Lampeter Grapevine Issue 20 June 2014

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Mehefin / June 2014

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

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regular features ...

in this issue…

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 ads & classified  clonc  town council news  ian’s tweet  kids in action  creative ideas  what’s on in the woods  traws link cymru news  crossword competition

i love lampeter campaign  campaigns & protests in the eighties  fire safety checks  domestic renewable heat incentive  greenpeace campaigning  vine latest

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roundwood timberframed buildings: a response to the housing market jottings back to our roots celtic christianity: iv wild weekend for wales campaign a storyteller in ceredigion restoring the railway

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celebrate your curves food festival feasts carers week get cracking, let’s stop fracking memorable uprisings & protests in britain gardens open for charity u3a wool against weapons

GRAPEVINE no. 20, June 2014 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, 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 (Listing, Article, Letter, Enquiry)

Croeso / Welcome … to the Grapevine.

Wow, we have our biggest ever issue this month. The theme of ‘Campaigns and Protests’ has generated enormous interest. So, thank you to everyone who has sent in contributions, and sincere apologies to anyone who didn’t quite make it to print this time- you will be included in the next issue.

It is absolutely fantastic that the Grapevine is now used by so many local people as a vehicle to communicate with the wider community. We are delighted by the positive feedback and very much appreciate the continued support of Transition Llambed Development Trust, our advertisers, contributors, printers, readers, and volunteers. Thank you. Perhaps now, though, I should start a little campaign of my own… well, it’s more of an appeal really… This bumper issue has proved to be the most challenging yet, with a vast amount of copy to organise and

To place an advert - email: lampetergrapevineads@gmail.com Full guidelines for advertisers & contributors: see grapevine page on www.transitionllambed.co.uk

present. It has highlighted the enormity of the undertaking,

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 July/Aug issue: Fri 13 June. Theme: ‘Grow, Cook & Eat’ Circulation: 2,000 copies distributed free in the Lampeter area

the deadline, but as this is sometimes an unavoidable situation

especially considering the turn-around time is only one week, and has reinforced the frustration of receiving ’copy’ during this period. I know the easy answer is to be more strict with and our aim is to ensure that as many people benefit from the publication as possible, we are often faced with a serious balancing act. The appeal then - Please, try to honour the copy deadlines (this includes me!). I hope everyone knows that we will always try to

remain flexible to the needs of the

readership, and as such will do what we can, in an emergency, to include last minute details, but for our own sanity we need to be mindful of the increased pressures created otherwise.

Thank you again for your support. Now, please enjoy the variety of articles inside and maybe get involved in the action.

Darllen hapus / Happy reading. Angie Martin, Editor

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LETTERS

Congratulations

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

to our Local Knowledge/Cryptic Crossword

Competition Winner

Dear Grapevine, Like many in the town I am saddened by the empty shops 11 now, plus a pub and the Registry Office. I know the Registry Office was only open 3 days a week, but it saved a long trip to Carmarthen or Aberystwyth to register happy or sad life events. We don’t have a Courthouse or a Job Centre anymore. Lampeter is an old town with a Charter and a University, and deserves better. We have some lovely individual shops, and cafes, although it would be good to have an Arts Centre/cinema as Cardigan and Aberystwyth have.

When I first came to Lampeter in 1976 it was a thriving community with an animal market (where Sainsbury’s is now) and a general market every other Tuesday on the Cwmins. I thought that the Cwmins was common land, belonging to the people of Lampeter, a left over from before the Agricultural Revolution in the 18th century. Now I see it is to be a Pay and Display car park. It is no longer common land, but council land because no medieval paperwork could be found.

In 1976 the old railway yard still had a platform and buildings, although closed in 1966 by Beeching. I’m told by the “Traws Link Cymru” campaign group that the railway could be brought back, linking us to Carmarthen and Aberystwyth, as much of the old line is unbuilt on. That would be an asset to the town, and maybe bring tourists in.

Lampeter is an old town with a Charter, and a busy community of individual shops. The refurbishment and regeneration of the Victoria Hall is a splendid achievement.

It brings back a community feel every other Saturday. The museum and tourist office in the old Porters Lodge on College Street will be a welcome addition to the town, as is the splendid rugby clubhouse and training facilities in Lampeter and Cwmann. However, we have no buses travelling through Cwmann or Cribyn. We are suffering from rural isolation.

Empty shops in town could be filled with “pop-up events”.

In the past the Inner Wheel or Rotary Club would run “week only shops” for charity, in empty premises. In some towns empty shops are filled with art work, or local groups showcase their achievements. In Lampeter, we have many successful organisations e.g. the Cwmann choirs, Eisteddfod winners, Hanes Llanbed. etc. There is plenty of culture and craft. We could celebrate them in empty shop windows.

Positive fliers look much better than “For Rent” signs.

I would like to be part of a community bookshop/art gallery, but when I’ve looked into renting an empty shop the rent is too high for the enterprise to be viable. I have looked at the footfall in town and it needs to have some sparkle added. I hope Lampeter Chamber of Trade will be able to do this with its buy local campaign, and by encouraging tourists to stop on their way through to the coast.

Lampeter is a special town. It has an individuality that many towns lack. We need to promote this specialness, so that people want to come here because of its shops and facilities as well as the University.

Yours, Sue Moules

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Lampeter Chamber of Trade - News Lampeter Chamber of Trade hosted a meeting on Friday 9 May to discuss ideas to boost the economy in Lampeter.

The meeting was chaired by Josie Smith of the Chamber of Trade and around 50 people attended including Elin Jones AM, Mark Williams MP, business owners, local councillors and others who are interested in re-generating the town. The meeting discussed a number of suggestions Photo: Tim Jones for boosting the town and heard of a number of proposals already in the pipeline. Further meetings to explore and implement plans will be held in the next few weeks.

Rob Phillips

Join the “I love Lampeter” Campaign On Friday 9 May over fifty people met to discuss

is the time to work together and pool our

ideas to support the economy of Lampeter. It was

resources.

a lively and creative meeting, attended by members

of

Lampeter

Chamber

of

The only way to change the future for

Trade,

Lampeter is to do it ourselves,

Lampeter Town Council, members of Ceredigion

as was said in the meeting...

County Council, MP Mark Williams and AM Elin

“there is no ‘they’ it’s up to us”.

Jones. Many great ideas were shared including: having a festival in September/October for

So

quilting, sewing, knitting and making, working with

town.

The Lampeter Loyalty Card will be launched at

we do, such as having The Welsh Quilt Centre and

the beginning of July, so let’s all resolve to

being a Transition Town, having a car park and

explore shops we have never been in, visit Café’s

picnic area beside the river, utilizing the empty

we’ve never eaten in, come to the Lampeter Food

shop windows for art and pictures of relatives

Festival, walk in Long Wood, or at Celtic Lakes and

who fought in World War One, having ‘pop up

sit in the parks.

shops’, having a space and help for ‘start-up’

Join the “I love Lampeter” Campaign

businesses and using social media to market businesses.

Josie Smith, Chair Lampeter Chamber of Trade

One suggestion was that a survey be made asking

Let’s get behind this campaign! - the July/August issue has a theme of Grow, Cook & Eat … so why not tell us your ideas for how we can ‘Grow’ the town’s economy! Send your suggestions to: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

people for five reasons why they shop in Lampeter, so please write or email The Grapevine to let us know what you feel are Lampeter’s with

our

miles away.

in the town and celebrating who we are and what

along

support

elsewhere, or ordering online from supermarkets

promote the beauty of our area, improving signage

weaknesses,

and

in the car and spending money in Carmarthen or

the Cambrian Mountains Necklace Towns to

and

celebrate

Encourage everyone to think twice before jumping

the other towns along the Teifi River Valley and

strengths

let’s

any

suggestions you have and anything you would like

N.B. Please also read the letter on this same subject, page ???

to become involved with to support our town. Now

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Ebrill 2014

April 2014

Y Parth Di-Alcohol: dosbarthwyd 11 rhybudd ar lafar a 5 rhybudd ysgrifenedig yn ddiweddar gan yr Heddlu.

Alcohol Exclusion Zone - Lampeter Eleven verbal and five written warnings have been issued by the Police recently.

Dirprwy-Faer 2014-15 Derbyniwyd llythyr oddi wrth y Cyngh. Chris Thomas yn cadarnhau ei fod yn derbyn yr enwebiad o’r swydd o Ddirprwy-Faer am y flwyddyn fwrdeistrefol 2014-15 a dywedodd...

“Bydd yn fraint ac yn anrhydedd i dderbyn yr enwebiad am y cyfnod dan sylw”.

Deputy-Mayor 2014-15 A letter of confirmation was received from Cllr Chris Thomas stating that he accepted the nomination of Deputy-Mayor for the Municipal year 2014-15, and said, “...it will be an honour and privilege to accept the nomination for that term”.

Adleoliad Pencadlys S4C i Gaerfyrddin Anfodwyd llythyr yn cefnogi’r cais lleoli Pencadlys S4C yng Nghaerfyrddin.

Relocation of S4C Headquarters to Carmarthen A letter of support has been forwarded to the relevant parties.

Ail-agor y rheilffordd i gysylltu Caerfyrddin, Llanbedr Pont Steffan ac Aberystwyth Y mae llythyr o gefnogaeth wedi ei anfon at Elin Jones AC. Trafodwyd y ddadl yn ystod cyfarfod y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol ym Mae Caerdydd yn ddiweddar.

Re-opening of the Railway-Line connecting Carmarthen, Lampeter and Aberystwyth A letter of support has been sent to Elin Jones AM. The matter had been raised at a Welsh Government meeting at Cardiff Bay, recently.

Maes Hyfryd, Llanbedr Pont Steffan: Llythyr oddi wrth y Cyngor Sir yn sôn y mabwysiadwyd y ffordd yn briffordd a fydd yn cael ei chynnal a’i chadw gan arian cyhoeddus gan Adran 38 Deddf y Priffyrdd 1980 ar Chwefror 11eg 2014.

Maes Hyfryd, Lampeter A letter received from Ceredigion CC stated that the estate road was adopted as a highway, maintainable at the public expense, under Section 38 of the Highways Act 1980 on 11 Feb 2014.

Home Fire Safety Checks Community Safety is a key focus area for all Fire and Rescue Services and smoke alarms play an essential role in improving fire safety in the home.

In the last five years Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service has carried out over 99,000 Home Fire Safety Checks. These provide residents, throughout Mid and West Wales, with the opportunity to get invaluable advice from their local fire and rescue service about planning escape routes, positioning alarms and ensuring that the correct, working smoke alarm is fitted in their home.

This work has contributed to an 11% reduction in the number of accidental dwelling fires, attended within Mid and West Wales in the last five years.

The Service has also seen a reduction in the number of fire deaths and injuries within its communities during this time.

Residents across Mid and West Wales can request a free Home Fire Safety Check from Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service by calling 0800 169 1234 or visiting: www.freesmokealarm.co.uk Ceri Jackson

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Campaigns and Protests in the Eighties

it the first country in Europe to express its opposition to nuclear weapons. This campaign successfully prevented the burying of nuclear waste by the government on Welsh soil.

Women’s marches, women’s peace camps Greenham Common Peace Camp was established in September 1981.The US Airbase at Greenham was to be the first place in Europe where Cruise Missiles were to be sited (96 in all.) Groups of women began camping outside the main gates of the air base to oppose this decision ‘which was taken without consulting the people of this country.’ There was a large contingent of women from Wales, some camping, some visiting regularly, which included women of all ages. The Church in Wales, with a history of peace movements, was strong in its support. Three coaches of women left the Lampeter area to join the action to surround the base and join the blockade, and many were arrested.

‘Women for Life on Earth Peace March’ 1982 set out from Cardiff on 27 May, arriving at the US base in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, on 5 June. Along the way they received ‘civic welcomes, food prepared by local people, speeches of support, and the offer of community halls to sleep in.’ At Brawdy, they were joined by many more women and children who had walked from Aberystwyth, as well as ‘several hundred anti-nuclear demonstrators from all over West Wales.’

There were speakers, there was music - all were there to protest against the presence of American bases on British soil which, it was believed, made Wales a prime target for ‘pre-emptive missile strikes, putting people under an unacceptable threat.’

Some of the women set up a Peace Camp, blockading the main gate to the US Naval Facility, flying a banner ‘Women’s Struggle Won the Vote, use it for Disarmament.’ The women refused to move until after Ronald Reagan left Britain.

Lampeter was a hive of activity during the 1980’s.

These were the Thatcher years and the time of the Miner's strike, and in many parts of Britain people were rising up to make their voices heard. Many groups were springing up, either in protest at nuclear proliferation or campaigning for change, in particular for women.

During this time, three Women’s Co-operatives were created: Ragged Robin, founded in 1979, considered one of the first and most successful workers co-operatives in Wales grew out of the talents and initiatives of a small group of women living in and around Lampeter.

They designed and produced women’s clothes using natural materials. Working hours were designed around the needs of women with children. The earliest workers paid themselves low wages to help establish the venture but by the time it folded in 1984 it had a healthy turnover, employing six women on good wages.

Marged Women’s Shoe Co-op, based in Llanddewi Brefi 1982, not only produced fine shoes, but also ran workshops for women to learn the art of shoemaking. Marged later moved to a workshop in Bettws Bledrws.

Software Women’s Co-op 1985 also based in Lampeter was a Women’s co-op making creative knitwear, and was based on the same principles as Ragged Robin and employed seven women.

Protest and Direct Action took place frequently and over large areas of Wales: The Welsh Anti Nuclear Alliance, based in Lampeter, was formed in 1980 over concerns at the proposed dumping of radioactive waste and the expansion of nuclear power. The Alliance was an umbrella organisation ‘open to affiliation from trade unions, political parties, local government, churches, Merched y Wawr, anti nuclear groups etc.’ Wales voted to become a nuclear free zone in 1981, making 6

themselves, often paying a small membership fee to cover administration costs.

On Hiroshima day August 1982, Lampeter Anti Nuclear Group and the women’s peace singing group (Women Opposed to the Nuclear Threat, WONT) organised an event supported by many in the area.

‘Lets’ in Lampeter eventually disintegrated due to differences of opinion. Some felt that everyone’s time was of equal value, eg one hour’s ironing was worth as much as one hour’s gardening/accounting etc, whereas others disagreed.

