Lampeter Grapevine Issue 37 Mar 2016

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

Mawrth - March 2016

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

Journey

contents in this issue… letters what’s going on reviews ads & classifieds le voyage town council news patagonia trek jottings where inner & outer journey meet a personal journey journey is as important as the destination a family journey live music at vic hall long wood uwtsd traws link cymru ysgol bro pedr theatre felinfach ysgol henry richard earth hour celtic christianity banc bwyd cothi gardeners secret travels of the grapevine journey cymdeithas hanes llambed lampeter museum kcc kids in action crossword competition people’s market people a day out lampeter — birthplace of welsh rugby

Le Voyage – Destination Saint Germain Sur Moine It was the summer of 2013 when a diverse group of us, families, councillors, historian, pharmacist, and a youth theatre group, left the Rookery car park … destination Saint Germain Sur Moine.

It was a long journey by bus and ferry.

However, it was worth it as the welcome we received in Saint Germain when we arrived was phenomenal. It felt like the whole town had turned out, greeting us as long lost family members, although many of us had never even met before. Each couple, individual or family were paired up with a host, and as we all left to go to their homes, it was apparent that the French had organised plenty for us to see and do over the next few days.

During our time in Saint Germain, we were treated to wonderful days out to attractions including a castle, markets and wine tasting at a local vineyard. We had delicious restaurant meals, picnics by the river, and got to see some amazing places with our marvellous hosts. We entertained them with Lampeter’s youth theatre group (LYT) led by the late Annie May and they entertained us with a hilarious sketch about coming to Lampeter.

So now it’s our turn! In April this year our French friends are coming to visit us in Lampeter and we would love to give them a great big Welsh welcome (Croeso).

In order to do this, the Lampeter Twinning Committee will be hosting a fundraising event at the Victoria Hall on Friday 11 March from 7pm until late. This will be a Twmpath/ Ceilidh with the Backroom Band performing rousing traditional folk music and we guarantee you won’t be able to resist getting up to dance.

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There will be a licensed bar on the night as well as food and a raffle. The admission charge is £5 adult and £2 child and tickets can be bought before the event or paid for on the night.

Please come along and support this community event so that we can give our French visitors a fabulous time here in Lampeter in April. The twinning link between Lampeter and Saint Germain sur Moine was founded in 2001 and since then there have been regular visits between the towns.

And finally we would like to thank you the people of Lampeter and surrounding villages in advance for supporting the Lampeter Twinning Association and our event.

So in April if you see our French friends walking around our friendly town, please say Bonjour, Hello or Shwmae and make them feel truly welcome in Lampeter!

We would like to thank the Arts Council of Wales Night Out Scheme for supporting this event. We would like to thank Transition Llambed Development Trust for their generosity in allowing us to use the Victoria Hall and its facilities and we would also like to thank Dunbia for their donation.

For tickets, please ring 07883 163631 or 07970 466575 or see our Facebook page sarahjanetravel@outlook.com; www.lampeter-tc-gov.uk www.backroomband.co.uk Sarah Pold Susan Broadway-Jones Lampeter Saint Germain Sur Moine Twinning Committee

GRAPEVINE no. 37, March 2016

Croeso / Welcome to this issue of the Grapevine...

As the theme is ‘Journey’ we should start by looking at the journey of the Grapevine... which begins with the contributors

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who send in a wealth of articles, listings and adverts or who

Published by: Transition Llambed Development Trust, Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter, SA48 7EE

by a very small team of volunteers who organise the copy

Printed by: TSD Reprographics, Lampeter, on paper from sustainable resources

prepare and collate crosswords, artwork, photographs and other content for inclusion each issue. This is sifted and sorted ready for design, layout and editing. Every time I sit down to work on a new issue I find myself travelling on an immense journey of discovery too. Sometimes this is an enlightening one, finding out new information or learning about different activities; often it can be a confusing few days, dealing with a mass of data and detail; typically this is an intense period with occasional bouts of frustration (particularly when content doesn’t quite fit the space available), but overall it is a hugely rewarding and worthwhile process which I feel privileged to be a part of. The journey continues with proof reading, printing,

