killed during a forced landing on 25th grandchildren and a forty foot wide crater where Llanelli crematorium used to be. TARMACADAM compacting the mixture with a steamroller. The tar was modified by adding small amounts of THE PWLL FALLEN Portland cement, resin, and pitch. Nottingham's Radcliffe Road became the first tarmac road in 1914 – 1918 World War I the world.

In 1903 Hooley formed Tar Macadam Syndicate

A E Bullock, Benjamin Davies, Thomas Davies, William Evans, W J Griffiths, Ltd and registered tarmac as a trademark.

Henry Harries, Thomas Harries, Alfred Horne, Evan Jenkins, Jack Knill, Gwilym Lewis, Isaac Lewis, Reginald S Lewis, Bob Lloyd, John Owen,, Ismael Peregrine, James Saunders, William Thomas SCAPHISM

Tar macadam is a road surfacing material made by combining macadam surfaces, tar, For sheer, delirious, and sand, patented by Welsh inventor Edgar nauseating horror, PRAYER Purnell Hooley in 1902. The terms "tar scaphism may be one macadam" and tarmac are also used, with of the worst execution “Let us commemorate and commend to the loving mercy of our varying degrees of correctness, for a variety of methods ever devised. Heavenly Father, the Shepherd of Souls, the Giver of Life other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, Practiced by the Ancient Everlasting, those who have died in the service of our country bituminous surface treatments, and modern Persians, starting and its cause.” asphalt concrete. around 500 B.C., it saw the victim placed inside

Pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon a hollowed-out log or narrow boat, their hands McAdam in the 1820s, macadam roads are and feet tied to each end.

prone to rutting and generating dust. Methods The victim was then forced to ingest a mixture to stabilize macadam surfaces with tar date of milk and honey until they uncontrollably back to at least 1834 when John Henry Cassell, voided their bowels, at which point their skin

THE PWLL FALLEN operating from Cassell's Patent Lava Stone was smeared with more milk and honey before Works in Millwall, patented "lava stone". This they were left exposed in the sun and method involved spreading tar on the subgrade, 1939 – 1945 World War II surrounded by their own feces and vomit. placing a typical macadam layer, and finally sealing the macadam with a mixture of tar and It was at this point that the insects would Hugh Bonnell, Melville Charles, Elfed Daniels, Harry J Davies, Tudor Elli sand. Tar-grouted macadam was in use well descend. Stinging and biting insects like wasps Gay, Conrad Hughes, Heber Jenkins, Gwyn Jones, John R Jones, Vernon before 1900, and involved scarifying the surface and ants would torture the victim, but worse, Lewis, Fred Shapeley, Ken Williams, Alec Williamson, W Williamson of an existing macadam pavement, spreading others would crawl inside the unprotected tar, and re-compacting. Although the use of tar orifices of the subject and lay eggs, eating them in road construction was known in the 19th alive from the inside out.

century, it was little used and was not With the ration of milk and honey — and introduced on a large scale until the motorcar sometimes water — repeated at daily intervals, arrived on the scene in the early 20th century. the victim had little chance of dying of thirst or

In 1901, Edgar Purnell Hooley was walking in hunger.

Denby, Derbyshire when he noticed a smooth Instead, they succumbed to tortured madness, stretch of road close to an ironworks. He was experiencing the agonizing, nightmare crawl of THE EXHORTATION informed that a barrel of tar had fallen onto the thousands of insects on their skin, burrowing road, and someone into their eyes and ears and nose, filling their “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old, Age poured waste slag from mouths, while worms and parasites bred in the shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going the nearby furnaces to filth at the bottom of the boat and squirmed up down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember cover up the mess. Hooley into their bowels. noticed this unintentional them.” Death would eventually be caused by a resurfacing had solidified combination of exposure and the massive the road, and there was no infections caused by both the insects, and the rutting and no dust. faecal matter smeared into the wounds. One Hooley's 1902 patent for account of such an execution by the Greek tarmac involved mechanically mixing tar historian Plutarch claimed that it took the victim 17 whole days to die. and aggregate before lay-down, and then

