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Pwll of Yesteryear PWLL OF YESTERYEAR LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING TEAMS To contact The Bônau Cabbage Patch or The ocal Neighbourhood L Pwll Action Committee please call 755665 or Policing Teams hold regular 755260 or 777420 or drop your articles or The local police rely on Partners and Communities elcome to edition No 42 of The Bônau W reports through our letterboxes at 43 or 53 or us, the public to come forward and provide Together (PACT) meetings in our area. PACT Cabbage Patch. We have put a lot of effort into 81 Pwll Road or you can send us e-mail at: meetings are a chance to discuss problems in them with information so they can provide a preparing this edition for you and we hope you better service. It also keeps them in the loop of our community and help to set the priorities for enjoy it. It has all the usual features plus, [email protected] what is really going on in our community. You local police action. Our meeting (HELP - hopefully, some you will find educating or Any photographs we use are first scanned and can contact them in several ways, all are Hengoed, Elli, Lleidi wards) is held in Llanelli amusing. then the originals are returned to their rightful confidential, and each will be investigated. You Town Hall on the second Wednesday every two owners so don’t be shy or fearful in sending us A huge thanks to everyone who bought our can notify them either by telephone, email, months as follows: your photographs. It would be handy though if raffle tickets and congratulations to the winners, Bobby Box etc. as follows: - PCSO 8017 Dan th you wrote your name and address on the back December 11 @ 6:30 a full list of which can be found on page 32. Brown telephone number 101 or e-mail th of the photo (in pencil) or you attached one of February 12 @ 6:30 [email protected] or at th those ‘post-it-notes’. April 9 @ 6:30 Enjoy your magazine. our local Bobby Box which is situated at Pwll Post Office. You can also follow Dyfed Powys Everyone is welcome to attend the meetings Police on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dafyddP or and contribute towards the setting of police Winter is an etching, spring a PWLL RESIDENTS & be their friend on Facebook at: priority actions for the area. watercolour, summer an o il painting TENANTS www.facebook.com/dafyddP and autumn a mosaic of them all. - ASSOCIATION Stanley Horowitz The Pwll Residents Association meet on the Every leaf speaks bliss to me, last Monday of every month in the vestry of fluttering from the autumn tree. Bethlehem Chapel. “Why is summer mist romantic and - Emily Bronte THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Do please go along as everyone is welcome to autumn mist just sad?” We would like to welcome our new sponsors express their views and thoughts on what they ― Dodie Smith, to the magazine and hope that our association think should be improved in the village. NEW PCSO COVERING THE WARD will be a long and enjoyable one. WITH DAN BROWN We would also like to express our thanks and gratitude to all our sponsors without whose Everyone must take time to sit and NEIGHBOURHOOD generous contributions this edition of the Joining Dan in patrolling the watch the leaves turn. WATCH & POLICING ward is PCSO 8128 Zoe Fearn magazine would not have been possible. - Elizabeth Lawrence TEAM We ask our readers to patronise our sponsors PCSO Zoe Fearn joined Dyfed whenever possible and please mention the The Neighbourhood Watch & Powys Police Force as a Bônau Cabbage Patch when you make your Policing Team hold regular PCSO in September 2012 after completing her degree in Criminology at purchases. Beat Surgeries in Pwll Pavilion Cafe so that the WINTER IS public can meet them and discuss their Bristol University West of England. Zoe covers the Hengoed area in Llanelli which includes the COMING - problems and concerns. CLOCKS GO village of Pwll. Meetings (open to all) are held every BACK Wednesday between 11am – noon. These You can contact Zoe by e-mail: Don’t forget to turn your meeting will be attended by either PCSO Dan [email protected] BÔNAU DEADLINES clocks BACK one hour Brown or PCSO Zoe Fearn. before going to bed on The deadline for the winter edition of The th Your local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator is th Saturday 26 October. Bônau Cabbage Patch is 24 October 2013 for John Edwards. You can contact John on th British Summer Time officially ends at 2:00am I'm so glad I live in a world where your articles or reports or 20 October 2013 for th on Sunday 27 October. 