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distribution and invoicing until eventually the production

Please include the reason you are contacting us in the subject box of your email (Article, Letter, Enquiry)

about what is going on … so the journey supports, informs and

To add your event or course to our Free listings: lampetergrapevinelist@gmail.com or post to address above To place an advert: lampetergrapevineads@gmail.com Full guidelines for advertisers & contributors: see grapevine page on www.transitionllambed.co.uk Display advertising rates: ¼ column £12; ¼ page £30; ½ page £48; full page £84 (back page £96) £30 off ads for one-off public events held in Victoria Hall Classified ads: £2.50 / 20 wds (min. £2.50) Therapists' section (max 35 wds) £10 for 5 Copy date for April, issue 38: Fri 11 Mar, Theme: ‘Trends’ Circulation this issue: 2,500 copies distributed free in the Lampeter area We reserve the right to edit all contributions for reasons of space & clarity. The views expressed in letters and articles are not necessarily those of Transition Llambed Development Trust or the newsletter group.

Front Cover: Artwork - Dylis Pugh

phase is over and you, the readers, take over. Many people have said that the Grapevine is the only way they find out strengthens the community it serves (both paper copies and digitally). It acts as a record of local events, news and views and encapsulates the essence of the Lampeter area for future reference. We know copies are shared amongst friends and family before being stored, recycled, reused or repurposed. I think you’ll agree this is quite an amazing journey in itself.

Now its time for you to travel through the pages of the biggest issue ever, to see what you can discover on your own journey.

Darllen wch yn hapus / Happy reading Angie Martin, Editor

polite reminder: If you're sending us display adverts or an article, please check the format - it'll save us (and you) lots of time. Please send photos & artwork in jpg format as we cannot accept PDFs For full guidelines for advertisers & contributors: see Grapevine page on www.transitionllambed.co.uk If you are unsure or don’t understand any of these technical terms, then please do get in touch - we’ll be happy to help.

The Newsletter Team Other contact details: Transition Llambed: www.transitionllambed.co.uk email: transitionllambed@gmail.com Victoria Hall: www.vichall.org.uk To make bookings for Victoria Hall contact: admin@vichall.org.uk or phone/text 07891 632614 People's Market: To book a stall contact: rhydygwinfarm@talktalk.net or ring 01570 471432 3

CYFLWYNIAD: TRAWS LINK CYMRU. Derbyniwyd cyflwyniad gan Mr Mike Walker a Mr Geraint Blayney, cynrychiolwyr yr Ymgyrch Traws Link Cymru. Ymgyrch gwreiddiol yw Trawslink Cymru, sy'n ymroi i ail-agor y rheilffordd rhwng Caerfyrddin ac Aberystwyth. Cymeradwyodd Aelodau'r Cyngor Tref y Cynllun ac yr oeddynt o’r farn y byddai ailgyflwyno’r llinell yn cael effaith ffarfiol ar Lambed fel tref Brifysgol a’r ardal o gwmpas.

Cyngor Sir Ceredigion: Bid Llwybrau Diogel mewn Cymunedau i Lywodraeth Cymru: penderfynwyd cefnogi'r cynllun a gwneud Cyfraniad o 10% neu £ 8,000 (pa bynnag un yw'r isaf) ar gyfer Flwyddyn Gyntaf y Prosiect ENWEBU MAER A’R DIRPRWY FAER (2016-17). Enwebwyd y Cyng David Smith fel Maer ar gyfer y Flwyddyn Fwrdesitrefol 2016-17. Enwebwyd y Cyng Hag Harris fel Dirprwy-Faer ar gyfer y Flwyddyn Fwrdesitrefol 2016-17. Cynhelir Seremoni Urddo'r Maer ar Ddydd Gwener 6ed o Fai, 2016 yn yr Hen Neuadd, PCYDDS Llanbedr Pont Steffan. Cydlynu Cinio er budd Newynog Ein Byd; Cytunwyd ar Ddydd Gwener 4ydd Mawrth 2016 fel dyddiad i gydlynu'r Digwyddiad a gynhelir yn Neuadd Eglwys Sant Pedr, Llanbedr Pont Steffan.

