EDITORIAL Solstice, Midsummer or Litha means a stopping HISTORY OF ICE development of skin cancer and the primary or standing still of the sun. It is the longest day CREAM factor in the development of lip cancer. Well folks – welcome to the of the year and the time when the sun is at its 5th edition of The Bônau maximum elevation. Once upon a time,

Cabbage Patch. We have hundreds of years This date has had spiritual significance for ago, Charles I of now completed our first year of publication – thousands of years as humans have been the very first Bônau being issued in June England hosted a amazed by the great power of the sun. The sumptuous state 2003. Celts celebrated with bonfires that would add to banquet for many of the sun’s energy, Christians placed the feast of We would like to thank the advertisers who his friends and family. The meal, consisting have stayed with us for the next 12 months St John the Baptist towards the end of June of many delicacies of the day, had been Health officials suggest some easy options for therefore helping the Bônau to live on. For and it is also the festival of Li, the Chinese simply superb but the "coup de grace" was sun protection: the advertisers who decided not to support Goddess of light. yet to come. After much preparation, the • Seek shade especially during midday us again we wish them well in the future and Like other religious groups, Pagans are in awe King's French chef had concocted an when UV rays are strongest and do hope that one day we can tempt you back. of the incredible strength of the sun and the apparently new dish. It was cold and most damage. The sun’s UV rays are divine powers that create life. For Pagans this resembled fresh- fallen snow but was much August this year sees the very first raffle strongest and do the most damage spoke in the Wheel of the Year is a significant creamier and sweeter than any other after- held by The Pwll Action Committee. There during midday; you should avoid direct point. The Goddess took over the earth from dinner dessert. The guests were delighted, are some excellent and valuable prizes exposure between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. the horned God at the beginning of spring and as was Charles, who summoned the cook including a first prize of a bicycle (donated and seek shade under an umbrella or she is now at the height of her power and and asked him not to divulge the recipe for by Cycles). Every prize has been tree, donated and we are extremely grateful to fertility. For some Pagans the Summer Solstice his frozen cream. The King wanted the • Cover up with clothing to protect those people who have given so generously. marks the marriage of the God and Goddess delicacy to be served only at the Royal table exposed skin. Loose-fitting long- Please support us by buying and selling as and see their union as the force that creates the and offered the cook 500 pounds a year to sleeved shirts and long pants made many books as you can. The tickets are harvest’s fruits. keep it that way. Sometime later, however, poor Charles fell into disfavour with his from tightly woven fabric offer the best priced at 20p each or £1 per book. This is a time to celebrate growth and life but people and was beheaded in 1649. But by protection, This edition has all the usual articles for Pagans, who see balance in the world and that time, the secret of the frozen cream • Grab a pair of shades that wrap including Jeff Williams’ “Walk on the Wild are deeply aware of the ongoing shifting of the remained a secret no more. The cook, around and block as close to 100 Side”, a look back at the history of Pwll seasons it is also time to acknowledge that the named DeMirco, had not kept his promise. percent of both UVA and UVB rays as during the census of 1881 in “The Answers sun will now begin to decline once more This story is just one of many of the possible. Sunglasses protect the eyes are in the Genes”, as well as new articles towards winter. from UV rays and protect the tender fascinating tales which surround the submitted by you, the public. skin around the eyes from sun evolution of ice cream. It is likely that ice We hope you enjoy this edition. Good cream was not invented, but rather came to exposure, • reading! be over years of similar efforts. Indeed, the Get a hat with a wide brim to shade Roman Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar is the face, head, ears, and neck. UV P.S. Keep those letters, articles and e-mails coming in – said to have sent slaves to the mountains to rays can reach anyone on cloudy and Ed. hazy days as well as bright and sunny bring snow and ice to cool and freeze the fruit drinks he was so fond of. Centuries days, THE SUMMER later, the Italian Marco Polo returned from • Rub on sunscreen with factor 15 or SOLSTICE Above: Stonehenge his famous journey to the Far East with a higher and both UVA and UBA 21st June (sometimes protection. Sunscreens come in a 24th) When celebrating midsummer Pagans draw on recipe for making water ices resembling diverse traditions. In Britain thousands of modern day sherbets. variety of forms such as lotions, gels, As the sun spirals Pagans and non-Pagans go to places of and sprays, so there are plenty of different options. its longest dance, ancient religious sites such as Stonehenge and SUMMER SUN PROTECTION Cleanse us Avebury to see the sun rising on the first Unprotected skin can be harmed by UV rays in As nature shows morning of summer. Many more Pagans hold Summer is here, and we encourage you to as little as 15 minutes, yet it can take up to 12 bounty and fertility small ceremonies in open spaces, everywhere play it safe while playing in the sun. hours for skin to show the full effects of sun Bless us from gardens to woodlands. exposure. Serious sunburns, especially during Let all things live According to the Centre for Disease Control childhood and adolescence, can increase the with loving intent and Prevention (CDC), skin cancer is the chances of developing malignant melanoma — And to fulfil their most common kind of cancer in the United one of the most serious forms of skin cancer Every exit is an entry to somewhere. Kingdom. UV exposure appears to be the truest destiny and the one that causes most skin cancer- most important environmental factor in the related deaths. (Taken from a Wiccan blessing for Summer) A DEAR OLD LADY FROM CIDWELI extraordinary height, and that the sea was the William Brazel / S / 4 / Born - . heaviest he had experienced. Fearing for their THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE GENES Richard Brazel / S / 1 / Born - Pembrey. Nursery rhymes are an important part of our lives, both keepers abandoned the lighthouse at ------literature and folklore. One of low water. On the following day, Captain Luckraft Continuing our journey through Pwll in 1881. Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool the most well known refers to a found that 13 of the 18 stay rods had been This series has proved to be very popular with Thomas Bonnel / Head / 49 / Born –Pembrey / dear old lady who kept a sweet washed away. .... Michael Leheane and William many people catching glimpses of their Coal Miner. Hughes, a Llanelli pilot, bravely agreed to stay the ancestors. Elizabeth Bonnel / Wife / 47 / Born -Pembrey. shop in Cydweli. She specialised in selling liquorice night there. (Personally speaking I’m completely lost John Bonnel / S / 18 / U / Born –Pembrey / Coal [losin du], offering 10 pieces for because in 1881 the houses didn’t have Miner. a half penny [dimai]. The rhyme More damage occurred in 1857 when the "Stark", numbers - but I think we are probably Ann Bonnel / D / 11 / Born –Pembrey / Scholar. goes; of Dublin, collided with the lighthouse, demolishing somewhere around Shop Fach heading Jane Bonnel / D / 9 / Born Pembrey / Scholar. the northeast pile. By 1864, the lighthouse had Elizabeth Bonnel / D / 7 / Born -Pembrey. towards Llanelli. Perhaps someone can help become a major headache for the commissioners ------Hen fenyw fach Cydweli me out here, if they can pinpoint where we are of the Burry...[who] called for a report on the - Ed) Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool Yn gwerthu losins du scientific construction of lighthouses. John Jones / Head / M / 43 / Born –Pembrey / Yn rhifo deg am ddimau D = daughter / S = Son / U = Unmarried Coal Miner. John Bowen, a local engineer, drew up plans for a Ond un ar ddeg i fi." ------Mary Jones / Wife / 43 / Born – Pembrey new lighthouse. He was a blacksmith's son and Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool Jane Jones / D / 14 / Born – Pembrey / Scholar was employed by Messrs. Nevill, Druce and Co. Old small lady from Daniel Ungoed / Head / Widow / 69 / Born- Ann Jones/ D/12/B-Pembrey/Scholar. as an engineer at Llanelly Copperworks. He was Llanelly / Coal Miner. Selling black sweets ------responsible for the design and building of Llanelli's William Ungoed / S /36 / U / Born -Pembrey / Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool Counting ten for a halfpenny tallest chimney, the "Stac Fawr", at the Coal Miner Timothy Evans / Head / M / 68 / Born -NK, But eleven for me Copperworks, which was completed in 1861. At ------Pembroke / Mason. the time, it was claimed to be the tallest Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool Mary Evans / Wife / M / 51 / Born -Pembrey chimneystack in Europe. A different siting was Ann Jones / Head / Widow / 42 / Born - Daniel Evans / S / 14 / U /Born –Pembrey chosen for the new lighthouse, about 300 yards Pembrey / Coal Miner. THE WHITFORD LIGHTHOUSE south of the old one, the successful tenderers Margaret Jones / D / 20 /U / Born Pembrey / Samuel Evans / S / 13 / Born –Pembrey / This unique lighthouse is a prominent landmark being Messrs. Hennet & Co. The lamp was lit in At Tin Works. Scholar. at the mouth of the Burry Inlet. It is an November 1866. Mary Anne Jones / D / 16 / U / Born - Mary Jane Evans / D / 8 / Born – Pembrey impressive sight when it stands alone amidst Repairs were found to be necessary during the Pembrey / Scholar. Thomas Jones / S / 14 / Born – Pembrey / vast sand banks at low tide, or when heavy 1880's...The lighthouse continued to operate ------Scholar. seas batter the empty tower. Today, the Burry satisfactorily for over fifty years, and, in 1919, Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool ------Inlet is used only by Llanelly Harbour Trust considered installing a Benjamin Enock / Head / M / 39 / Born – Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool small craft, but the more powerful automatic gas-light at Whitford, but Llanishael / Railway Excavator (Lab') Mary Jenkins / Head / M / 62 / Born -Pembrey Whitford Lighthouse came to the conclusion that the estuary would be Elizabeth Enock / Wife / 45 / Born -Pembrey. John Jenkins / S / 33 / U / Born –Pembrey / belongs to an era when better served if a new lighthouse were to be built David John / Step Son / 18 / U / Born Coal Miner. Llanelli was a major on Burry Holms. This was built during 1921, and, – Pembrey / Coal Miner. Llewellyn Jenkins / S / 22 / U / Born – Welsh port with an the Whitford Light was finally extinguished. Mary Ann Enock / D / 9 / Born important coastal and Pembrey / Coal Miner. – Pembrey / Scholar. foreign trade. The lighthouse obtained official recognition when Mary Jane Jenkins / D / 18 / U / Born – Elizabeth Enock / D / 6 / Born –Pembrey / the Ancient Monuments Commission listed it as a Pembrey / Serve at Home. Scholar. The present structure is building of historic interest in 1981. This was ------Sarah Enock / D / 4 / Born –Pembrey / Scholar. the second to have been achieved because of its unique position as the Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool Hannah Enock / D / 2 / Born - Pembrey. built on the Whitford sker. only cast-iron lighthouse regularly surrounded by Benjamin Thomas / Head / M / 36 / Born – ------Its predecessor was the sea. John Bowen's tower has survived over / Furnace man at Copper Works. Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool erected about half-a-mile north of Whitford 120 years of buffeting by the sea and, although his Elizabeth Thomas / Wife / 28 / Born - John Rees / Head / M / 42 / Born – Llanon / Point, in 1854. Its designer was Captain John other masterpiece, the "Stac Fawr", is but a dim Pembrey. Engine Driver Steam Dredge. Paisley Luckraft, who was the Harbour Master memory, the Whitford Lighthouse remains as a John Thomas / S / 10 / Born -Pembrey. Mary Rees / Wife / 40 / Born - Pembrey. at Llanelli. The light was first lit on the night of fitting memorial to this talented engineer. Margaret Thomas / D / 7 / Born –Pembrey / Mary Jane Rees / D / 13 / Born - Llanelly. nd 22 January 1855. The following year, events Scholar. Samuel Rees / S / 11 / Born –Llanelly / Scholar. conspired to almost wreck the Whitford [Based on the THE WHITFORD LIGHTHOUSE by Mary Ann Thomas / D / 4 / Born -Pembrey. Richard Davies. Maureen Thoms 14/15.6.2000 D] John Rees / Nephew / 9 / Born –Pembrey / Lighthouse. ...Wreckage became trapped / S / 1 / Born -Pembrey. Scholar. amongst the piles, and broke one of the stays. ------Evan Samuel Rees / S / 6 / Born –Pembrey / ...More wreckage became entangled during a Dwelling - (Pwll) Pool Scholar. Brain cells come and brain cells go, but storm on 7th February, which led to the loss of John Braze l/ Head / M / 27 / Born –Pembrey / Ernest John Rees / S / 4 / Born -Pembrey. the remaining stay rods. Later that day, fat cells live forever. Lab'r at Lead Works. William Daniel Rees / S / 11/ M / Born -Pembrey. Michael Leheane, one of two keepers, reported Mary Brazel / Wife / 34 / Born -Pembrey. ------to Captain Luckraft that the tide had risen to an John Brazel / S / 5 / Born - Pembrey. (Article by: Pwll Genealogy Fan) CORONATION DAY BIRTHSTONES POSTAL SCAMS THE CRWTH (2 nd June) January - Garnet Trading standards chiefs are The crwth is a medieval bowed lyre and ranks