A large group of people, including children, cycled from Lampeter to Aberaeron, where the women’s group staged a concert in the park before marching through the town with songs and banners to raise awareness and interest in nuclear disarmament.

It was an exciting, energising and empowering time for those of us involved, and foundations were laid for the changes that were to come.

Val Allen & Ros Grey

Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) The domestic RHI was launched on 9 April 2014 this is the world’s first long-term financial scheme to encourage the uptake of renewable heat (the non-domestic RHI launched in November 2011).

The domestic RHI covers single domestic dwellings and is open to homeowners, private landlords, social landlords and self-builders and is targeted at (but not limited to) homes off the gas grid as this is where there is the greatest potential to save on fuel & decrease carbon emissions.

The RHI pays the following tariffs per unit of heat generated for 7 years:

Anti Bunker Campaign Carmarthen 1985 There was a bitter and sometimes violent confrontation as work began on a nuclear bunker in Carmarthen. With the on-going threat of nuclear war the Conservative Government, led by Margaret Thatcher, was offering local councils grants of up to 75% to build nuclear shelters.

The decision by the then Carmarthen District Council to build one in the town, just off Spilman Street, caused a big outcry. This led to peace protests, a long-running High Court battle and cost an estimated £400,000 to complete.

Technology

Tariff

Air-source heat pumps

7.3p/kWh

Ground and water-source heat

18.8p/kWh

pumps

Events culminated in a demonstration that saw several thousand people form a human chain around the bunker off Spilman Street and 17 peace activists made the subject of a High Court injunction, banning them from the site after they tried to occupy it.

Biomass-only boilers and biomass

12.2p/kWh

pellet stoves with integrated boilers Solar thermal panels (flat plate and

19.2 p/kWh

evacuated tube for hot water only)

Opposition to the poll tax – protests took place in Lampeter 1989/90

To find out more, contact the Energy Saving Advisory Service in England & Wales: 0300 123 1234 Or, go to Ofgem (who will be delivering the scheme) for factsheets and guidance on applying for RHI at: www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmentalprogrammes/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive.

Lampeter Lets scheme took off for a while. This was a local trading exchange, a democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprise. It provided an information service, and recorded transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using the currency of locally created LETS Credits, here in Lampeter called Lamps. Local people set up an organisation to trade between

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www.clonc.co.uk

Papur bro ardal plwyfi: Cellan, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, Llanbedr Wledig, Llanfair Clydogau, Llangybi, Llanllwni, Llanwenog, Llanwnnen, Llanybydder, Llanycrwysac Uwch gaeo a Phencarreg.

The Welsh language community newspaper for Lampeter and the neighbouring parishes.

Enwau lleoedd a gwyliau lleol Y mis hwn rydym wedi dewis dau gyngor gan Ffion Gruffudd o ‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain’ sef y llyfr sy’n llawn syniadau am y pethau bach, ond pellgyrhaeddol, y gall pob un ohonom eu gwneud er mwyn hybu Cymru a’r Gymraeg.

Place names and holidays locally This month we have chosen two pieces of advice by Ffion Gruffudd from ‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain’ – the book about the little things, with far-reaching consequences, that we can all do to support all things Welsh.

Os ydych yn symud i Gymru, cadwch enw Cymraeg eich cartref neu fferm.

Peidiwch a'i newid i'r Saesneg.

If you move to Wales, keep or reinstate the Welsh name of your house or farm.

Don't change it to English.

Mwynhewch wyliau yng Nghymru a chefnogi busnesau bach a'r economi leol.

Enjoy a holiday in Wales supporting small businesses and the local economy.

Mae Dr David Thorne, Llanllwni yn cyfrannu colofn Dr David Thorne from Llanllwni contributes a monthly bob mis i Bapur Bro Clonc ar ystyr enwau lleoedd column for Papur Bro Clonc on the meaning of local lleol. Mae’r nodiadau misol hyn yn cael eu place names. These monthly notes are paratoi dan nawdd Cymdeithas Enwau prepared with the support of the Lleoedd Cymru.

Association of Welsh Place-Names. In Yn y rhifyn cyfredol o’r papur, mae’n the current issue of the paper, he trafod ystyr enw ‘Y Bala’ Gogledd discusses the meaning of ‘Y Bala’ Cymru sef cartref Eisteddfod in North Wales, the host town for Genedlaethol yr Urdd dros y this year’s National Urdd Sulgwyn eleni. Diddorol yw Eisteddfod. It is interesting to darllen ei esboniad mai ‘llwybr o read his explanation that Bala dir sych rhwng gwlyptiroedd’ yw means ‘the path of dry land Bala. O fis i fis, mae Dr David between wetlands’. From month Thorne yn ein rhyfeddu gyda’i to month, Dr David Thorne wybodaeth eang o enwau amazes us with his extensive lleoedd Cymru. Mae dilyn cyngor knowledge of Welsh place Ffion Gruffudd i gadw enwau names. Ffion Gruffudd’s advice to Cymraeg yn holl bwysig felly er keep Welsh names is therefore all mwyn gwarchod y cyfoeth geiriol sydd important in order to protect the gennym. A beth am wyliau yng Nghymru wealth of vocabulary we have. And eleni? Bydd cannoedd o blant a what about taking your holidays in phobl ifanc yr ardal hon yn heidio i Wales this year? Hundreds of Mr Urdd yn darllen Papur Bro Clonc yn Eisteddfod yr Urdd. fro’r Bala ar gyfer Eisteddfod yr children and young people from this Mr Urdd reading Papur Bro Clonc Urdd. Beth am ddilyn cyngor Ffion area will be flocking to Y Bala for the in the Urdd Eisteddfod.

Gruffudd hefyd a mwynhau gwyliau Urdd Eisteddfod. Why not also lleol eleni? Mae cymaint y gellir eu follow the advice given by Ffion gweld heb orfod hedfan a theithio’n bell. Dyma Gruffudd and holiday locally this year? There is so gyfle i gefnogi economi lleol a darganfod rhagor o much that can be seen without having to fly and travel enwau lleoedd Cymraeg diddorol. afar. This is an opportunity to support the local economy and discover more interesting Welsh place Dylan Lewis names.

Cymdeithas Enwau Cymru - www.cymdeithasenwaulleoeddcymru.org - Association of Welsh Place Names 8

Greenpeace Campaigning: Past & Present I have always been interested in the environment and for many years followed the activities of the campaigning organisation, Greenpeace. Started back in 1971 by a small group of hippies, U.S. draft dodgers and environmentalists, their first action was to try to stop America testing nuclear weapons by chartering a boat and sailing into the North Pacific test site.

It wasn’t completely successful, the military just postponed the test, but the audacity of the action stunned America and eventually brought an end to their nuclear testing programme.

They then moved on to tackle the whalers that were gathering off the West Coast. It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, but with a mixture of subterfuge (pretending to be research students to see catch records), home rigged radio masts, luck and a rainbow (happily, the morning before finding them, a helmsman decided to steer off course towards a rainbow), they found the Russian whaling fleet.

All they could do was take pictures, film and try to save a pod of whales by getting into small inflatable boats and placing themselves in between the whales and the harpoons.

Their courage was rewarded and the power of the media was realised. Their images went around the World and soon a global movement to save the whales was underway. Very recently, Japanese whaling in the Antarctic has now been declared illegal.

Today, Greenpeace is an international organisation with 27 regional or national offices, 3 ships and a science lab in Exeter University.

I am now a trained volunteer activist and have been on numerous actions with the UK and Belgium offices. One of the most recent being to help get six women into position to climb the tallest building in Western Europe – the Shard in London – to highlight the risks Shell were taking to drill for oil in the high Arctic.

All direct action activists undergo training as non-violence is one of Greenpeace’s core principles.

Other principles include independence; we do not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, or donations that could compromise this independence, aims, objectives or integrity, we

survive on donations from the public only.

Internationalism, we work on a global stage and bearing witness, this is about action based on personal responsibility. It derives from the Quaker tradition and means that if you see or come to learn about a wrongdoing, you have a choice of conscience, do you turn away and allow it to carry on, or do you do something about it.

Recently two of my friends, Anthony from South Wales and Phil from Oxfordshire, were detained for two months in Russian jails for taking on Gazprom, who are now exploiting the Arctic for oil.

Not only is drilling for oil in the frozen north a recipe for disaster - a spill in that area would be impossible to clean up and devastating to wildlife - but it’s completely unnecessary. Oil and gas companies already have enough reserves on their books that if extracted and burnt, would push the climate way past 2 degrees of warming and into the realms of apocalypse.

Greenpeace is opposing all new fossil fuel exploration, the dirtiest of all being the Tar Sands of Canada, drilling in the Arctic and fracking. Gas has been heralded as an interim, transition fuel, being cleaner burning than oil, but fracking not only risks polluting our water but also risks releasing methane, which has 22 times more greenhouse warming potential than CO2.

We have an abundance of renewable energy and we have the technology to harness it, but political will, fossil fuel lobbyists and even NIMBYism is holding us back.

You don’t have to be an activist willing to risk arrest to help Greenpeace. You can join online, add your name to the 5 million+ people declaring themselves ‘Arctic Defenders’ at SavetheArctic.org, campaign at a local level for clean energy projects or make a donation at Greenpeace.org.uk There is currently no Greenpeace group in this locality but if there were enough interest, perhaps we could start one?

I am also a Greenspeaker, (www.greenpeace.org.uk/ groups/greenspeakers) and willing to give talks/ presentations to groups about Greenpeace and our work.

Peter Barker

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COEDWIG GYMUNEDOL LONG WOOD COMMUNITY WOODLAND using local timber to produce beautiful structures that are also practical and affordable.

Meanwhile, our slab wood bundles have been selling like hot cakes, and it’s been fascinating to hear from our customers about the wide range of uses that have been found for it.

Sawn timber and firewood sales are an important element of our long term development. Our Social Enterprise aims to serve the local market whilst also offering local employment along with placements and apprenticeship schemes to those who wish to learn woodland skills. Profits from our commercial activities are put back into the community project, enhancing the woods for all. A managed woodland is a healthy woodland.

As a community woodland, another important objective will be to establish and encourage small, micro-businesses within the area. We aim to be able to offer shared workshop space and equipment for those setting up their own enterprises. If you have an idea, then please do get in touch.

Championing Local Timber Using this month’s theme I’d like to talk about the campaign for home-grown timber products. Over 90% of Britain’s timber requirements are imported from a range of countries including Scandinavia, the Baltic’s, the EU, Russia and North America. I’d like to see a change. Not only is the cost of transporting timber set to increase with rising oil prices, but there could well be issues over the sustainability of the source which can get lost in the supply chain.

With locally sourced timber from small, independent sawmills the buyer can see directly where their wood has been sourced from and meet the people who are managing the woodlands and forests. Perhaps this is an ideal world view, as there are a range of timber products which cannot be produced by smaller outfits such as plywood, chipboard or tanalised timber.

However, there is a place in the market for homegrown products using not only our native hardwoods but species such as Douglas Fir, Larch and Western Red Cedar which have proved their worth as building timbers. By making use of the natural properties of these timbers, perhaps we can begin to do away with chemically treated wood altogether?

Long Wood are not alone in their crusade though.

There are several small scale, independent sawmills around the area, supplying locally sourced timber and by choosing these suppliers we are supporting the UK forestry industry, keeping money in our community and supporting local jobs.

The Grown in Britain campaign brings together everyone who values our forests, woods and trees and the products we can make from the wood they produce. It’s a positive movement that is engaging with woodland owners, foresters, contractors, builders and the public. Check out www.growninbritain.org for more information.

Monthly Public Meetings – open to all!

The Long Wood group is made up of staff, volunteers and members. We host a regular Management Meeting on the first Monday of the month at 7.30pm. These have traditionally been held in town, but once the Visitor Centre is complete it is expected that we’ll relocate. These meetings are open to anyone who has an interest in Long Wood.

So, if you would like to get involved, have your say or just find out what’s being planned for the future, then please come along. You’re welcome.

James Kendall

What’s going on in the Woods Here in the woods, we’ve been busy keeping our sawmill working to produce components for the Visitor Centre build. By using timber selected, felled and processed within Long Wood itself, we hope to be able to demonstrate what can be achieved by

This month’s FREE events Birdsong Walk Sunday 1 June 9am See listings on page 19 for more details

Join our mailing list or find us on Facebook. Contact: 07557 386755 or info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk 10

VINE (Volunteering in the Natural Environment) Team at WiseWoods Wales. They proved a popular combination with the children, sharing their skills and passion for woodland crafts.

The children were thrilled to be able to make their own personal pencil holders and magic wands!

The session enabled the pupils to learn carving skills and discover the wide variety of items that can be created from wood sourced in local woodlands.

Feedback The group gave their feedback at the end of the session on a scale Photo: Danny James of 1-10 (where 1 is Poor and 10, Excellent). The results were as follows:

Tir Coed Donates Bench to Ysgol Y Dderi Tir Coed has donated a beautifully crafted bench made by Wise Woods Wales, Tir Coed's social enterprise based in Coed Ty Llwyd Llanfarian which designs and manufactures furniture, play features and wooden structures constructed using timber which has been felled and milled on site. The creation of the bench was funded by Cynnal Y Cardi and was gifted to the school by Tir Coed to launch the new VINE (Volunteering In the Natural

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All the children stated that they would like to take part in another VINE experience.

“Thank you so much, we are all thrilled with

Environment) Project.

the bench. The Year 5 children thoroughly

On 4 April 2014, 17 Year 5 pupils from Ysgol y Dderi participated in a VINE (Volunteering in the Natrual

enjoyed themselves and gained a wealth of

Environment) Activity and discovered the safe skills

wood items, which has really inspired some

required to carve wood. The skills session was lead

by Rob Smith and Aaron Kinsella who are knowledgeable ambassadors of woodland management and can create wonderful crafted items. They are excellent role models for what can be achieved with support, as they both started their careers as volunteers on Tir Coed programmes and have gone on to employment in the woodland sector.

