Lampeter Grapevine Issue 12 Sept 2013 by Lampeter Grapevine

cysylltwch â ni / contact us: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

Medi /September 2013

GRAPEVINE digwyddiadau, newyddion a barn Llambed bob mis / Lampeter’s events, news and views monthly

Past

regular features ... 

listings & events

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letters

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kids in action

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seasonal snippets

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cookie’s corner

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creative ideas

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what’s on in the woods

Photo: From collection of Selwyn Walters

STOP PRESS: Lampeter Museum gets the go-ahead Details on page 5 in this issue...  apples

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Present

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our town

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a blast from the past

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red squirrels on our doorstep

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recipe for happy children

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a nature tale

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local history

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what the frack?

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home education & go-karts

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LYTss at long woood

Future?

GRAPEVINE no. 12, September 2013 Post: c/o Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 7EE Email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com Published by: Transition Llambed Development Trust, Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter, SA48 7EE Printed by: TSD Reprographics, Lampeter, on paper from sustainable resources To list your event, submit an article, ad or letter or to make an enquiry, email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com or post to address above Please include the reason you are contacting us in the subject box of your email (Ad, Listing, Article, Letter, Enquiry) Full guidelines for advertisers & contributors: see grapevine page on www.transitionllambed.co.uk Listings (events & courses) FREE. Display advertising rates: ¼ column £10; ¼ page £25; ½ page £40; full page £70 (back page £80) £25 off ads for one-off public events held in Victoria Hall Classified ads: £2 / 20 wds (min. £2) Therapists' section (max 35 wds): £10 for 6 editions in advance Copy date for Oct issue: Fri 13 Sept. Theme: ‘Harvest’ Circulation: 1,500 copies distributed free in the Lampeter area

Croeso / Welcome … to another busy issue of the Grapevine. I must first say a big thank you to all our new contributors this month. The theme of Past, Present, Future, seems to have sparked more interest than usual and it’s great to see more links being made and lots of possibilities for future content being developed. To set the theme off why not start with page 8 & 9 for some recollections of Our Town and page 20 for more Local History. I’m always amazed by the variety of events happening locally, but then this shouldn’t really be surprising, as Lampeter has always been a rather important town centre, one which once thrived as a venue for a range of markets and fairs. Have you tried the Lampeter People’s Market yet? If not, then why not pop in to Victoria Hall on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month to see what you can find. You might be pleasantly surprised. If food is your thing then make sure you read Apples on page 17 & 19, Seasonal Snippets, page 23 and test out the recipe in Cookie’s Corner, page 10. Please also consider offering your support to a different type of recipe, this time for Happy Children on page 19. You can read about some more happy children making go-karts on page 27. The natural environment features in a number of articles this month. Try A Nature Tale on page 12, or perhaps you would like to get more involved in the action, in which case check out the activities in Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Community Woodland on page 6 & LYTss on page7, or find out what you might be able to do to support another community in the Recent events at Balcombe on page 4 and the Red squirrels on your doorstep, page 21. Don’t forget to let us know what you think. Maybe you could be included on the letters page next time. When all this is done perhaps you could help us out by thinking of an exciting theme for the December/January issue of Grapevine. Send your ideas to lampetergrapevine@gmail.com Darllen hapus / Happy reading Angie Martin

We reserve the right to edit all contributions for reasons of space & clarity. The views expressed in letters and articles are not necessarily those of Transition Llambed Development Trust or the newsletter group.

Other contact details:  Transition Llambed: www.transitionllambed.co.uk email: transitionllambed@gmail.com  Victoria Hall: www.vichall.org.uk To make bookings for Victoria Hall contact: admin@vichall.org.uk or phone/text 07891 632614  People's Market: To book a stall contact: rhydygwinfarm@talktalk.net or ring 01570 471432 2

Dear Grapevine, A very Happy first Birthday, and many congratulations to everyone involved on making it not only such a swift success, but also on so quickly becoming an indispensable part of Lampeter's fabric. That such a small team of enthusiastic and talented volunteers can have made such an impact in such a short time is truly impressive. The interest shown in the articles, letters and activities shows what a broad range of opportunity exists locally, and how that is so eagerly embraced by our own community. With all best wishes for the future, and thank you all for such a stimulating and successful beginning.

Victoria Hall Refurbishment Update The kitchen has now been totally refitted to a high-specification catering standard.

The Directors, Transition Llambed Development Trust

This is another big step towards revitalising this treasured town asset. We are now be able to provide on-site catering, provided by our friends at Llond Bol, to users of the hall or you can book the kitchen for your own functions. However, if you wish to cook for others in the kitchen you will need a Food Hygiene Certificate. Pop in and have a look some time. Transition Llambed Development Trust would like to thank J & E Joiners, Donald Thomas Builders, electrician Dylan Dudley, plumber Craig Mackie and kitchen fitters CKM for their professional and flexible approach to getting all their work finished on time. Thanks also to users of the hall for their tolerance of the sometimes inevitable inconvenience caused during the kitchen rebuild project. The next stage of development has already started. The building of a new office, committee room and general space for smaller classes will be complete in the next few months. This will be followed by energy efficiency work throughout the building before the winter. A redecoration programme is also planned to be started soon. In the meantime the hall is still open for use as normal. For bookings please contact us on 07891 632614 or visit the website at www.vichall.org.uk Gary Thorogood on behalf of the Directors, Transition Llambed Development Trust

Thanks must also go to all our contributors, advertisers and to TLDT for continued support. We couldn't have done any of this without you. The Grapevine team

Next few Grapevine Themes October: ‘Harvest’ November: ‘Make Do & Mend’ December: To be confirmed

Notice: Lampeter Town Council has undertaken its Welsh Language Review for the last year. Members of the public are welcome to view this document by contacting the town clerk at clerc@lampeter-tc.gov.uk

LETTERS

Dear Grapevine, I recently moved to Lampeter and, as a professional jazz bass player and retired jazz educator, I wish to see if there is any interest in jazz events in Lampeter. Although it is a small town, Lampeter seems to be a very lively place culturally, but I feel that a regular jazz performance (perhaps once a month or even once a week) would enliven Lampeter even more. There is a very good jazz club in Swansea, but that is a bit of a trek for people who live in this neck of the woods. If there is enough interest I would be happy to set something up. The main difficulty is finding quality musicians who would be prepared to work locally or, if they were to come from further afield, they could stay in my house. I also ran for many years a Jazz Evening Class and would like to run such a weekly event here for aspiring jazz musicians. Any one who is interested either as a jazz musician, an aspiring jazz musician or as a jazz fan should contact me on 01570 218036 or adrian.kendon@gmail.com and I will arrange a get -together to discuss possibilities. Adrian Kendon

grapevine, victoria hall, bryn road, lampeter SA48 7EE email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

An open letter concerning recent events at Balcombe (see article, page 25) Like you, I've been hearing some very disturbing things about fracking. At the time of writing, what is coming to be known as the Battle of Balcombe looks to be only just beginning. There are pictures of protestors from all across the community attempting to say no to this practice, whilst politicians and journalists argue over what it means. This open letter hopes to highlight how relevant the issues raised in one small, close-knit rural community over there in Sussex are for our own, here in Ceredigion. To set the record, I'm against fracking - I think that it is obvious that fossil fuels are causing immense damage to our communities, the environment, and to the prospect of a sustainable future economy. What do you think about fracking? What do you want to do about it? Balcombe is only a small village at the front line, and currently with the media eye on it, but planning applications for fracking are happening all over the UK as we speak. Right now coal bed gasification and shale gas fracking are being considered in Llanelli, Swansea, and Cardiff Bay. ~ Would anyone like to get involved in opposing this 'dash for Frack?' ~ Perhaps we, as a community could host a film evening in the gorgeously renovated Victoria Hall (donations to support the community down there at Balcombe)? ~ Could we arrange a petition on behalf of our own small, rural community for another, asking our own MP to speak up against this dangerous process? ~ Who would be interested in writing/signing a pledge that, should fracking be proposed in our own community, we would oppose it strongly? ~ Would anyone be interested in visiting Balcombe and the protest? If anyone is interested, or would like to see something happen in Lampeter, then please send ideas and suggestions to the email I've set up below. Please, no unnecessary venting ;) Ian O'Reilly lampetergasdebate@gmail.com

