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March gave us a slice of el  Knitting Club: the third tropicana to help an amazing Monday of the month at show of spring flowers; the Pont y Brenin Community baking heat last summer hub, 2.00pm-3.00pm; see seems to have been to bulbs’ also page 2. liking if the display of crocus,  Clwb Ifanc Ffermwyr snowdrops, daffs and the like Llangoed Young is anything to go by. April Farmers Club: every came in with hail and sleet, a Monday, 7.30pm-9.00pm, proper 'blackthorn winter', so in (not what happens this summer Llangoed) Community will be anybody’s guess. Hub, Maes Gwyn. As always, The Puffin says a Telephone Delyth Owen big 'thank you' for the help 26 March 2019: a blackthorn winter...blackthorn blossom was everywhere in on 01248 810385 for more that it receives from its many Llanddona’s hedgerows, like a light dusting of snow (A Perrott) information; see friends and supporters, Llanddona below, and also sponsors and donators, page 5. anonymous or otherwise.  Llangoed WI: the first These include Red Boat Ice Wednesday of the month at Cream Parlour, the Bull 2.00pm, Llangoed Village Hotel, Janet Bell Gallery, Hall; see also page 4. Bishopsgate House Hotel, Tavern on the Bay, Echo  Zumba: every Beach, Spar, , and Wednesday, 6.30pm- McColl’s, Llangoed, to name 7.30pm, Llangoed Village just a few...apologies to Hall. anybody whose name isn’t mentioned; our anonymous  Whist group: alternate supporters will know who Thursdays, 1.30pm- they are! 3.00pm, Pont y Brenin Community Hub.

31 March 2019: at , the sheltered woods in the Dingle were carpeted with celandine, above, and wood anemone, with bluebells just  Seiriol Men’s Shed: for WHAT’S HAPPENING beginning to show here and there (A Perrott) men aged 18-108: the WHERE chance to meet and chat. Every Thursday at Here’s our quarterly round-up 10.00am, Pont y Brenin of what’s on in the locality. It Community Hub. doesn’t cover everything that’s on, so if you think that  Bingo: the third Friday of an event is missing and the month at 7.00pm, Pont should be mentioned, do let y Brenin Community Hub. us know, please; our contact Llanddona: details and submission deadlines are always given  Yr Hen Ysgol Neuadd on page 8. Bentref Llanddona Village Hall: works on the Llangoed: new premises have  Clwb Garddio Llangoed proceeded apace, with no Gardening Club: the third repeat of last year’s 'beast

Monday of the month at 5 April 2019: brrr...more blackthorn winter: Moel Faban was looking suitably from the east' to throw a 7.30pm, Llangoed Village chilly before the sudden warm spell a couple of weeks later (A Perrott) spanner in the works. At

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the time of writing it is hoped that the new premises will be  Gŵyl Beaumaris Festival: Tuesday 21 May-Monday 27 opened early this summer, so keep your eyes open locally May: for more information contact Melanie Jackson on and on Facebook for updates: https://www.facebook.com/ 01248 811200, and for some information about what’s on, llanddona, and see the photographs on page 8. see page 4.

& Caernarfon Dog Training Club: used to meet

every Wednesday at the old Llanddona Village Hall at LLANGOED FLOWER & CRAFT SHOW 2019 8.00pm, but is taking a break; the monthly dog walk towards the end of each month is still taking place. For The Llangoed Flower and Craft Show will be held at Llangoed more information contact Andrew Perrott at ajbperrott@ Village Hall on Saturday 17 August 2019. As well as the usual yahoo.co.uk. flower, vegetable and cooking sections there will be three classes for organic  Llanddona Book vegetables. The craft Reading Club: the second sections will include Tuesday of the month at patchwork, cross-stitch the Owain Glyndŵr pub. pictures, wood carving, For more information walking sticks, clay modeling contact Kirsty Simpson at and driftwood sculptures. kirstyalisonsimpson@ hotmail.com. The photography section subjects are (1) Wheels, (2)  Village Knit Club: every 'At the end of the pier', (3) Monday at the Owain Autumn and (4) Mountains. Glyndŵr pub at 7.00pm. The schedules are at the For more information printers and will be out soon, contact Meg Marsden on giving you plenty of time to 07913 223435. get your entries ready...so  Llanddona and start shooting! Beaumaris Horse and Pony Show: Saturday 24 For more information contact August 2018; details of the Mike Linford on 01248 Show programme will be 490184 or via caimcot@ btinternet.com. posted on the Llanddona/ Beaumaris Horse & Pony