THE WEBB ELLIS was jogging in the Horsetooth Mountain Open THE I'M FINE THANK YOU Space near Fort Collins, Colorado. The runner CUP suffered serious injuries when the 77-pound lion CORACLE There is nothing the matter with me attacked, but he managed to kill the animal in The coracle is a I'm as healthy as can be. he Webb Ellis Cup is the self defence before seeking medical help. T small, rounded, I have arthritis in both my knees awarded to the And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze, esidents of the small Michigan community of lightweight boat of the winner of the Rugby World R sort traditionally used My pulse is weak and my blood is thin, Cup, the premier Hell, 95km west of Detroit, have revealed that in Wales, and also in parts of the West Country But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in. competition in men's their town officially froze over, as night time and in Ireland, particularly the River Boyne, and Arch supports I have for my feet, international . temperatures plummeted to -26C. in Scotland, particularly the River Spey. The Or I wouldn't be able to go on the street. The Cup is named after word is also used of similar boats found in Sleep is denied me night after night, William Webb Ellis, who is often credited as the A 68-year-old “career criminal” has reportedly India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet. The word But every morning I find I'm all right, inventor of . The trophy is silver travelled from New York to Wisconsin for the "coracle" is an English spelling of the original My memory is failing, my head's in a spin gilt and has been presented to the winner of the sole purpose of robbing a bank and being sent Welsh cwrwgl, cognate with Irish and Scottish But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in. since the first competition in back to prison. William Gallagher told a judge Gaelic currach, and is recorded in English text The moral is this - as my tale I unfold, 1987. It has been held three times by both New he had heard that the healthcare provided to as early as the sixteenth century. Other That for you and me who are growing old, Zealand (1987, 2011 & 2015) and South Africa prisoners in Wisconsin was the best in the US, historical English spellings include corougle, It's better to say, "I'm fine" with a grin, (1995, 2007 & 2019), and twice by Australia which prompted his decision to commit the corracle, curricle and coricle. Than to let folks know the shape we're in. (1991 & 1999), and once by England in 2003. crime. The structure is made of a framework of split How do I know that my youth is all spent? The 38-centimetre trophy weighs 4.5 kg, is and interwoven willow rods, tied with willow Well my 'get up and go' has got up and went. gilded silver and has two cast scroll handles. bark. The outer layer was originally an animal I refuse to enter a battle of But I don't really mind when I think with a grin, One handle bears a head of a satyr, the other skin such as horse or bullock hide (corium), Of all the grand places 'my get up' has been. the head of a nymph. On the face of the trophy, wits with an unarmed man. - with a thin layer of tar to waterproof it – today the words International Rugby Football Board unknown replaced by tarred calico, canvas, or fibreglass. Old age is golden, I've heard it said, and below that arch The Webb Ellis Cup are But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed, The Vietnamese/Asian version of the coracle is engraved. The Webb Ellis Cup is also referred made of interwoven bamboo and waterproofed With my ears in the drawer, my teeth in the cup, to (incorrectly) as the "Webb Ellis Trophy" or LONDON DID YOU KNOW by using resin and coconut oil. Oval in shape My eyes on the table until I wake up. colloquially as "Bill," a nickname coined by the and very similar to half a walnut shell, the Ere sleep overtakes me, I think to myself winners, the Wallabies. In the Great Fire of London that occurred in coracle has a keel-less flat bottom to evenly Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf? 1666, only six deaths were officially recorded. spread the load across the structure and to When I was young, my slippers were red; reduce the required depth of water – often to I could kick my heels right over my head. only a few inches. This makes it ideal for use on When I got older, my slippers were blue; More than half of the London Underground is rivers. But still I could dance the whole night through. NEWS OF THE WEIRD in fact above ground. But now I am old, my slippers are black; I walk to the store and puff my way back. Police in Houston have successfully removed The most famous landmark in the city, Big Ben I get up each day and dust off my wits, a tiger from an abandoned home, after And pick up the paper and read the 'obits'. is not the name of the clock or clock tower, it is receiving an anonymous tip that the animal was If my name is still missing, I know I'm not dead - the name given to the Great Bell of the clock at being held in a flimsy cage in the garage. The So I have a good breakfast and go back to bed. person who called in the tip to police said he the north end of the Palace of Westminster. To entered the house to smoke marijuana, and celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in (By Constance O’Neon) initially believed he was hallucinating when he 2012 the tower is now officially renamed as first encountered the tiger. Elizabeth Tower.