This year marks the 51st anniversary of the February - Amethyst warning Pwll residents not to as one of 's most exotic traditional Queen's coronation. March - Bloodstone fall for prize scams that instruments. It has six strings. The gut strings April - Diamond come in the post. They are produce a soft purring Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June May - Emerald being inundated with calls from people sound, earthy but 1953 in Westminster Abbey. June - Pearl/Alexandrite receiving promises of cash windfalls with tender. The melody is The Queen July - Ruby firms targeting residents every week. Letters played on four of the succeeded to the August - Sardonyx/Agate are being sent which ask for a phone call to six strings; with the throne a year earlier September - Sapphire a premium rate telephone number to register other two acting as in February 1952, October - Opal for a prize. plucked or bowed drones and the octave after the death of November - Topaz Officers at the county council say many of doublings producing a her father King December - Turquoise the companies behind the offers are under constant choral George VI. investigation and they are urging residents accompaniment. Elizabeth was in Kenya at the time and not to take up the offers, which usually cost became the first Sovereign in over 200 A friend is someone who knows money and lead to nothing. The crwth has been all about you but loves you just played in Wales in one years to accede to the throne while abroad. The Independent Committee for the the same. form or another since Supervision of Standards of Telephone Over 20 million people watched the BBC roman times. It was an Information Services - the regulatory body coverage of the coronation. Many people instrument of the crowded round neighbour's sets to watch WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO…? for all premium rate charged highest status during the middle ages whose telecommunications services, is currently television for the first time. The broadcast best players could earn a stable income in the Spangles, MacFisheries, Vests, Vision On, investigating many of the prize draws in was made in 44 languages. courts of the welsh aristocracy. Crwth players Jamboree Bags, Flexidiscs, Blakeys, Duffle circulation. There was a shortage of professional Coats with toggles, Slime, Bazooka Joe, Pages had to undergo years of apprenticeship and coachmen to help transport dignitaries to from Ceefax, I-Spy books, Typewriters, The calls are often charged in excess of memorise twenty-four complex pieces of music. £1.50 per minute and callers can run up a Westminster Abbey in horse drawn Harmony hairspray, Space During the seventeenth century new charge of £10 very quickly. People who are carriages. Millionaire businessmen and Dust, Keynsham - Bristol, instruments such as the fiddle came to Wales fortunate enough to receive a prize often country squires offered their services and on Pakamacs, The Test Card, with their modern repertoire of country-dance find out it is worthless. Experience shows the day they dressed up as Buckingham Leon Trotsky, Peter and tunes. The crwth with its range of about an that people who respond to such offers very Palace servants and helped take people to Jane, The Adventure Game, octave was unable to compete, and ceased to often find themselves inundated with other the ceremony. Shrinky Dinks, Pixie Boots, be played around the beginning of the Whizzer and Chips, Girls’ navy gym knickers, prize draw offers. People need to think long Many commemorative souvenirs were nineteenth century. However the last ten years The Conservative Party, Hear Say, Frozen and hard before responding. There has produced to mark the occasion including a have seen a remarkable revival of the ancient Jublies, Home and Colonial, Triple been a dramatic increase in the number of . instrument and there are now a number of both special set of four postage stamps Dragon, The Daily Sketch, Black Jacks, Omo calls to trading standards about this type of professional and amateur players and several washing powder, Black Cat cigarettes, The prize draw. Residents are advised not to crwth makers. Tiger, What’s My Line, Muffin the Mule. gamble on these offers. There are three surviving eighteenth-century Anyone wanting to limit the amount of crwths which are kept in the national library of THE PLANETS and their satellites unsolicited direct mail they receive can Wales, Aberystwyth, the museum of welsh life, contact the Mailing Preference Service, St Fagans, Cardiff, and Warrington museum. Mercury – Freddie, Taylor, Deacon Freepost 22, London, W1E 4EZ. Residents There are also some nineteenth century Venus – Furs, Flytrap, Fireball XL5 worried about prize offers can contact the reproduction crwths in other European Earth – Neutral, Live, Fuse public protection call centre on 01554 museums. Mars – Snickers, Bounty, Twix 742303.