Lacto-fermentation Dear Grapevine readers, I wrote an article for the March Grapevine for the ‘Hungry Gap’ theme that month. This is the period in our natural food growing cycle when we have little freshly available. The article was about the virtues of preserving all sorts of vegetables in periods of ‘glut’ by the process of lactofermentation. Don’t be put off by the scientific name. It is the simple process by which sauerkraut is made. By this method not only can most veg be safely preserved but it also gains additional health benefits by the encouragement of beneficial bacteria. (Think yogurt). For those interested I have found out about a oneday introductory course being run at Denmark Farm on Wednesday 25 September. You can learn the process, make, sample and then take home a jar of preserved veg. Those similarly interested in producing your own food may also want to know about a bread-making course at the same venue, run by the WEA, on Sunday 22 September. Much more detail is available on their website: www.denmarkfarm.org.uk/events Gary Thorogood 4

more LETTERS

‘Past’ will be preserved for the Future: Lampeter Museum gets go-ahead By the time you are reading this edition of the Grapevine an agreement will hopefully have been signed between the University of Wales Trinity St. David and Hanes Llambed, in order to allow Hanes Llambed to establish a museum in the Old Porters' Lodge in College Street. Hanes Llambed is most grateful to the Vice-Chancellor of the University for giving this opportunity to fulfil an ambition which we have held for many years. As a community project, the University was able to apply for funding to the Ceredigion County Council Cynnal y Cardi Scheme, and succeeded in obtaining this funding to make improvements to the building in order to make it suitable to house a local museum. Our thanks go to Mrs. Meriel Davies and her team for all the help we have received. The alterations are due to be completed in November, and the Museum will then open in the new year. Can you help? This will be a community museum, so we want as many people as possible to be involved. The first thing you can do is to look for anything you think that might be of local interest, including books, to donate or loan to Hanes Llambed for them to display in the Museum. There will be permanent displays, but also some sections will be changed on a regular basis, so the more material we obtain the better. We will be looking for volunteers to run the Museum during the published opening hours, and again, the more people who volunteer, the more we can spread the workload. Finally, we will be setting up a 'Friends of Lampeter Museum' in order to support the longterm future of the Museum. More details will become available about this in the near future. We hope that you will support this important and exciting project in whichever way you feel appropriate, and for the time being you can signify this by phoning Hanes Llambed on 01570 422769. Let's all work together to give Lampeter a museum worthy of this historic town. Selwyn Walters

grapevine, victoria hall, bryn road, lampeter SA48 7EE email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

Bring Back Our Trains - part 2 A bright future for Lampeter's railway? Well, that's partly up to us. At Transition Llambed's last Big Gathering, we discussed following up on David Morgan and Rob Phillips' railway article in the July-August edition of Grapevine. We'll talk more about action to take at the next Gathering on Thursday 19 Sept. If you'd like to contribute, come along to Victoria Hall at 7pm. The Sunday Club Like many people these days, I live alone. In my case I have no relatives nearby. Five years ago I returned to this part of Wales where my Mother’s maternal family have their roots. I was brought up on stories of my Great, Great Grandfather Captain Morgan, who sailed his ship out of Cardigan Bay. Nevertheless I have no contemporary family in the area and my children have ‘flown the nest’. There must be others in similar circumstances who find that Sundays and Bank Holidays can be a lonely experience when it seems that most other people are with their partners or families. I am proposing forming a Sunday Club for people, like myself, who often feel the need for company on those days. There are many activities we could share together – a pub lunch, or ‘bring and share’ in one of our homes, a visit to the seaside or a stately home and gardens; we could even spend the day helping one of the group with a project or task they find difficult to tackle alone. The activities could be varied and flexible. There need be no age limit to joining this group; young people and the more mature would be welcome, just as exists in regular families. The only criteria for belonging are that one lives alone and wishes to share time with others on ‘lonely Sundays’ If you are interested in being part of this Sunday Club, please contact Ceredwin, on 01570 421476. People's Kitchen, another great place to meet old & new friends, takes place nearly every 1st Sunday of month (see listings) - Plus: the Lampeter Permaculture Group meets at least one Sunday a month to work, socialise and eat together. Membership rules apply.

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COEDWIG GYMUNEDOL LONG WOOD COMMUNITY WOODLAND Past Future

For years Long Wood was just another plantation on the hills, managed unsustainably without the needs and views of local people in mind. Then, in 2003 the Long Wood Community Woodland group was born and things slowly but surely started to change. After a lot of mud, sweat and cheers from our hardworking directors and volunteers the handover from Welsh Government to local people finally took place in November 2012. It was from then on that the wheels could really begin to turn…

Over the coming months, as the Visitor Centre build continues, look out for opportunities for local people to learn practical green-building skills at a number of workshops. We have a new job opportunity coming up: Long Wood will be hosting a Woodland Management Apprentice through Tir Coed’s Branching Out scheme (see advert on page 26). We’re also planning more guided walks for the autumn, including our popular Fungus Foray.

Present Now we have six staff, regular volunteers and a range of groups visiting and using the woods, all working toward making it a better place for people, for wildlife and for the local economy. Since the last Grapevine we’ve been very busy, moving forward with our new timber yard project, and at last beginning work on the Visitor Centre. Lampeter-based company JBM Woodcraft has been appointed as the main contractor for the build and Lampeter-based Teifi Valley Wells recently undertook the borehole installation on site. We’ve also been out on the road promoting Long Wood further afield by holding stalls at the Royal Welsh Show, Tyllwyd Woodland Fair and Lunar Market in Llanfair Clydogau. We’ve met a lot of people who are interested in the community woodland movement. So, if you’d like to know more, then check out Llais y Goedwig’s website. They’re an association created for mutual support to represent the interests of community-led woodland groups in Wales: www.llaisygoedwig.org.uk. Alternatively, you are most welcome to join our own monthly ‘open-forum’ to find out more about what’s going on at Long Wood, to share your ideas, express views or discuss issues with staff and directors. See details in listings, page 14.

What’s On in the Woods

Our Woodland Wednesday volunteers have been improving our Forest School area with a bigger campfire circle to host a full school class of thirty, and the workshop has a new workbench, stove and benches - making the space a welcome place to work during any wet activity days. We’ve been busy hosting a few new faces to the woods. Young people from Carmarthenshire Youth Council came to us in early August to make bird boxes out of sawn timber from our own trees. We aim to make 100 of these, which will be put up this autumn throughout the woods. Lampeter Youth Theatre also held sessions over the summer holidays for children to use the Woodland Theatre space for drama workshops, improvisational performances and circus skills. There were smiles all round so I hope they have some good memories of their time at Long Wood. James Kendall

Join our mailing list or find us on Facebook. Contact: 07557 386755 or info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk 6

Kids in Act ion

Here, as promised, is the finished mural painted by Year 1 & 2, helped by artist Rhiannon Roberts

Fel yr addawyd, dyma'r murlun gorffenedig wedi ei creu gan Flwyddyn 1 a 2, gyda chymorth yr artist Rhiannon Roberts

LYTss at Longwood natural world around them; improvise in the theatre, use the surroundings as a backdrop to dramatic games and make dens, castles, gardens and even a tiny model of Hobbiton out of tree stumps. We would repair to Hob’s garden for lunch sheltered by the grass roof of the little round house that looks out at the garden and fire pit. This was where we engaged in slower, more thoughtful activities. At the end of a day’s activity the children made dreamcatchers which they hung in the trees and collected tiny palettes of natural colour to take home. It has to be said: you can learn so much from just walking about in the woods, and the children also wrote a flurry of poems about the world they’ve been exploring. If we can get our breath back before half-term we’re hoping to offer some more of the same. That is, if the people at Longwood will let us! Thank you from us all. Annie May

There’s nothing like a mixture of the great outdoors, two enthusiastic teachers and a liberal sprinkling of the performing arts to encourage a sense of wonder and creativity. The setting of Long Wood, a community woodland that stretches from Llangybi to Lampeter, offers enchanting walks, bridle paths, an outdoor theatre, a magical garden with an openfronted, grass-roofed roundhouse, and seats and statues carved from wood dotted among the trees. Lampeter Youth Theatre and Stage School’s summer holidays were made even better when Lea Wakeman and Annie May offered four days of entertainment, education and drama in these magnificent natural surroundings, ably supported by Megan Holt for the first two days. The days ran from ten to four each day. Children came to explore the woods; create items from the 7

Our Town I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Leno and Daphne Conti to recall some of their memories of Lampeter past. They painted a picture of a dynamic, bustling, prosperous town which hosted a variety of markets and fairs. There were lots of small independent outlets: 5 grocers, 3 butchers, 2 bakers, 3 cafés, 2 printers, drapers, newsagents, 5 garages, lots of pubs and a railway station, to name but a few of the local attractions. It was only after a little prompting that their own famous coffee shop and ice cream parlour got a mention. They described it as “an institution, more like a club”, a meeting place in the centre of town filled purely with local trade. Customers sat, chatted, played chess or draughts and listened to the jukebox and often (but not always) drank coffee. This was a time before supermarkets, when locals knew everyone by name. “Lampeter was such a thriving town, a busy place.” It served the surrounding farming communities and was a centre for agricultural markets and fairs. The railway made access and travel with livestock much easier and brought people from much further afield. There was a huge weekly cattle market (on the site where Sainsbury’s is now). Farmers bought and sold the animals whilst their wives spent time and money in the local shops and cafés. “Town was so busy you could hardly walk down the street on Market day.” The Dalis Horse Fair was another popular attraction in the local calendar. It filled the whole town for three days each year. Children were given the day off school and people travelled vast distances to buy and sell the best horses. An unusual story was told about how German soldiers came to one of these fairs and bought up all the horses so that they could be used during the war! Local pubs were kept busy as good sources of both accommodation and refreshment. Most had stables to the rear and mounting stones out the front. The fair was a lively event and occasionally a little rowdy. Lucky then, that Lampeter also had a Magistrates’ Court in the Town Hall with cells downstairs. A visiting Circuit Judge would stop over regularly and the local vicar had to vacate his house to accommodate him. If there were no cases to answer, apparently the Judge would be given a pair of gloves!

