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Editorial Thank You to Our Sponsors Bônau Deadlines EDITORIAL CONTACTING US NOSTALGIC STEAM CAN YOU READ THIS? (see Front Cover Photo) To contact The Bônau Cabbage Patch or I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty The Pwll Action Committee please call The unique BR Class 8 4-6-2, 71000 Duke uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. 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Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas After all these years, I see that I was address on the back of the photo (in pencil) tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it or you attached one of those ‘post-it-notes’. is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. – Mark Twain His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine (Mark Twain) This superb steam train was built at Crewe DATES FOR YOUR in 1954 but was withdrawn from service DIARY THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS in1962.There has been a great deal written about the below expectation early We would like to welcome our new PWLL ACTION COMMITTEE Sept 13 Jewish New Year performances of this locomotive and was sponsors to the magazine and hope that earmarked to become a part of the National our association will be a long and enjoyable Ramadan begins Collection, but that decision was reversed The Pwll Action Committee will be holding one. Oct 28 Summer Time Ends – their Biennial General Meeting on in favour of a move to keep only the Turn clocks back 1 hour cylinder assembly and valve gear. With Wednesday 17 th October 2007 at the Pwll We would also like to express our thanks and gratitude to all our sponsors without Oct 31 Hallowe'en those parts removed the train was Community Hall. The meeting will start at whose generous contributions this edition despatched to the Woodham Brothers` 7:00pm Nov 5 Guy Fawkes Barry scrap yard. of the magazine would not have been Everyone from the village is welcome to possible. Nov 11 Remembrance Sunday attend and put forward their ideas and Few people imagined that this train would We ask our readers to patronise our Nov 30 St Andrew's Day ever see mainline duty again, but in 1973 it views. Your views and ideas are important sponsors whenever possible and please was rescued from the scrap yard where the to us and everyone else in the village. mention the Bônau Cabbage Patch when 71000 Preservation Society was formed, Please make every effort to attend. you make your purchases. and in 1977 it became the 71000 Duke of Gloucester Steam Locomotive Trust. PARISH RECORDS Twenty years later, the organisation DID YOU KNOW BÔNAU DEADLINES 1816 September 19 th received a grant of £233,800 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards a The deadline for the winter edition of The – To cash paid for a spinning The fastest selling book of all time is J K th programme of no less than seven major Bônau Cabbage Patch is 25 October for wheel for Mary Rees 6s 0d Rowling's new Harry Potter and the Deathly th developments and a heavy general your articles or reports or 20 October for Hallows. The seventh and final book of the – To postage of letter from Fishguard, overhaul. A most impressive monument to any amendments to your advert. series sold 11 million copies within 24 concerning Methusalem Morgan, a pauper engineering as it whistled its way through hours, breaking the record of 9 million of the parish of Pembrey. the village. Let`s hope this magnificent iron copies sold in the first day held by the sixth If all men were rich, all men would horse will one day return. – To the constable for apprehending Rees Harry Potter novel. be poor. (Photos by Kevin Sullivan - © 2007) Williams 1s 0d (Submitted by: Puffin Billy) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE Committed to developing women’s talents, FOR CAT LOVERS paws, heel, jump through a hoop, play a the WI today has links with over 8 million piano, play dead, roll over, open a door, WOMEN'S INSTITUTE The ancestor of all domestic cats is the women in some 60 countries. hide food in boxes, shake, and fetch. African Wild Cat, which still exists today. Founded in 1897 in Stoney Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. When Creek, Canada, the In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime cats are asleep, they are still alert to SPORT IN THE TRENCHES OF WW1 punishable by death. Women's Institute (WI) has incoming stimuli. If you poke the tail of a become a fundamental In ancient Egypt, mummies were made of sleeping cat, it will respond accordingly. part of many women's lives cats, and embalmed mice were placed with In Great Britain, black cats are thought to throughout the world. them in their tombs. In one ancient city, bring good luck. Originally set up to provide over 300,000 cat mummies were found. Besides smelling with their nose, cats can training and education to women and address the wrongs in In the Middle Ages, during the Festival of smell with an additional organ called the Saint John, cats were burned alive in town Jacobson's organ, located in the upper predominantly rural society in the late 19th squares. surface of the mouth. century, the WI now offers women a mutual support structure, as well as an important For soldiers fighting in the trenches in the The first cat show was in 1871 at the Cats can't taste sweets. lobbying voice on issues close to its First World War, sport was another way of Crystal Palace in London. The chlorine in fresh tap water irritates members' hearts. relieving the tension. Football, as might be expected, was very popular with both sensitive parts of the cat's nose. Let tap Although organisations similar to the WI formal and impromptu games taking place. water sit for 24 hours before giving it to a took root in Belgium and Ireland in the first Other sports such as boxing and cricket cat. years of the 20th century, the UK proved were also played. Some soldiers remember The average cat food meal is the equivalent more stubborn a convert. The woman who making their own sports and cricket to about five mice. co-founded the WI, Adelaide Hoodless, equipment out of objects close to hand. arrived in Britain in 1899 but her missionary The catgut formerly used as strings in Tennis could be played with entrenching campaigning fell on deaf ears. It was only tennis rackets and musical instruments tools, cricket bats could be made out of old with the onset of the First World War and does not come from cats. Catgut actually tins and pieces of wood. For units with the change in the country's economic and comes from sheep, hogs, and horses. access to horses, there were divisional social landscape that the war brought that horse shows, point to points and A large majority of white cats with blue eyes the women of the UK began to recognise competitions for the best turned-out horse are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye the need for the WI. Today there are about 100 distinct breeds or team of horses. of the domestic cat. are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue As the men were dragged to the trenches, eye. White cats with orange eyes do not women suddenly were needed in virtually Genetic mutation created the domestic cat, have this disability. every social field. At the Agricultural and which is tame from birth. Chocolate is poisonous to cats. Horticultural Union meeting held six months DID YOU KNOW Like birds, cats have a homing ability that into the war, the discussion turned to the Neutering a cat extends its life span by two A blue whale's heart is the size uses its biological clock, the angle of the most pressing issue: the need for industrial sun, and the Earth's magnetic field. A cat or three years. of a Volkswagen Beetle! and agricultural co-operation to meet the taken far from its home can return to it. But Pregnant women are advised not to come Eggplants aren`t vegetables; national crisis.
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