Blupiter – Shep, Goldie, Patch

Sat-on – Bench, Deckchair, Sofa Happiness is good health and a bad A pessimist sees the difficulty in Uranus – Haemorrhoid, Pile, Andrex memory. every opportunity; an optimist sees Pluto – Mickey, Goofy, Donald A good name is better than Ineptune – Ketchup Song, Agadoo, We are the the opportunity in every difficulty.

riches. Cheeky Girls

(OK! OK! – It’s just a bit of fun! - Ed)

A WALK ON THE Millennium Coastal Park has had HOLY TRINITY PWLL W.I. WILD SIDE to protect against further erosion CHURCH and have placed large stones During the last few months Pwll Now that we are nearing there. Fortunately, this work was W.I. members have been very the longest day we should This month we look carried out before the birds busy. In February we celebrated be enjoying long hot forward to our arrival and now they will have to our 20 th Anniversary with a Fish summer days. During the Centenary Patronal Festival on trinity look for an alternative site. th and Chip supper followed by a beautiful printing of the last edition a few unusual Sunday, 6 June. Our guest preacher at Anniversary cake made by Helen Howells, a sightings were reported. So, during the fine The swans have, yet again, built their nest on 6pm will be the Rt Rev , former daughter of one of our members. During the weather of February we saw the very early the lakes, so lets all hope they are more of St Davids. This is the first of two night we reminisced the last twenty years of all appearance of bumble bees and, to my successful this year. special services for our Centenary year. The main Centenary service commemorating the the interesting and various activities we have amazement, a Painted Some gardens may have had dedication of the church is on 21 st achieved. Lady butterfly in Elgin some uninvited guests this November, when the Lord Bishop of St Road and a Tortoiseshell spring – nesting mallard ducks! Davids, the Rt Rev will be with In March we spent an outstanding weekend in butterfly in Denham Last year a mallard actually us. London and saw the spectacular show Chitty Avenue. I can never nested in a garden on Libanus Chitty Bang Bang. We stayed at the 4 star recall seeing butterflies in February before! Hill just a few feet away from the th Our summer fete is on 26 June at 2pm in Tower Bridge Hotel over looking the River road. A brood of ducklings was seen towards The following week we were shocked back the church grounds. This is our third Fete Thames. Before returning home, we spent an the end of April on the Island in the pond along into winter with a vengeance – remember and the previous two have been a great enjoyable few hours in Covent Garden watching th the cycle track. the snowfall of 26 February? On that very success with everyone enjoying a lovely the street entertainers whilst meandering day I spotted a willow warbler - usually a A big thanks to all the people who have afternoon – it is going to be fine again this around the quaint shops. summer visitor - at the sub station lake. contributed information towards this article. year! We have lots of stalls including plants, Perhaps he was having his winter break! Please keep it up! Many eyes are far better cakes, toys, white elephant, toiletries etc. Members attended the Spring Council meeting

