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FREE COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED QUARTERLY NUMBER 30 FEBRUARY 2020 FREE LLANGOED GLANRAFON PENMON BEAUMARIS LLANFAES LLANDDONA ON-LINE WHERE DID 2019 GO? Aerobics Class: every Monday, 6.30pm-7.30pm, Llangoed Village Hall. All abilities are welcome! February is upon us already, the Christmas festivities and the New Year already in the dim, distant past...but it’s not too late Clwb Ifanc Ffermwyr Llangoed Young Farmers Club: for us to say 'Blwyddyn Newydd Dda/Happy New Year' every Monday, 7.30pm-9.00pm, Neuadd Bentref Llanddona to all of our readers! Village Hall (yr Hen Ysgol) not Llangoed Village Hall. Telephone Emily Roberts on 01248 810424 for more We had hoped to continue with our centre spread feature in information; see also page 5. this number of The Puffin, but we’ve received so many articles and other submissions that the feature is being carried Llangoed WI: the first Wednesday of the month at 2.00pm, Llangoed Village Hall; see also page 4. over until we have enough room. The Puffin cannot survive without the help that it receives Zumba Fitness Class: every Wednesday, 6.30pm-7.30pm, Llangoed Village Hall. All abilities are welcome! from its friends and supporters, sponsors and donors, anonymous or otherwise. These include the Bull Hotel, the Whist group: alternate Thursdays, 1.30pm-3.00pm, Pont y Castle Court Hotel, Beaumaris y Brenin Community Hub. Town Council, Janet Bell Gallery, Bishopsgate House Hotel, the Seiriol Men’s Shed: for men Tavern on the Bay, Red Boat Ice aged 18-108: the chance to meet Cream Parlour, Echo Beach, and chat...all abilities are Central Bakery, Ena’s Newsagents, welcome! Every Thursday at Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure 10.00am, Pont y Brenin Centre, Spar, Beaumaris, McColl’s, Community Hub; see also page 5. Llangoed and the Owain Glyndŵr, Llanddona, to name just a few... Bingo: the third Friday of the apologies to anybody whose name month at 7.00pm, Pont y Brenin isn’t mentioned; our anonymous Community Hub. supporters will know who they are! Beaumaris: To all of you: a big 'thank you' from all of us at The Puffin, and our best Bridge Clubs: at The David wishes for 2020. Hughes Community Centre, 15 December 2019: in Sydney this time, at the start of a ground floor: cruise calling in at Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand... WHAT’S HAPPENING WHERE the Editorial Team’s Owen Williams appears to be more o Mondays, 9.30am: Gentle interested in The Puffin than in the famous Sydney Harbour Duplicate, with some help This is where our regular quarterly Bridge, which is just as it should be! (Owen Williams) available round-up of what’s on in the locality o Mondays, 7.00pm: Chicago appears, regular events and one- If you’d like to claim your moment of fame, read The Puffin o Thursdays, 7.00pm: Club offs near home and further afield. in an interesting or unusual place, send us a photo and details and we’ll do our best to publish it. Duplicate You’ll probably be aware that The Puffin has started to serve a wider area; it is always looking These small friendly clubs offer a warm welcome to players for events to list. Inevitably it doesn’t cover everything that’s of all level of experience. Telephone Gay Young on 01248 on, so if you think that an event is missing and should be 810057 for more information. mentioned, please ensure that you let us know in good time. Pioneers Walking Group: every Wednesday, 2.00pm, Our contact details and submission deadlines are always Canolfan Iorwerth Rowlands Centre, Steeple Lane. given in Editorial information on the back page. Telephone Howard Jackson on 01248 810050 for more information. Llangoed: Beaumaris Film Night: the first Thursday of the month at Clwb Garddio Llangoed Gardening Club: the third 7.30pm, Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre. Telephone Monday of the month at 7.30pm, Llangoed Village Hall; see 01248 811200 or e-mail enquiries@canolfanbeaumaris. also page 6. org.uk for more information. Knitting Club: the third Monday of the month at Pont y Have a look overleaf at what’s showing and make a note in Brenin Community hub, 2.00pm-3.00pm. your diary: Proud to be involved with The Puffin community newsletter Escape. The Bull, Castle Street, Beaumaris LL58 8AP Explore. 