Leno and Daphne Conti

I’m not quite sure why this happened, so if there is someone out there who knows more, please tell. Stories about St David’s College, the oldest degreeawarding institution in Wales preceded only by Oxford and Cambridge, revealed a different side of the town. The college was originally set up to train clergy with its first degree being, a Bachelor of Divinity. I’m told that these graduates were known locally as ‘Lampeter Donkeys’. Being a relatively small college in a rural location, St. David’s was utilised as alternative accommodation for two schools evacuated to the area during the war years. There was a significant influx of evacuees from Gloucestershire and Liverpool. Together with the markets attracting farmers from across Wales and visiting onion sellers from Brittany (who lodged in lofts at the rear of Midland Bank, now HSBC) there was an interesting cultural mix, and by all accounts the town had a rather exciting and cosmopolitan feel. Tales of strict rules for the evacuees, including compulsory church parades and having dormitory windows barred, kept locals intrigued until eventually in 1945 they left, returning to their native counties. The College was eventually granted independent University status. Courses changed, becoming somewhat more ‘liberal’ and students were more prominent in town. Traditional St. David’s Day ’Rag’ events often raised an eyebrow or two. Lampeter students can boast the oldest Rugby Team in Wales with the club being a founding member of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). Did you know that the cells under the Town Hall Courtroom were used by the club as changing rooms before the original clubhouse was built? I also heard a great story of how it had been built in Conti’s shop! (More another time). It has been amazing just looking at old photos of the town centre, seeing how only a few buildings have changed, traffic lights and roundabouts have been introduced and although we no longer have the beautiful pedestal lamp in the middle of Harford Square, it is still quite a recognisable place. It feels though as if Lampeter might have lost some of its original ‘Market Town’ purpose. “Is this progress? I’m not sure it is.” Maybe that’s a topic for another day. Angie Martin

A Blast from the Past

Does anyone recognise any of these old forerunners of the Grapevine? Local Lampeter newspapers from 1891, 1892 and 1976. More recently Newsletters from 2009 and 2010

Read what the Lampeter & Teify Advertiser said about the above Caxton Hall Advertisers back in 1976

Cookie’s Corner It's summer, a time of abundance - defined by the Google dictionary as “an extremely plentiful or oversufficient quantity or supply”, or known locally as “what on earth should I do with all this veg?” Yes, time to find something to do with yet another (recyclable) bag of courgettes, a bowl of runner beans and - if you are lucky - an old ice-cream tub of tomatoes. One obvious solution is preserving, traditionally not so much a method of dealing with glut, but a method of sustaining people through the winter months when fewer fresh crops would be available. Preserving deserves an article in its own right, so I will not even attempt to cover the vast range of pickles, chutneys, jams, sauerkraut or pasteurisation, except to say that like many cooking techniques they are nothing to be scared of. What’s the worst thing that can happen? Your strawberry jam has the spreading consistency of double-glazing and your "runny bean" chutney lives up to its name? So what? You’ll learn, and it’ll be better next time.

Steam or boil the ribbons for a couple of minutes – you can judge how soft you want your courgettes. Then simply treat them like pasta - toss in a tomato or pesto sauce or my personal favourite is to use preserved lemon. Yeah yeah I know, lemons are hardly local, but we have to have some luxury in life.

In this modern era of long-haul food, preserves offer us a double opportunity to contribute to reducing the pressure on the natural resources of our delicate planet. By replacing your side serving of those Kenyan ‘French’ beans with a lovely home-made (or locally-produced) chutney or pickle, you simultaneously encourage local produce whilst avoiding your dinner clocking up more air miles than Alan Whicker - everyone wins!

‘Preserved’ as in the North African tradition. It's really easy to do your own but they're also available in the supermarket or online. If you go for the electronic approach I recommend Belazu - highestquality food and highly ethical. I like to use a green pesto (make your own out of nasturtiums. Go on, try it - I dare you) and add chopped-up preserved lemons. You discard the ‘innards’ of the lemons and chop the softened skin - a truly sunshine dish.

Of course, you don’t have to preserve your ‘glut’ you could just eat it. Here is a recipe designed to use up that abundance of courgettes:

After you have stuffed yourself silly on courgette pasta, cooked up "runny bean chutney" till you run out of jam jars, and have made enough tomato sauce to satisfy even my 7-year-old for a year, what else can you do with your glut of food? Simply give the stuff away of course.

Courgette Pasta Surprise Take 2 or 3 average-size courgettes per person and, using a potato peeler, ‘cut’ them into long ribbons. The result will be much like Fettuccine pasta (the name of which I had to look up on Wikipedia, so please don’t be impressed). Now for the ‘surprise’ - there is no pasta!

Tim Martin

As our theme this month is Past, Present, Future we thought you might like this activity we found in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Young Advertiserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; section of an old Lampeter Advertiser (a previous local newspaper) from August 1976! It was suggested as a summer holiday activity but you could just as easily use it as an autumn project. Why not give it a go, and as it suggests, send in your own findings, but make sure you send them to: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

Young Advertiser

Perhaps someone in your family actually had a go at this activity the first time round in 1976? If so, find out if they remember what they found out? Then compare how different things are now?

A Nature Tale: Mending of the Ways

This is a 'round robin' story written by the Storytelling group that meets at Denmark Farm on the third Monday of each month.

Edafedd paused for a moment to listen to the waves lapping on the shore. He could feel the hot sun beating down on him, but a cool sea breeze soothed his burning skin. He was on his way to where the fishing boats were moored, ready to try his luck at catching a ride out to sea as he did every day. The fishermen spoke of seal-girls with rose-red hair that carried petals from the ocean floor and sirens that sang of treasure and love, both locked beneath the waves. One lady who lived in the town was said to be a seal-girl. She'd come home with a boat one evening, but would never tell if the tales were true or not. Edafedd thought they must be true and, now he was finally fourteen, maybe they'd take him to sea to see the ocean-maidens too.

around them. The shore was a long way off and although Edafedd was a good swimmer, he knew he would not be able to reach dry land if the boat sank. The mermaid watched the boy from far out to sea. Her heart opened to see his tiny arms pull at the huge oars. Despite the effort he did not give up. She wanted to help him somehow but she knew she must never be seen. The ways of the human, as all the animal sphere knew, were deadly dangerous to other beings. What they did not kill directly they often exploited to extinction and to go near was to risk the welfare of not only herself but of all her kind forever. She wondered what her mother would do if she were here. Then she remembered her fishbone comb and instantly knew the answer. She swam as fast as a mermaid can to the rock she had been shown. She took the comb from her tangled locks and it glinted in the sun. She dragged it through her salty tresses, humming to keep herself calm. It worked. Edafedd turned the boat round and began to row towards her, closer to the shore, towards the jagged rocks.

He shaded his eyes, and stared out to sea wondering what secrets hid beneath its green foam-capped waves. He smelt the warm salt breeze and the tang of drying seaweed, he watched gulls wheeling and screeching in the foaming wake of the fishing boats leaving the harbour. Something flashed far out among the waves, a glimpse of something red that disappeared so quickly he thought it might be the sun playing tricks with his eyes. He heard a strange singing in his ears and an unexplained longing arose unbidden to his heart. He knew he would be in trouble if he dared to take one of the small boats that lined the shore, but quickly looked around to see if anyone was watching. He chose a small blue boat that he thought he would be able to manage, and pushing the boat out into the shallows, he jumped aboard, grasped the oars and pulled strongly in the direction of that elusive flash that had so thrilled his senses. The waves crashed on the rocks as he pulled out to sea, strange crystals glinting on the seaward side that he had never seen. Even with that marvel there, he followed the song in his ears further out to sea.

