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EDITORIAL BÔNAU DEADLINES PWLL CRICKET 21 st April Queen’s Real Birthday rd 23 April St George’s Day th 1st May May Day Welcome to our 28 The deadline for the Summer edition of Fixtures 2010 season rd th 3 May Early May Bank Holiday edition. We hope you like it The Bônau Cabbage Patch is 25 April th th 13 May Ascension Day as we have all spent many 2010 for your articles or reports or 20 April rd hours preparing it for you. 2010 for any amendments to your advert. First XI 23 May Pentecost/Whitsuntide 31 st May Spring Bank Holiday This edition marks a full 7 st years for the magazine. We never in our 1 May Drefach (A) th wildest dreams thought the magazine 8 May Pontyberem (H) CONTACTING US th would last this long! 15 May Bronwydd (A) nd Let us be thankful for the fools. But o contact The Bônau Cabbage Patch or 22 May Cimla (H) We give a big thank you to our sponsors T 29 th May Hills Plymouth (A) for them the rest of us could not and advertisers without whose generosity The Pwll Action Committee please call 5th June Gorseinon (H) succeed. 755665 or 755260 or 777420 or drop your th the magazine would not get printed. 12 June Llandarcy (A) articles or reports through our letterboxes at th We have received quite a few donations 19 June Baglan (H) 43 or 53 or 81 Pwll Road or you can send th from readers of the Bônau and we would 26 June Swansea Civil S. (A) TEN DUCKS? us an e-mail at: rd like to thank every one of them for their 3 July Drefach (H) warm and generous donations. [email protected] 10 th July Pontyberem (A) Table-topping Dishforth were 17 th July Bronwydd (H) expected to beat bottom- Enjoy the magazine. Any photographs we use are first scanned th 24 July Cimla (A) placed Goldsborough in the and then the originals are returned to their st 31 July Hills Plymouth (H) Nidderdale Amateur Cricket rightful owners so don’t be shy or fearful in th 7 Aug Gorseinon (A) League, North Yorkshire, but not quite as sending us your photographs. It would be th THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS 14 Aug Llandarcy (H) easily as things turned out. handy though if you wrote your name and st 21 Aug Baglan (A) address on the back of the photo (in pencil) th Goldborough 2nd X1 came close to setting We would like to welcome our new 28 Aug Swansea Civil S. (H) an unwanted record after ten batsmen were or you attached one of those ‘post-it-notes’. sponsors to the magazine and hope that (Second XI matches are reverse of above) out for a duck. Not one of the our association will be a long and enjoyable Goldsborough players scored a single run; one. although they did clock up five extras. MONSOON SEASON We would also like to express our thanks APPROACHES Their opponents quickly knocked off the six and gratitude to all our sponsors without runs needed for a win and the game was whose generous contributions this edition over. The Dishforth captain Steve Wilson, oorah! Summer is coming! of the magazine would not have been H told reporters, 'If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't possible. It’s just around the corner now. To help it have thought it possible.' We ask our readers to patronise our get here just that little bit quicker don’t DATES FOR YOUR The Goldsborough captain commented, 'It sponsors whenever possible and please forget to turn your clocks FORWARD one th was surreal and embarrassing. We almost mention the Bônau Cabbage Patch when hour on Sunday 28 March. DIARY got a run, but the batsman turned it down you make your purchases. st because he' d just been hit on the foot.' 1 March St David’s Day th 8 March Commonwealth Day th 14 March Mother’s Day th 17 March St Patrick’s Day The Bônau Cabbage Patch is published and issued by The Pwll Action Committee. The editors are: Peter Kent (53 Pwll Road - th 755260) & Jeff Williams (81 Pwll Road - 777420). Please submit your reports, articles etc to either editor or any other 20 March Spring Begins HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED??.. committee member. Hand written reports are OK – we’ll type them up for you. Please ensure you include your name, address 28 th March Palm Sunday and telephone number so we can contact you just in case we need clarification or we can’t read your writing! You can also th What batteries run on? contact the magazine by e-mail at: [email protected]. Closing date for submissions of articles, reports etc 28 March British Summer Time th th st for the Summer edition is 25 April 2010 - amended adverts by 20 April 2010. 