Towards the end of February a than just my two! in Hall where over 300 members from W.I.s were present. The house martin was spotted on Oh well! It’s time to leave now and put my In July we have our Sponsored Walk for guest speaker for the evening was the famous Elgin Road, and also during Wellingtons into summer hibernation and get which we join with St Mary’s and walk in the antique expert David Battie of the Antiques the same month, a swallow in into my shorts and flip flops to try and catch Millennium Park and there are always lovely th Roadshow. He has been involved in the show Pwll Road. On March 8 , to my some summer sun. Have a nice summer. I’ll refreshments awaiting our return! since it started 27 years ago and described great dismay, I found a dead see you again in the autumn. th little grebe floating in the shallows of the On August 7 our annual BBQ will be held what inspired the idea for the show. He lakes. After recovering the bird its’ cause of at Whitford Way, Tirwaen. entertained us with interesting and comical demise was clearly obvious – fishing gut, GARDENING CLUB anecdotes about the show. The evening ended tangled around its’ neck, had entrapped the We plan on making a display of archive with various awards presented to members for bird to the reeds. It is all very well putting up Tip 1 : Copper wire can save photographs of the church in November. If achievements gained during the year. signs telling fishermen to take their rubbish your outdoor potted plants from you have any old photographs we can home with them, but some anglers have hungry slugs. Keep slugs away borrow, we would be very grateful. We can Morfa W.I. held their Annual Spring Dinner at absolutely no consideration whatsoever by wrapping thin copper wire copy them and return them straight away. the Weslyan Hall in April inviting Pwll W.I. towards wildlife. once around your pot, and to secure, twist the Members enjoyed the meal followed by ends with pliers. The trick? Copper To mark our Centenary we have entertainment from the amusing and talented Later that month saw the first wire emits just enough electrical commemorative plates at £12 each. They musical ladies group “Hanner Hanner.” visit of a Canada Goose to zap to turn slugs away unharmed! are going quite fast, so let us know if you the lake and the following Other W.I. activities at county level include golf, Tip 2 : Place the grated peel of a would like one. week a pair were present. canoeing, archery, art and visits to Country lemon in a pint of boiling water. Future sighting are probably House gardens. Steep it for 24 hours and you’ll have a spray We are on the Web! You can find details of very likely as they are slowly spreading over that’s handy for the fight against caterpillars, our services and events on line. Go into the area. April brought several brimstone Come and join us. New members are welcome potato beetles, aphids and mites. Or, try www.visitwales.com, then look for “things to and orange tip butterflies in some gardens do”, “search for things to do”, highlight with also an early visit from the hummingbird liquefying a handful of hot peppers, a couple cloves of garlic and a quart of water in your “Carmarthenshire” and type in “Llanelli”. hawk moth . Hopefully you will find Holy Trinity Church. I wish I were telepath ic. Not just to read blender. Use as a spray to repel leaf-eating people's minds, which would be cool, but Unfortunately, nature has put an end to the bugs. to cut down on my cellular phone bill. sand martin colony near the cycle track. Vicar: The Rev Canon G D Harries BA st During heavy winter seas, the embankment The Pwll Gardening Club meets on the 1 Telephone: 832936 nesting site has been eroded. The Wednesday of every month at 7pm in the Centre. Everyone is welcome. LLANELLI 10K RACE PWLL The AGM is not the only opportunity to get RECREATIONAL involved. If you are interested contact Peter CYMORTH CRISTNOGOL The Sospan Road Runners & COMMITTEE Williams (07710 337594) at any time to discuss the different ways in which you could play a Clwb Triathlon Llanelli are th part. We had an United Service on the 10 May holding their annual Llanelli Millennium Coast 10K run on 2004 held at Holy Trinity Church with th Pavilion Open for Community Use Sunday 27 June 2004 at Pwll members of Libanus, Bethlehem and Holy Trinity taking part. The Treasurer, Lesley Park. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR During April the first open day took place at Evans, gave the financial report for the year The event, which includes fun races for children the Pavilion. Those who attended were very 2003/04 and through various activities and of all ages, commences at 10:00am with the impressed with the facilities on offer and Dear Editor, the Service collections we were able to send main 10K race starting at 11:15am. Timings for interest in hiring out the upstairs space is a £1,000 to Christian Aid again this year. Once more, may I congratulate you and staff on the event are as follows: beginning to mount. As soon as the final your latest issue of the Pwll magazine “The The Committee would like to thank all the 10:00AM modifications for disabled access are Bônau Cabbage Patch”, which is so full of villagers for their continued support and complete the Committee will be taking generosity to alleviate suffering and help 600 metre 6 & under (Can be accompanied by important information and especially concerning bookings, and a scale of charges has been the meeting held on February 10 th at the P.C.C. poor and needy people in the third world. parent/guardian) agreed. The rates favour local groups and appertaining to the state of our roads and The money is sent to Christian Aid Partners 10:10AM individuals, with slightly higher charges for pavements. in various countries who know the needs of 1200 metre for boys and girls 7,8 & 9 years old other organisations. As well as an excellent the people and 87p of every £1 are for the Ramps have now been put in to enable those 10:25AM setting for children’s parties and the like, it is benefit of the poor. 13p only is used for who use prams, push chairs etc to ascend 1200 metre for boys and girls 10 & 11 years old a perfect venue for meetings and workshops administration and advertising. Diolch o and the Committee is keen to promote its pavements so easily. galon am eich cefnogaeth a’ch haelioni. 10:40AM use by organisations interested in Being a scooter user I no longer dread going Thank you very much for your generous One Mile for boys and girls 12 & 13 years old community and sports development. part of the way onto the main Pwll Road so that support. 10:55AM Anyone interested in using the space should I can negotiate the next pavement. Three very faithful members of the contact Brian Richards (Tel: 771013) One Mile for boys and girls 14 & 15 years old Pavement next Carmarthenshire County Committee have retired this year for various reasons. Betty Davies has had surgery 11:15AM To celebrate the open day a competition Council. You will then have some very happy lately but has now been able to come home. Llanelli 10K was held in conjunction with Pwll School and taxpayers! We wish her a full and speedy recovery. (Mrs Rose Davies, Myrtle Hill) Pwll Park can offer changing facilities, toilets, prizes offered for the three best paintings of Edwina Barney has changed her home showers, onsite parking, refreshments and the pavilion. There were three winners An excellent magazine once address to Aberaeron. She has recently beautiful scenery with views over the Loughor Nicole Etherington again! Well done to you all. gone to live with her daughter and son-in- Estuary to the Gower Peninsular. Joseph Angelone Really enjoyed reading it. law and we wish her every happiness in her Cara Davies For more details contact Tim Gasser on 01554- Congratulations yet again. new home and hope that she will visit us often. Thirdly Meg Davies has decided that 758036 or 07796-684094 (mobile). E-mail:- (Text Message from Sharon) [email protected] or visit their web pages at Community Café committee work can take a rest but she is still a faithful supporter of all Christian Aid www.llanelli10k.org.uk The committee have interviewed and events and services. Meg will be 92 years appointed partners to manage the young this year so we have reluctantly THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS HOLY TRINITY THANKS community café. Planning for the opening of accepted her decision. We thank all three the community café is well advanced, and Holy Trinity Church would like to thank John ladies warmly for their support and hard We would like to welcome our new sponsors to there will be a service operating in time for and all the Pwll Line Dancers for their support work for Christian Aid in the village over very th the magazine and hope that our association will the summer season. on March 5 this year in the Church Hall. The many years. Diolch o galon am eich be a long and enjoyable one. evening was a great success and a total of teyrngarwch a’ch parodrwydd i roi gymaint We would again like to express our thanks and Pwll Recreation Ground Development £175 was collected for Church funds. o’ch amser a’ch egni er lles trueiniaid ein th Committee AGM 30 April 2004. (Well done everyone! – Ed) byd. gratitude to all our sponsors without whose

generous contributions this edition of the The new pavilion is a wonderful opportunity Fe allwch chwi helpu wneud y byd yn magazine would not have been possible. to develop further sporting and community decach byd. / You too can help make the We ask our readers to patronise our sponsors It is said that if you line up all the facilities for the people of Pwll. What is world a fairer place. whenever possible and please mention the cars in the world end to end, needed most are volunteers prepared to If you would like to know more please Bônau Cabbage Patch when you make your someone would be stupid enough provide active help and assistance – and contact a committee member or ring 758023 purchases. to try and pass them. ideas.