Show Facebook page LLANGOED KNITTING (https://www.facebook. com/pages/llanddona CLUB AND CYFEILLION beaumaris-horse-pony- YSBYTY show/400266890032055) HOSPITAL LEAGUE OF in due course. FRIENDS

Beaumaris: Llangoed Knitting Club would  Pioneers Walking Group: every Wednesday, 2.00pm at like to thank all those who have donated wool, the donation of the Canolfan Iorwerth Rowlands Centre, Steeple Lane. which has helped with its support of Cyfeillion Ysbyty Telephone Howard Jackson on 01248 810050 for more Gwynedd Hospital League of Friends.

information. This tax year the League of Friends purchased equipment for

 Beaumaris Film Night: the first Thursday of the month at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital to the value of £13,335.28. It also 7.30pm at the Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre. pledged £58,817.13 to purchase equipment for operating Telephone 01248 811200 or e-mail enquiries@ theatres, the urology clinic, urogynaecology, the Emergency canolfanbeaumaris.org.uk for more information. Department and Gogarth Ward...diolch yn fawr iawn/thank you so much to everybody for such wonderful support! What’s showing during the coming months? (Mrs E Roberts, Bodwyn, Llangoed)

6 June: Phantom Thread 4 July: Leave No Trace CLWB PÊL DROED LLANGOED FOOTBALL CLUB: 1 August: Can You Ever Forgive Me? SOME THOUGHTS FROM OWEN WILLIAMS, CLUB  Table top sale: the first Sunday of the month, 10.00am- CHAIRMAN 4.00pm, at the Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre; refreshments are available. Telephone 01248 811200 or e- The end of another season is upon us...a bit up and down, but mail [email protected] for more with some good results against Bro Goronwy and Nefyn. The information. downside was the unavailability of players at times, and some inconsistency of play, especially towards the end of the season,  Antiques & collectors’ fair: the third Sunday of the month, when things seemed to fizzle out. Support was pretty good, but 10.00am-4.00pm, at the Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure we need more people to drag themselves away from television Centre; refreshments are available. Contact morganfairs@ football to football at a grassroots local level! We want hotmail.com or telephone 07516 277794 for information/ everybody to be proud of our hard-working local Llangoed bookings. team, which has been part of the community since 1946-1947.

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We would like to thank Iris between 1966 and 1981, and Rowlands for her thirteen 10,000 were made in years’ service in our canteen. Portugal between 1980 and We’d like also to thank Huw 1993, when production of the Jones (Bryn Mawr) for doing Mini Moke finally ended. the nets and for cutting the Since arriving in Australia field, and our many other she’s been displayed at helpers, including those who various car events, producing work hard for the Fifty-Fifty a lot of interest, and has Club. We’re looking for more joined various owners’ clubs helpers to move the Club in South Australia. forward with new ideas for funding, help on the field on Various British police forces match days, and so on. used Mini Mokes in the 1960s, and she’s one of the

Our under-16s season will survivors, having served in finish soon, hopefully with a 31 March 2019: Tîm Pêl Droed Llangoed Football Team at Llangoed Wrexham as KCA 217F. The cup. We really do need Back row, L-R: Russell Evans (Manager); Nathaniel Evans; Rhys Owen; police found them very somebody to start again from David Thomas; Kane Briggs; Jamie Roberts; Charlie McKenna; Nick Williams; Dewi Williams (Assistant Manager) useful; they were ideal for the under-11s, to nurture Centre, purple fleece: Iris Rowlands driving down narrow lanes, them and take them forward. Front row, L-R: Robin Morris; Wayne Thomas; Craig Jones; Llion Roberts; alleyways and on the beach. In short, we need more young Jay Fenton (C Couchman) They could be exited quickly blood! We’d love more and the side grab-handles youngsters to take part; who might well have been used as knows? The Premier League anchor point for handcuffs. could be the next stop! Welsh police forces had the If you’d like more information, highest number of Mini or think that you’d like to help Mokes in use, but Devon and in one way or another, do get Cornwall police ran a couple in touch: Owen Williams, as well. Merthyr Tydfil had a Chairman, 01248 811260. few 1964 Mini Mokes, and Denbighshire had several, (Owen Williams) one of which was the one that

Gareth owned.