01248 810329 [email protected] www.bullsheadinn.co.uk Unwind. [email protected] 1 OF 12 The Puffin NUMBER 30 FEBRUARY 2020 o 6 February: Yesterday (2018): Llanddona Writing Group: this Boyle/Curtis romcom every other Tuesday (4 February imagines that only one man and so on) at 4.00pm, Neuadd (Himesh Patel) knows of the Bentref Llanddona Village Hall (yr Beatles and their music, or a Hen Ysgol). Please join us if you few other pop culture icons. enjoy any sort of writing: o 5 March: Green Book (2018): memoirs, poems, short stories, an Oscar-laden real-life articles or blogs, novels even; or comedy drama in which rough maybe you’d just like a bit of and ready bouncer Tony "The encouragement to start or get Lip" (Viggo Mortensen) back into it. Either way, please contact Stephen Marsden on chauffeurs cultured US Beaumaris Film Night: Renée Zellweger portrays Judy classical/jazz pianist Don Garland’s late life in Judy, for which she received a standing 07774 699685 for more information. ovation at the première Shirley (Mahershala Ali) on a 1962 tour of the racist Deep Llanddona Book Reading Club: South. is resting; if you’d like to resurrect o 2 April: Judy (2019): a it e-mail The Puffin at puffin compassionate biographical pages@ gmail.com and we’ll drama of Judy Garland’s late pass the message on. life as she tries relocating her Anglesey & Caernarfon Dog stage career to the UK. Renée Club: hopes to meet in due Zellweger received a standing course on Wednesdays at ovation at the première. 8.00pm, Neuadd Bentref Table top sale: the first Sunday Llanddona Village Hall (yr Hen of the month, 10.00am-4.00pm, Ysgol). It isn’t known when, or if, Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure sessions will start again; Centre; refreshments are announcements will be made in available. Telephone 01248 due course via social media and 811200 or e-mail enquiries@ in The Puffin. In the meantime canolfanbeaumaris.org.uk. the monthly dog walks are still taking place, usually on the last Antiques & collectors’ fair: the Sunday of each month at third Sunday of the month 10.30am. 10.00am-4.00pm, Canolfan Beaumaris Leisure Centre; The Owain Glyndŵr: will be refreshments are available. hosting regular bingo and quiz nights, and its monthly Pudding Contact morganfairs@hotmail. com or telephone 07516 277794 Club: please visit us for details and dates. for information/bookings. Griffith’s Crossing, Caernarfon: Llanddona: Crûg Farm Plants Spring Fair: Llanddona Table Tennis Group: every Monday, Neuadd Saturday 9 May 2020, 10.00am- 4.30pm, Griffith’s Crossing, Bentref Llanddona Village Hall (yr Caernarfon LL55 1TU; it’s a must Hen Ysgol), 10.00am-12.00 noon; if you like interesting and unusual £2.50 per head, to cover hall hire plants. Crûg Farm Plants are and tea/coffee. Everyone is Chelsea Flower Show Centenary welcome; no booking is required. Year Gold Medallists. For more For more information contact Kirsty Simpson at kirstyalison information telephone 01248 670232 or visit http://www. [email protected]. crug-farm.co.uk/. Village Knit Club: every Monday, the Owain Glyndŵr at 7.00pm. For more information BEAUMARIS TOWN HALL’S contact Meg Marsden on 07913 AMAZING BLUE BAROMETER 223435. It’s easy to overlook, in a dark Paned a Sgwrs: the second corner just inside the foyer. It’s Monday of the month at interesting because of the 10.30am, Neuadd Bentref thermometer, inside the case and in Llanddona Village Hall (yr Hen front of the barometer. The Ysgol). Contact Gill Vaughan on barometer reading is high up and 07925 184476 or Heather not easy to see, and helps to McLoughlin on 01248 810354 for forecast the weather, and the more information. thermometer tells the temperature, Proud to be involved with The Puffin community newsletter Escape. The Bull, Castle Street, Beaumaris LL58 8AP Explore. 01248 810329 [email protected] www.bullsheadinn.co.uk Unwind. The Puffin NUMBER 30 FEBRUARY 2020 2 OF 12 www.poblseiriol.co.uk/newsletters/ in either degrees Fahrenheit or degrees Réaumur. Nowadays similarity of names is a coincidence). While the barometer in we use degrees Centigrade or Celsius, a scale which was the Town Hall is still showing correct pressure, the made universal in 1948, but the BBC still whispers the thermometer is at least 70 years out of date. temperature in degrees Fahrenheit in their weather forecast The barometer case looks as though it has had no attention for those who can’t give up Fahrenheit’s scale. for at least this time. It’s in a dreadful state, but cleaning it up Several men realised that a liquid would expand when it is would be a specialist job, and very expensive. heated, and if it expanded into a (Bernard Thomas) tube, it gave an idea of how hot the liquid was. It was Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German, who had the BEAUMARIS ALLOTMENTS idea of making a scale. By mixing SOCIETY: A PLACE IN THE salt with ice he made mixture with a SPOTLIGHT very low temperature (still used for making ice cream), and he gave the Beaumaris Allotments certainly hit value 0°F to this. As a second 'fixed the jackpot on Thursday 11 April point' he used body temperature, 2019 with the arrival of a film crew and called this 100°F.