hanrhydeddir gan ddawns y blodau a Yacht Club was also approached I can't go back to yesterday, because EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL chyfarchion iddo / iddi. and asked to I was a different person then. support and host CYMRU Mae'n wythnos lawn o gystadlu ar y prif lwyfan, the event, which ac o ddathlu a rhannu pob math o gelfyddyd will include mewn pafiliynau eraill o amgylch y maes. Os UP AND COMING YOUNGSTER – Ydi, mae'n amser 'na Offshore Circuit nad y'ch chi wedi bod 'na, so chi'n gwybod be' UPDATE o'r flwyddyn unwaith Racing, chi'n golli. eto. Yr eli haul, neu'r Thundercat Racing and Water Ski Racing. Fe'i cynhelir yn wythnos gyntaf mis Awst bob Here we update you on two of the youngsters welis yn dod mâs, a phawb yn cerdded blwyddyn, ac mae'n symud am yn ail rhwng y Offshore Circuit Racing is a multi-lap who have appeared in this column – Jessica rownd y maes i gwrdd de a'r gogledd. Eleni, Parc Tredegar yw'r powerboat race of 55 minutes plus 1 lap in Bolton who appeared in our second edition and â hen gyfeillion ac i bori drwy ddanteithion y gwesteiwr. Dewch yn llu. Byddwn ni'n trefnu length or two heats of 30 & 25 minutes Rhys Davies from our very first edition. We also siopau bychan amrywiol. Mae'n le i grynhoi bws o Lanelli, felly os y'ch chi eisiau lifft, respectively. The boats are all standard introduce you to a newcomer to the column – unwaith y flwyddyn i ddathlu ein bodolaeth ffoniwch Lowri ar 01554 758355. production sports boats and are powered by Angharad Moore. engines of up to 1850cc two stroke or fel pobl. So ni'n mynd i gystadlu, y rhan fwya ohonom ni, beth bynnag. So ni'n mynd 2200cc 4 stoke. IMPROVING PWLL ROADS chwaith i weld pobl yn cystadlu (er gwyched Thundercat Racing is hynny). Ry'n ni'n mynd jyst i fod 'na. an open class form of GYMNASTIC STAR IN THE MAKING Since our public meeting in February when we Dyna, os liciwch chi, ffenest ffrynt ein listened to your complaints about the road powerboat racing. JESSICA BOLTON conditions in Pwll the County Council have None of the Cymreictod, a so ni eisiau colli'r cyfle i fod This year, 14-year-old yn rhan ohono. been busy listening and heeding our concerns. Thundercat racers are allowed to make any modifications to their Jessica Bolton became Ond, wrth gwrs mae 'na reswm lot mwy Firstly, within days of our meeting one section race boats or engines, which makes this a Senior Gymnast. swyddogol dros fynd i'r Eisteddfod, mae 'na of Elgin Road (between School Road and Tyle class a very fair and more affordable form of She started the year lot fawr o waith yn mynd ymlaen am ryw dair Catherine) had been completely resurfaced. well by achieving a racing. blynedd ymhob ardal cyn i'r Eisteddfod Secondly, came the badly needed road place as a senior gael ei chynnal drainage work in Stradey Hill. This area has gymnast in the Welsh yno. Chi'n cofio been sadly lacking in maintenance for years. BURRY PORT FESTIVAL AND National Rhythmic 1998 - 2000 yn Squad. It just goes to prove that as a united force the CARNIVAL Llanelli? Mae In March her Llanelli club had an invitation to go people of Pwll can achieve a better living This year the Burry Port Festival and pwyllgorau di-ri yn to Dillingen, Germany to compete in Team Cup environment for themselves. Thank you Carnival will take place on 14 th and 15 th trefnu manylion a 2004. Jessica was the oldest of seven digwyddiadau a Carmarthenshire County Council for listening to August. gymnasts, who were asked to compete there, digwyddiadau and acting upon our grievances. Keep up the th good work. The Festival and Carnival and the 16 representing their club and Wales. She was ymylol i'r Ðyl. Ac Annual Boat Fishing Festival have, this year, part of a team of three in the older age group er mai gwirfoddolwyr sy'n gwneud rhan amalgamated to make the weekend what and gained second place overall. The only helaeth o'r gwaith, mae'r cyfan yn cael ei must be one of the most spectacular and team to beat them were the Bulgarians, with a drefnu'n hynod o broffesiynol. OFFSHORE CIRCUIT RACING entertaining ever seen at Burry Port. team from Switzerland coming third. There During the weekend of were other clubs from all over Germany, some th th There is a guaranteed first prize in the Boat Cynhelir tair prif seremoni yn ystod yr Ðyl; June 26 and 27 you’ll Fishing Festival of £1000 with an extensive from Spain and France. seremoni'r coroni ar gyfer y darn gorau o be able to watch the farddoniaeth mewn canu rhydd, seremoni'r list of other prizes. In April Jessica was chosen to represent Wales Bartercard European cadeirio ar gyfer y darn gorau o farddoniaeth and World Grand Prix Registration for the Boat Fishing Festival is at an international in Vladimir, Russia and what mewn canu caeth (mewn cynghanedd), a Series taking place just off the coast of Burry at Burry Port Yacht Club on Thursday 12 th an experience that was for her. It was a very hefyd y Fedal Ryddiaith. Yn ystod y Port and Pwll. and Friday 13 th August (7pm – 9:30pm); high standard competition with gymnasts from seremonïau hyn, bydd aelodau Gorsedd y Saturday 14 th August (5am-7am) and on all over Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovenia, This prestigious event was scheduled to take Beirdd yn dod ynghyd ar lwyfan yr Sunday 15 th August (6am-7am). and . It was a very remarkable Eisteddfod yn eu gwisgoedd seremonïol, place at Bay but the organisers country and the Russian people were very ynghyd â'r Archdderwydd, fydd yn annerch y discovered that there was a yachting regatta For further information contact: helpful and welcoming. While she was there taking place the very same weekend so gynulleidfa. Uchafbwynt y seremoni yw pan Harbour Office: 01554-835691 Jessica visited Red Square in Moscow. approached The Millennium Coastal Park for fydd yr Archdderwydd yn galw'r enillydd i'r Yacht Club: 01554-833635 permission to hold the event on the Burry There are a few more internationals for Wales llwyaf ar ganiad y corn gwlad ac yna yn Mike Soanes: 01554-756075 lined up for the coming year, which Jessica is dadlennu pwy ydyw. Yn dilyn hyn fe'i Estuary. David Williams: 01554-771110 hoping to maintain her form for, but the biggest

BLACK TIE AND TOP HAT – NOT THE BIBLE SPOTLIGHT ON: competition by far will be the Youth ALWAYS In 1604 the Hampton Court Commonwealth Games to be held in SIMON J PAINTER Melbourne, Australia in December this year. Karl Jenkins of Pwll Road recently received a Conference proposed to Jessica has already gained her place in the top national award from Co-operative James I that a new Bible be squad and is hoping to be one of the three Funeralcare in London for his outstanding care, commissioned. The new Sporting Commitment gymnasts who will go and represent Wales, commitment and professionalism shown to Bible was based on the 1566 families and the Bible and was completed in 1611. which will mean a lot of hard work. community in which At present, 43 year old Simon of Elgin Road, is Besides her internationals, there is also the A Bible printed in 1631 by Barker and Lucas he serves. He has has a misprint where the word ‘not’ was in serious training for this year’s “World British National Competition with one being th nd been in the business omitted from the 7 commandment, making Triathlon Championship – on May 22 at Burton-upon-Trent, which will for over 21 years and Qualifiers” taking place in be a control competition for the youth adultery appear compulsory. is now branch Lanzarote during May. games. Another Bible had a printing error, where a manager for Thomas Jessica is a pupil at St John Lloyd catholic Morgan Funeral transposition between an “n” and “o” in John This year’s ‘Iron Man’ event School. Jessica would like to thank the Directors in Llanelli. 5:14. Readers were told to “Go and sin on involves a 2.4-mile swim, Karl said the Special Achievement Award for more” school for all the support they give her. followed by a 112-mile bike client service and extraordinary performance In 1966 a printing of the Jerusalem Bible ride and finishes with a 26.2- “Came as a complete shock to me” and felt included a misprint in Psalm 122 exhorting mile marathon. PWLL YOUNSTERS IN WEST END SHOW extremely proud and honoured to be presented us to “Pay [pray] for peace”. with such an award. Simon represented Wales RHYS DAVIES and Great Britain in last Karl has lived in Pwll for most of his life and his nd Two young outside interests include body building, year’s championship and finished 32 in a field people from the supporting the Scarlets and driving a 1940’s God doesn't call the qualified: He of 74 in his age group (40 – 50 years). He is village will be Willis Jeep from World war II belonging to his qualifies the called. very much hoping to improve on his previous appearing in the wife Angela. We wish him every success. achievements. Stradey School production “Nôl BONAU UPDATE - PET CEMETERY We would all like to wish Simon all the success I’r 80au” (Back he deserves through the continual hard work HEADSTONES COLLIERS CHARITY QUIZZES to the Eighties) and training necessary to compete in such a in the Strand Fingask Castle is a 16th-century house on the gruelling event at this level. Theatre in south side of the Sidlaw Hills, and lies near the This years Easter Quiz at the Colliers Arms London’s West village of Rait, between Perth and Dundee. raised a total of £134, which was donated to The training endured involves a weekly th End on July 4 Originally a stronghold of the Bruces, it is now Llanelli Hospice by the winning team. punishing schedule of swimming four to six 2004. owned by the Threipland family who once had miles, cycling between 200 and 250 miles and