Aaron is now an Apprentice with WiseWoods Wales and Rob owns his own woodland and works with the

of them to find out more about carving. We

experience and knowledge of crafting green

are really grateful for this opportunity and are now looking forward to our next VINE experience.” ‘

Heini Thomas, Headteacher, Ysgol Y Dderi Look out for the Family Fun Day at Long Wood, Sat 14 June, 1-4pm (see listing, page 19) Meinir Evans

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Roundwood Timber-Framed Buildings with Straw Bale Walls: A Response to the Housing Crisis in a Sustainable, Beautiful Way

First of all, let’s put the fears of the 3 little pigs to rest – it is possible to build strong, structural engineer approved, durable, warm, (and as wolf-proof as many brick buildings), houses from roundwood and straw bales.

Lionel Jayenetti, from the ‘Timber Research and development Agency’ says: “A timber pole is stronger than sawn timber of equal cross-section area, because fibres flow smoothly around natural defects and are not terminated as sloping grain at cut surfaces.” Ben Law points out that two well qualified professionals in the strength of round wood, have stated that it can be 50% stronger than sawn wood of the same cross-sectional area.

Anyone who has seen the completed frame of Long Wood Visitor’s Centre, will surely appreciate the solidity of the wood, the complexity of the many joints, and the enormity of the roundwood foundations. To me, this frame is like the bones of a gigantic living creature, and the muscles and skin – the straw bales and the hempcrete render, are put onto this skeleton. The beauty of living or working in a building made from natural materials is hard to quantify – but there are certain qualities about wood, straw and hemp that you just don’t get with bricks, and especially concrete.

Not only does concrete continue to give off CO2 for many years after it has been laid but it, in my opinion, has a deadening effect on the human spirit.

The use of natural materials would seem to be better for our health and wellbeing, as well as being more sustainable.

Building in this way is more sustainable due to many factors:  Timber poles can be locally sourced, reducing transport costs, and creating a new market for plantation timber from neglected forests, which would also be good for the Welsh economy.  The low impact nature of these builds comes about through the non-use of concrete and cement; dry stone foundations; and the fact that it is all eventually bio-degradable, although if taken care of, can last for centuries.  Local people can be involved in the building process, which empowers people to learn new skills, and build confidence for themselves, and to gain the satisfaction of being involved in building their own homes.

And whilst buildings such as this one at Long Wood have been drawn up by an architect, and passed by a structural engineer, the council should certainly

consider this kind of building when addressing Ceredigion’s current housing crisis. Ceredigion County Council, in ‘Local Housing Strategy for Ceredigion 2013-2017’ (Ceredigion.gov.uk/housing) have expressed a desire “to work together to prevent housing need from escalating into housing crisis” and that it wants to “develop alternative models of affordable housing delivery tools”. One reason why there is currently a lack of affordable homes in Ceredigion is that “very high development and housing costs in the county make some affordable housing finance schemes not financially viable”, and yet “there is a need for 6,000 new homes”.

It is a statutory requirement of the council to plan the availability of land in order to meet housing supply requirements of all type and tenure, in sustainable locations by the use of planning policy. It is my belief that roundwood timber-framed straw bale housing has a part to play in solving these housing challenges. In this ‘Campaigns and Protests’ issue of The Grapevine, this is a call to campaign for truly sustainable, affordable homes.

Joanne Camlin

SLAB WOOD FOR SALE Can be used for building raised beds, cladding, footpath edging or just firewood

£15 per bundle, (as pictured), Collection only Also available: Waney Edge boards Please ring James on 07557 386755 Each purchase supports this community project www.longwood-lampeter.org.uk 12

Recent Reviews to look after until they have grown large enough to transplant them back into the wild where they should multiply and thrive. By the end of the day, the apiary area had been transformed and ready for the start of the new beekeeping season, just waiting for our new beekeepers to learn how to keep bees.

Ron Lockham, apiary manager said “It’s wonderful to see so many people of all ages helping us to improve the apiary site for honey bees & beekeepers alike. We have managed to repair gaps in hedgerows and transformed a substantial area of grass by planting pollinator friendly trees and shrubs. In a few months when we plant out the wild flowers that the children have grown from seeds it will look wonderful.

Getting involved in this project ‘Wild Weekend’ has enabled us to make a huge improvement to the pollen and nectar that’s on offer in a small corner of Ceredigion near Talsarn, and hopefully this will benefit our local environment and wildlife.”

Wild Weekend for Wales campaign We had a Wild Weekend for Wales!

Over 230 applicants from across Wales applied for free National Garden Centre vouchers as part of Keep Wales Tidy’s ‘Have a Wild Weekend for Wales’ campaign.

Funded by Welsh Government, Natural Resources Wales and the proceeds from the single use carrier bag charge, the aim of the weekend-long campaign was to encourage people to improve food sources and natural habitat for pollinators in Wales.

Volunteers from Lampeter & District Beekeepers’ Association rolled up their sleeves, got back to nature and gave bees and butterflies a helping hand in their Association apiary near Talsarn, Ceredigion.

They were successful in applying for £150 of National Garden Centre vouchers which they then used to buy fruit trees, hedging plants, compost and wild flower seeds.

“I am delighted that so many groups across Wales got involved to help our pollinators and their natural environment. They have planted new flowering plants to attract our bees and butterflies as well as giving existing habitats a helping hand. Keep Wales Tidy would like to thank the Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales for all their support, ensuring that the ‘Wild Weekend for Wales’ has been a great success for people across Wales!”

Lesley Jones, Chief Executive, Keep Wales Tidy

During Wild Weekend they cleared a substantial area of grass, tidied up the apiary grounds, planted several fruit trees and wildlife friendly hedging plants which will grow and fill two large gaps in a mature hedge helping to keep the hives sheltered. Old wood was stacked to make a wildlife shelter for all kinds of small animals and insects. Seed trays of pollinator friendly plants were given out to the younger helpers

For more information on improving pollinator conditions in your area, or to get involved with volunteering and fundraising for Keep Wales Tidy please e-mail tidy.towns@keepwalestidy.org or visit the website www.keepwalestidy.org.

Phillipa Pickworth

Cellan may be a strange place to look for tigers, racehorses, uniformed guardsmen and dancing Namibian boys but these could be found at Cellan Millennium Hall on Saturday May 10th. Cellan Art Group displayed pictures there of these and other eclectic images. The variety of styles illustrated the wide interests of the contributors. We are a small group who meet every Friday at 10 am until 1 pm to pursue our hobby and have coffee, biscuits and a chat. We are an informal group with no tutor, we simply learn from each other. Sometimes a theme is suggested but there is no obligation to do it. Our themes have included landscape, seascape, animals, buildings, portraits, figures in action and more. For example, we have tried collage, abstract, impressionistic works, straightforward figurative pictures and extremely detailed studies in the mix. All media are used, from oil to delicate watercolour and mixed media. New members are very welcome from Friday 13th June, as until then we are taking a short break. The artists represented in our Show were Monica Anderson, Tim Brennand, Gro Mette Gulbrandson, Lynn Humphreys, Ellie Reikert and Iris Shaw. These artists would like to thank the Millennium Hall Committee for allowing them to use the Hall and to thank all our visitors who came and admired our efforts.

Iris Shaw

Creative Cellan On Show

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Lampeter and District U3A

Ian’s Tweet:

On April 16 the Lampeter and District University of the Third Age was launched in the Victoria Hall. For those who don’t know what the ‘third age’ means, it is the time of one’s life when work no longer takes precedence. Through retirement, or partial retirement, there is more time to spend on the things we enjoy and to explore ideas and subjects we haven’t had time for whilst working. It is open to people of any age and is entirely self-supporting and non profit making.

All teaching and organising is done by volunteers.

In spite of considerable advertising and talking to friends, there were rather few in number on the day.

Many people had said they couldn’t be there but, were excited about the whole idea of a U3A in Lampeter. Thank you to those who did attend or sent messages of support.

At the meeting, a few people volunteered to meet together to discuss the way forward and to gauge the interest in forming a local group. Subsequently it was decided that a steering group should form in order to promote a re-launch in September. If there’s sufficient interest in going ahead to form a Lampeter and District U3A branch at that time, it can go forward.

We are actively seeking about five or six people to commit to creating a publicity team to promote the re-launch of the U3A in September. If you would like to take part in this new initiative contact Ceredwin 01570 421476.

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by Ian and Tomos Morris This month our bird walk is a little distance away from Lampeter. The Ceredigion coast path allows for many miles of wonderful walking and we shall start in New Quay.

Starting from the harbour and tourist information centre, walk uphill and then take the third turning on the right into Lewis Terrace. The path begins where the road ends.

There is a short, steep ascent at first before you reach the top of the cliffs and then, after a ten minute walk, you reach a fantastic seabird breeding colony.

Approximately 4000 Guillemots and 300 Razorbills nest here along with a species of gull called a Kittiwake. Guillemots and Razorbills resemble miniature Penguins and can be seen easily on the cliff ledges, loafing on the water or flying rapidly back and forth on foraging trips.

They spend most of their lives far out at sea and only come to shore briefly to breed, so now is the time to catch them. The dinosaur-like Cormorant and Shag also nest on the rocks. The scrub and hedgerows along the path itself hold good numbers of breeding Linnets, Whitethroats (a type of Warbler from West Africa) and Stonechats.

Ian Morris

Jottings

Hearing a tapping sound while walking through local woodland, I looked around expecting to see a Nuthatch or maybe a Woodpecker, although the sound was not quite as sharp as I would have expected from these birds. Carefully walking towards where the sound was coming from, I found a scattering of broken snail shells around a stone; this was the anvil/alter of a Song Thrush and the tapping had come from the bird (which is very fond of snails) hammering the shell against the stone to get at the unfortunate creature inside. The thrush has to grip the mouth (lip) of the shell in order to bash it - this tends to keep the mouth intact leaving evidence that this bird was the culprit.

The main species here was the Grove or Brown Lipped snail, a favourite of the Song Thrush and common in our woods and hedgerows. The larger shell was from the common snail which appears to prefer fruit trees and has been known to provide a meal for humans (in the absence of the edible snail). Snail-hunting festivals used to be held in rural districts on David Price the continent!

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Back to our Roots

to our roots and conservation work.

Spring has bloomed at Denmark Farm with a new Volunteer Project ‘Gwaith Dros Natur’, enabling us to get back focus on some essential

staffing and some unexpected shocking weather damage. This project ‘Gwaith Dros Natur’ marks the beginning of a new phase and is all about your time for nature. It is an opportunity for you to enjoy and contribute to the unique 40 acre nature reserve at Denmark Farm. An opportunity to learn from the site through wildlife monitoring and improving habitats with a range of essential practical tasks.

An opportunity for the staff and volunteer teams to understand how best to manage the land and enhance its transformation into an ever more valuable site for humans, plants and animals.

Everyone is welcome to join volunteer events throughout the year – building your skills, helping maintain the varied habitats and rich biodiversity at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre.

There will be a ‘Gwaith Dros Natur’ Taster event on Saturday 7 June from 10.30am-1.30pm. Activities will include filling up a bug hotel, planting up a living wall and a short tour of the site. There is no charge to take part and a light lunch will be provided. Please do come along to find out more and get involved.

If you would like to join our mailing list and get regular updates about ‘Gwaith Dros Natur’ volunteering events send an e-mail to volunteer@denmarkfarm.org.uk or ring us on 01570 493358.

You can also read more about all our activities on our website: www.denmarkfarm.org.uk Mara Morris

We are delighted to announce that we have recently received two small grants from Environment Wales and The Big Lottery Fund. This provides a welcome breathing space for us to refocus on our core aim, to highlight the relationships between people and nature, exploring the value and diversity of life and landscapes.

The past year has been a particularly hard one for Denmark Farm with funding drying up, reduction in

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Windows; and Cymdeithas yr laith Gymraeg.

If you want to see what is being achieved elsewhere to get important railways rebuilt, check out the Borders Railway website: http://www.campaignforbordersrail.org/ We can do it too, so please continue to support our growing campaign! www.trawslinkcymru.org.uk post@trawslinkcymru.org.uk Find and share our Traws Link Cymru Page and join our Facebook Group!

David Morgan, TLC Publicity

TRAWS LINK CYMRU (TLC)

Rail Link Campaign News - June 2014 The campaign goes from strength to strength!

Shan Rees and Nigel Bird manned the stand at the People's Market on 10 May and talked to many interested passers by. Geraint Blayney has produced an excellent leaflet for the campaign, which explains what is proposed and answers the key questions in a concise way. The whole first print run was given out at the Market, but look out for a copy at future events.

The Constitution has almost been adopted and TLC now has its own bank account, so all your generous donations can be safely put away for use in the campaign. Also in hand are a great campaign logo and T-shirts.

Both County Councils now have planning policies in their new Local Development Plans that will protect the line of the railway from future development. This is excellent news, but readers are asked to let us or the planners know if you see any parts of the old line being destroyed or built on, or hear of any development applications which might affect it.

Plans are in hand for the next Public Meeting, which it is hoped to hold in Tregaron, followed by another in either Llandysul or Llanybydder. A meeting with AM's, MP's and councillors is still being planned, but the date is dependent on the diaries of these busy people.

However, you should read the excellent article by Simon Thomas AM published online at: www .clickonw ales .org /2014 /05 /connec ting carmarthen-and-aberystwyth/ Ideas are being developed for banners and other publicity along the line. The ownership of the Teifi railway bridge is being investigated. It is hoped to initiate a project to get it restored and repainted, which would not only benefit the town, but would also act as publicity for the TLC campaign.

Local artist Joanna Bond is working with a number of artists, storytellers and musicians on a project called ‘Singing the Line into Existence’, a creative contribution to the campaign to re-open the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line.

There is more information on: http://singingthelineintoexistence.wordpress.com/ There is a Facebook page, Twitter feed and You Tube channel, and of course an indiegogo campaign page for information and donations. Please have a look at these and support Joanna's initiative!

A number of local businesses have recently indicated their general support for the campaign, including TL Thomas Timber, Llanllwni; Dunbia, Llanybydder; XL

Art supports the Traws Link Cymru Campaign Hello! This article is to let you know we have just launched our sixty day fundraising campaign for ‘Singing the line into Existence’. This exciting new art project proposes to bring artists together to create a multidisciplinary performance and accompanying exhibition of work, inspired by the landscape, history and the possible reinstating of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway line.

We want to ask for your help by following the link and donating please! www.indiegogo.com/projects/singing-the-lineinto-existence If you can donate, you will receive a range of gifts/perks created by the artists. If you can, please spread the word to your contacts, Like our facebook page, Twitter, tell your friends and neighbours and together we can Sing the Line into Existence!