LLANGOED’S MINI MOKE: They were prepared for patrol SHE’S NOW IN AUSTRALIA work and fitted with specially waterproofed motorcycle Readers may remember The Then...once KCA 217F, then JEY 190F; here she is in her service days in radio units. The central hood Puffin’s article last May about North , with a slightly younger Minivan (via C Lawrence) frame support tube was the late Gareth Pritchard (our extended by four inches to apologies are due: we named allow PCs to wear their Gareth, incorrectly, as Gareth helmets whilst driving. Morley). We’ve heard from Chris and Sue Lawrence After the North Wales police (Sue’s father, Gwynne Jones, forces were amalgamated in lived in Llangoed and married 1968/1969, the Mini Mokes Lona Pritchard, Gareth’s were sold as a job lot to a brother), with more news dealer from who paid about his Austin Mini Moke. more for the vehicles than Here’s a potted history... they had cost new when purchased by the police. This Mini Moke’s a much- travelled Mini Moke, having Chris and Sue say 'we are emigrated to Australia, in loving our Mini Moke and are mid-2018. She was sure that William, Gareth, purchased by Susan’s Ronny (brother) and, of Now...looking pristine, somewhere in South Australia (C Lawrence) grandfather, William Pritchard, course, the Welsh police a local policeman, of Morley House, Llangoed. In turn, she force will be happy to hear that she’s now very much at home passed to Gareth and, last year, to Susan. She took about 3½ in the sun.' months to make the 10,500-mile trip, with various stringent (Chris & Sue Lawrence, Adelaide, South Australia) import requirements to be met, and has a new home now in

Adelaide, South Australia. CLWB GARDDIO LLANGOED GARDENING CLUB Genuine British-built Mini Mokes are a rarity in Australia; there are probably only about half a dozen others, rather than those This spring there has been no 'beast from the east', thank that were manufactured there. 14,518 were produced in the goodness, and everything in the garden is beautiful: bulbs, UK between 1964 and 1968, 26,000 were made in Australia blossom and new shoots everywhere. The hard work has also

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[email protected] 3 OF 8 The Puffin  ISSUE 27 MAY 2019 begun, with lawns to cut, beds to weed, and the deadheading of the Welsh Air Ambulance Charitable Trust. She gave an of all the plants that were left over the winter to provide homes illustrated and passionate talk on the valuable work of the for our wildlife. Welsh Air Ambulance service. Four helicopters cover Wales, and the huge running costs are all met with charity donations; There are tadpoles in the pond, and dragonfly nymphs ready £6.5 million needs to be raised each year to cover its costs. to make a tasty meal of them! We hope that most of the tadpoles will be allowed to develop into frogs for the garden. The winners of the competition were (1st) Miriam Hughes, (2nd) Margaret Hughes, (3rd) Jenny Martin Jones, and the winner of The Gardening Club had an interesting start to the year, with the raffle was Stephanie Dummzer. an entertaining presentation by Anna Williams from North Wales Wildlife Trust in January. Shaun Russell spoke Meetings: meetings begin at 2.00pm on the first Wednesday passionately about Treborth Botanic Garden in Bangor at our of each month in Llangoed Village Hall. We are a lively group February meeting, and in March Adrian Jones from North of mixed ages, so, ladies, do feel welcome to join us. Wales Wildlife Trust told us (Anne Lindley) all about the programme for the reintroduction of beavers into North Wales. HWB CYMUNEDOL PONT

Our April meeting was a Y BRENIN COMMUNITY social, quiz and plant sale, HUB: NEW HOOVER after which we go onto our NEWYDD summer programme of visits. Hoover newydd: mae Clwb Our first visit is on Monday 20 Bingo Llangoed wedi May 20, when we will explore cyflwyno Hoover newydd I Treborth Botanic Garden in Hwb Cymunedol Pont y Bangor with fresh eyes, since Brenin. Gwelir rhai o Shaun told us about the latest aelodau’r Hwb yn derbyn yr developments. We meet at Hoover gan Delyth Jones a 2.00pm in Treborth’s car chefnogwyr y Clwb Bingo. park. June will see a visit to Plas yn Rhiw House and Mae pawb sydd yn

Gardens near Pwllheli. gysylltiedig a Grwp Symud i Delyth Jones and supporters of the monthly bingo sessions, with members of Gerddoriaeth , Hafan Ni, For more information please the Hub at the presentation of the Hoover (G Rowlands) Mens Shed a grwpiau eraill ring Ann Donlan, Secretary yn ddiolchgar iawn I Delyth a on 07919 031403 or Jean Clwb Bingo am eu Whitehead, Chairman, on caredigrwydd ac am y rhodd 01248 490813. hwn a fydd yn ei gwneud yn