To be continued...

Looking ahead to next month: Can you remember what harvest time was like years ago? How different was it to now? What do you imagine will happen in the future? We would really like to hear your stories,

Time passed slowly, but the flash on the waves only seemed to grow further and further away. No matter how hard Edafedd pulled on the oars, he came no nearer to the elusive glint that had aroused his curiosity and drawn him, almost as if in a dream, to take to the boat and head out to sea. His arm muscles ached and the sun beat down on his head as he pulled with all his young strength to move nearer to his goal. His feet were slipping now in the bottom of the boat and glancing down he realised that there was several inches of water sloshing

thoughts or ideas. Please contact: The Newsletter Team

lampetergrapevine@gmail.com We look forward to hearing from you soon. Not keen on writing things down? If you prefer, we could arrange for someone to pop round & have a chat instead. 12

Victoria Hall: regular activities and classes Bryn Road, Lampeter SA48 7EE To book the Victoria Hall phone: 07891 632614 Email: admin@vichall.org.uk Please note that room booking fees for Victoria Hall have changed E.G. for community groups & local small-scale commercial: Large hall is now £12/hour; Small hall £7/hour; whole building £18/hour. See www.vichall.org.uk for more details. Day

Weekly (W) Fortnightly (F) Monthly (M)

Time

Activity / Class

Contact

Monday

6.308pm

Tuesday

Name

Number

Iyengar Yoga

Cathy Crick

01570 421144

4.305.30pm

Circus Master Class (see listings)

Lea Wakeman

07920 408849

7.308.30pm

Zumba keep fit session

Julie Lancaster

01570 470542

F 18 September

1.304.30pm

Young at Heart

7-8pm

Zumba keep fit session

Louise Evans

07584 199372

1-3pm

Welsh classes

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

M 3rd Thur each month

7-9pm

Transition Llambed ‘Big Gathering’

Friday

4.306.30pm

LYTSS: Lampeter Youth Theatre & Stage School

Saturday

2nd & 4th Sat each month

10am1pm

People’s Market

M 14 September

2-4pm

Sing Out, Harmony Song Workshop

Clara Clay

07929 018928

10am7pm

Lampeter Evangelical Church

Gareth Jones at the Mustard Seed café

01570 423344

7-9pm

Brazilian Jujitsu

Mike A. Banica

07783 582081

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courses_______________ Denmark Farm Conservation Centre, Betws Bledrws Mon 26 Aug: Wild in the Woods (for ages 4-10) Sun 15 Sept: Soft Shoe Shuffle, Felt to fit Slippers Sat 21 Sept: Ferns Sun 22 Sept: Bread-making (special WEA workshop) Wed 25 Sept: Lacto-fermentation: Making sauerkraut & cultured pickles Thurs 26 Sept: The Call of the Earth: Nourishment for autumn

Tea, sandwiches & social for the wiser folk of Lampeter

A chance for all those interested in/involved with Transition Llambed to plan and co-ordinate activities Everyone welcome! Annie May

Local food, produce and crafts. Plus café, live music and other attractions

Fri 27-Sun 29 Sept: Mosses, Liverworts and Lichens Sat 5-Mon 7 Oct: Pond & Stream Invertebrates Thurs 10 & 24 Oct plus 7 Nov: Ultimate Upcycling: Make your own patchwork quilt (3-part workshop) Many more opportunities: see www.denmarkfarm.org.uk, or ring 01570 493358

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creative_______________ Cellan Quilters - Knit, Natter and Sew, Wednesdays 12noon-4pm, Cellan Hall. £10 per month or £4 drop -in fee. Informal group for all who enjoy quilting, sewing, knitting, socialising - & female chatter? All ages, all abilities welcome. Contact: Amanda, 01570 421338.

events ________________ Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Community Woodland.  Open Public Meeting. Mon 2 Sept, 7.30-8pm. St. Thomas Church, Lampeter. The Long Wood team welcomes queries, questions and ideas from the public at this monthly drop-in open forum. Contact: 07557 386755  Woodland Wednesdays. Join Sarah, our Warden for regular volunteering sessions at Long Wood every Wednesday. Develop your wood skills and feel the benefit of working in this beautiful environment. No experience required, training given, all sessions supervised. Meet 10am in main car park (Llangybi end). Town pickup available on request. Contact: 07557 386755, info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk  Mad About Moths. Sat 7 Sept. FREE event. Come and learn how to identify moths and other nocturnal creatures. Moth trapping and survey led by Liz Snell from Ceredigion Moth Group. Families welcome. ID charts and books available. Please bring a small torch. Meet 7.30pm in main car park (Llangybi end). Contact: 07557 386755, info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk Hanes Llambed (Lampeter History Society) meets every third Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm in the Old Hall of the University of Trinity Saint David. Guest speakers give talks on topics of both local and more general historic interest. Autumn 2013Summer 2014 programme begins 17 September with a talk by Professor David Austin: Cellan re-visited. Membership £5 a year or £1 per talk. Everyone welcome. Lampeter Town Fencing Club. Tues 3.30pm & Fri 6.30pm. Lampeter Leisure Centre. Open to all aged 10+. Contact: Sean Slater, 01570 493139 anpiobaire1@aol.com

People’s Kitchen Sunday 8 Sept, 2pm at Llanfair Clydogau Village Hall. The Scientific And Medical Network presents lectures, workshops & other related events on the university campus, College Street, Lampeter. All welcome, mostly free admission. Next event: lecture by Dr Howard Jones, Sat 12 Oct, 10.30am in the Founder's Library. Look out for posters and further notices. Meetings will be approx im atel y m onthly during academic term. The local SMN group co-ordinator is Eric Franklin, 01570 471367, erf678@googlemail.com The Welsh Quilt Centre's 2013 exhibition, Kaffe Fassett Comes to Wales. The exhibition is open from March 9 to November 2 at the Welsh Quilt Centre, Lampeter. Admission: £5, £4 concs, £2.50 students.

health & well-being courses & classes ______ Yoga classes suitable for all, with an Iyengar-trained teacher: Mon 6.30-8pm Vic Hall, Lampeter Tues 10-11.30am Cellan Hall 6.30-8pm Ffarmers Village Hall Weds 5.30-7pm Tregaron Chapel Vestry; Contact: Cathy Crick Stanton, 01570 421144 / 07748 031614, cathycrick@hotmail.co.uk

kids______________ Ray Ceredigion offers free, openaccess outdoor play sessions. Starting at Maes Y Felin play area, Lampeter, every Mon (term time), 4-6pm. Also at Rhydlanfair play area, Llangybi, Mon, 3.30-5.30pm. Contact: Helen Lewis, 01545 570686 Little M’zzz new indoor soft play centre, Llanybydder. (In old church Hall near Evans Bros market). Open Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun 10am6pm, 7 days a week in school holidays. Birthday Party bookings welcome. Tasty menu & free WiFi. Contact: 01570 480268, www.littlemzzz.co.uk

markets______________ People’s Market, Victoria Hall, Lampeter, 10am-1pm every 2nd & 4th Sat each month. Next markets: Sat 14 & 28 Sept. Lampeter Farmers' Market Market Street, Lampeter, 9am-2pm 14

alternate Fridays Next markets: Fri 6 & 20 Sept Ffarmers Market Neuadd Bro Fana/Village Hall, Ffarmers, 10am-12.30pm 1st Sat in the month Next markets: Saturday 7 Sept Llansawel Market Llansawel Village Hall, 10am 12.30pm 3rd Sat of the month Next market: Saturday 21 Sept Lunar Market. Saturday 7 Sept, Llanfair Clydogau Village Hall, 10am-3pm. Local produce and crafts and refreshments. Contact: 07920 063773.