DYDDIAD AR GYFER DISGO’R YSGOL; Mawrth 24, 2016 (pm) Cynhelir y Ddawns Flynyddol a drefnwyd gan y Cyngor Tref ar ddydd Iau 24 Mawrth, 2016 yn Ysgol Bro Pedr.

MATERION CYNLLUNIO. Cais Rhif: A151007. Cynnig: Newid defnydd y llawr gwaelod o adwerthu i ddau fflat. Lleoliad: 18 Stryd Fawr, Llanbedr Pont Steffan. Sylwadau'r Cyngor Tref: Dim gwrthwynebiad. Caniatâd Cynllunio gan Gyngor Sir Ceredigion: Cais: Amrywio Amod 2 o Ganiatâd Cynllunio A080369 Cynllun Diwygiedig. Lleoliad: Dan y Wenallt, Glynhebog, Llanbedr Pont Steffan.

Y PRAESEPT AR GYFER Y FLWYDDYN ARIANNOL NESAF (2016-17) Ar ôl ystyriaeth ofalus, penderfynwyd yn unfrydol y byddai'r Praesept ar gyfer y flwyddyn ariannol nesaf yn aros yr un fath â'r flwyddyn flaenorol h.y. £41,000. Mae'r £41,000 yn cynrychioli taliad o £46.05 yn flynyddol neu 89 ceiniog yr wythnos ar gyfer Trethdalwr y Cyngor Band D. Ffurfia Praesept y Cyngor Tref canran fechan o'r Bil Treth y Cyngor (llai na 5%). Teimlai Aelodau y gallai costau bob-dydd gael eu cwrdd o fewn y gyllideb hon. Gellir ymwneud â thaliadau ychwanegol o gronfeydd wrth gefn. Adroddwyd y gallai'r Cyngor Tref wynebu her ariannol yn y dyfodol, wrth i Brydain wynebu toriadau difrifol mewn gwariant cyhoeddus a’r parhad yn y ddirwasgiad.

CYDYMDEIMLAD. Estynnwyd cydymdeimlad Dwys â theulu’r diweddar Mr Richard Matthers, Archwiliwr Ariannol Mewnol y Cyngor Tref.

PRESENTATION: TRAWSLINK CYMRU. A presentation was received from Mr Mike Walker and Mr Geraint Blayney, representatives of the Trawslink Cymru Campaign. Trawslink Cymru is a grass roots campaign, which hopes to re-open the railway line between Carmarthen and Aberystwyth. Members of the Town Council endorsed the scheme and felt that the reintroduction of the line would have a positive impact on Lampeter as a University town and also, the surrounding area.

Ceredigion County Council’s Safe Routes in Communities Bid to the Welsh Government. It was resolved to support the scheme and to make a Contribution of 10% or £8,000 (whichever will be the least) for the first year of the Project NOMINATION OF MAYOR & DEPUTY MAYOR (2016-17). Cllr David Smith was nominated as Mayor for the Municipal Year 2016-17. Cllr Hag Harris was nominated as Deputy-Mayor for the Municipal Year 2016-17. The Mayor’s Installation Ceremony will be held on Friday 6 May 2016 at the Old Hall, UWTSD Lampeter.

CO-ORDINATING THE HUNGER LUNCH; Friday 4 March 2016 was chosen as a date to co-ordinate the Hunger Lunch, which will be held at St Peter’s Church Hall, Lampeter.

DATE FOR THE SCHOOL DISCO; The Annual Disco as hosted by the Town Council will be held on Thursday 24 March 2016 at Ysgol Bro Pedr.