family connection with Lady Howard Stepney. Another quiz was held on Whit Sunday but running an average of 30 to 40 miles. The show has already had a hugely the result and the winning team were too successful run in Swansea’s Grand Theatre. The castle was restored in 1816 and in the garden are fine examples of topiary as well as late to catch this edition. We will keep you posted on Simon’s results and Angharad Moore of Elgin Road is a dancer in the show whilst Rhys Davies of Pwll Road the pet cemetery headstones that once graced achievements in our next edition. Our thanks as usual go to Wynne for takes the part of ‘Billy’. producing yet more excellent quizzes and (Good Luck Simon from everyone in Pwll– Ed) Rhys is also competing in the Urdd National donating some of the prizes and to Stan and Eisteddfod in Anglesey. He is representing Babs for providing the main prize for the Carmarthenshire in both the boy’s solo and raffle as well as an excellent buffet on the Good people do not need laws to tell the unaccompanied solo. Later on this nights. them to act responsibly, while bad summer he will be competing in the boy’s people will find a way around the laws. solo in the National Eisteddfod in Newport. Thanks to everyone for attending and

(We wish Jessica, Rhys and Angharad every success in donating so generously to the charity funds. the future. Perhaps we can give you further information about Angharad in a future edition – Ed) Mansion. The headstones were The next Colliers Charity Quiz will be held th moved to Fingask at the time Cilymaenllwyd on Sunday August 29 . Everyone is kneaded out of the same was sold to the local authorities for conversion dough but not baked in the same oven. into a hospital.

SAINT SWITHIN (July 15 th ) CAPEL BETHLEHEM Bethlehem 3.30pm. Y Parchedig Carys Ann, If you haven't marked St. Swithins day on your CHAPEL Glynarthen. calendar, don't worry, you’re probably not alone. The last 12 Medi Cyfarfod Pregethu - 10am a time anybody really gave St. Oedfaon y Sul am 3.30p.m. Oedfa Gymun 5pm Swithin a second thought Sul cyntaf y mis. Y Parch Dewi Myrddin Coleg Sir Gâr is one of Wales’ largest was around the end of the Cyfarfodydd Pregethu Sul diwethaf Ebrill a Hughes, BA.,BD. providers of Further and Higher Education. tenth century in medieval Hydref am 10.30 a.m. a 3.30p.m. Libanus yn Ysgrifennydd Undeb yr England. It was then, that uno drwy’r dydd. Whatever your interests, background or Annibynwyr the monks of Winchester ability Coleg Sir Gâr has something to offer Bethlehem yn uno drwy’r cathedral decided that the final resting place of you at one of our five campuses in Llanelli, 2004 Sul y Pasg ym Methlehem am dydd. the long since dead, saintly Bishop Swithins, , Gelli Aur (), Pibwrlwyd 10.30a.m. a 3.30p.m. a Libanus yn should not be outside under the "sweet rain uno. and Jobswell (). Cynhelir Cyfarfodydd arbennig :- from heaven" as Saint Swithins had Cwrdd y Plant - Gwyl Dewi; Ganol haf; Coleg Sir Gâr offers a wide range of full and commanded, but inside the basilica. So on July Y Sulgwyn yn Libanus am 10a.m. a Diolchgarwch a’r part time courses, from traditional subjects 15th, 971 they moved him. 5.00p.m. Nadolig. such as languages, information technology The story goes that as St. Swithins was being Sul Y Dynion - 28 Mawrth 2004 and agriculture through to cake decorating, Suliau Awst 1af a’r pedwerydd ym exhumed, it started to rain, normally not a Sul y Chwiorydd - 02 Mai 2004 Indian head massage and welding courses. Methlehem am 3.30p.m. problem. But, the rain didn't stop for forty days Ail a’r trydydd yn Libanus am The college also has a training services and forty nights...sounds familiar doesn't it? It Gweithgareddau’r flwyddyn :- 10a.m. department that delivers vocational training turns out that the monks of Winchester were Cymdeithas Ddiwylliadol - Pob pythefnos through Government funded programmes condemned for their poor judgement. They had am 7 o’r gloch rhwng mis Medi ac Ebrill. Sul diwethaf Awst oedfa yn Libanus such as Skillseekers, The Learning Worker angered the spirit of St. Swithins by moving his Dosbarth Llenyddiaeth - Pob nos Fercher am 10a.m. ac oedfa ym Methlehem Project, New Deal and many more. gravesite. He liked things just fine where he am 7 o’r gloch am 20 wythnos. am 3.30p.m. For further information contact 01554 was and he showed his disapproval by making Pwyllgor Cymorth Cristnogol yn cwrdd yn y 748000 or visit www.colegsirgar.ac.uk it rain like crazy. Anyway, this little episode A bi-lingual service with an English sermon Festri. gave birth to the weather saying that you might is held every third Sunday in the month. still hear today, that if on St. Swithins Day Croeso cynnes i’r Oedfaon / a warm Estynnwn groeso cynnes i chwi i ymuno yn comes the rain, for forty days it will remain. welcome to the Services. yr oedfaon a’r gweithgareddau. LINEDANCING Mae Taflen o oedfaon y flwyddyn ar gael a Y Gweinidog/Minister Y Parchg Carys Awen Jones B.Th. Rhif ffon 771252 gwybodaeth yn wythnosol in Nodiadau’r Come on you Mums of Pwll School children! Pwll yn y ‘Llanelli Star’. STEPNEY PARK CARE CENTRE Pwll School has Line dancing every Monday Y Gweinidog : between 6:30 and 8pm. It only costs £1 for Stepney Park Care Centre (Cilymaenllwyd) will Y Parchg Carys Awen Jones, B.Th. adults (50p children) and all the money goes be holding their annual Summer Fayre on Rhif ffon: 771252 to help support the school. So…swing those Sunday 18 th July. There will be several stalls CAPEL LIBANUS hips, have some fun and donate some and attractions and your support for this very CHAPEL money - all at the same time! much needed and worthy care centre would be

very much appreciated. Oedfaon y Sul am 10am PWLL HISTORICAL ac Ysgol Sul i blant SOCIETY ac oedolion yn dilyn. PWLL YOUTH CLUB Un Oedfa Gymun y mis. SUMMER BBQ’s Members met in Libanus

The Pwll Youth Club meet The Talbot Inn has informed us that they are 13 Mehefin Cwrdd Plant. Chapel in May to discuss every Monday and planning to hold various BBQ’s throughout the Cwpaned o de yn dilyn. the progress of the book. Thursday evening at summer months. Suliau Awst : 1af (Cymun) a’r 4ydd Sul At present, the date for publication is scheduled for Autumn 2004. 6:00pm in the Pwll Community Centre. The Keep an eye open for the posters that they will ym Methlehem Please refer to the Pwll Notes in the Llanelli activities include pool, air hockey, table be displaying announcing when the BBQ’s will Un Oedfa am 3.30pm. Star for further details of future Society tennis etc. For more information and the take place. Ail a’r 3ydd (Cymun) Sul chance to enjoy yourself why not pay them a yn Libanus meetings. visit or call Keith Duggan on 835065. Un Oedfa am 10am. 5ed - Libanus 10am. New members are always welcome.