move your body________ Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Community Woodland. Do you need to get out and about more? Join our FREE 1/2 hour Health Walks, held on the last Sunday each month. Next is Sun 29 Sept. Especially for people who find walking difficult. Please wear sensible shoes. Meet 2pm at Penlan Goetre, SA48 8NE. Contact: Andrew, 07557 386755 info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk Belly Dance & Belly Fit classes Belly Dance: Mon. 1.30-2.45pm (all ages). Belly Fit: 3-4.00pm (over-50s) Shiloh Church Hall, Lampeter (next to the police station on the High Street). All fitness levels welcome. Contact: Rose Barter, 01239 851737 rosebarter@btinternet.com Circus workshop for grown-ups (14+) Tuesdays 5.30-6.30pm Victoria Hall. Focusing on fitness and fun! Hula hoop for the waist, poi and juggling for toning those bingo wings and unicycle and peddle-go's for thighs and bums, plus loads more. £3.00 each or £5.00 for 2 family members. Over 9’s welcome with an adult. Contact: Lea, 07920 408849 Belly Dance & Yoga classes. Belly Dance: Tues 7.30-8.30pm. £3.00. Beginner Yoga: Thur 7-8.30pm, £5.00. Crugybar Village Hall. Contact: 01558 685321, elenamgilliatt@hotmail.com Tribal Dance with Lyza. Alternate W ednesdays 6.30-8pm, Shiloh Church Hall, High Street, Lampeter. Contact: lyza_darkestwish@live.com Yoga, Wednesdays 5.30-7pm Cellan Millennium Hall. Small friendly group led by Pat Beaton, 01558 650594.

move your body cont.d _____ religious services & Flamenco Dance classes weekly in groups ________________ Lampeter and Aberystwyth with Dixey Ruscelli. Tues 6-7.15pm, Sally Saunders Dance Studio, Lampeter Industrial Estate, Tregaron Rd, Lampeter (next to Organic Fresh Food Co) Wed 6-7.30pm, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with live flamenco guitarist. Men and women welcome. Please bring strong chunky-heeled shoes. Contact: 01570 493138, dixeyart@gmail.com Badminton Club/Clwb Badminton meets at Lampeter Leisure Centre. Weds 5-6.30pm, advanced players. Fri 5-6.30pm, all players welcome. BlackSheep BellyDance. Fortnightly W ednesday classes with Lyza Chthonia: 3 July, 6.30-7.45pm. £5 per person per class but your first class with Lyza is free! Open Level (Adults, 14yrs+) Shiloh Hall, Lampeter (behind police station). Join the Facebook group – ‘Chthonia BellyDance Classes Lampeter’. www.chthoniabellydance.co.uk Tribal Dance with Lyza. Alternate Wednesdays 6.30-8pm, Shiloh Church Hall, High Street, Lampeter. Contact: lyza_darkestwish@live.com Yoga, Wednesdays 5.30-7pm Cellan Millennium Hall. Small friendly group led by Pat Beaton, 01558 650594. Cerddwyr Ramblers, Lampeter, organise a variety of weekly walks throughout the year. Anyone interested in walking with the group is warmly welc om ed to j oin. A walk ing programme is available from the Town Library or James, 01570 480743

music_________________ Sing Out Harmony Workshop 2-4pm 2nd Saturday every month at Victoria Hall, Lampeter. Contact: Clara Clay, 07929 018928

photography ___________ Lampeter Photography meet on 1st & 3rd Friday of every month, 7.30pm at the Kings Head, Lampeter. Monthly competitions, exhibitions & workshops. All welcome. FREE. Contac t: Stef, 07958 772035, lampeterphotography@yahoo.co.uk Tracy Dove. Following her successful exhibition at the Town Hall cafe/deli in Lampeter, the cafe now stocks Tracy's photo print cards. Choose from an eclectic selection of her work. Mon-Sat 10am-4pm with free internet access, great drinks & food.

Lampeter Parish St Peter’s Church, Lampeter. Main Sun Service: 11am (bilingual), Other services: 8am Holy Communion (English), 9.30am Cymun Bendigaid (trydydd Sul yn y mis yn unig, Cymraeg). Church Hall available for hire, £8.50 per hour. Kitchen facilities. Enquiries/bookings contact: Beryl, 01570 422324, www.lampeterparish.org St Cybi’s Church, Llangybi. Main Sun Service: 9am (bilingual). St Bledrws’ Church, Betws Bledrws. Main Sun Service: 10.45am (English or bilingual). St Sulien’s Church, Silian. Main Sun Service: 2pm (bilingual /Cymraeg). St Mary’s Church, Maestir. Main Sun Service: 2.30pm (2nd Sun in month only, English). Times apply to the first four Sundays in each month. For the few fifth Sundays there will be a single United Parish Service at 10am: location will be published in the local newspapers. St Thomas' Methodist Church Sun service 10.30am, creche & youth activity. Tuesday Coffee morning 9.3012noon. All welcome. See chapel notice board. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Lampeter Sunday Mass is 10am. For other services see church notice board. Emmaus Christian Fellowship meets Sundays, 10.30am and 5pm, at rear of 78 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Contact: David Patterson 01570 422529 Interested in Buddhism? A Study Group for Women. Exploring the underlying principle of Buddhist Practice and how we can apply this in our daily lives. Meets one day a month near Aberystwyth. Meditation, shared lunch. Contact: Lesley, 01970 617129 or Noel 07988 745364 Lampeter Evangelical Church meets every Sunday at Victoria Hall, 10am– 7pm. Contact: Gareth Jones at The Mustard Seed café, 01570 423344 Lampeter Quakers. Every Sunday at Canolfan Steffan, Peterwell Terrace at

10.45am. All welcome. www.quakersinwales.org.uk (English) Crynwyr Llambed. Cwrdd bob ddydd Sul, Canolfan Steffan, Rhodfa Peterwell, 10.45 yb. Croeso i bawb. www.crynwyrcymru.org.uk (Cymraeg) Contact / Cysylltwch: Deborah Rowlands, 01570 480083, deborahjrowlands@gmail.com Seventh Day Adventists meet fortnightly on Sat at Cellan Millennium Hall, 10.15am-3.15pm. For more details: www.cellanmillenniumhall.co.uk

storytelling & books_____ Storytelling Group/Noson Storiau Croeso i bawb, Cymry, Saeson a Thylwyth Teg, dynion a merched, oedolion a phlant. Everyone welcome from complete beginners to talented bards. Come to listen, come to tell. Friendly, informal group 7-9pm every 3rd Monday in the month, Denmark Farm, Betws Bledrws. Next meeting Mon 16 Sept. Please bring a small donation to cover room hire and refreshments. Contact/ cysyllt â: Rachel 01570 493222, rachauck@yahoo.co.uk Llangeitho Book Group meets 2nd Weds each month, 2pm in Llangeitho Village Café. We choose a book to read and chat over a paned/ cuppa. Contact: 01974 821213 to register your interest or just turn up! gillymail22-book@yahoo.co.uk

theatre_______________ Lampeter Youth Theatre and Stage School (LYTss) Every Fri, 4.306.30pm, Victoria Hall. Contact: Annie May, 01570 423080, annie@themay.co.uk

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Welsh Festivals for your Diary Aberystwyth Food & Drink Festival

Aberystwyth

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PENfro Book Festival

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Great British Cheese Festival

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social ________________ Cancer Support Group. An informal group has begun to meet in Cellan Millennium Hall, with funding from MacMillan. Dates are fortnightly; next meeting Thursday 29 August, 2-4pm. This is to support each other, whether you have just been diagnosed, during or after treatment, or you're caring for someone that has it! Or even if you just want to talk it through with a sympathetic ear, swap notes or information, and hopefully to get a buddy system going on a voluntary basis. All helplines close by 8pm, but cancer is 24/7! Especially in the middle of the night. Anyone in this boat is welcome. Contact Jane Taylor Woods, 01570 423010. Cellan Hall Film Nights 6 Sept: Oblivion (cert 12) Tom Cruise 20 Sept: Love is All you Need (15) Pierce Brosnan 11 Oct: Summer in February (15) Dan Stevens To follow: The Great Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio); Behind the Candelabra (Michael Douglas) CYD Llambed. Ymarfer eich Cymraeg/Practise your Welsh. Dydd Mawrth 11 yb-12yh/Tuesdays 11am12 noon, Gwesty y Llew Du, Llanbedr P.S./Black Lion Hotel, Lampeter. Croeso i bawb/All welcome. Croeso i unrhyw Cymro/Cymraes sy'n fodlon i ymuno â ni. Cysyllt â/Contact: Mary Neal, 01570 470092 Golden Broth Lunch Club: a free lunch and social club for the senior citizens of Cellan and Llanfair Clydogau, offering a FREE light lunch of soup, roll and cake, plus tea/coffee. Gather for a social and play cards or dominoes, or just relax and natter to friends. All ideas are welcome. Come along and join in the fun. Fortnightly on alternate weeks at Cellan Millennium Hall and Llanfair

Hall on Mondays, 11.30am-2pm. Next Lunch Clubs: Cellan - Mon 2 & 30 Sept and Llanfair - Mon 16 Sept. Ring Amanda (Cellan) 01570 421338, or Linda (Llanfair) 01570 493706 Coffee Stop, Thursdays 10.30am3pm at Emmaus Christian Fellowship, 78 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Soup, toasties, cakes. W arm friendly environment. Contact: David, 01570 422529 Lampeter Friends is a new SelfAdvocacy group for people with learning disabilities, set up by Eich Dewis Chi (soon to becom e Ceredigion Advocacy). Every Wed, 24pm, CAMFA building, Lampeter. A welcoming and supportive space for people with learning disabilities to meet and talk about issues important to them. Free, all welcome. Meet new friends, find support, take part in activities, build confidence, learn new skills & hobbies & have fun! Contact: Rebecca, 07976 023486 Whist Drives, Wed 11 & 25 Sept at Hafan Deg, Lampeter, every fortnight. All welcome. All Funds to Hafan Deg League of Friends. Contact: Gwen Davies, 01570 481152.