Please visit our wordpress site and tell us what you think! http://singingthelineintoexistence.wordpress.com/

Thank you and kind regards

Joanna Bond

What future is there for Public Transport in Cardigan Bay? 9 June 2014, Aberystwyth Arts Centre A panel of experts and academics discuss the possibilities and issues surrounding the future of public transport in rural Wales.

To attend this Free event, please contact the branch chair, meilyr@fbagroup.co.uk Event organised by Institute of Welsh Affairs.

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Restoring the Railway

This map is not to be taken as authoritative. It shows approximately how the new railway would link Carmarthen, Aberystwyth, and Lampeter, and so complete the north-south rail link.

There is a movement to restore the railway which once connected North and South Wales, currently closed by Dr Beeching’s short-sighted false economies of the 1960s.

Because rival railway builders had often produced duplicates of each other’s lines (an argument for nationalisation from the start of railway-building which some continental governments did see and act upon) there came later to be an argument for the closure of the less-needed of those duplicated lines. However, it was not always valid. We have seen the unwisdom of Beeching’s plan in south Devon. The only line into Cornwall, today, lies along the south coast in Devon, and where it passes along the sea wall it was cut by the storm-tides. Beeching closed the other line, safe from tides, because further inland. He should have valued both lines since Brunel’s line, whilst always vulnerable to the sea, was valuable for tourism, as it still is. However, the alternative line into Cornwall should have been kept, and whenever storms wrecked Brunel’s line the other route, through Okehampton and Tavistock, would have been instantly available.

Now, Okehampton and Tavistock have no railway. It should have been seen that the argument for closure of a railway linking any two towns was usually nullified where only one such line had ever been built.

The valid reasoning then ran the opposite way: where there was only one line, closing it would deprive the area and thereafter retard its development: the existing line should be kept open at all costs, even if subsidised by lines in, for instance, the South-East.

Despite this, politics, with its dishonesty and specious argument vanquished reason and humanity. The British government had vested interests in road transport, so we suffer everywhere the resulting overuse of road vehicles whilst here in Wales we have almost no railway lines at all crossing the central two-thirds of the country.

A change of motive power would have enabled us to avoid many line closures. Running costs could be reduced by a change to lightweight modern motive power, usually diesel driven. The fewer the trains the simpler the safety installations required, and railways with modern signalling and staffing are inherently cheaper to run than roads.

Pollution per user or per mile of travel is much less,

and the payloads per railway worker larger, more economical.

So we have a sound rationale for rebuilding that South-North railway here in Wales. There are many arguments in favour, though not all can be mentioned here, but what is now essential, in our changed world, is to design the new railway to serve well as many markets as possible.

A railway can be used for freight, for everyday passenger use, and for tourist and rail-enthusiast use. It should be obvious that some form of container which can be transferred using short-haul road travel from its source onto a train, a system which has long existed, should be used to ease congestion of main roads and motorways. Even a short freight train can carry safely and economically the payload of more than fifty lorries, and the thinking involved is nothing more than an extension onto rail of the concept of feeder roads and motorways, a system branching at both ends. This system has worked for millions of years in trees; the trunk branches at both ends. Our own brains and blood circulation are organised at least in part along the same lines. The principle is natural, and today’s holistic wisdom recognises this.

No road-transport lobby could withstand this logic.

Efforts were made in the 19th century to build a railway through Wales from Manchester to the deepwater port of Milford, and all but the last fifteen miles, through difficult terrain, were completed. Welsh economics would be very different now if that project had succeeded and Manchester’s exports had flowed via Wales, but the only good result was the line from Carmarthen to Aberystwyth. Beeching destroyed even that.

The importance of tourism is increasing since many people now holiday within Britain for economic reasons and the warming globe allows them to do so.

Travel by rail is safer than driving on roads, and more restful. continued on page 26

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Victoria Hall: regular activities and classes Bryn Road, Lampeter SA48 7EE To book the Victoria Hall phone: 07891 632614 Email: admin@vichall.org.uk Community groups & local small-scale commercial: Large hall £12/hour; Small hall £7/hour; whole building £18/hour. We will soon have office space, committee room and small therapy/classroom.

See www.vichall.org.uk for more details.

Day

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

Time

Activity / Class

Tuesday

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1-2pm & 6-7pm

W Welcoming newcomers

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Contact Name

Number

New American Tribal Style Bellydancing

Wendy Steele

01570 472921, 07752 478779

4.305.30pm

LYTSS: Lampeter Youth Theatre & Stage School

Annie May

01570 423080

W

10-1pm

Hafan Cymru ‘Moving on Club’ Helping you get back to work

Becky Turton

07875 272834

11 & 25 June

24.30pm

Young at Heart

W

7-8pm

Zumba keep fit session

Louise Evans

07584 199372

W

1-3pm

Welsh classes

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

W

6.307.30pm

Line Dancing: New class for beginners

Heather Boothby

01570 493458

M 3rd Thur each month

7-9pm

Transition Llambed ‘Big Gathering’

W

10-12pm

Welsh classes

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

W

4.306.30pm

LYTSS: Lampeter Youth Theatre & Stage School

Annie May

01570 423080

2nd & 4th Sat each month 14 & 28 June

10-1pm

People’s Market

W

10-7pm

Lampeter Evangelical Church

Gareth Jones at the Mustard Seed café

01570 423344

15 June

7-10pm

Custard Queens WI

Jen Pink

07540 383835

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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!

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

what’s going on listings are free. send details of your event to lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

courses_______________ Denmark Farm Conservation Centre, Betws Bledrws Wed 28 May: Wild In The Woods for children aged 6-12 Fri 30 May-Sun 1 Jun: Understanding British Mammals II Sat 7 Jun: Craft & Cake - All things are Connected Project PLUS upcycling sale Fri 13-Sun 15 June: Entomology Thurs 26 June: Fantastic Ferns Fri 27-Sun29 June: Identifying Flowering Plants Fri 30 June-Sun 2 July: Identifying Sedges, Grasses & Rushes Thurs 3,10,17,24 July: Product Photography - FREE CiDS course T ues 8 -W ed 9 J u l y: A do be Photoshop - FREE CiDS course Sat 12 July: How to benefit from Wildlife in the Vegetable Garden / Beginners G uide to Keeping Chickens Sun 13 July: Seed Saving / Choosing & using a Polytunnel For full details & more opportunities: 01570 493358, www.denmarkfarm.org.uk Bike Demonstrations at People’s Market, Victoria Hall, every 2 nd and 4th Saturday of month.

Topics including: aspects of owning folding bikes, information on normal and electric bikes, fold-ability, weights, maintenance, gears, brakes, wheels and tyres as well as information on new and recycled bikes and workshops. Literature available on various bike related subjects. Contact: Milly, 07583 248387, millypeds@gmail.com

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.

Spinning Lessons with Ann Fisher Rhodes at Ffarmers Neuadd Bro Fana/Village Hall. Improvers every Wednesday 1.30-3.30, £8. Now taking names for the next beginner sessions. Contact Ann 01558 650760, www.spinwise.co.uk spinwise.uk@btinternet Copy Deadline: Fri 13 June

Jewellery Making Course for Beginners: basic jewellery-making skills. Held in the local Ceredigion area, courses and times to be agreed by mutual arrangement.

Contact: Peter, 07984 883453.

events ________________

Annual W.I. Car Boot Sale: Bank Holiday Mon 26 May, 10-4pm. The Coronation Hall, Pumsaint. Free entry to buyers, all welcome. Refreshments available.

People's Kitchen. Sun 1 June, 2pm, Llanfair Clydogau Village Hall. Join us for a delicious vegan meal and friendly social.

Festival Feasts: monthly fundraisers for Lampeter Food Festival. Delicious 3-course meals featuring local produce. Fri 13 June, the 25 Mile at Victoria Hall, Lampeter. Full details on page 29.

Booking essential: 01570 493649, feasts@lampeterfoodfestival.org.uk Llanllyr Garden Party. Sat 28 June, 11am-5pm. £4 entry, children under 12 Free. Refreshments & Live music.

Fundraising event for Ambiwlans Awyr Cymru /Wales Air Ambulance.

By kind permission of Mr & Mrs Robert Gee. To be opened by Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Dyfed, Sara Edwards: For more information contact: Ann Evans, 01239 614366 Forthcoming events on TSD University campus: Dr Howard Jones will give an illustrated talk on ‘What makes us human’. 10.30am, Fri 6 June. Free coffee/tea and biscuits from 9.30am, bookstall.

The Department of Theology and Religious Studies will present a oneday conference on 4 July 2014 (Founder’s Library) 10am-4.30pm, with seven speakers and two discussion periods.

Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Community Woodland:  Open Public Meeting. Mon 9 June, 7.30pm venue tbc. The Long Wood team welcome queries, questions and ideas from the public at this monthly open forum. Just drop in.

Contact: 07557 386755, info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk  Woodland Wednesdays. Join Sarah, our Warden, for regular volunteering sessions at Long Wood every Wednesday. Develop your practical skills and feel the benefit of 19

working in this beautiful environment.

One session in four is devoted to your own woodcraft project. No experience required, training given.

Meet 10am, in car park (Llangybi/ Llanfair end of wood).  Green Build Volunteering .

Various dates throughout June.

Jamie Miller and the build team are recruiting volunteers to assist with the visitor centre build at Long Wood.

Tasks will include; straw-bale building, applying hempcrete & lime, timber cladding and more.

Volunteers must register in advance for confirmation of dates. No previous experience required. Sorry, no U16s.

Contact: 07557 386755, info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk to sign up for more information.  Family Fun Day. Sat 14 June, 14pm. Tir Coed’s VINE project is hosting an afternoon of fun activities in the woods including circus skills, arts & crafts and greenwood crafts. Contact: Meinir Evans, 01570 493224, lampeter@tircoed.org.uk for more information. Birdsong Walk. Sun 1 June, 9am.

Free event. Join local enthusiast Ian Morris, for a guided walk through the woods and learn to recognise birds by their calls and songs. Bring binoculars if you have them. Meet in car park (Llangybi/Llanfair end).

Summer Fête, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Lampeter.

Sat 7 June, 11am-3pm. Plant stall, home-made cakes, children’s corner, side stalls, raffles, refreshments.

Everyone welcome.

health & well-being _____ Yoga classes suitable for all, with an Iyengar-trained teacher: Mon 6.30-8pm & Tues 10-11.30am at Ancient Earth Centre for Well-being, Lanlas Farm, Cellan Weds 5.30-7pm Tregaron Chapel Vestry; Thurs 6-7.30pm Ffarmers Village Hall. Contact: Cathy Crick Stanton, 01570 421144, 07748 031614, cathycrick@hotmail.co.uk Alcoholics Anonymous meet at the Catholic Church (white church), opposite the police station in Lampeter. Wednesdays 8-9.30pm.

For info, national helpline: 0845 7697555 Don’t forget - If you miss the copy deadline you risk not being included!

health & well-being contd __ Narcotics Anonymous meet at St Thomas’ Methodist Church (end of the Drovers Road/Peterwell Terrace), opposite the car park, on Monday from 7.30-8.30pm. national helpline: 0300 999 1212 Lampeter Friends is a Self-Advocacy group for people with learning disabilities, set up by Eich Dewis Chi (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 Headw ay, T he Brai n Injur y Association. Have you survived a Brain Injury? Do you care for someone with Brain Injury? Then read on!

Headway Ceredigion is holding Drop in sessions on the first Monday of each month during 2014 from 2–4pm in the Royal British Legion Hall, Oxford St, Aberaeron, SA46 0JB. Come along and join us for a cuppa and a chat.

Light refreshments will be provided .

A ydych wedi goroesi anaf i’r ymennydd? A ydych yn gofalu am rywun sydd ag anaf i’r ymennydd?

Darllenwch ymlaen!

Headway Ceredigion yn cynnal Sesiynau galw i mewn ar ddydd Llun cyntaf pob mis yn ystod 2014 rhwng 24pm yn Neuadd Y Lleng Brydeinig Frenhinol, Stryd Tyglyn, Aberaeron, SA46 0JB. Dewch draw i ymuno â ni am baned a sgwrs. Bydd diodydd a bwydydd ysgafn ar gael ar ôl y sesiwn Contac t: D av e Ma gg s , W ales Development Manager, Headway UK, 01446 740130, 07941 855935 walesdm@headway.org.uk

Contact: Annie May 01570 423080, annie@themay.co.uk Little M’zzz indoor soft play centre, Llanybydder (in old church hall near Evans Bros market). Open Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm, 7 days a week in school holidays.

Birthday Party bookings welcome.

Tasty menu & free WiFi. Contact: 01570 480268, www.littlemzzz.co.uk NCT 'Move and Groove' is a music and movement group for pre-schoolers. Every Tuesday, 10am in the Catherine Stott room, upstairs in Lampeter Students' Union. Let your little one do what comes naturally by making noise and not staying still!

Playsessions on Maes y Deri playing field every 3rd Sunday each month throughout the year, 11am-3.30pm, with Ray Ceredigion playworkers. On the right up hill beside St Peter's Church, all welcome.

markets_______________ People’s Market, Victoria Hall, Lampeter, 10am-1pm every 2nd & 4th Sat each month.

Next markets: Sat 14 & 28 June.

Lampeter Farmers' Market Market Street, Lampeter, 9am-2pm alternate Fridays.

Next markets: Fri 13 & 27 June.

Ffarmers Market Neuadd Bro Fana/Village Hall, Ffarmers, 10am-12.30pm 1st Sat in the month. Next market: Sat 7 June.

Llansawel Market Llansawel Village Hall, 10am-12.30pm 3rd Sat of the month Next market: Sat 21 June.

Lunar Market Llanfair Clydogau Village Hall, 11am3pm. 1st Sat of every month except August.

Next market: Sat 7 June.

kids___________________ move your body _________ 1st Lampeter Brownies. Meet Wednesdays, 4.30-6pm, term-time.

Contact: Nikki, 07790 987070 "Lampeter Little Ones" is a Facebook group for parents of preschoolers in the Lampeter area.