PLANNING MATTERS Application Number: A151007 Proposal: Change of use of ground floor from retail to two flats.

Location: 18 High St, Lampeter. Town Council: No Objections.

Planning Permission granted by CCC: Proposal: Variation of Condition 2 of Planning Permissions A080369 amended plans.

Location: Dan y Wenallt, Falcondale Drive, Lampeter.

THE PRECEPT FOR THE NEXT FINANCIAL YEAR (2016-17). After careful deliberation it was unanimously resolved that the Precept for the next financial year would remain the same as the previous year (£41,000). The £41,000 represents a payment of £46.05 p.a. and 89 pence per week for the Band D Rate-Payer. The TC’s Precept forms a small percentage of the Council Tax Bill (less than 5%) Members felt that running costs could be met within this budget. Additional payments could be met from reserves. It was reported that the Town Council could be facing financial challenges in the future, as Britain is facing severe public-spending cuts and remains in recession.

CONDOLENCES Members were saddened to hear of the recent passing away of the Town Council’s Internal Auditor namely Mr Richard Matthers, Cellan.

Condolences are extended to his family.

The People’s Market Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter Every 2nd and 4th Saturday 4

10am-1pm

Patagonia Trek for Velindre 4.30am 22 November 2015 saw Rhun and myself embark on our transatlantic trip to trek in Patagonia! After a 42 hour journey we finally touched down in the beautiful picturesque town of Esquel. A long journey but nothing compared to the three months our ancestors took to journey aboard the Mimosa from Wales to Patagonia 150 years previous. On arriving at Esquel we met up with the first group of trekkers from Velindre who, led by Shane Williams, had just completed the trek we were about to commence! On hearing words from Shane and others in that first group saying “it’s brutal”… and “I’m fit but it’s really challenging” the reality of what we were about to commence hit home!

The first day saw us trek up and down Craig Goch where 130 years previously to this day the Welsh settlers had arrived and saw what they aptly named Cwm Hyfryd initially having settled down in Patagonia twenty years previously!

The next day, and after a transfer to Bariloche at the foothills of the Andes, we took our first few steps as the rain began. We were carrying all our own equipment, with 75 litre rucksacks packed to the brim of clothing, food, toiletries and all that was needed for our journey!

We were led by trek leader Rhod Gilbert who in his words said “I’ll lead from the back”!

From El Tambo to Jacob hut, to Pampa Linda, to Roco Hut, our scenic journey on foot took us through lush green woodland, very steep climbs up through the forest and over muddy terrain, to deep snow covered ground where temperatures had plummeted. Accommodation was wooden huts and refuges, with few or no facilities. After day one from Bariloche we were told ‘if struggling we were not to continue as that was the only opportunity to trek back to where we had begun, as conditions were going to get even tougher!’ I think we all realized how remote we were when we only met four other people during the whole trek apart from those in our group!

Steep ascents over boulders followed by steep descents through thick snow, over rocky snow covered summits at around 1700m around Glaciers. We made numerous river crossings getting very numb feet as we waded through fast flowing icy rivers.

Through vast bamboo forests, climbing over fallen trees, logs, and slipping down muddy banks all with the weight of the rucksacks on our backs, one could have been

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mistaken that we had signed up for an assault course. You had to have complete concentration at all times and unfortunately we did have one casualty as a lady fractured her ankle on the numerous bamboos protruding out of the ground! Having her ankle completely strapped up by our expedition Doctor she had no choice but to continue the trek for that day only! Twelve hours later we arrived at Pampa Linda after a good 1,000m of descent!

A special place was Pase de la Nubes (place of the clouds) ascending through fresh snow, views from the ridge were almost prehistoric as we had a 360 degree view all around. Being so remote it was lovely to take in the stars and unpolluted sky and see the Southern Cross.

Our final days saw more steep descents down the valley through the forest, where the thighs were now feeling the pressure. Complete with wobbly thighs we headed downhill over rocks, over more fallen trees, through swamp waters, bamboo, river crossings; entering a subtropical rainforest, having trekked past the Frias Glacier, eventually reaching the final destination of River Frias and the stunning Lago Frias.