CHARITIES FAYRE EVENING COUNT THE SMALL CHANGES FATHERS DAY Some of the varied things they have enjoyed th th (Sunday June 20 ) recently include talks by selected speakers, World Environment Day, 5 June, is a chance games and quiz sessions, Home League The members of Pwll W.I. would like to to show how small changes mount up. As part thank all those organisations who took part Sonora Dodd, of Singers, Summer outings, A festive dinner and of the wider global celebrations, the UK’s the customary tea, biscuits and get together in the recent Charities Fayre Evening. It was Environment Agency is encouraging people and Washington, was one of very successful and gave the community of the first people who had after the meetings. businesses to make just one small change Pwll a chance to support their own local toward a greener lifestyle – and promise to the idea of a "father's Just because you don’t know anyone there organisations. We hope that this can keep it for a year. day." She thought of the shouldn’t put you off because everyone is very become a regular annual event. idea for Father's Day welcome and you can even chat with the The changes listed on the Agency’s website are while listening to a secretary before you go. The secretary will then Diolch yn fawr. small in themselves but if enough people make Mother's Day sermon in meet you at the door and introduce you to them; their combined effect will be huge. They 1909. everyone. include showering rather than taking a bath, Sonora wanted a special Joining is free and the only charge is 20p a I started out with nothing and I still cutting down car use by two miles a week or day to honour her father, week, which goes towards the cup of tea and have most of it left! turning down the central heating. William Smart. Smart, who biscuits and helps to subsidise the festive You can see the list and make your own pledge was a Civil War veteran, dinner. at: was widowed when his

wife died while giving birth So, why not give the secretary, Arleen Kerwood www.environment-agency.gov.uk/wed a call on 01554-776076 for a chat. RECYCLYING BOTTLES AND CANS to their sixth child so he where you’ll also find information about public was left to raise the The Talbot Inn is offering the residents of events planned for World Environment Day. newborn and his other five

Pwll the chance to recycle their old cans and children by himself on a As scarce as truth is, the supply has glass bottles. rural farm in eastern Washington state. always been in excess of demand. In the confrontation between the stream Situated in the car park of The After Sonora became an adult she realized and the rock, the stream always wins, Talbot Inn are two large the selflessness her father had shown in not through strength but by ‘wheelie bins’ – one for cans raising his children as a single parent. It was perseverance. and one for glass bottles. The her father that made all the parental FOR THE KIDS council collects the bins sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his frequently and the contents recycled to daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving Think of a number between 1 and 10 make the planet a greener, safer place. man. Sonora's father was born in June, so FINAL THOUGHT Multiply it by 9 she chose to hold the first Father's Day All Pwll residents are invited to make use of this facility but if you do please be careful Despite having lived in Llanelli all my life, there celebration in Spokane, Washington on the Add the digits of your result, e.g. if your number and use the correct bin for the correct waste. are still some areas of Llanelli, and a few street 19th of June 1910. was 27, then you would have 2+7 = 9 names, which have me scratching my head. A Subtract 5 pastoral visit to Swansea last week really had FUN DAY AT THE TALBOT INN Having children makes y ou no more a Find the letter that corresponds to your number me going round in circles! Eventually I stopped parent than having a piano makes you a 1=A, 2=B, 3=C etc the car and asked a passer by the directions to pianist. The Talbot Inn is planning ‘Bon y Maen’. “Do you mean BONEY MAEN?” Think of a country that begins with that letter a charity fun day on he said. “Well, yes”, I replied not wanting to go Now think of an animal that starts with the th into the fact that it’s the Y and not the E that Saturday June 5 . A SECOND letter of your country. ‘bouncy castle’ is planned makes all the difference to the pronunciation of LLANELLI HOME LEAGUE as well as other attractions for both what after all is a Welsh name place. ‘Boney’ Answer at the bottom of the page. Every Monday a group of ladies, of all ages, children and adults. Keep a careful didn’t sound right at all, but I didn’t go into discussion because I was the one who was lost! meet at 3:00pm in the Salvation Army watch out for notices nearer the time for Citadel, Sunninghill Terrace, Llanelli. I do not feel obliged to believe that the more details. There again, I heard of a van driver who, having A varied programme is arranged throughout same God who has endowed us with no knowledge of the Llanelli area, stopped and the year to entertain and amuse the ladies sense, reason, and intellect has If life is a waste of time and time is asked someone for directions to PW 11. and whilst the meeting is conducted in an air intended us to forget their use. a waste of life, then let's all get I wonder what you people of PWLL told him of Christian Fellowship you do not have to wasted together and have the time when he eventually found his way? belong to the Salvation Army or indeed any of our lives. other religious denomination to attend. (Rev David Jones - Minister, Greenfield Baptist Church) (Kids: Denmark is an unlikely country to find elephants).

THE WHITFORD WALK and consumed it all in record time. Much Looking forward, Pwll’s under 16’s will be merriment ensued now on the return journey to PWLL CRICKET CLUB playing in the Swansea Under 17’s League next We ‘set sail’ for Whitford Lighthouse shortly th see her stagger so and startle a lizard or two in season, with several players looking to push after 9am on Saturday 17 April, with one the bargain. Here are the remaining fixtures into the senior team. The under 14’s will move cabin boy missing (presumed to have over for the 2004 season. It’s not First port of call – ‘The Britannia Inn’ – a chance up to the under 15’s in the Carmarthenshire imbibed the previous night on ‘ Stanley’s going to be easy in the higher for the rest of the crew to partake of a civilized League thus keeping the conveyor belt moving. Strong Stuff’). Four sturdy vessels carried us division but we have faith in glass of port and for the errant cabin girl to over to Cwm Ivy including ‘The Hugo you. Good luck boys! Pwll Juniors held their presentation evening on Greenflash’ and the ‘Messerpotania’. sober up. th Saturday May 29 at the Llanelli Tennis Club st nd Although the latter was the last to leave port, A return visit to this splendid edifice (the 1 XI Opponents: 2 XI while the senior team will hold their annual the former lived up to its name and sailed Whitford Lighthouse not the Britannia Inn) is Jun 05 Away Cimla Home dinner dance and presentation evening on passed the others at several knots. On the th very much on the cards for later this summer Jun 12 Home Pontyberem Away Friday June 11 at Miguels, Station Road, way two young vicious looking Spring and new crewmembers will be more than Jun 19 Away Clydach Home Llanelli, commencing at 7:30. For further details Lambs accosted us. readily press-ganged! Jun 26 Home Ffynone Away please contact Gordon Billings on 01554