Each coracle is tailored to the local river Japanese man has been charged on A The address “Number One, London” is Apsley conditions. In general there is one design per river, but this is not always the case. The Teifi suspicion of “applying saliva” to a woman House, on Hyde Park Corner, the former coracle, for instance, is flat-bottomed, as it is whose hair he licked at a busy train station. residence of field marshal and prime minister DAI’s COMA designed to negotiate shallow rapids, common Officials used security footage to track down a Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. on the river in the summer, while the Dai wakes up from a coma. Blodwen, his wife, 23-year-old suspect after the woman complained. He reportedly admitted to the Carmarthen coracle is rounder and deeper, changes out of her black clothes and irritated, offence while being questioned by police. Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot because it is used in tidal waters on the Tywi, remarks, "I really cannot depend on you for and killed in the House of Commons on 11 May where there are no rapids anything, can I!"

A runner was forced to choke a mountain lion 1812. He remains the only British prime to death, after the animal attacked him while he minister to have been assassinated. WHY IS THE FLAG OF WALES

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FLAG? Apparently the following Q. What has to be established before giving a answers were offered by blood transfusion? n a strange way, it is. We just have to look a I And today it is the final layer on top of the flag British students in the public A. If the blood is affirmative or negative. little more closely to see it. of the United Kingdom, the Union Flag or Union examinations set for 15 year olds. Q. How should you remove dust from the eye? Recall that the red dragon is the ancient symbol Jack. A “jack” generally is a maritime flag flown by ships at sea. Medical A. Pull the eye down over the nose. of Wales. Here’s the current flag of Wales Q. What is the first thing you would do to Q. What is an enema?

someone who has been immobilised in a road A. Someone who is not your friend. accident? A. Rape them tight in a blanket and give them a sweet cup of tea. Sociology Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company Q. What is artificial respiration commonly Now let’s look back again. In the 1270s, King insist on? known as? Edward I of England conquered Wales. This is A. If you are buying a house, they will insist you A. The kiss of death. are well endowed. This dragon is a distant descendant of the where the story becomes really curious.

Draco standard carried by every cohort (about Because Wales did not stay conquered. Q. What should you do with someone you have Q. In a democratic society, how important are 400–800 fighters) of Roman cavalry by the 4th In 1447, a descendant of the kings of southern found unconscious in the water? elections? century AD. It was mounted on a pole with the A. 1. Lay them on their backs and give them Wales named Henry Tudor (Harri Tudur in A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a cloth body of the dragon, or serpent filling with Welsh) was born in Pembrokshire, Wales. He artificial insemination. male gets an election. air when in motion. The Draco, which probably 2. Climb on top of the person and move up and was also related to the English monarchy. His Q. What is a social node? originated in what’s now Ukraine, was the grandfather Owen Tudur, or Tudor, was a down to make artificial perspiration. symbol of a cohort just as the Eagle was the A. A friend you have known for a very long time. squire to King Henry V of England, after whose Q. How can you help someone who has symbol of a legion. death Owen fathered a child with his widow, fainted? Botany Catherine of Valois. Harri Tudur, after many A. 1. Rub the person’s chest or, if it’s a lady, rub adventures, invaded England from France and her arm above the hand instead. Q. What can be coloured red, pink, orange or became King Henry VII of England. 2. Put its head between the knees of the flamingo? Here are the personal arms of his famous son, nearest doctor. A. The rectum.

Henry VIII, c. 1540. Note that the red dragon Q. What are steroids? Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is a has rejoined the party, along with the lion of A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs. characteristic feature? Normandy. Q. What is a common treatment for a bad A. Mushrooms. They always grow in damp When Norman fighters returned to France and nosebleed? places and so they look like umbrellas. England after the First Crusade (after 1099), A. 1. Circumcision. Q. What is rhubarb? they brought with them the legend of the dragon 2. Put the nose much lower than the body until A. A kind of celery gone bloodshot. and its killing by the Christian St. George, who the heart stops. was venerated by their Orthodox allies fighting History in Jerusalem and Antioch. This imagery has Q. What should be done if someone has been Q. What is Britain’s highest award for valour in been prevalent for centuries. Note the red bitten by a dog? war? Crusader’s cross on the white shield of the saint A. Put the dog away for several days. If he has A. Nelson’s column. in this present day depiction . . . not recovered, then kill it.

So … The red Cross of St. George in the flag of

the United Kingdom is a reference not just to St.

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