Here is just a short insight into our expedition. It is hard to put the moments into 750 words; where you go in your mind, never giving up when the going got tough, as we were all doing this for one reason, and that was to raise funds for Velindre Cancer Centre.

A tough, physical and mental challenge but nothing compared to what sufferers, and families of sufferers of this terrible disease face each day. It is therefore with a great sense of achievement that our group of trekkers, on this Patagonia trek alone, have raised over £500,000.00 for this marvelous charity. Exhausting and exhilarating we would not hesitate to do it all again! Rhun and I would like to thank ALL who have assisted us along the way with the spectacular fundraising achievements! This would not have been possible without all your fantastic support and for this we and Velindre are truly grateful.

Cheryl Evans

LETTERS

How does this help Lampeter? IT DOESN’T I have therefore a few suggestions:1. Put a grant application form In The Grapevine for all to see, (it is on their website but not everyone knows that, or has internet access) 2. Be less stringent when assessing applications, just use some basic common sense and ask a few simple follow up questions if needs be.

3. Be aware that £100 gets nothing in this day and age. I would suggest that a base figure of £500 would be more sensible and much more to clearly worthwhile projects that will benefit the town.

A few suggested projects/events etc. where money would be most welcomed:1. Help increase the print run of this excellent publication, which does so much for the town and surrounding area.

Currently some 2500 are printed but I know from my own experience when distributing copies that a much larger print run is needed. Surely if the Town Council paid the additional print bill to take this to say 3500 copies per issue it would be money well spent and appreciated by all, for a relatively small cost.

2. Financial help with events at The Victoria Hall, which is the hub of events in the town.

3. Additional funding towards The Food Festival, maybe towards paying for a celebrity chef to attend or live music in the evening (or both!)

4. Support for the planned Jazz Festival in July.

5. Support for Traws Link Cymru, the group campaigning to get the railway back to Lampeter.

6. Help support a volunteer run outlet to promote the town, in one of the empty shops.

I am sure readers could suggest many more things that the money could be used for, rather than sitting earning peanuts in the bank waiting for “the rainy day”. Well, those rainy days are here, times are tough for small towns and will only get worse unless attempts to stop their decline are put in place NOW! So here is the challenge to Lampeter Town Council, get your cheque book out and be seen to be fully promoting and supporting the town you represent, before it’s too late.

Nigel Bird, Tregaron

grapevine, victoria hall, bryn road, lampeter SA48 7EE

email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

Dear Grapevine, I am a player of the ancient board game ‘Go’.

I am interested in contacting anyone who would like to play ‘Go’, and possibly start a club.

I would very much appreciate publicity in this respect Please contact Ian directly if you Yours Sincerely are interested or would like Ian Carson more details. Eds. 01974 298807 iancarson@hotmail.com Madam As you are reading this I assume you are probably a Lampeter resident, or like me, a regular to the town from nearby (I live near Tregaron) or maybe a visitor, on holiday or visiting friends.

Whichever of these fits you, it is safe to assume, that you, like me, want the best for Lampeter. Plenty of shops, regular events all year round, good transport links, and a good community spirit.

Lampeter appears to have plenty of “doers”, just look in this free paper, lots going on, much organised by willing volunteers.

Community events need two things-willing organisers/ volunteers and of course some funding.

FUNDING-That is the point of this letter.

One of the main sources of funding is of course grant aid, be it from local or national bodies.

To that extent, one of Lampeter Town Council’s raison d'etre is to supply such grant aid to suitable projects, and by doing so help the town prosper and continue to attract visitors, who in turn then spend money and help the economy of the area.

I am aware that they do make a few small grants (many just £50 and £100) to various groups HOWEVER you may be shocked to discover, as I was, that they have reserves of over £132,000, with another tranche of money (approx. £41,000) due to be added to their coffers from The annual Precept very shortly. This will make almost £175,000 sitting doing nothing.