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New Hoover: the Llangoed Bingo Group recently LLANGOED WI donated a new Hoover to the February: it was unfortunate Pont y Brenin Hub in that our speaker was unable Llangoed. to attend our meeting on 6 All those who are involved February 2019. Committee with the Hub – the Music and Member Jenny Martin Jones Movement Group, Hafan Ni, gave the report on the AFWI Men’s Shed and other groups AGM held at Carreg Bran. – would like to thank Delyth Llangoed WI got most points and her group for their at last year’s Annual Show, support and generosity and joint 1st with our towards the Hub and its interesting programme by maintenance. Sue Flack. (Gwyneth Rowlands) The winners of the st competition were (1 ) Chris nd rd Linford, (2 ) Debbie Booth, (3 ) Margaret Charles, and the GŴYL BEAUMARIS FESTIVAL 2019: THERE’S A LOT ON winner of the raffle was Ann Birt. Ich bin ein Hamburger: North Germany meets North Wales March: at our meeting on 6 March, we had a delicious meets the USA at the Gŵyl Beaumaris Festival 2019. A feast St David’s Day Lunch prepared by members. Olga Lloyd Jones of music by CPE Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, told us animated tales from the Mabinogi, which was excellent. Mendelssohn, Weber, Elgar, Grace Williams, William Mathias, The winners of the competition were (1st) Chris Linford, (2nd) Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein will be Jenny Martin Jones, (3rd) Chrissy Newsham, and the winner of threading its way across a musical and entertaining week. the raffle was Deborah Booth. The 2019 Gŵyl Beaumaris Festival kicks off in true Welsh April: at the meeting on 3 April, our speaker was Siân Davies fashion with a hymn-raising Cymanfa Ganu at the beautiful

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Church of St Mary and St Family Day Fringe Event with Nicholas, Beaumaris. The a host of activities spread London Chamber Ensemble across the day. will be performing previously- Gŵyl Beaumaris Festival runs unpublished music by the from 21 May to 27 May at Welsh composer Grace Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Williams, and an afternoon Centre; booking forms will be tea at the Bull includes available at the Festival box entertainment by Welsh folk office from the start of May singer Sera Owen. Gillian (01248 811200), or may be Clarke, the National Poet of downloaded via the Gŵyl Wales (2008-2016) will be Beaumaris Festival website. reading from her work and Postal bookings should be the 17-year-old Welsh pianist, sent to Gŵyl Beaumaris

Ellis Thomas, from Llandudno, c 17 April 2019: primroses (primula vulgaris) add a splash of spring yellow to Festival, /o Canolfan will be making his third the Llanddona verges... (A Perrott) Beaumaris Leisure Centre,

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Camau Cerdd will be (Melanie Jackson) providing fun and music for tiny tots, Pauline Kenyon will be running creative writing CLWB IFANC FFERMWYR sessions at Beaumaris and LLANGOED YOUNG Llangoed Infants schools. FARMERS CLUB Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams will perform a Song Prysur! Chwefror, Mawrth a