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CELLAN MILLENNIUM HALL CLASSES AND GROUPS Classes subject to change: please check www.cellanmillenniumhall.co.uk for updates & contact details. See our website What’s On page for one-off events MONDAY Line Dancing 7-10pm Lunch Club 2 Sept & 30 Sept 11.30-2pm TUESDAY Healing Yoga 10-11.30am Lampeter Home Education Group 12-5pm Qi Gong 6-7pm Tai Chi 7-8pm Beekeepers 2nd Tues of month, 8pm WEDNESDAY Table Tennis 10-11.30am Quilting Club 12 noon-4pm Yoga 5.30-7pm (not 4 or 11 Sept) THURSDAY Cancer Support Group 12 & 26 Sept 2-4pm Village Improvement Society Cttee1st Thurs of month 7pm W.I. 2nd Thurs of month 7.30pm Qi Gong & Meditation 6-7pm FRIDAY Art Group 10am–1pm Film Night fortnightly 7.15pm For details please contact Chris, 01570 422066 SATURDAY Seventh Day Adventists, fortnightly 10.15am-3.15pm

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Apples From an early age, apples are very much a part of our world view. We say 'an apple for the teacher' referring to a kindness, or 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' indicating a traditional belief that they are beneficial to health. It is not surprising that the apple should be part of our race memory, for there is evidence to suggest that apples grew wild in Britain as long ago as the Neolithic period (5,000 to 12,000 years ago). These would have been what we know as 'crabs' which are now considered too sharp for most palates, unless turned into crab-apple jelly. However, in ancient times tastes were less refined, or people were just hungrier, for archaeologists have found pits containing the remains of crab apples, sloes and hazelnuts.

realms of possibility.

Documentary evidence does not appear until much later. There is a reference to young fruit trees known as 'imps' in the Laws of Hywel Dda. These were composed in about 930 CE (although written down The sweet apple, from which our eaters and cookers much later), and contain references to both 'sweet' are descended, is thought to have originated in the and 'sour' apples. region of Kazakhstan's border with China. From there By whatever route sweet apples reached Britain, they they gradually spread, carried along the trade routes, were here to stay. Orchards were developed within through the Middle East and into Europe. This all the grounds of monasteries (there is evidence of such happened a very long time ago and there are an orchard existing on the hillside above Strata references to apples in Greek literature, including Florida Abbey). It was in such stable environments Homer's Odyssey (~800 BCE), where in book seven that the raising of new varieties became possible, as we read: it takes many years for a seedling apple tree to bear Outside the gate of the outer court there is a large garden of about four acres with a wall all round it. It is full of beautiful trees - pears, pomegranates, and the most delicious apples.

fruit. This would have been done by deliberately planting pips from trees chosen for their superior qualities. Other new varieties were found growing wild from discarded cores.

From this we can see that the 'sweet apple' had reached Greece, and been included into a wellestablished orcharding tradition, by the time of Homer.

The production of new varieties continued, reaching its height in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitated by the stability afforded by the great estates with their large complement of gardeners. We may now ask: when did these sweet apples reach There were also an increasing number of commercial Britain? It is claimed that the Romans first introduced nurserymen who concentrated on producing apples them, and no doubt they did bring their favourites with with outstanding characteristics. them. But of course the Romans tend to be given the Although this period marks the beginning of the credit, or blame, for all things ancient. (They were selective breeding of apples, where both parents are even thought to have built Stonehenge at one time.) known, we do have at least one classic example of However, we do know that the Phoenicians were Nature producing a result of unparalleled excellence trading with the Celtic lands long after the time of from an unplanned pollination. This is the Bramley Homer, and long before the Romans reached our apple (also known as the Bramley Seedling) which is shores. They came for our minerals, but what did still considered one of the best cooking apples in the they bring in trade? Possibly fruit, from which seeds world. It was grown from a pip in 1809, parentage could have germinated, or maybe they brought young unknown. trees. This is only speculation, but not beyond the 17

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Crystal Healing Workshops & Angelic Tarot Readings. To book, contact: 01570 493006 / 07572 672986, sue@tranquillight.vpweb.co.uk Louise Nadim BSc Hons, Ph.D. Fully qualified, insured Brennan Healer. Working in the Human Energy Field assessing, balancing and healing, to restore physical, emotional and spiritual health. Contact: 01570 Glynis Florence, BA, Cert. Couples 4 2 1 1 4 4 / 0 7 9 2 0 1 1 2 2 2 8 , Counselling, Dip Psychosexual louise_nadim@hotmail.com Therapy. Member of COSRT. Dr Colette Power. MindfulnessRelationship counselling and therapy based Stress Management, MB Pain to address sexual concerns in & Illness Management; Introduction Aberystw yth and Lampeter . to Mindfulness Courses; 1-2-1 Contact: 07780 458763 coaching. For future courses, or to

Rolfing - Structural Integration at Llanfair clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Caroline Body 07917 360595, www.rolfingwales.co.uk The Art of Well-Being: Reflexology Transformational Bodywork. Iain and Indian Head Massage. Glennis Cameron Watson Trauma Release, Gratwick, MAR, FFHT, fully qualified, Alexander Technique. Relief from insured, 10 years' experience. Stall at stress/anxiety, PMT, insomnia, neck, Lunar Market (see listings) selling back, shoulder, period pain, head- aromatherapy products. aches. By donation. 07852 626001, Contact: 01570 493288 c a m e r o n b o d y w o r k @ g m a i l . c o m , Pearl Jebb. Bowen Technique, http://transformationalbodywork.co.uk Reflexology and Massage to help

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Joanne Camlin BSc WSHom. Homoeopathy is a system of m edicine that treats m ental, emotional and physical illness, and can be used by everyone, including Alison Kaye MBAcC. Traditional babies and children. Lampeter. Chinese Acupuncture. Llanfair 01570 421480 (mornings) Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter, The Light of Love ten-minute (off- SA48 8EG. 07779 256388 the-body) treatment harnesses the Living Excellently: 'Build confidence power of the universal life force: to sound your note in the world.' relaxing, healing, promoting wellAssertion Training, Confidencebeing. Offered FREE at People’s Market (no booking required) or at Building, Positive Ageing, Mat-Based other tim es b y appointm ent. Pilates, Style Coaching. Qualified, decades of experience helping Ceredwin: 01570 421476 people towards fulfilled lives. Cathy Crick Stanton. Yoga teacher / Contact: Shân Rees 07940 375147, therapist (Iyengar trained) and shanharmony@aol.com Barbara Brennan Healer. For class details, or to book 1-2-1 yoga or Susan McAllister (Bsc Hons). therapy/healing sessions: 01570 Transformational Teacher, Therapist & Consultant. Over 20 years of 421144 / 07748 031614, teaching, complementary therapy & cathycrick@hotmail.co.uk healing experience. Available now for

women’s workshop_____ Wed 10.30am-3pm, St James’ Hall, Cwmann. 11am Qi Gong gentle ex er c is e. 1 2n o on l u nc h . 1pm workshop. Disabled access & toilet. Free car park. £2.50 a session (includes vegetarian lunch and all activities). Pay on the day, no membership or advance fee. Drop in

when you please. New members always welcome. Workshops: Sept 4: Favourite songs Sept 11: Painting Sept 18: Mosaics Sept 25: Quilling Contact: 01570 423167 or 01545 590391