This article appeared in the Cambrian News recently “The council has almost double the recommended amount of cash kept back for a rainy day.

For the past six years, the council has held well over £100,000 in reserves in the bank, with the council’s auditors BDO expressing concern over the high level.

The recommended amount to be held in reserve is the same as the annual precept, but no more than twice – so should be a maximum of £82,000 for the town, which collected £41,000 from the town’s taxpayers last year.

Lampeter Town Council currently has £132,833 sitting in the bank.”

This letter was forwarded to the Town Council so that they had the opportunity to respond. However, as it is customary for the Town Council to read letters from the public and debate them at a meeting before offering an official response, this will appear in the next issue of Grapevine.

Grapevine did receive two replies to this letter, one from the Mayor, Cllr Chris Thomas who confirmed “The official response will be given after debating the letter in the next Town Council Meeting which is normal practise.” along with a personal view, and the other from Cllr Hag Harris.

The following is a ‘personal’ response from Cllr Hag Harris, written as a previous Mayor and long standing Town & County Councillor and not on behalf of the Town Council.

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LETTERS

In response to Nigel Bird’s letter regarding Lampeter Town Council's reserve fund of £132,000 I would like to make the following observations: The reserve has been built up over a period of years largely as the result of the decrease in the financial contribution towards CCTV costs initially and now, with the closure of this system, the resulting savings. The Town Council has always utilised these reserves for the benefit of the Town. Without an adequate Reserve Fund the Town Council would not be able to react to challenges faced by our community. £20,000 was granted to the Victoria Hall project to kick-start this project which has been very successful and of great benefit to the community. The Swimming Pool was facing closure and as a result of financial support from the Town Council was kept open until it could be transferred seamlessly to the County Council. The Lampeter Family Centre was supported generously to enable it to stay in existence after a member of staff defrauded the Centre of thousands of pounds. At our last meeting the Town Council agreed to contribute £8,000 as part-funding for Road Safety works in the area of the school to make our young people's journey to school safer.

Given the Westminster dictated Austerity Agenda the noose around the County Council Budget, £25 million Budget cuts already with more on the way, will inevitably mean more responsibility falling on Town and Community Councils. The Town Council is already in negotiation with Tai Ceredigion regarding the transfer of the Maesyfelin Play Area to the Council. Negotiations are ongoing for the Town Council to take over the responsibility for the War Memorial Park. The Town Council has a long-standing interest in the Maesyderi Field and presently leases the field. None of these projects are cheap and it is only as a result of the sound financial policies in the past that the Town Council has the ability to invest in our Town. There is a strong rational to the Council holding and deploying financial reserves.

The Town Council supports financially many events in Lampeter every year including Lampeter Eisteddfod, Lampeter Show, Lampeter Carnival, Food Festival, many cultural and other events as well as contributing to the costs of Lampeter Museum.

There will always be debate about how any Council spends the Public's money. Some of the letter writers' suggestions will be popular with some and less popular to others. Town Councillors must consider all applications fairly and make decisions on behalf of the community. Strategic thinking is key. It would not be possible to support financially all individual events held at the Victoria Hall. If we did the cupboard would soon be bare and the Town Council no longer able to intervene financially where necessary as has been done in the past. I do not foresee that the present balance of Reserves will remain static but I do foresee that the residents of Lampeter will be grateful for having the Reserves at their present level and the Council able to respond to at least some of the problems we face as a community in a period of enforced austerity.

Yours Sincerely Cllr. Hag Harris

grapevine, victoria hall, bryn road, lampeter SA48 7EE

email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com Dear Grapevine, I'm hoping that you might find a space for this piece of important Local Public Information regarding the councils consultation period - ending 21 March - on school bus provision The council are currently in the middle of a consultation period regarding school bus provision. Due to financial considerations, they are going to bring in a charge of £390 a year per child, for a) all post 16 students in years 12 and 13, and b) any child who currently uses a school bus under 'spare seat provision'.