Cycle that includes the work Ebrill dan ni wedi bod yn of William Mathias, and the 17 April 2019: ...as do cowslips (primula veris), no matter how untidy the brysur iawn i lawr Hwb Maes undergrowth (A Perrott) Welsh Chamber Orchestra Gwyn, Llanddona. ’Rwyf wedi conducted by Anthony Hose features a new work by the dathlu Blwyddyn Newydd Dda Tseiniaidd. Wnaeth Elin Owen Welsh composer, Nathan James Dearden. coginio bwyd anhygoel i ni. A natho ni ceisio pethau gwahanol. Hefyd Dan ni wedi cael noson ffilm (Peter Rabbit) a gatho ni Meanwhile, soprano Karen Coker Merritt and tenor James Hall noson cwis. Mi oedd y crempogau yn llwyddiant anhygoel! will be flying the flag for America in a Bank Holiday Weekend Cabaret, 'From Brahms to Broadway', which features the Wnaethon ni i gyd cael sgwrs gyda merch NatWest, PC Dewi songs of Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers among others. The Evans a Cynghorydd Bob Parry. Mi pawn yn mwyhau yr Stetson University Chamber Orchestra from Florida is also sgwrs. Mae Elaine wedi dod ata ni i creu trefniant blodau i Sul coming to town, and will be performing a side-by-side concert y Mamau Hapus. that includes several budding young musicians from Anglesey Yn olaf wnaethon ni cael taith allan i’r Archifau yn Llangefni. and beyond. There will be a chamber recital by the American Mae’n ddiddorol iawn yn dysgu’r Hanes o Llangoed. musicians, with a string octet. If tango is more your scene, though, the London Tango Quintet will definitely hit the hot Busy! So far, February, March and April have been busy for spot at the Sunday Night Cabaret. us down at the Maes Gwyn Hub, Llanddona. We celebrated Chinese New Year, Elin Owen cooked lovely Chinese food Talks include: a discussion on how the 'Resuscitation of and we tried different things. We also had a film night (Peter Cultural Life in West Germany aided the post WWII recovery'; Rabbit) and a quiz night. Pancake night was a great success. Dr Jesus Alfonzo, a founder of El Sistema, the successful We all managed to toss our pancakes! Music Education System in Venezuela will talk, and Rhiannon We’ve had talks from a lady from NatWest, PC Dewi Evans Mathias and Madeleine Mitchell will be exploring the and Councillor Bob Parry. Everybody enjoyed the chats. unpublished works of the Welsh composer, Grace Williams. Elaine came and helped us to create a Mother’s Day flower Violinist David Juritz will entertain diners at the Festival Lunch arrangement. at the Bishopsgate Hotel and chat about the violin-maker Stradivarius. There will be a master class for strings, and the Finally, we had a trip out to Llangefni Archives. It was very Monteverdi Singers will be performing Brahms’s Missa interesting learning about the history of Llangoed.

Canonica at the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas. A tutored (Amy Pritchard) wine-tasting will be sampling a selection of fine German wines, and the Festival artist for 2019 is the German-born artist, Hilke Macintyre. The opening of the art exhibition on Wednesday 22 NATURE NOTES: SWALLOWS AND MARTINS May at 12.30pm is an open house event. Spring is here, and the swallows and house martins have The Craft Fair returns to the Green over the Bank Holiday returned after their long journey back from over-wintering in weekend, and the woodturners to the Town Hall. On Bank southern Africa. Their cheerful twittering calls will become Holiday Monday a marquee on the Green will host a Festival familiar once more as they flit around our buildings, checking

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[email protected] 5 OF 8 The Puffin  ISSUE 27 MAY 2019 out nest-sites or looking for insects. few decades, so they are both included on the Amber List of Birds of Conservation Concern. Swallows find dark recesses around doorways or under arches to build or rebuild their nests, and they often use barns Let’s really welcome these aerial migrants back from Africa and other farm outbuildings where they can easily fly in and and help them to breed safely in our human communities. If out. House-martins are more sociable birds throughout the you would like to know more about them, or would like to try to year and always nest in provide much-needed nest- groups, building their sites for them, visit the beautiful mud and grass RSPB’s website or visit the nests on the outer walls of Visitor Centre at the RSPB’s buildings, under the eaves. Conwy Reserve, where they These sites resemble the sell appropriate nest-boxes. natural cliffs that they still use RSPB in some places. Summer http://www.rspb.org.uk breeding colonies are (Roz Hattey) traditional, and nests are usually used from one year to the next, if left undisturbed. WLWM EIRIOL OD C S : B The birds can repair an YN GYFEILLGAR I existing nest in only a few Swallow (hirundo rustica): the adult House martin (delichon urbicum): BEILLWYR/BE FRIENDLY days, but it takes them male is 17cm-19cm long, including the adult male is 13cm long, with a TO POLLINATORS between one and two weeks 2cm-7cm of elongated outer tail wing span of 26cm-29cm and to build a new one from feathers; it has a wingspan of 32cm- weighs c.18.3g; the sand martin Bod yn gyfeillgar i beillwyr: scratch, which uses up 34.5cm and weighs 16g–22g (via (riparia riparia) is slightly smaller (via er bod pryfed peillio yn fach o valuable breeding time and RSPB) RSPB) ran maint, maent yn hanfodol i’n hecosystemau! energy.