At Cwm Ivy, we disembarked and completed (Submitted by the Bosun) Jul 03 Home Away 756888. the journey on foot, frogmarched as we were Jul 10 Away B S Port Talbot Home by the surly Captain Jeffers, a pen pusher A bore is a p erson who lights up a Jul 17 Home Baglan Away Division 1 P W D L Pts more suited to an office environment than room simply by leaving it. Jul 24 Away Dyffryn Home West End 21 17 2 2 53 the outdoor life! Jul 31 Home Away Aug 07 Home Cimla Away Drefach 21 13 4 4 43 Aug 14 Away Pontyberem Home Aug 21 Home Clydach Away * Felinfoel 21 13 2 6 40 OUR SYMBOL Aug 28 Away Ffynone Home Johnstown 22 11 3 8 36 Penllergaer 20 9 6 5 33 We have had numerous requests to explain the symbol on the front cover of The Bônau * Kidwelly 22 9 3 10 29 If a man does his best, what else is Cabbage Patch. This was of course explained there? Pwll 22 8 4 10 28 in our very first edition but for those who missed 22 6 7 9 25 it or are new to The Patch we reprint the explanation below. Pontlliw 21 6 5 10 23

PWLL SOCCER Loughor 22 5 5 12 20 Our symbol is a sketch of the Ring-Cross Garden Village 20 4 5 11 17 incised on a stone pillar, As we tramped along the sand, we which can be found just A productive April for * 22 3 2 17 10 witnessed nature at its raw state – a mighty outside the front door of the Pwll’s First Team, which peregrine falcon chasing its dinner (a Stepney Park Care Centre included two victories Reserve Division 1 hapless seagull) and one member of the (the old Cilymaenllwyd over bottom club crew scrambling desperately over the sand Llansteffan and home Seaside 22 18 1 3 55 House). The stone dates from dunes to regain an empty bladder. the 7 th - 9 th century and is victories over Pontlliw Dafen 21 14 1 6 43 and Loughor saw the Journeys End – Whitford Lighthouse! An actually an early Christian * Llanelli Steel 22 12 2 8 37 team move into mid table safety and a imposing erection covered with barnacles gravestone that was finishing position of seventh. Trostre 22 12 1 9 37 and looking abandoned yet standing discovered in 1913 when the Garden Village 20 11 2 7 35 defiantly at the mouth of the Burry Inlet. Built kitchen garden was dug up Meanwhile, two victories over Penyfan and a in 1886 it is one of only two of its kind in the during renovations to the house. It is possibly Camford 22 11 0 11 33 point away at Garden Village was not world. the oldest relic in Pwll. Cilymaenllwyd could be Evans & Williams 20 10 2 8 32 enough to save Pwll’s reserve team from translated as “Retreat of the Sacred Stone” * Gorseinon 22 10 2 10 31 After hours of hard labour, taking although a more prosaic translation might be relegation and they will now drop out of the measurements and photographs (for “Place of the Grey Stone”. The stone, when first top flight next season. Pontarddulais 21 8 2 11 26 scientific purpose of course) we hastily found, was presumed to be an old gatepost Bwlch 21 7 3 11 24 made our retreat against a strong headwind On a more positive note, Pwll’s Under 16’s until the incised cross was noticed. Lady Pwll 21 6 2 13 20 and an even stronger current as the tide was Stepney immediately had the pillar set upright reached the cup final at Steboneath but now gushing back, almost dampening our in front of the house where it still stands today. were beaten by Garden Village, while Pwll’s Penyfan 22 0 0 22 0 feet. under 14’s were beaten by Pengelli in extra (We are indebted to Stepney Park Care Centre for the use of time in the cup semi-final. (* Points deducted) One of the crew has succeeded in the ring-cross). smuggling a bottle of grog to the lighthouse

HOME MADE LEMONADE August passes and in September – Like Grandma used to make? I rang again, did you remember? “It’s on our books, I do beg your pardon,

The ingredients for 8 servings are: Are you sure it is still in your garden?”

Juice of 5 lemons Duty bound I have a peep, 5 cups Cold water If it wasn’t so stupid I’d have a weep In a garden, twelve-foot long by six-foot wide 3/4 cup Sugar water 1 Lemon, cut in paper thin Where would a six-foot bath find to hide?

slices It is now November- three months have passed 1 Tray ice cubes My patience has run out at last,

Squeeze the juice from the Four times I have phoned to no avail, My caring Council has managed to fail. 5 fresh lemons and pour it through a coarse strainer Please don’t let me read in the local papers into a large jug. About anti-social people and their capers Who constantly turn our Country into a tip Add 4 cups of cold water and the sugar Until the council learn to do their bit. water to taste. Add another cup of water if

the lemons are particularly juicy. Add lemon

slices and ice cubes and stir to blend and The council sent the following reply: bruise the lemon a bit. Pour into tall glass

and enjoy. Store in covered jar in fridge.

16xx class 0-6-0PT No 1666 at Pwll Brickworks crossing during May 1958 heading for Burry Port along (Sugar water – ½ cup sugar to 1 cup of hot water. the Sandy branch built by Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway. The line from Burry Port to Pwll Pour the hot water over the sugar and stir until closed 5 years later in 1963. dissolved). To your verse we do reply About your bath the matters lie. DATES FOR YOUR DIARY THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD Education is what you get from It is known that you’ve reached despair June 2 nd Coronation Day reading the fine print. Experience This does not mean we do not care. The National Eisteddfod takes place at th st June 5 World Environment Day is what you get from not reading it. Tredegar House, Newport between 31 July th When you phone to make your request th June 12 Queen’s Birthday and 7 August. Plans to serve alcohol at this th We will do our very best. year’s event were recently given the go-ahead June 20 Fathers Day June 21 st Summer begins Sometimes though things do go wrong after a ban of 150 years. th June 24 Midsummer’s Day And we’re sorry you’ve had to wait so long.

Eisteddfod Director Elfed Roberts said the plan July 15 th St Swithens Day st We promise you we’ll do our best was to serve alcohol in the food patches. He July 31 THE COLLECTION To clear up this outstanding mess. th also said that it was important that the - Aug 7 National Eisteddfod This is a poem sent to Carmarthenshire County Eisteddfod should appeal to everyone. There th With the bath that stands outside August 30 Summer Bank Holiday Council by a Pwll resident, back in 1999 are also plans for a firework display and From its view you try to hide musicians and street entertainers. WHEEL POWER! Not for long be assured The Newport office of the National Eisteddfod We’ll have this problem surely cured. The opportunity is there for everyone to enjoy can be contacted at: Thank you for your poem sent the delights of the coastal park by wheel power. E-mail: [email protected] To the appropriate office it surely went. Regardless of age, ability, experience or Phone: 0845 120 9555 Fax: 01633 265 014 disability. In your garden it does stand National Eisteddfod Office, 33 Bridge Street, Waiting for the collection man. Newport NP20 4BH Llanelli Cycles will be happy to give you

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These were actually said Q: Was it you or your younger brother who was in the Courtroom killed in the war?

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Q: What is your date of birth? Q: How far apart were the vehicles at the time A: July fifteenth. of the collision? Q: What year? A: Every year. Q: You were there until the time you left, is that true? Q: This myasthenia gravis - does it affect your memory at all? Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was A: Yes. August 8th? Q: And in what ways does it affect your A: Yes. Q: And what were you doing at that time? memory? A: I forget. Q: She had three children, right? Q: You forget. Can you give us an example A: Yes. of something that you've forgotten? Q: How many were boys?

Q: All your responses must be oral, okay? A: None. Q: Were there any girls? What school did you go to? A: Oral. Q: You say the stairs went down to the

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Q: And why did that upset you? A: My name is Susan. Q: How was your first marriage terminated?

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Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year old, Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time? A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering how old is he? why I was doing an autopsy.