Christine Stephenson BSc MNIMH. Medical Herbalist at Llanfair Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Contact: 01239 858946 Ashley Ward MAR GJC (Dip Reflex). Dan cing T re e R efl exo log y . Reflexology in the comfort of your own home, within 15-mile radius of Lampeter. Fully-insured member of Association of Reflexologists. Contact: 01570 422985 / 07811 767563, www.dancingtree.co.uk Reflexology. Annie Zakiewicz MAR is a fully-insured member of the Association of Reflexologists and practises from Cellan. Contact: 01570 493295 / 07790 107521, www.reflexologywithannie.co.uk

writing ________________ Creative Writing Workshops start Sat 14 Sept, Tysul Hall, Llandysul, 2-4 pm. Professional tutors. Refreshments available. £30 for four workshops or £10 for one. September's tutor: poet Paul Henry. Contact Kelly, 01267 235336

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A Recipe For Happy Children – Ysgol Penuwch A few weeks before the end of term we had to make a massive decision at Ysgol Penuwch...not one we’d been expecting. Either, to try and increase the number of pupils from 19 to 20 by October, or to close the school nice and quietly in July next year. WHAM BAM SLAM! This was not a choice that anyone was expecting to face. We were very happy with our lovely school in Penuwch. But it was a good decision to make because it has reminded us how much we love our school! Of course we have chosen to keep the school open - one more pupil sounds easy. But we don’t want only one more, we’d like perhaps ten or fifteen. Making this decision has made parents and staff really think about what kind of school we want...how to emphasise the bits that we like and make the school even better. So here is the beginning of a recipe for our perfect school. If you could add to it then please get in touch. When you put all these ingredients into a school, happy, resourceful children with high self esteem will come out the other side!  More than 20 pupils

So where have all these centuries of collecting wildings and selective breeding brought us? At present there are an estimated 7,500 named apple varieties worldwide (I am sure there are many more in the less-easy-to-survey parts of the world). Here in the UK the National Collection of fruit trees at Brogdale contains nearly 2,000 different named varieties, each with its own particular combination of characteristics. These characteristics not only refer to the fruit, but also the environmental conditions under which the variety will flourish. Unfortunately many are unsuitable for our damp maritime climate. Yet we have only to look around us to see old apple trees which have survived, even thrived, here for a very long time. The variety of these old trees is often long-forgotten, but it is important that we know what they are, for if they have thrived here for so long, they must be suited to the local conditions. At the Lampeter Apple Day in 2011 an number of people brought the same variety of apple in for identification, which all came from old trees. It was a large soft cooker, which juiced excellently. A sample was sent to Brogdale for identification and it was identified as 'Royal Jubilee' dating from 1888. By simply looking at the characteristics of this variety in a list of apple cultivars it would not immediately appear ideal for our climate. However, experience trumps theory every time.

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Welcoming children on a flexi-schooling basis (my children will be attending three days a week)

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A farm at the school where children can learn through farming – hens, goats, sheep, mushrooms, soft fruit, a polytunnel, a farm shop, bees, green woodworking, digging, getting muddy, learning outside

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Plenty of wellington boots and overalls

If you know anyone who would like to find out more or get involved please make sure they do - the sooner the better! My email address is theadeklein@hotmail.com or you can become friends with Ysgol Penuwch on Facebook. This is your chance to make the perfect school for your children. You could really help us by spreading the word. Many thanks, Thea de Klein

I wonder how many other old trees are out there, bearing fruit decade in and decade out? If you have such a tree and are fortunate enough to have fruit on it this year, why not bring some along to the Lampeter Apple day, to be held at Organic Fresh Food Company on Saturday 5 October. Richard Bambrey 19

Local History - an introduction We can try to interpret the past just by looking out of our kitchen windows at the local landscape – whether we see a street, a hill, or a neighbour’s farm. Something or someone has already shaped the landscape for us. For example, around us in Ceredigion our hills and valleys are generally smooth with no jagged peaks. Why? The answer in one word is “glaciers”. Twelve thousand years ago, the glaciers which had covered and scraped our land for thousands of years started to retreat. Eventually the ice melted, and hunter-gatherers roamed back into Ceredigion; later, Neolithic families settled down and started to cultivate the land, with their domesticated animals. Iron Age hill fort builders and then Romans came and went. Then the English came. Later on Cistercian monks also came and went. All these groups (and many others) left their mark on our landscape which we still see and enjoy today.

Piped water comes to Lampeter, 1862 The main street of Lampeter in the past was a distinctly unpleasant spot. An open sewer ran down the middle of the street, and the drovers coming to town with their animals would have enjoyed the very numerous inns and taverns of the day. It wasn’t until 1862 that John Battersby Harford of Falcondale built the water fountain in Harford Square, and channelled in clean fresh water and kept the town drains in order. Today we take fresh clean water and efficient drains for granted, but what will the future hold?

The Rebecca Riots come to Lampeter, 1843

The hidden history of old buildings and houses, the stories in roadside stones, old local characters, local customs, myths, ghosts and legends all hold lessons for us today: reflecting the past, revealing the present and possibly giving us hints for the future. Researching local history is a fascinating activity. Jen Cairns

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Depiction of the Rebecca Riots, Illustrated London News 1843

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Nearer our own time, in the 19th century there were five Toll Gates in Lampeter. Toll Gates, a method of collecting taxes from road users, were seen as being a great burden on poor farmers in a time of great economic hardship. (Surely this rings a bell with us today?) “Rebecca” and her daughters, with their faces blackened and wearing women’s clothing, visited the town and destroyed the gates. The principal of St David’s College ignored Rebecca’s instructions that no lights were to be seen in the town, and so Rebecca smashed his house windows for him. In the past Lampeter was not always a quiet and well-behaved town!

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Red squirrels on our doorstep Many people are unaware that mid-Wales still has one of only three significant red squirrel populations in the country, in the upland conifer forests centred around Llyn Brianne; the other two being in north Wales (on Anglesey and in Clocaenog). Photos: Dave Pressland The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), the only squirrel native to the UK, was once common and widespread throughout Britain and Ireland but now, although still abundant in parts of Scotland and Ireland, red squirrels are now rare in England and Wales and have been replaced by the introduced grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) across much of their range. The main threats to the red squirrel are loss of habitat, competition from the larger grey squirrel and squirrel poxvirus which is harmless to greys but usually fatal to reds.

Red Squirrel Distribution Maps 1945 - 2010 provided by the Red Squirrel Survival Trust

Since 2001 the mid-Wales red squirrel partnership (MWRSP) has been carrying out surveys to look at the distribution and genetic make-up of the red squirrel population in the mid-Wales forests. The results of these are being used to inform work with landowners and forest managers to maintain suitable habitat for red squirrels and target control of grey squirrels, which are present in some areas of the forest. The significant amount of effort that has been put into this appears to be having a positive effect, with two red squirrels trapped and released in the forest near Llanfair Clydogau, and new evidence of red squirrels found around Llyn Berwyn in July this year. However, resources for this work are limited. To provide additional support to the funded bodies, action by local volunteers is crucial. With this in mind, a new group is starting up, Friends of Red Squirrels (FORS) mid-Wales, for local volunteers who share an interest in the conservation of our native red squirrels in Map showing where mid-Wales red squirrel population occurs mid-Wales. The aim of the group is to raise awareness about the threats to the red squirrelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; survival and to work with the MWRSP, the local community and other groups towards eliminating those threats wherever possible. This will help ensure that the sight of our beautiful red squirrels can be enjoyed into the future by those of us who live in mid Wales and by visitors to the area. Jenny MacPherson For more information or to join the friends group, please contact: Jenny MacPherson, Vincent Wildlife Trust: jennymacpherson@vwt.org.uk More details of mid-Wales red squirrel partnership at: www.wwbic.org/redsquirrelproject & www.vwt.org.uk 21

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September

Mara, planning for the future in the garden

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The bounty of the summer garden can continue well into September and beyond if you keep harvesting and deadheading regularly. September is the perfect month to look at preserving any gluts. I’ll be making a cheeky courgette and alchocha chutney, as well as lots of tomato sauce for the freezer, and hopefully some sauerkraut at the end of the month after attending a workshop to learn ‘how to’ at Denmark Farm. It’s also a good time to start thinking about protecting crops from early frosts. Keep some fleece, or even just sheets of newspaper, on hand, ready to throw over late potatoes or ripening pumpkins. Try saving seeds from any healthy ripe crops like beans, peas, tomatoes, pumpkins, as well as your favourite flowers. As long as they were not sown from F1 seeds you should get good results sowing these again next year. If you have more than you need, swap some with friends and neighbours or better still bring them to the Seed Swap usually organised in early spring at Victoria Hall. Finally, just before you start easing off a bit for the gardening year, there’s just enough time to sow a few winter-hardy salads. If these get going well in September they can provide you with lots of fresh leaves for December. Or if the cold hits early, with a little bit of protection, they will keep growing very slowly, then come into their own once the days start to lengthen next year. Don’t forget to enjoy eating all your harvests, and make the most of the last golden rays of sunshine too!