Each pair of birds raises two Dyma pam mae angen eu broods, sometimes three dwyn i’r amlwg yn ein bywyd broods, a year if the weather bob dydd, nid eu cymryd yn is fine and insects abundant. ganiataol. Mae gwenyn mêl a One brood of four or five pheillwyr gwyllt gan gynnwys young swallows needs cacwn, gwenyn unig, gwenyn around 6,000 flies a day to meirch parasitig, pryfed survive. Both species are hofran, gloÿnnod byw, often to be seen in summer gwyfynod a rhai chwilod yn feeding over rivers or above beillwyr pwysig ar draws fields grazed by cattle; ystod eang o gnydau a cowpats attract flies and the blodau gwyllt. Maent hefyd yn grazing animals disturb these helpu i wella cynhyrchiant and other insects, providing a systemau porfa ar gyfer pori da byw. Mae pryder cynyddol feast for the birds. 19 August 2012: a pair of swallows on telephone wires over the garden; the nest is almost directly below, in the rafters of an old stone cwt (outhouse) am statws poblogaeth pryfed Migration from southern where swallows have nested for years (A Perrott) peillio, ac yn eu tro y Africa is a dangerous time, gwasanaeth maent yn ei and many swallows and ddarparu. Mae’r prif house martins die from fygythiadau i beillwyr yn starvation, exhaustion and in cynnwys colli cynefin, storms. Even if they arrive llygredd amgylcheddol, newid here safely, cold, wet weather yn yr hinsawdd a lledaeniad results in food shortages rhywogaethau estron. Mae which can cause many young rhai pobl leol sy’n awyddus i birds to die. weithredu wedi cysylltu â

Added to these natural thîm Cwlwm Seiriol i hazards are wider changes in awgrymu gwneud cais am climate and farming statws Cymunedol 'Caru practices, urban pollution and Gwenyn' – credwn byddwch hunting, mostly illegal, in chi eisiau dysgu amdano, a hyd yn oed gymryd rhan! some of the European countries through which they Credir mai 'Caru Gwenyn/Bee pass. Destroying or 22 April 2019: one of several different species of bee hard at work on a large Friendly' yw’r cynllun patch of lithodora (A Perrott) obstructing access to nest cenedlaethol cydlynol cyntaf sites are additional threats; in this country these actions are o’i fath ac mae gwneud Cymru yn wlad sy’n gyfeillgar i beillwyr illegal if undertaken intentionally when the nests are being wrth wraidd y cynllun. used. Mae’r cynllun yn annog ysgolion, busnesau a chymunedau i Populations of these birds have been declining over the last helpu i frwydro yn erbyn dirywiad pryfed peillio trwy leihau

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The Puffin  ISSUE 27 MAY 2019 6 OF 8 www.facebook.com/groups/llanddona defnydd o blaladdwyr a everyday life, and not taken darparu bwyd a chynefin for granted. Honeybees and iddynt. Er bod y cynllun yn wild pollinators, including cael ei alw’n 'Caru Gwenyn', bumblebees, solitary bees, mae’n awyddus i annog pobl i parasitic wasps, hoverflies, gymryd camau i helpu pob butterflies, moths and some peilliwr. beetles are important pollinators across a wide Yn ystod haf 2018, range of crops and wild cyhoeddwyd mai Tyddewi yn flowers. They also help Sir Benfro oedd y ddinas improve the productivity of 'Caru Gwenyn' gyntaf yng pasture systems for livestock Nghymru. Er mwyn ennill y grazing. There is growing statws yma gweithiodd concern about the population trigolion lleol, busnesau lleol status of insect pollinators, ac awdurdodau lleol gyda’i and in turn the pollination gilydd i (1) hau erwau o service they provide. The ddolydd blodau gwyllt 17 September 2017: red admiral butterflies and all manner of bees, flies and main threats to pollinators newydd, (2) plannu hoverflies were hard at work on ivy flowers on an overgrown hedge, making include habitat loss, planhigion cyfeillgar i beillwyr the most of the later summer warmth (A Perrott) environmental pollution, y tu allan i fusnesau a gerddi climate change and the ledled y ddinas, a (3) chodi spread of alien species. byrddau addysg dwyieithog i Some local people who are hysbysu ymwelwyr am keen to take action have amrywiaeth a phwysigrwydd approached the Cwlwm peillwyr Prydain. Fel rhan o’u Seiriol team to suggest hymrwymiad i 'Caru Gwenyn', applying for the 'Bee Friendly' agorwyd 25 o erddi peillio- Community status – we think gyfeillgar o amgylch y ddinas that you will want to learn i’r cyhoedd ar gyfer about it, and even get digwyddiad Gerddi Agored, a involved! lansiwyd Llwybr Pryfed Peillio Tyddewi. Mae’r llwybr, sy’n 'Caru Gwenyn/BeeFriendly' is brosiect arloesol gan Fferm believed to be the first co- Bryfaid Dr Beynon yn ordinated national scheme of cynnwys dau lwybr its kind and making Wales a