1 April April Fool’s Day st After eating, do amphibians have to wait an Any views and opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily the views and opinions of The Pwll Action Committee. 1 April Maundy Thursday nd hour before getting out of the water? Copyright exists on all articles and photographs published in this magazine. 2 April Good Friday 4th April Easter Day Before they invented drawing boards, what th did they go back to? 5 April Easter Monday CNAPAN – Forerunner to Rugby? hold on to, and thus making play more PWLL STONE TO REBUILD DUBAI terminal which will be built close to Burry Port unpredictable. FORT AS A MILLIONAIRES for the transportation of the stone to Port Talbot deep harbour for onward shipment to HOLIDAY RESORT Cnapan is an The sole object of the game was to take the Dubai. The whole project is likely to last ball to the church of one's home parish archaic sport that between 8 and ten years and will pump using any means possible; however the A derelict fort in the desert close to Dubai is vaguely resembled millions of £’s into the local economy.” game is not usually played until the ball has to be rebuilt using stone quarried in Pwll. modern day rugby. It is expected that blasting will be done twice actually reached the parish church as the The announcement by Dubai's current ruler The game is weekly on a Monday and Thursday - the majority of the opposing parish usually give and prime minister, Salem Ali Jassim claimed to have intervening days used to transport the stone to up when the ball is moved sufficiently inside Alshamsi was made shortly before the return originated (and seems to have remained the loading terminal in Burry Port. Concerns a team's parish as to render a win for the of a Welsh Select Committee commissioned largely confined to) the Western counties of about the suitability of Elgin Road for 40 tonne opposing parish unlikely. by the Welsh Assembly. Wales, especially Carmarthenshire, trucks is being investigated by an independent Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire Other than the rule described above, there road traffic consultant. were no other rules in the game of Cnapan, History: Little information about the origins A spokesman for the proposed quarrying which meant that all players of the game of the game can be found because of the contractor, Sharjah Blasting International told were open to the injuries, which inevitably age of the game, but it is speculated to us that the explosions would be extremely resulted from over-zealous attempts at loud and that ground tremors would be felt in have originated sometime in the Middle gaining possession of the ball. There were Pwll and possibly Sandy but this was nothing Ages as a form of "organised chaos" to few restrictions on kicking and throwing the to worried or be frightened about. Structural relieve the back-breaking monotonous work ball, and cudgelling the opponent in damage to local buildings is expected to be of the locals (many of whom lived meagre possession until he dropped it was minimal and a telephone number where lives as peasants). The game also seems permitted. But despite this, when games (Above: The Derelict Pilaf Loro Fort, Dubai) people can claim compensation will be made to have evolved gradually over the years, were organised, many would play. available closer to the time. Salem Ali Jassim Alshamsi stated that the fort, with no definitive set of rules governing its play. As the game is played with but a few The Game Today: The game was known locally as Pilaf Loro, had been derelict He added that his biggest concern would be the storage of the vast amounts of explosives simple rules, this has not been a major recreated for about ten years in Newport since the early 1900’s but was now going to that would be required every week for an hindrance to play. Leaving aside the gentry (Pembrokeshire) around 1985-95, with an be rebuilt as part of Dubai’s large capital investment into the leisure industry. He stated undertaking of this size. Fully trained armed on horseback, there were certainly two annual contest between Newport Parish that the investment would be for billions of guards would be required to ensure the safety groups of players on each side, some who and Nevern Parish, with much smaller UAE dirhams and a large proportion of this of the explosives and these would be recruited sides and a referee to keep order. The grappled for the cnapan and others who would be for the supply of millions of tonnes of from local residents who not only knew the were the fast and elusive runners.