Wondering what groups and activities are available for your baby or toddler, then please join up and have a look: www.facebook.com/groups/ lampeterlittleones Lampeter Youth Theatre and Stage School runs 3 terms per year every Tues and Fri at Victoria Hall.

Summer Term from 29 April to 4 July.

Tues, 4.30-5.30pm, Fri, 4.30-6.30pm.

Cost per child: £30 per term.

N e w Am e r i c a n T r iba l S t yl e Bellydancing: Tues 1-2pm and 6-7 pm, Victoria Hall. Wendy Steele, 01570 472921, 07752 478779 Lampeter Couch to 5k Running Group. 9-week course for beginners started Mon 28 April, 6.30pm. Meet at Rookery car park, Lampeter. Course is a gradual progression from walking to running and is easily achievable.

Friendly group will give you support and encouragement to reach your goals, whatever they may be! To register interest or sign up, follow us on Facebook, or call Helen, 07817 543257.

Lampeter Belly Dance and Belly Fit Mondays, Lampeter at Shiloh Church 20

Hall (next to Police Station): Beginners' Belly Dance (all ages) 1.302.45pm (£5) Belly Fit for over-50s, 3-4pm (£4) There is space in both classes. First class free.

Contact Rose Barter: 01239 851737, rosebarter@btinternet.com 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 Wednesdays 6.30-8pm, Shiloh Church Hall, High Street, Lampeter.

Contact: lyza_darkestwish@live.com Cerddwyr Ramblers, Lampeter, Do you enjoy exploring the local countryside, discovering historic sites, socialising and mixing, having fun and chit-chat? Lonely, low in mood, recently widowed? Need a change or inspiration to exercise enjoyably, meet up with people outside your usual circle? Do you have a passion to maintain and improve our footpath network by surveying footpath problems or legal diversion orders? Or perhaps lead walks that you know and would like to share. Then join Lampeter Ramblers, we have much in common! Choice of varying walks throughout the year. See our programme in Library or Creative Cove. James Williams, 01570 480743.

Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Community Woodland. Do you need to get out and about more? Join our FREE ½ hour Health Walks on the last Sunday of each month. Next is Sun 29 June. Especially for people who find walking difficult. Please wear sensible shoes. Meet at Penlan Goetre, SA48 8NE at 2pm. Contact: 07557 386755, info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk Footpath Maintenance volunteering with Ceredigion County Council rights of ways staff every Friday. Trashing, clearing, erecting stiles, footbridges and installing gates mainly in the south of the county. Fun and cost toward transport included. No experience needed, just join our team! Contact: James Williams, 01570 480743 Flamenco Dance classes Wed 67.30pm, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with live flamenco guitarist. Men and women welcome. Please bring strongheeled shoes. Private lessons available in studio near Llandysul.

Contact: 01559 362540, dixeyart@gmail.com Final Copy Deadline: Fri 13 June lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

move your body contd _____ Yoga, Wednesdays 5.30-7pm Cellan Millennium Hall. Small friendly group led by Pat Beaton, 01558 650594.

Friday Walkers: meet up for ambling rambling on a Friday morning. Easy access walking for an hour, depending on the weather and the mood. Meet rain or shine, 10am at Rookery Car Park. Free, followed by coffee and chat. Not able to manage the stroll but would like company? Just meet up for coffee. Philip Lodwick, 01570 422181 Jane Guy School of Dancing.

Established 1977. Ballet and stage work; annual production; RAD exams.

Classes: Tue eves and Saturdays, Shiloh Chapel, Lampeter. Thursdays 4.30-7.30pm at Theatr Felinfach.

Contact: 01570 470645 Sarn Helen running and cycling club welcomes all abilities. Junior runners (ages 8-16) meet at Leisure Centre, Tues 6.15pm. Adult runners meet Rookery Car Park, Tues 6.15 & 8pm, Thur 6.15pm.

For cycling (road and MTB) please see: www.sarnhelen.org.uk Mat-based Pilates. Suitable for beginners. Benefits include increased energy; improved posture and co-ordination; physical and mental toning; increased strength and stamina; greater mind/body/spirit connection. Llangeitho Village Hall, Mondays 2pm. Shân Rees, OCRqualified instructor.

Contact: 01570 218138, 07940 375147, www.livingexcellently.co.uk Dances of Universal Peace. From earliest times, dance has been a way of bringing people together, to create harmony and connection. In Dances of Universal Peace, we dance in a circle using simple steps and chants from many traditions. Contact: Shân, 01570 218138, 07940 375147. DUP Qualified

Send your listings to lampetergrapevine@gmail.com Canolfan Hamdden Llambed Leisure Centre. 01570 422552, Lampeter-leisure@ceredigion.gov.uk Activity programme as follows:  Cardio Circuit Training gyda/with Sands & Paul Butch. £3.50. Mon 6.307.30pm. All-over body workout.

Conditioning. Resistance training.

Improve mobility, strength & stamina.

Ymarfer i’r corf i gyd. Cyflyru. Ymarfer gwrthsafiad. Gwella symudadwy, cryfder ac egni.  J’s Workout 01559 362690.

Oedolion/Adults £3.90, Henoed/

Myfyrwyr/Iau/O.A.P/Student/Junior £3.20. Tocyn consesiwn/concession ticket (12 dosbarth/classes) Oedolion/ Adult £39, Conc. £32. Mon 5.306.30pm, STEP. Tues 5.30-6.15pm, Zumba. W ed 12noon-12.45pm, Ffit rw ydd Rhw ydd/Ease into Fitness. Wed 6.30-7.30pm, Kettlecise. Thurs 5.15-6pm, Dawns Aerobig/Aerobic Dance.  Clwb Rhedeg Sarn Helen Running Club Thurs 6.15-7.15pm. Croeso i blant dros 8 oed/ All children over 8 years welcome.  Yoga/Pilates Ann Inshaw, 01570 481319, 07826 692110. Mon 5.307pm, Yoga (pob lefel/all levels). Tues 6-7pm, Pilates (pob lefel/all levels).

Wed 5.15-6.15pm Pilates (canolol/ cynyddol/intermediate/advanced).

Thurs 6-7pm, Pilates (pob lefel/all levels). Fri 10-11.30am, Yoga (pob lefel/all levels).  Spinning £3.90 sesiwn/session, £39 for 12 sesiwn/sessions. Bwcio gyda taliad yn unig!/Booking with payment only! Tues 5.30-6.15pm, Wed 7.158.15pm, Fri 5.30-6.15pm. Cofiwch ddod a photel o ddŵr a thowel/ Remember a bottle of water & a towel.  Clwb Ymladd Cleddyfau Llambed/ Lampeter Town Fencing Club Sean Slater, 01570 493139, anpiobaire1@aol.com Croeso i bawb dros 10 oed. All aged 10+ welcome. £4.50. Os ydych am hwyl, ffitrwydd a her o frwydro yna ymladd cleddyfau yw’r peth i chi. If you want fun, fitness and a challenge of combat then fencing is for you. Tues 3.30-5pm & Fri 6.30-8pm. Darparir offer/equipment provided.  Clwb Badminton/Badminton Club Dydd Gwener/Friday 5-6.30pm. All players welcome.  Ysgol Gymnasteg REES School of Gymnastics Islwyn Rees, 01570 422979. Sat 9.15-10am, Oed meithrin (dan 5)/Pre-school (under 5); 1011am, Dechreuwyr (6 oed i fyny)/ Beginners (6yrs+); 11am-12noon, Gwellhawyr (6 oed i fyny)/Improvers (6yrs+).  Disco Sglefrio/Roller Disco every Saturday 3-4pm. Oedolion/Adults £2.60, Plant/Children £1.90. ‘sgidiau i’w llogi/boots for hire £1.30

music_________________ Kirtan / Bhajan singing. Sunday, 35pm, twice monthly. Please call to check dates. At Perth Yr Onnen, Gorrig, Horeb, Llandysul, SA44 4JR. Bhajans are devotional songs from India in a call and answer format, using ancient chants. Open to anyone, no spiritual belief system required. It 21

doesn’t matter if you think you can’t sing - just come and join in. £2 donation appreciated where possible, Tea and Chai provided. For directions and to confirm dates, contact Iain or Dixey, cameronbodywork@gmail.com

permaculture & conservation ___________ Forest Gardening, Permaculture & Wildlife Gardening Short courses and inspirational site visits! For more info and 2014 dates, Contact: Angie, 01974 831300, info@purposefulpermaculture.co.uk Smallholders and Landowners: bespoke conservation advice; create your own nature reserve!

Contact: Angie, 01974 831300, info@purposefulpermaculture.co.uk Lampeter Permaculture Group is a collective of like-minded people, interested in principles and practice of permaculture & sustainability. More info: www.lampeterpermaculture.org

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. Contact: Stef, 07958 772035, lampeterphotography@yahoo.co.uk Tracy Dove, Locally-based digital photographer, exhibiting work at Town Hall Café, Lampeter until 31 May. Mon -Sat, 9am-4pm.

religious services & groups ________________ Lampeter Parish St Peter’s Church, Lampeter. Main Sun Service: 10.30am (bilingual), Other services: 8am Holy Communion (English), 9.15am 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).

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Lampeter Sunday Mass is 10am. For other services see church notice board.

St Thomas' Methodist Church Sun service 10.30am, creche & youth activity. Tues Coffee morning 9.30noon. All welcome. See notice board.

religious services & groups contd _____________ 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 Emmaus Christian Fellowship meets Sundays, 10.30am and 5pm, at rear of 78 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Contact: David Patterson, 01570 422529 All Saints' Church, Cellan. Bilingual services every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month, 2pm. A warm welcome to all. Baptisms and weddings by arrangement. Contact the Revd. Bill Fillery, 01570 421425.

St M ary's Chur ch, Llanf air Clydogau. Bilingual services every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, 10.15am. A warm welcome to all.

Baptisms and weddings by arrangement. Contact the Revd Bill Fillery, 01570 421425.

Capel Bedyddwyr, Silian. Cwrdd yr ail a pedwerydd Sul y mis am 10.15yb.

Croeso i bawb.

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. ww.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

-10pm every 3rd Sun of month. Next meeting: 15 June, Quiz Night. Contact: Jen, 07540 383835 for further details or to book a table custardqueenswi@gmail.com or check out the new website or facebook page at http://custardqueenswi.weebly.com www.facebook.com/custardqueenswi CY D Llambed. Ym arf er eic h 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: Mon 2 & 30 June in Cellan & Mon 16 June in Llanfair, 11.30am-2pm. We offer a FREE light lunch of soup, roll & butter, followed by cake, tea and coffee. Our main aim is to gather for a social and play cards or Scrabble, or just relax and natter to friends. Please contact Amanda (Cellan) 01570 421338, or Linda (Llanfair) 01570 493706, to register your interest.

Whist Drives, Wed 4 & 18 June, 2 July at Hafan Deg, Lampeter, every fortnight. All welcome. All Funds to Hafan Deg League of Friends.

Contact: Gwen Davies, 01570 481152

opportunities. Includes Presentation of the Ceredigion Volunteer Recognition Awards. For further information contact: Gwyneth Davies, 01970 632991, gwd@llgc.org.uk Fair Gwirfoddolwyr. Mehefin 5, 10-4.

Gwahoddir chwi i ddiwrnod agored a drefnir gan Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, mewn partneriaeth â CAVO, i ddathlu a hyrwyddo gwirfoddoli. Cyfle i brofi a thrafod yr amrywiol gyfleoedd gwirfoddoli sydd ar gael yn lleol.

Cysyllt â: Gwyneth Davies, 01970 632991, gwd@llgc.org.uk Lampeter Credit Union. Would you like to do something that will make a positive difference to local people? For more details contact: 07891 632614 British Legion Lampeter is recruiting members now. This is your opportunity to become a member of the Legion.

Contact Sharon, 07971 806886.

Home-Start is a national charity supporting families who are struggling to cope in more than 300 communities across the UK. Our support is delivered by volunteers, in the family’s home, for a couple of hours every week. We also run family groups and social events for families. We are looking for volunteers to join us and become part of our team.

Contact Jan Young, 01545 571317.

storytelling, books & creative writing _________

Wed 10.30am-3pm, St James’ Hall, Cwmann. 11am Qi Gong gentle ex erc is e. 12 noo n lu nc h. 1 pm workshop. Disabled access & toilet.

Free car park. £2.50 a session (includes vegetarian lunch and all activities). Pay on the day, no m em b er s h i p o r a d v a n c e f e e .

Drop in when you please. New members always welcome.

Workshops: Wed 28 May: Creating Mosaics Wed 4 June: Painting Wed 11 June: Quilling Wed 18 June: Singing Wed 25 June: Board Games Contact: 01570 423167 or 01545 590391

women's workshop ______

Lampeter Writers’ Workshop welcomes new members and meets weekly. Tuesdays 7-9pm, Wolfson Room, Trinity Saint David University, during college term time. Come and join us. Contact: Sue, 01570 423167 Meanwhile, the Storytelling Circle, third Thursday each month (19 June), 7-9pm, Lampeter Students' Union (Andy Lawson Room). Open to all, storytellers and listeners, come along and shape the tale.

Creative Writing Workshop. Full programme of workshops. Tysul Hall, Llandysul. £10. Refreshm ents available. Sponsored by Literature Wales. Contact Kelly, 01267 235336 Llangeitho Book Group meet Copy date: Friday 13 June social _________________ monthly in Llangeitho Village Café.

Theme: ‘Grow, Cook &Eat’ Cellan Millennium Hall Film Nights. Informal chat about our chosen book.

See film listings box on page 24 Contact: Gillian, 01974 821213 Send your letters/articles Coffee Stop, Thursdays 10.30am- volunteering ___________ 3pm at Emmaus Christian Fellowship, Volunteers’ Fair. Thurs 5 June, 10am & listings to 78 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Soup, -4pm. You are invited to an Open Day toasties, cakes. W arm friendly organised by The National Library of lampetergrapevine@gmail.com environment. Contact: David, 01570 Wales, in partnership with CAVO, to Adverts to 422529 celebrate and promote volunteering. A lampetergrapevineads@gmail.com Custard Queens WI: Ages 18-80+, all chance to sample and discuss a very welcome. Meet at Victoria Hall, 7 variety of locally available volunteering 22

complementary & alternative therapists Charlotte Allen RSHom Homeopath 14 years' clinical experience.