775534. You can contact your local Police any amendments to your advert. there are Octobers.- L.M. Community Support Officer Dan Brown by phoning 101 or by e-mail at: Montgomery ( Anne of Green Gables) [email protected] th DESERT ISLAND DAI 5 NOVEMBER 1800 ONLINE WATCH LINK plan on living forever. So far, so good. I On the 5 th of November Dai is stranded on a desert f marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would I 1800, it was settled by the island, all alone for ten years. have in-laws. privy-council, that in One day, he sees a speck in consequence of the Irish the horizon. He thinks to t's frustrating when you know all the answers, I Union, the royal style and himself, "It's not a ship." The but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. title should be changed on speck gets a little closer and he thinks, "It's not st the 1 of January following - a boat." The speck gets even closer and he Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat namely, from George III, by the grace of God, of Dyfed Powys Police are currently introducing a thinks, "It's not a raft." Then, out of the surf cells live forever. Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, new messaging service for the communities of comes this gorgeous blonde woman, wearing a Defender of the Faith;' to 'George III, by the the county. As part of their continued wet suit and scuba gear. She comes up to the Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great commitment to Neighbourhood Policing this guy and says, "How long has it been since age comes alone. Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.' service is being piloted in Carmarthenshire. you've had a cigarette?" Life not only begins at forty, it also begins to And thus the title of king of France, which had The Online Watch Link (OWL) is a two way "Ten years!" Dai says. show. been borne by the monarchs of this country for initiative that allows the police to pass relevant four hundred and thirty-two years—since the She reaches over and unzips a waterproof messages to the community, and encourage forty-third year of the reign of the Third the community to respond to the messages. pocket on her left sleeve and pulls out a pack of fresh cigarettes. Edward—was ultimately abandoned . Messages can be of a prevention nature to let Dai takes one, lights it, takes a long drag, and CLEVER INVENTIONS you know of a notable incident that has occurred that may be of interest to yourself or says, "Man, oh man! Is that good!" I loved autumn, the one season of your business. Then she asked, "How long has it been since BANANA GUARD – the yea r that God seemed to have you've had a drink of whiskey?" This online link is free and you can decide the put there just for the beauty of it. method of communication utilised. It is possible Dai replies, "Ten years!" Protect Your Banana! to receive the messages via your home phone, - Lee Maynard She reaches over, unzips her waterproof pocket Are you fed up with a mobile phone via a text message or on her right sleeve, pulls out a flask and gives it bringing bananas to work or school only to find alternatively via e-mail to your home or work to him. them bruised and squashed? Banana Guard place. allows you to safely transport and storage A BÔNAU AT LAST To register your details please e-mail either Dai takes a long swig and says, "Wow, that's individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect PCSO Dan Brown 8017 or PCSO Zoe Fearn fantastic!" bananas anytime, anywhere. 8128 at the following e-mail addresses: A double congratulation Then she starts unzipping a longer zipper that to Dorothy Lloyd of Elgin runs down the front of her wet suit and she says [email protected] Road, who not only to Dai, "And how long has it been since you've or celebrated her 80 th had some real fun?" Behind every successful man is his [email protected] birthday in July of this woman. Behind the fall of a successful Excitedly, Dai says, "Wow! Don't tell me that year, but also, a month you've got golf clubs in there!" man is usually another woman. earlier, became ‘officially’ a Bônau. In June of 1963, on her marriage to her late husband Percy, Dorothy DID YOU KNOW? LIFE’S LITTLE moved to the village to be told by her mother IRONIES in law that as she was not born in the Pwll it The last two only known FIVE SIMPLE RULES TO BE would take 50 years to be recognised a speakers of the Mexican HAPPY ‘true’ Bônau.
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