rhyngweithiol sy’n cysylltu pollinator-friendly country is deunaw o safleoedd 17 September 2017: butterflies and other pollinators like hylotelephium at the heart of the scheme. twristiaeth ar draws penrhyn (formerly sedum); several small tortoiseshell butterflies were busy on a The scheme encourages couple of clumps in full flower (A Perrott) Tyddewi, pob safle yn schools, businesses and arddangos peilliwr gwahanol a’i gynefin. communities to help combat the decline of insect pollinators by reducing pesticide use and providing them with food and Erbyn hyn mae Tyddewi yn cael ei ystyried yn noddfa i beillwyr habitat. Although the scheme is called Bee Friendly, it wants ac yn hafan i bobl sydd eisiau dysgu mwy amdanynt. to encourage people to take actions that help all pollinators. Fel y dywedodd Dewi Sant unwaith: "Gwnewch y pethau bychain". During the summer of 2018, St Davids in Pembrokeshire was announced as the first 'Bee Friendly' city in Wales. To achieve Dyma bum ffordd syml y gallech chi helpu peillwyr: this status local residents, local businesses and local authorities

 Plannwch flwch ffenestr gyda phlanhigion blodeuol. Mae worked together to (1) sow acres of new wildflower meadows, hyn yn darparu ffynhonnell fwyd i bryfed peillio. (2) plant pollinator-friendly plants outside businesses and  Gadewch ‘ddarn o chwyn' yn eich gardd. Bydd llawer o gardens throughout the city, and (3) erect bilingual education gloÿnnod byw Prydain ond yn dodwy eu hwyau ar ddanadl boards to inform visitors about the variety and importance of poethion. Yna mae'r lindys yn bwydo ar y danadl poethion. British pollinators. As part of their 'Bee Friendly' commitment,  Torri'ch lawnt yn llai aml neu adael darn heb ei dorri! Mae 25 pollinator-friendly gardens around the city were opened to glaswellt hirach yn darparu cynefin dodwy diogel ar gyfer the public for an Open Gardens event, and the St Davids gloÿnnod byw tra bod dant y llew a'r meillion yn darparu Pollinator Trail was launched. The trail, pioneered by bwyd hanfodol i lawer o beillwyr. Dr Beynon’s Bug Farm includes two interactive trails linking eighteen tourism sites across the St Davids peninsula, each  Lleihau'ch defnydd o blaladdwyr a chwynladdwyr. site showcasing a different pollinator and its habitat.  Creu cartref i bryfed peillio drwy greu gwesty pryfaid. St Davids is now seen as a sanctuary for pollinators and a I gofrestru eich diddordeb mewn cymryd rhan yn y cynllun, haven for people wanting to learn more about them. cysylltwch â Delyth Phillipps ar [email protected] neu ffoniwch 01248 725710. As St David once said: "Do the small things".

Be friendly to pollinators: pollinators might be small in size, Here are five simple ways in which you could help pollinators: but they are vital to our ecosystems!  Plant a window box with flowering plants. This provides a This is why they need to be brought to the forefront of our food source for pollinators.

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a good recipe, a favourite butterflies while dandelions 24 January 2018: well before anything happened: the old primary school, and clovers provide crucial activity or an unusual pastime Llanddona, looking tired and unloved... (A Perrott) or hobby, for example? Do food for lots of pollinators. you take part in any voluntary  Reduce your use of work which you think might pesticides and herbicides. appeal to other readers? If  Create a home for so, please send us an article, pollinators by making a by e-mail or by letter, in 'bug' hotel. Welsh, English or, best of all, To register your interest in both; your photographs are participating in the scheme, always welcome. If you write please contact Delyth to us or send enclosures, Phillipps on delyth@ please remember to give your

mentermon.com or contact details. telephone 01248 725710. 10 April 2019: yr Hen Ysgol Neuadd Bentref Llanddona Village Hall: there’s quite a way to go still, but what a difference now that the major works have Our e-mail address is (Delyth Phillipps) been completed...'onwards and upwards', as they say... (A Perrott) [email protected].

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