Homeopathy is a safe, holistic method of treating both emotional and physical conditions. Llanfair Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter, SA48 8EG. 01570 493746 Val Allen, BACP senior accredited counsellor/psychotherapist. UKRC Registered. Offering counselling, ps yc h oth erap y, h yp n oth er ap y, EMDR. 23 High Street, Lampeter SA48 7BA, 01570 493522, valallen@surfanytime.net Jo Camlin BSc WSHom. Homoeopathy. Empower your own healing (or your child's) by telling your own story. Then a vital, energetic remedy is matched to your unique, personal experience. 01570 421480 (a.m.)

The Light of Love, a short but powerful treatment harnessing and directing the power of the Universal Life Force, relaxing, healing by touching into the heart's gentle energy. Ceredwin (thirty years of energy work experience), 01570 421476 Cathy Crick Stanton. Yoga teacher / therapist (Iyengar trained) and Barbara Brennan Healer. For class details, or to book 1-2-1 yoga or therapy/healing sessions: 01570 421144, 07748 031614, cathycrick@hotmail.co.uk Glynis Florence, BA, Cert. Couples Counselling, Dip Psychosexual Therapy. Member of COSRT. Relationship counselling and therapy to address sexual concerns in Aberystw yth and Lampeter .

Contact: 07780 458763 The Art of Well-Being: Reflexology and Indian Head Massage. Glennis Gratwick, MAR, FFHT, fully qualified, insured, 10 years' experience. Stall at Lunar Market (see listings) selling aromatherapy products.

Contact: 01570 493288 Wild Cherry Coaching. Battling stress, low confidence, or simply

feeling stuck? Move forward with sensitive and holistic life coaching with Ros (BSc (Hons) Psychology, Diplom a Stress Managem ent, Advanced Diploma Life Coaching).

Free consultation. 07462 746248, www.wildcherrycoaching.co.uk Bowen Technique and Reflexology Fully qualified and registered practitioner. Practises from Aberaeron and Tregaron. Contact: Pearl, 01974 299224, 07967 647920 www.bowen-reflex4wales.co.uk Alison Kaye MBAcC. Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. Llanfair Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter, SA48 8EG. 07779 256388 Susan McAllister (Bsc Hons).

Transformational Teacher, Therapist & Consultant. Over 20 years of teaching, complementary therapy & healing experience. Available now for Crystal Healing Workshops & Angelic Tarot Readings. Contact: 01570 493006, 07572 672986, sue@tranquillight.vpweb.co.uk Michael Meanwell Aromatherapy Holistic Massage using essential oils to suit your needs. Fully qualified, VTCT trained. I am also a Reiki Level 3 Diploma practitioner. Cross House, Tregaron, SY25 6ND. 01974 298094 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 421144,07920 112228, louise_nadim@hotmail.com Dr Colette Power. Mindfulnessbased Stress Management, MB Pain & Illness Management; Introduction to Mindfulness Courses; 1-2-1 coaching. For future courses, or to discuss ways of working with mindfulness for you/your group.

Contact: 07890 835873,

Oriental Bodywork. Werndriw Natural Health Clinic, 23 High Street, Lampeter. SA48 7BH. 07974 674243, taigaprzibylla@hotmail.com Living Excellently: assisting people to make the most of themselves.

Confidence-Building, Assertion Skills, Mat-Based Pilates, Style Coaching, Life Coaching. Sh창n Rees BA, Dip.Couns, Dip Style & Life Coaching. 01570 218138, 07940 375147, shanharmony@aol.com, www.livingexcellently.co.uk Eva Ryan MTI. Wholistic massage to help rebalance and heal body, mind and emotions. Treatment tailored to your unique needs.

Registered, insured practitioner. At Taliaris, or arrange home visits.

Contact: 01558 822390, 07792 748191 Remedial Massage Therapy. Kelly Smith, LCM dip. 4, Maesyfelin, Llangybi, SA48 8LY. 01570 493774, 07582 170181 Christine Stephenson BSc MNIMH. Medical Herbalist at Llanfair Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter - for a holistic approach to health and use of herbs with an emphasis on the importance of a good diet. Call: 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 Bones for Life: practices to stimulate bone strength, protect vulnerable joints, improve posture and increase vitality. Contact: Marye Wyvill, 01570 421027, matyewyvill@hotmail.com Reflexology. Annie Zakiewicz MAR is a fully-insured member of the c o l e t t e @ m i n d f u l n e s s c o u r s e . c o . u k Association of Reflexologists and practises from Cellan. Contact: www.mindfulnesscourse.co.uk 01570 493295, 07790 107521, Taiga R. Przibylla B.A.DipHSEC. www.reflexologywithannie.co.uk Shiatsu. Seiki. Buqi Vital Energy and

lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

Others think that the marauders were British Saxons. The fight, such as it was, was probably very small Saint Tydfil (sometimes Tudfal) Martyr Reposed: 480 and local. She is generally believed Remembered: August 23 to have died where the church was St Tydfil was of a daughter of King Brychan of built. Many miracles are said to have Brycheiniog. taken place around her grave and She was martyred at Merthyr Tydfil (Welsh for Martyr her shrine became a place of Tydfil) in Glamorgan by a marauding party from Ireland. pilgrimage.

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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 11.30-2pm (2 & 30 June) TUESDAY Lampeter Home Education Group 12-5pm Qi Gong 6-7pm Tai Chi 7-8pm WEDNESDAY Table Tennis 10am-12noon, all ages, suitable for intermediate players Quilting Club 12.30-4pm Yoga 5.30-7pm

Film Night Fri 6 June “12 Years A Slave” (15) Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumerbatch

Fri 20 June “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”(15) Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge

DOORS OPEN 7.15pm for 7.45pm start Admission by Donation BIG SCREEN & DIGITAL THEATRE SOUND WWW.CELLANMILLENNIUMHALL.CO.UK

VOLUNTEER PROJECTIONIST REQUIRED TO TAKE OVER THE FILM NIGHTS AT CELLAN HALL

Please contact Amanda Newman, 01570 421338

THURSDAY Village Improvement Society Cttee1st Thurs of month 7pm W.I. 2nd Thurs of month 7.30pm FRIDAY Art Group 10am–1pm Film Night fortnightly 7.15pm (see advert for full details)

News from Banc Bwyd Llambed Food Bank Banc Bwyd Llambed is an initiative of local Lampeter churches. Since the end of February, Banc Bwyd Llambed has had 24 referrals, which we have been glad to help. From the beginning of May, we will be open for food collections on Wednesday-Friday mornings from 9am-1pm, although referrals from our supporting partner agencies can still be made at any time in office hours Monday-Friday on 07582 905743. This change in food collection times reflects the pattern of requests for food parcels, and we will keep this under review. We thank the local people, groups and churches who continue to support us with donations of food, and also Trinity St David Lampeter for hosting Banc Bwyd Llambed.

Julia Lim

We all know exercise is good for us, so why not keep fit, have fun, build confidence and make new friends, all at the same time!

I, like so many women, had spent my life battling with my weight, attempting to reduce my hips and tummy to the considered norm. At the age of forty, I developed IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) which ripped every ounce of spare flesh from my body, as I battled against excruciating pain to change my diet and lifestyle and find a balance. In less than a year, after shedding 3 stones in weight, I was emaciated, depressed and exhausted.

Discovering bellydance was my lifeline. If I wanted to dance, I had to eat and slowly, I began to put on weight and muscle. My curves were no longer viewed by me as a problem but as a sign I was returning to good health. As my body blossomed into a woman once more, my confidence and fitness grew.

So I say to every woman reading this, join us at Tribal Unity and 'Celebrate your curves'. Whatever shape or size you are, you will be welcomed, cherished and supported by your tribe. Together we celebrate our bodies and our minds and the joy that is the goddess in us all.

Wendy Steele teaches ATS® Bellydance at the Victoria Hall, Lampeter on Tuesdays 1-2pm and 6-7pm during term time. First lesson free, £4 per lesson thereafter. For more information 01570 472921 / 07752 478779 / wendywoo@myself.com.

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Monster of the Sea - part 3 Josh was so scared, but he finally did touch the huge creature. Well, you know what snake skin feels like? … rubbery and dry. Well, that’s what the sea monster felt like. A few seconds after he touched it, the world went all fizzy. Seconds later he looked around and found himself gazing under water at what looked like a nest. Then he looked at his hands, but they weren’t hands anymore, they were ginormous flippers. He turned his head around and looked at his feet, they were flippers too! Immediately he felt himself moving. After a few seconds he knew what he was. “I know what I am”, said Josh, “I’m a sea monster”. He felt himself swimming all the way to the top of the cave he was nesting in….

So, what do you think happened next? … You’ll just have to wait until next month to find out… unless you want to write your own ending? In which case, send them to me at lampetergrapevine@gmail.com and I will get them published in the next issue. Da, Da, Daaaaaaaah!

Jorge W Martin, age 7

LYTSS NEWS! Busy with two productions this Summer We have been joined by three new volunteers: Aimee Howard, a seasoned Youth Theatre worker and Anthropology third year student who has agreed to be our singing coach and has taken over the work of coaching the entire cast for our first production! Tracey Reynolds, Robyn Trewin and Jane Morgan have offered their skills and qualifications in the wardrobe and props department and from what I’ve seen the costumes and props for both performances are the best we've ever had!

Our first production is a nod to the centenary of WW1 entitled “LYTer's War.” We are trying something new this term. Instead of having to go through the hard work of learning lines our gallant Lyters will be presenting an improvised revue of WW1 together with a sparkling bag of current popular songs that resonate with the war theme. We will be performing the formal “LYTers' War“ on Friday 4 July in Victoria Hall at 6.30pm. Tickets will be available on the door £5, children under 12 free.

We have been invited to perform a food themed piece at the Young People’s Food Festival at Victoria Hall on Saturday 5 July. LYTss has elected to reprise excerpts from Alice in Wonderland where the opportunities for foodie allusions are legion. This production has given our younger LYTers a chance to take on leading roles and it is your chance to see some really talented young kids in action.

During the Easter holidays LYTss took to the woods once more with Lea Wakeman, helped this time by Aimee Howard. Places were booked up well in advance, such was the popularity of last year's Long Wood Activity Days. We would like to thank Long Wood for the wonderful facilities that they offer in the woods, and the opportunities for young people to get out in the open and learn about nature and the world around them.

Before this issue goes out Aimee Howard and Tracey Reynolds will have run a two day Workshop of singing, masks and costume making, culminating in a performance at half term. Plans are to offer activities for half terms and holidays now that we have a group of expert, qualified, volunteer tutors.

Watch this space for the report of this new addition to the offerings from LYTss! We would also like to thank all the parents who have helped in the Bake Sale on Saturday 10 May. We are so grateful to them. We have managed to keep our heads above water thanks to the generosity and hard work of parents and volunteers, but it is a constant battle to make sure that the Youth Theatre is sufficiently funded to carry out the quality of work that we have set ourselves to do. We are no glorified child minders! I heard recently that a stage school franchise charges in excess of £130 per term and parents have to buy uniforms costing around £100 and then give £5 per performance for costumes and props. At the termly fee of £30 per term LYTss is wonderful value and your children get to be taught by experts in their field!

Annie May 25

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Holiday cars could be hired at destinations as part of the ticketing transaction or one’s own car could be taken on holiday loaded onto a railway wagon of suitable design. It has been done before and it is workable again. This, as the thoughtful reader will perceive, shows yet again the natural principle of a trunk branching at each end. What nature has done successfully for aeons we should emulate.

We can extend the thinking further, for many tourists are interested in steam traction, so we should use steam for at least some regular trains. We should place ‘camping coaches’ beside every rail station in the Welsh countryside. Travel on a ‘runabout ticket’ (another old idea) would allow tourists to break their journey wherever they found an unoccupied camping coach, in which they would install themselves for a fee, and stay a few days before moving on (or back) along the line.

Some trains would consist of nothing but a biggish car engine underneath a boxful of comfortable seats and could run on just four wheels, like a bus. I describe it this way to show how cheap and how normal such a train could be. The new railway could run at least half a dozen of these ‘railcars’ at any one time, three (or more) Northward and an equal number Southward, using passing loops to pass other railcars or freight trains running the other way.

Technologically, using the afore-mentioned modern signalling systems, it could be very cheap, very efficient, and very safe. Timetabling could be flexible, a point of value to fishermen, who work according to the tides, and need to be met by a train when their catch reaches harbour.

If it were considered too expensive to restore the standard-gauge line from Lampeter to Aberaeron a narrow-gauge line could be laid which might allow the replacement railway to thread its way through to the harbour, which was not possible in standard gauge a hundred years ago. Perhaps the fish-eaters of Lampeter, Tregaron and other places inland would revive the fishing market using boats from Aberaeron and the new trains. A narrow-gauge steam railway to Aberaeron would place a new ‘Great Little Train of Wales’ where it is needed to attract tourists, and The National Trust would be pleased to have tourists alighting once more at Llanerchaeron. Efforts would have to be made to open up Lampeter and Tregaron as tourist venues, but profits could then be made.

If the Manchester and Milford Railway had been completed, locomotives like this one would probably have been seen using the line over a century ago.

The replacement line from Tregaron to Aberystwyth should be re-routed slightly to join the line to Borth and Machynlleth east of Aberystwyth and run into the town from that point, to the existing standardgauge platform. This would avoid the need for very expensive and unpopular work restoring the line through Trefechan, and could provide, at very little cost, a triangle on which steam engines could be turned without a turntable as well as a route from both north and south into Aberystwyth station, which would have to remain a terminus on account of the lack of space to make it a through-route. Friendly and enlightened cooperation would free capital used for trackbed by The Gwili Railway so that it could again purchase an authentic Great Western steam locomotive, and run that locomotive over a much longer line than the Gwili Railway now possesses.

Some very successful railways are entirely owned by volunteers, and operated by them to very professional standards. Railtrack employees are often trained by the ‘amateur’ operators of the preserved railways. This ‘tradition’ should continue.

The new railway should probably be privately owned and run, with as high a proportion of volunteers as possible. I might even get to drive a steam engine. I know how to, but if we can bring a new railway into being I may have the opportunity of doing so. Others would too, of course.