In the June issue I talked a little about Swifts. It’s September. Where are they now? Scientists have been able to attach tiny geo-locators to a few individuals in order to track their movements. They left us in late July or August, and in September they are likely to be in Congo. They may spend several weeks here before moving on to locations such as Zambia and Mozambique. Before returning next spring they seem to refuel in West Africa prior to a rapid journey to the UK. A Swift was found to have flown 5000km north in just five days! Numbers of Swifts have declined by a third since 1995 and the reasons for this are unclear. Since they spend most of their lives overseas, the causes may well lie there. However, it has also been suggested that the number of potential breeding sites may have declined in the UK as homes have improved in quality. In Pontrhydfendigaid the local community have erected lots of special boxes to support their local Swifts as part of an ongoing project.

Swifts by Tomos (age 8)

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The real issue: At the moment, mainstream media debate is hot over whether the dangers of fracking outweigh any benefits. The government views fracking as safe, and that we need it for future energy supply. We're being told that because of this age of austerity, we have to do this for our very future. The truth is that fracking hasn't been shown to be safe at all, and the companies involved have already declared3 that the public won't see any benefit for 20 or 30 years! The practice was widely rejected decades ago by the oil and gas companies because it was deemed too dangerous and expensive. Fracking can only, generously, be called a shortterm solution. At the end of the next generation we will be back in the same place, wondering where to get our oil and gas from, and what even more dangerous extraction methods to use. Meanwhile, the greenhouse gases associated with gas and oil have only gone up, contributing to polar ice melt and runaway climate change. Let's not forget that the average global temperature is set to increase by at least 2 degrees by 2050, as recent surveys report.4 So who is benefiting from all this, if it is not the consumer, and certainly not the planet? We know that George Osborne has offered 50% tax breaks for companies to expand into this area. Is this another attempt to stimulate the economy, alongside offering tax breaks to millionaires and dismantling any vestige of a welfare state? The question at the heart of it all, the real issue that you and I have to face is this: is this the world that we want? Increasing fuel poverty, increasing threats to the climate, private interest and companies profiting whilst the public purse is hammered? Wouldn't we rather see government tax breaks for renewable energy projects? If Mr Osborne is so keen to give cash incentives to communities affected by fracking, why not give the money directly to the communities to produce their own energy, food, waste recycling, composting - and truly give us all sustainable and independent forms of power that will strengthen us in the future? It's up to small communities like ours to answer this question for ourselves. Ian O'Reilly

What The Frack? Fracking (or hydraulic fracturing) is just one method in a whole new generation of what is called 'unconventional gas' extraction techniques, including shale gas fracking, underground coal gasification, and coal bed methane fracking. What these syllablecrushing terms all refer to are techniques all designed to extract natural gas from the rock bed beneath our feet. They involve drilling a bore-hole, and pouring in thousands of gallons of water, sand, some very toxic chemicals such as mercury, hydrochloride, formaldehyde, and lots more besides. For a full list see the links1. The high pressure of these chemicals forces the rock strata to fracture, opening up seams and releasing locked-up gas (as far as I understand it, anyway). This soup of chemicals is then pumped out and refined - that's shale gas fracking. Underground coal gasification uses small seams of coal, previously thought unprofitable and unsafe,2 drilled, fractured and then set alight (!) to create a burn-off from which they then extract gas. Coal bed methane fracking, on the other hand, uses waterbased hydraulic fracking to separate the methane from the layers of coal. So what's wrong with it? Not only is hydraulic fracking dangerous on a number of levels, it's also a very short-sighted move by a government desperate to stimulate a flagging economy. Here are some facts: Fresh water use: Fracking uses a lot of fresh water, placing a strain on fresh water resource management. Water pollution: Where does all that water, laced with acids and mercury and radioactive chemicals go? A lot is returned to the surface, known as 'produced water' that has to be treated. Industrialization of the landscape: The rural landscape gets industrialized - heavy-load lorries, access roads, installation of pipelines, wildlife corridors destroyed. Leakages: The danger of leakage of these dangerous chemicals, either from hydraulic fractures, wellcasings or produced water is very real. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in Pennsylvania has already issued evidence that fracking has contaminated surrounding well-sites. Other detrimental effects: Won't house prices go down for communities situated near fracking wells? What about access rights to the countryside?

Links: www.zerocarbonbritain.com & www.frack-off.org.uk References:

http://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used

http://www.energyjustice.net/naturalgas/cbm

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/ cuadrilla-pr-man-admits-george-osbornes-shale-gasrevolution-wont-cut-energy-bills-8656246

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/27/ climate-change-model-global-warming

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Tir Coed, a charity which uses trees and woodlands to develop young people’s self-esteem and practical skills through a wide range of initiatives, is seeking woodland management apprentices.

Mae Tir Coed, elusen sy’n defnyddio coed a choetiroedd i ddatblygu hunanbarch a sgiliau ymarferol pobl ifainc trwy amrywiaeth eang o fentrau, yn chwilio am brentisiaid rheoli coetiroedd.

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2 x 8-month Part-Time Fixed Term Appointments Pay: £6.70 an hour The appointments will be for 22.5 hours per week.

2 Benodiad Rhan-Amser am Gyfnod Penodol o 8 mis Cyflog: £6.70 yr awr Bydd y penodiadau am 22.5 awr yr wythnos.

For further information and application details please contact:

Am wybodaeth bellach a manylion am sut i wneud cais cysylltwch â:

Becky Hulme – (01570) 493224 (07813) 170676 e-mail: becky@tircoed.org.uk

Becky Hulme – (01570) 493224 (07813) 170676 e-bost: becky@tircoed.org.uk

The closing date for applications is 24th September 2013

Y dyddiad cau ar gyfer ceisiadau yw 24 Medi 2013

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Lampeter Home Education Group Cellan Millennium Hall is the meeting place for the Lampeter Home Education Group. The group consists of families who educate their children, or families with young children who intend to educate their growing child/ren out of the mainstream schooling system. The group offers a safe, relaxed, friendly, and welcoming environment. The aim of the group is to join and establish links with other homeeducating families in terms of support and socialising for the children and their parents/guardians. There are small workshops that take place within the group when interest is expressed: these have included mosaic making and go-kart building. We have even had days out to the beach, park and roller-skating at the leisure centre. The group’s principles are simple – it strives to maintain ‘child-led education’, which means that we encourage and nurture children in following their natural interests and enthusiasms and encouraging them instead of assuming that we know what they need to learn. It is important to allow children to become confident and self-aware individuals. The thought of home educating can seem daunting to some, especially if you are contemplating taking your child out of the schooling system. Choosing the option of home educating is extremely rewarding: not only are you actually getting to spend more time with your child, you are also contributing to making your family a family including maintaining traditional family values. There are many questions that we ponder when making the decision to home educate. There are also many myths! We would like to highlight out a few important points: Home educating your child/ren is legal and is quite common especially in rural areas. There is an option for parents to have their children in school half of the week and home educate on other days; this of course is with discretion from the school's head teacher. You do not have to have degrees or be a teacher to home educate. There is always an option for children to complete GCSEs or IGCSEs at your expense. It is important to stress through experience that your child does not always have to gain qualifications such as GCSEs to gain a college place! Young people from the Lampeter Home Education group have gone on to college without GSCEs and gone on to university. There are always opportunities for home-educated children.

Go-Kart making The parents at the Lampeter Home Education Group thought that it would be a good idea for the children to have a go at building a basic go-kart. We arranged to build the karts on Tuesday 2 July; unfortunately, the weather did not hold out and it rained! We built them the best we could and decided to take them home to complete them at our own leisure. The children came to the group with an idea of how they wanted their gokarts and used their plans when building them. Comments from some of the children: “I loved the go-kart making day; we had lots of fun despite the rain!” “I loved making the Gokarts! It was so fun except when it started raining and we had to carry on inside!” “I can’t wait till we finish our karts off then we can have a race.” Despite the weather, we all had a great time and came away with a moving vehicle! We would like to thank I M Construction Services and D L Williams for their kind donation of materials towards the go-karts.

When all go-karts are completed to the children’s satisfaction, we plan to hold a race day (for the parents). Kelly If you are interested and would like more information then come along to the group or email: mia8thesun@yahoo.com What: Lampeter Home Education Group When: every Tuesday, 12pm-5pm Where: Cellan Millennium Hall, Cellan, Lampeter Cost: we ask for a small donation of between £3-£5 towards hire of the hall & refreshments (tea / coffee)

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