This article is brief, and a personal view, but many will agree it sketches the means of resurgence of a large part of Wales, not just of a railway, a resurgence in harmony with the holistic and ‘green’ aims of a ‘Transition Town’ (which Lampeter is, of course), and of many living in the surrounding area. It might even raise property values, though much more important is that a new railway would lift the economy at least a little yet without marring the scenery or an increasingly holistic way of life.

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Places to visit: Ceredigion Gardens Open for Charity This month, under the National Gardens Scheme, two gardens in the Aeron Valley will be open to the public to raise money for charity.

Winllan - Sunday 8 June, 11am-5pm Llanllyr - Sunday 22 June, 2-6pm Winllan can be found on the B4342 between Talsarn and Llangeitho. It is a six acre wildlife garden incorporating a four acre hay meadow, which has been designated by Prince Charles and the Plantlife Trust as a 'Coronation Meadow’, to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. The meadow was awarded this status because of the number and variety of native British plants that it supports.

Many of these plants are rare, or populations are declining in the UK due to habitat loss. These include the rare Greater Butterfly Orchid and five other Orchid species, Ragged Robin, Whorled Caraway, Greater Burnet, Eyebright, as well as a number of other hay meadow plants. In addition to the beautiful wildlife-rich meadowland, there is a lovely riverside walk, a small woodland and an attractive ornamental area around the house. Home-made teas will be served and there will be plants for sale. Admission to this unique garden is £3.30, with children free.

Llanllyr is just outside the village of Talsarn, and over the years thousands of visitors have enjoyed the extensive and beautiful gardens. There is something of interest for all tastes; a delightful rose garden, large pool, bog garden, shrub borders and Laburnum arbour. This is a dynamic garden showing expert plantmanship with something new to see and admire each year. Home-made teas will be available and there will be a specialist plant fair by Ceredigion Growers. Admission £4, children under 12 free.

The National Gardens Scheme supports nursing and caring charities, the main beneficiaries being Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Help the Hospices and Carers Trust.

Pat Causton

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POTTING SHED DIRECT All natural materials, sustainable and ethical.

Natural Craft Stall

Cacennau cartref, bara, cyffaith a bwydydd sawrus Ffrwythau, llysiau a phlanhigion tymhorol, cartref Cig a gynhyrchir yn lleol a dewis o waith llaw crefft Te a choffi

People’s Market, Victoria Hall, Lampeter, 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month, 10am - 1pm

The Food and Craft Market, Llansawel Village Hall, 3rd Saturday, 10am -12.30pm

Buy pre-packed or pick and mix ranges of plant dyed textiles; needlework and felting kits; fair trade upcycled jewellery, hand felt purses, embroidered bags, cushions; gifts; bespoke commissioned designs; or book a place on a workshop direct from the stall.

Homemade cakes, bread, preserves and savouries Homegrown seasonal fruit, vegetables and plants Locally-produced meat and a selection of handmade craft Tea and coffee

Natural Craft Workshops 10–4 pm Small friendly, informal groups with all materials and a light lunch included.

Regular venues include 1st Lampeter Scouts Hall, Llansawel Village Hall and The Quercus Rooms, Carmarthen.

Raised needlework, creative use of plants like nettles, natural plant dyeing, wet/dry felting, & making textiles all on offer. £35 per person (unless otherwise stated). Booking essential Please see websites or visit Pam’s stall for further details. www.pottingsheddirect.co.uk www.facebook.com/pottingsheddirect www.pinterest.com/pamdirect www.etsy.com/uk/shop/pottingsheddirect

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Traditionally hand crafted buildings designed to meet your requirements.

Sheds, Sauna’s, Studio’s, Shelters, Workshops, Barns, Dwellings, Outdoor classrooms, Compost toilets, Offices.

JBM Woodcraft design for Tir Coed training course

Concept drawings, designs and free consultations available. Contact : enquiries@typren.co.uk Tel: 01570 421480 / 07530832356

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JUNE UPDATE Wow, it’s hotting up now…

Just over two months to go to the Lampeter Food Festival on 26 July.

And before the main Festival we’ve got a couple more Festival Feasts and the new Lampeter Young People’s Food Festival on 5 July.

FESTIVAL FEASTS The next Feast is on Friday 13 June when Cardigan’s innovative local food restaurant, The 25 Mile, are making the trip to Lampeter to do a pop-up in Victoria Hall.

The 25 Mile (www.the25mile.com) strongly promote the ‘Eat Local’ idea and source all their main ingredients from within a 25 mile radius.

Tickets are available at www.lampeterfoodfestival.org.uk/feasts-the-25-mile Tickets are £25 with half the ticket price going to support the Lampeter Food Festival.

Lampeter Young People’s Food Festival Why organise one festival when you can better organise two!

Saturday 5 July will see the first Lampeter Young People’s Food Festival.

The event, sponsored by the Welsh Government, aims to bring food in all its guises to young people in Lampeter. There are some great activities already lined up for the day including :  a Design a Pizza Competition for primary aged children  an Inter-Schools Cookery Competition for local secondary schools  a special performance of the Mad Hatters Tea Party by LYTss  a Latte Art workshop by Scott James of Coaltown Coffee Roasters  a presentation by local YouTube star Huw Richards  a Guess the Cheese competition  advice on careers in the food and hospitality industry from Cambrian Training The Festival will round off with a real Mad Hatters Tea Party.

If you would like to get involved, or if you want to enter your school in the Design a Pizza or Cookery Competitions ..

Contact Chris on 01570 493649 or youngpeople@lampeterfoodfestival.org.uk

LAMPETER FOOD FESTIVAL And to the main attraction...

Over 60 stalls (and climbing), 7 musical acts, 6 chefs, 3 marquees, a People’s Market and a bicycle powered smoothie blender.

It’s going to be a great day.

Full details of the Festival on Saturday 26 July will be in the next issue of Grapevine.

If you would like to book a stall or help on the day contact Chris on 01570 493649 or chair@lampeterfoodfestival.org.uk Chris Studman

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Carers Week - 9 to 15 June 2014

Ceredigion will be hosting

“Every day I am a Carer�

Thursday 12 June Victoria Hall, Lampeter 9.30am-3.30pm

Come and join us for an enjoyable and informative day!

Find out about:

healthy eating

relaxation techniques

leisure interests!

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Every Day I am a Carer:

Investors in Carers

Do you look after a relative or friend?

If you provide support to someone who is ill, elderly, has a physical disability, learning disability, mental health or substance misuse problem, and that person cannot manage without your help, then you are a CARER. Carers can be relatives, parents, young people, friends or neighbours.

Ceredigion County Council’s Carers Unit helps to develop and maintain services for Carers in Ceredigion.

We also maintain links in a wide network of organisations to ensure easy access to information and support. Of the estimated 8,603 Carers in Ceredigion only a small proportion are registered. The more Carers who are registered, the stronger the voice will be to ensure that Carers are recognised, are valued and get better services.

Therefore, the Ceredigion Carers Unit would like all Carers in the county to be registered. If you would like to register, or find out more about services for Carers in Ceredigion, please contact us:  01970 633564  carersdevelopmentoffice@ceredigion.gov.uk  http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfmrticleid=3429 Each year the Ceredigion Carers Unit arranges events to provide information & advice to carers in the county.

Two of these events coincide with Carers Rights Day in November and Carers Week in June. This year Carers Week takes place from Monday 9 - Sunday 15 June.

Carers Week is a UK-wide annual awareness campaign.

Its aim is to improve the lives of carers and the people they care for. It does this by raising awareness of carers at a national, regional and local level. Hundreds of organisations and individuals join in each year to make it one of the UK's most successful awareness campaigns.

The theme for this year is “the Carers Week Quest”, an exciting new initiative to encourage improved collaborative working in local communities to reach out to carers who are currently missing out on services and support.

At the heart of activity will be a focus on working together in local communities to reach as many carers as possible during Carers Week, and so here in Ceredigion, the County Council’s Carers Unit is joining with partnership organisations to organise an event at Victoria Hall, Lampeter, on Thursday 12 June.

Complimentary morning refreshments and a buffet lunch are included. The event offers a day out which will be both enjoyable and informative. See advert on page 30 We shall be delighted to see you!

June Firth

for Ceredigion

The Investors in Carers (IiC) scheme is a framework of good practice, which assists GPs and other health staff to develop their carer awareness and give carers in their county (or direct them to) a range of emotional, practical and financial support.

Matt Sims, is the IiC Development Officer for Ceredigion, and one of his main tasks is to work with Ceredigion’s 16 GP surgeries in achieving the aims of the scheme by submitting evidence folders. Matt is delighted that, to date, three quarters of the County’s surgeries have submitted their evidence folders and have been successful. These include the Lampeter and Llanybydder surgeries.

An important aspect of the IiC scheme is to make sure someone is registered as a Carer with their surgery and referred on for additional support in as straight forward a way as possible. A single registration/referral form for all surgeries to use, has been developed. Early indications are that the new form is helping to increase the numbers of registered and referred Carers across Ceredigion.

There are also plans to pilot the IiC scheme with pharmacies. The pilot pharmacies (which include Lloyds, Lampeter) have enthusiastically joined the programme, looking to see how they can build evidence in their IiC folder and undertake training on identifying, registering and referring Carers to various forms of support. It is pleasing to report that two of Lloyd’s staff have successfully completed the Carer Aware e-learning package.

One of the most important parts of Matt’s role is hearing from Carers about their experiences when looking to receive support and advice. It is also important that Carers views are fed back to those who provide support so that services can be improved. With the help of colleagues in the British Red Cross and GP surgeries, he has now started a programme of informal interviews and discussions with Carers on their experiences (both good and not so good). The response has been tremendous; they have gladly given up valuable time in the hope that their experiences can help others. When Matt has gathered sufficient information he will be sending an anonymised analysis to everyone involved in the support of Carers, asking that the feedback can be used to good effect in the future.

If you want to find out more or would like to speak with Matt about his work, you can write, phone or email him: Matt Sims, IiC Project Officer for Ceredigion, CAVO, Bryndulais, 67 Bridge St, Lampeter SA48 7AB matt.sims@cavo.org.uk; 01570 423232 (x216), 07832355776 Matt will also be at the Carers Event in Victoria Hall, Lampeter all day on 12 June.

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Mini-beast Paperweights or Garden decorations

You will need:  A few pebbles  Pencil  Paint & brushes

 Leaves  Sticks

 PVA Glue

 Larger stones

What to do:  First collect your pebbles - look for ones with smooth surfaces or interesting shapes  Collect pictures of real mini-beasts or design your own bugs  Draw onto the surface of the pebble with a pencil The shape of the pebble could be the body itself  Paint the base colour of your design and leave it to dry before adding extra details in different colours Perhaps you can use several pebbles to create one insect or super-bug  Maybe add sticks or leaves as legs, antenna and wings - Be creative You can use your mini-beast pebble as a paperweight or decoration for the garden  When finished and completely dry, paint over with a thin layer of PVA glue to create a shiny surface, allow this to dry and repeat the process (particularly if you want to use these as garden decorations)  Can you now create a special bug hotel for your creatures using larger stones or twigs?

Enjoy!

Why not take a photo and send it to: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com so that we can include some in the next issue of Grapevine

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Get Cracking, Let’s Stop Fracking!

In September 2012, Gareth Clubb, Director of Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cymru, wrote that the Planning Inspectorate’s decision to allow test drilling for oil and gas ‘fracking’ in the Vale of Glamorgan has ‘opened the floodgates for a fossil fuel free-for-all in Wales’. That free-for-all could begin in earnest any day now with more than a dozen Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs) already granted in South Wales alone. ‘Fracking’ is the common name for processes of hydraulic fracturing, but it is commonly used to denote a set of technologies for ‘unconventional’ or ‘extreme’ energy’ extraction, including coal-bed methane which is present in South Wales. The prospect of extreme energy extraction looms large over many parts of Wales, including Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot, Cardiff, Newport, Flintshire, Swansea, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Powys and Carmarthenshire. Quite a list! It’s estimated that more than 50% of the population of Wales is living in areas where extreme energy extraction is likely.

What the frack?

Fracking itself involves forcing a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into shale rock which causes fractures and so the release of oil or methane gas.

Fracking is controversial because of risks of ground water contamination, earth tremors, health problems linked to the chemicals used, excessive water use, leakages of methane, industrialisation of the landscape and local traffic impacts: All scientifically validated risks. Most importantly, though, fracking will mean the continuing emission of carbon dioxide, which is of course a major factor in climate change, and the UK will fail to meet its international commitments to reducing greenhouse gases.

Although promoted as a ‘bridging’ or ‘transition’ fuel, the current ‘dash for gas’ actually stymies the shift to renewable energy. On 14 January 2014, David Cameron announced that the UK is ‘going all out for fracking’, declaring the intention to double to 100% the amount Councils can keep in business rates from shale gas sites. On 24 April, energy minister Michael Fallon revealed that the next Conservative government would end subsidies to onshore windfarms: The two announcements are directly connected.

Paid ymlacio, dim fracio!

Local communities, environmental groups and networks are already in action to prevent extreme

energy extraction in Wales. Frack Free Wales is a coalition of groups and individuals determined to take action on extreme energy based on sound scientific and economic analyses. On their website, Frack Free Wales list ten local groups opposed to fracking, including Anti-Fracking West and Mid Wales. So far, this West and Mid Wales group involves mainly people from the Aberystwyth area and organises via an active facebook site. On the 7 May around twenty people turned out for a very positive meeting in the Black Lion, Llanbadarn Fawr The turnout included a couple of people from Machynlleth, representing a larger group, and at least one guy from Lampeter.

High on the agenda was Friends of the Earth Cymru’s campaign to lobby the Welsh government for a moratorium on fracking, a measure that is within their power.

Energy Independence Day On 5 July – ‘Wales Energy Independence Day – there will be concerted actions in communities all across Wales to collect signatures on postcards to send to First Minister Carwyn Jones. In Aberystwyth, postcards will be posted in a giant fracked (cracked) Earth while puppets, a red dragon, a choir and sundry others support the street action. There’s also a lobby to get Ceredigion Council to be the first in Wales to declare itself a ‘Frack Free Local Authority’.

In the evening there will be a film show and music in the Bandstand on the seafront. To follow up on this all Wales day of action, FoE Cymru propose a national demonstration on 11 October, Global Frackdown Day, when all the fracked Earths from across Wales will converge on the Sennedd in Cardiff. Lampeter folk are very welcome to join in the action in Aberystwyth on 5 July or – better yet – hold your own events. Just make sure we swamp Carwyn Jones with thousands of postcards!

For further information about FoE Cymru’s campaign contact: 07817 596 285, kelvin.john.mason@gmail.co.uk FoE Cymru http://www.foe.co.uk/cymru/english/cymru_english.html Frack Free Wales http://www.frackfreewales.org/ Anti Fracking West and Mid Wales https://www.facebook.com/groups/Antifrackwestmidwales/ Global Frackdown http://www.globalfrackdown.org/ Fracking: The debate http://www.ies-uk.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/ fracking_the_debate.pdf

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A Storyteller in Ceredigion Peter Stevenson is a storyteller, children’s writer, book illustrator, folklorist, purveyor of Magical Lantern Shows. He is also a concertina and banjo player, organiser of the annual three day Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre, AND he runs Stories by Gaslight, a storytelling club at Oriel Nwy / the Gas Gallery in Aberystwyth that encourages collaborations with visual artists, musicians, dancers and puppeteers.

He has illustrated, compiled and written over a hundred children's books (you will have seen his work in the well-known Ladybird series) He has travelled the country with storytelling shows for adults that use hundreds of projected illustrations and live music, has compiled and written Ceredigion Folk Tales for the History Press for whom he has also written and illustrated a biography of Dylan Thomas due out this year. He tramps the roads with mud on his boots and his head in the clouds.

Peter is now touring The Crow and the Canary in a unique collaboration with Elsa Davies (fiddle and voice) and Ceri Owen-Jones (harp and voice). Ceri and Elsa play traditional tunes, learnt from friends or brought to life from sleeping manuscripts. Ceri was raised in Canada and has returned to his family roots in Cei Newydd. With Peter and Elsa he has researched the archive of Myra Evans of Cei Newydd in the National History Museum, St. Ffagan’s. Myra was a writer, artist and collector of folk songs, stories and legends. In the process of reading her manuscripts and

tramping dark, gorse- patched cliffs, new and rare musical material has been whispered into being intuitive and emotive, with stories that colour and glide behind every set of tunes.

All of the material discovered and created, comes together in performance: encounters with the dark Otherworld of west Wales, from lazy harpers to light footed fiddlers, from the Lady of the Millpond to the Llanina mermaid, from Siani Pob Man to Dylan the poet.

See The Crow and the Canary at Neuadd y Mileniwm, Cellan Millennium Hall on Saturday 31 May. £5 at the door which opens at 7pm. Food for sale 7-8pm Lynne Denman

What is it? - A campaign of creative direct action with 7 miles of knitted wool power How will it work? Between now and 9 August a 7 mile long Peace Scarf will be knitted to stretch between Atomic Weapons Establishment sites at Aldermaston & Burghfield, Berkshire where nuclear weapons are made How can you get involved? Pick up your needles and help protest in a pink, powerful and pro-active way by helping to knit or crochet a metre of the scarf What next? In Lampeter, we are planning to send off large parcels of pink blankets as sections of the scarf. There will be knitting ‘get togethers’ at The Mulberry Bush on Saturday 7 June, 2-5pm and at Red Apple on Tuesday 1 July, 2-5pm, with another at Victoria Hall, date tbc See you there with your pink yarn and your needles and hooks Contact: Gro-Mette, 07875 338572, kalimetta@yahoo.com 34

Memorable Uprisings and Protests in Britain Political protests, whether violent, peaceful or downright peculiar, form part of our rich historical tapestry. We look back on protests with interest because, regardless of their success in accomplishing what they originally set out to do, they serve as social markers. Many historical protests serve to show how society and expectations have altered.

From villain to hero Once considered a villain and now widely considered a hero, Guy Fawkes, shows how our views have altered and our loyalties changed.

On the night of 5th November 1605, Guy Fawkes and his cohort of co-conspirators had plotted to remove King James from the throne. Fawkes was caught and arrested after the British royalty had been alerted by an anonymous letter, he was then tortured until he confessed and gave information leading to the arrest of other the conspirators. On his execution day (31 Nov) he jumped from the scaffolding he was to be hanged from and broke his neck.

Throughout the following 400 years, 5 November was celebrated in Britain as a day to remember the thwarted plot. It became known as Bonfire Night, with fireworks and bonfires in which effigies of Fawkes were burnt. However, in the last 100 years, the image of Fawkes has dramatically transformed. Now instead of being characterised as a murderer and terrorist, he is often seen as a hero and often referred to as “the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions”. Today, 5 November is a day to commemorate Fawkes’ subversive ideas and we are less likely to ask for a penny for the guy and more likely to ask for a penny for effigies’ of current leading parliamentary figures.

No women at Cambridge, 1897 In a protest that would shock today’s student feminists, male students at Cambridge held a protest against a decree that would allow women to receive full degrees from the university.

They suspended an effigy of a woman riding a bicycle, representative of the stereotypical female Cambridge student, from a window whilst brandishing banners with slogans such as "No Gowns for Girtonites" (students of the all-women, Girton college).

Upon hearing that the ruling had fallen, students then maimed and decapitated the effigy before pushing it through the gates of the all-women college, Newnham. It would take over two decades for women to be granted full degrees, with it finally being asserted in 1921.

Children need Fathers in Underpants Dressed as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man or any other comicbook avenger for which a costume could be acquired, Fathers4Justice have livened up many news bulletins by defiantly scaling a roof or landmark and waving a homemade banner. The group’s message was clear, that children needed both parents and that they wanted fair access rights to their offspring. Their plight and comic book demonstration techniques got attention, but also received critics, most memorably from the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone who responded to their 2004 stunt on London’s Tower Bridge by saying it showed

"why some men should not have access to their children". I think it’s fair to assume that their message had been lost in translation.

Good Shot In protest to the plans for the third runway at Heathrow, Leila Deen, 35

the anti-Heathrow campaigner slimed Lord Mandelson, with green paint laden custard. It’s not the action of throwing the custard that is important, but the sentiment behind it that matters.

When questioned about the incident, Miss Deen said: "I don’t

want to wake up early to throw green custard over Peter Mandelson. But something has to protect our children’s future... We can't let the Prince of Darkness cast his shadow over west London."

This incident joins part of a proud tradition of people throwing things at Labour ministers. The aforementioned Fathers4Justice caused a terrorism scare when they hurled purple flour at the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair in the House of Commons. Whilst former Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott got some sizeable media coverage when he retaliated against a protester with a left jab after having an egg thrown at him.

Baked Goods, Strong Tea and Jam Competitions The WI is commonly known for its authority on jam making and baking, but it has a long history of campaigning on a wide range of issues that matter to women and their communities. Jamie Oliver may have thought he was leading the way in his school dinner campaign, but the WI first campaigned for school dinner provision back in 1926. Whilst during the 1970s the WI lobbied for the introduction of breast screening clinics. This campaign resulted in the government introducing a number of mobile clinics followed by a national screening programme. It just goes to show that the British can achieve great things with a cup of strong tea, it’s just a pity we don’t unite in protest more often.

Seren Evans-Charrington

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“Memory will save Humanity”

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Please email your poster (JPEG format) to: admin@vichall.org.uk Thanks!

discussion about the Holocaust

Mon 30 June, 6.30 – 8pm

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Victoria Hall

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corrections & clarifications

Relevant to GCSE modules in local schools

Apologies to all puzzlers for the following errors: Crossword No. 3, clue 36 stated a 6 letter answer, when it was actually only 2.

Crossword No. 2 Answers grid, 7 Down should have read EWE & not EWW; 18 Down had a letter missing, and should have read YOGI. The Grapevine newsletter Team

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Custard Queens

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Started in November of 2013 and coming up to their first six month anniversary, the Custard Queens Women’s Institute is based in Lampeter. Organised by President Jen Pink and the ‘Pink Ladies’, this W.I. is a new and vibrant community of ladies presenting an up to date, modern approach to the W.I. with activities and attitudes to match.

Meeting every month with additional ‘crafternoons’ and social evenings, the group has already taken part in a wide variety of exciting events such as; forensic science, landscape embroidery, etching workshop, needle felting, darts, WI competitions and curry nights.

Events coming up soon, include a Bowling Evening, Peg Looming, Treasure Hunt, Summer and Christmas Fairs, Quiz Night, Garden Party and many other events to be confirmed as well as monthly craft sessions, rallies and trips.

Ages from 18 to 80+ all very welcome.

Custard Queens meet every third Sunday of the Month Victoria Hall, Lampeter, 7-10pm For further details 07540 383835, custardqueenswi@gmail.com or check out the NEW website http://custardqueenswi.weebly.com and Facebook page www.facebook.com/custardqueenswi Carole Elizabeth 36

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Food Safety Week: 16 - 22 June

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Send your letters/articles & listings to lampetergrapevine@gmail.com Copy date: Friday 13 June Theme: ‘Grow, Cook & Eat’

This 4th Local General Knowledge and Cryptic Crossword is sponsored by The Mulberry Bush, which competition has kindly offered a hamper of locally produced food for the winner.

Mulberry Bush Wholefoods Store was co-founded by Josie and Bryan Smith in 1974. It is currently celebrating its 40 th year and is still run by Josie Smith with her daughter, Stella. Stocking a very wide range of the finest organics, wholefoods and quality vitamin & mineral supplements, herbal remedies and homeopathy, it also runs a popular and well-respected vegetarian and vegan-friendly café.

Mulberry Bush Wholefoods won the category of ‘Best Pioneer’ in the industry after a complete renovation of the store and the opening of the café in 2007.

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In 2014, Mulberry Bush Wholefoods was one of only three finalists, from a record number of entrants, for the prestigious Natural and Organic Awards ‘Best Independent Retailer’ category.

The café also provides a venue for talented local artists to display their work, as well as gigs, talks and special meals.

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Across 1. The Teifi ten mile road race is part of ... Wales (3) 3. Cellan pub first licensed in 1891 (7.4) 9. Eric Bristow involved in this at the Arts Hall at Trinity St David (4,11) 12. One found at Cascade on the 14th of February (4) 13. Office providing Aberaeron’s forecast if not Lampeter’s (3) 14. I sense no change for the substance that makes bird’s nests edible (8) 16. Location of insurance consultants on the High Street (3.4,8) 19. Type of accommodation offered by Celtic Lakes Resort (5) 20. A topping for 8 down (3) 21. New caper sounds like an order to put on headwear again (5) 23. Lampeter venue for Friday night poker (7,6) 29. One criteria for getting free bus trips out of Lampeter (3) 32. Venue where the Aberaeron Mackerel Festival finishes up (5,4) 34. Sale item at Celtic Dragon Auctions, Ciliau Aeron (3) 35. She makes lovespoons with Tim at Dihewyd, near Lampeter (3) 36. Sir C Rankel arrangement for this Lampeter Chamber Orchestra cellist (5,5) 37. A Welsh county! (3)

Down 1. Give citron noodle calm stir for this Bridge Street shop (6,10) 2. How Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood was presented for the public (8) 3. Has been a private home, boarding school for boys, retirement home and a hotel (10) 4. Mock rash cure is Irish clover (8) 5. Artists supports found in Creative Cove (6) 6. Type of house found on part of Penbryn (4) 7. Wave sent out for Ceredigion on 103.3, 96.6 or 97.4 (5) 8. A single serving cake or flat bread found in Mark Lane Bakery (5) 10. Did houses react in this way during the October 1999 Lampeter earthquake? (7) 11. Rose I change for a willow (5) 15. Religious leader found at the centre of two sets of rulers, Hakim, Amirs (4) 17. Type of music heard at the World Sacred Music Festival in Lampeter (5) 18. Machine in library window used to remove cream from milk (9) 22. Power cut essentials found at D L Williams (7) 24. Lampeter was the first town in Wales to make this appointment from an ethnic minority (5) 25. Against start for leader in Turkey? (3) 26. Stretched as swans court on the Teifi (5) 27. Ox let out to celebrate? (5) 28. Tide flows outward at Aberaeron (4) 34. Expressing dismay when starting lorry? (3)

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LAMPETER TOWN FENCING CLUB Tues - 15.30-17.00 Fri - 18.30-20.00 LAMPETER LEISURE CENTRE Contact: Sean Slater Tel. 01570 493139

Cegin Pantygwin Outside catering provided for parties, agricultural shows, funerals etc

Dracorns Wood Floors New, reclaimed and antique Specialist in sanding and repairs to existing floors

Email: Anpiobaire1@aol.com

Wanted House Clearances, Bric-a Brac, all kinds of Garden Tools & Scrap Metal Contact: Tom Evans, 07947 944043 or Liz 07792 091953

Mike Bridge Celebration cakes made to order

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Six Giant African Land Snails FREE to a good home(s)!

Interested? Please contact: 01570 493573

WOMEN IN TUNE Wednesday 13 - Sunday 17 August The organisers are looking for enthusiastic women to get involved in volunteering their skills and energies.

Would you like to help organise an activity area for girls under 16? Do you have sound engineering experience & qualifications?

Volunteer to be part of a friendly, supportive group of women who make music, learn new skills and enjoy themselves.

See www.womenintune.co.uk or ring Lesley 07778 142643 for more info.

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Cacennau cartref, bara, cyffaith a bwydydd sawrus Ffrwythau, llysiau a phlanhigion tymhorol, cartref Cig a gynhyrchir yn lleol a dewis o waith llaw crefft Te a choffi

do you have any good gardening tips? what is your favourite home-grown food? why? do you have much-loved family recipes you’d like to share? tell us your top tips for quick & easy meals

Homemade cakes, bread, preserves and savouries Homegrown seasonal fruit, vegetables and plants Locally-produced meat and a selection of handmade craft Tea and coffee

experience the joys of local produce where are the best places for a summer picnic? can you recommend a great place to eat? what else can we grow (communities, economy, the next generation, ideas)? we would like to hear from you, so please get in touch we need your help to make sure that everyone really does ’hear it through the Grapevine’ contact the newsletter team lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

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www.westwaleslettings.com Tel: 01570 421111/ 07852 225982 New business opens in June - hoping to bring new life into Bridge Street…

Mark Richards, who resides in Aberaeron, recently qualified with ARLA in order to become the 1st letting agent to set up office in Lampeter Offering a service and advice to: 

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