As I understand it, this applies to all children who are not attending their geographically nearest school, or who live less than 2 miles away from their secondary school or less than 3 miles away from their closest primary school.

My first thoughts are for the safety of our teenagers, who may end up having to walk home along roads with no pavements. The other issues I can see is that this will eliminate choice of schools for those starting out, and for others it will mean either a disruptive change of schools, or a huge bill. This is likely to take place from 1st September 2017. Let them know your thoughts on 01970 633364 or print off the response form at Ceredigion.gov-schools-planning education provision Joanne Camlin

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A Family’s Journey

Live Music Venue at Victoria Hall?

Mum and her family were referred to Home-Start in August 2012. Mum is a single mother of four children – two teenage girls, a seven year old son, and a three year old daughter. Mum suffers from severe mental health problems that make it difficult for her to cope sometimes. The eldest of six children, Mum’s own mother suffered with mental health issues and she spent time in care as a child. She moved to the area after experiencing difficulties with her neighbours, which meant she and her family had to move home. After the move her teenage daughters, had difficulty attending school, with poor attendance and were often sent home for bad behaviour. All four children were on the Child Protection register.

Mum was referred to Home-Start who offered her support. Volunteer has been supporting Mum ever since. Volunteer provides Mum with crucial support when she is struggling with a complex range of issues and crises. She spends 2-2 ½ hours a week at her home.

She helps her attend her medical appointments, talks her through phone calls to pay her bills, and when Mum’s brother was sent to prison, Volunteer supported her. Mum and her youngest daughter also attend a weekly family support group at Home-Start where Mum gets practical assistance, managing her finances, and her youngest gets to play with other children.

Volunteer has helped Mum develop her parenting skills, helping her to set boundaries for her children. Now her youngest holds her mum’s hand when walking down street rather than running off, and her teenage daughters know to be home by a set time in the evening.

Volunteer is not just there for Mum, she helps support the whole family.

Though Home-Start traditionally helps families with young children up to the age of five, Volunteer has also provided support for the older children because she recognises that helping the family as a whole enables Mum to cope better. Volunteer referred one of the children to a specialist who supports her with her dyslexia. As a result her attendance at school has improved. Volunteer supports Mum to attend school meetings to discuss her daughters’ progress. Home-Start helped Mum find her son a school closer to home which has reduced the stress of getting children to school in the morning. When the family came to Home-Start all four children had child protection plans. Now the youngest no longer do and have been moved down to the Child in Need Register. The staff at Home-Start have got to know Mum and her family well – they’ve watched her youngest daughter gaining confidence and attending nursery, and her son now has a 100% attendance record at school. Once a month Volunteer visits the family for a craft session and the whole family gets involved and plays together.

For Mum, the journey is very much still up and down, but Home-Start is helping her keep her head above water and become more independent.

Does anyone want to help bring about

Our vision Home-Start wants to see a society in which every parent has the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life.

wishing to gain experience would be

If you feel you could help a family please contact us on: 01570 218546 Sharon Morris

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a

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Lampeter at the Victoria Hall? We are looking for volunteers who are interested in promoting live music and prepared to take on various roles, from booking acts to poster and leaflet distribution, to ticket sales, to managing the evening, you may even want to improve your lighting and sound engineering skills.

Since The Talbot ceased hosting musical acts, we are in the middle of an area desperately short of a larger music venue. We have to journey to Aberystwyth for major acts. In and around Lampeter we have many excellent musicians who have had successful nights in the Victoria Hall. However we could also draw from further afield and attract bigger

acts.

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have

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contacted by a very experienced and eager agent who now lives locally.

With your help we can attract a variety of acts and performers, catering for all tastes and age groups.

There is of course, the excellent and blossoming “Folk Nights” in the hall at the moment but we can do more and make the Victoria Hall and Lampeter an exciting place for acts to come and perform.

Just to remind you that the Victoria Hall is run by Volunteers on behalf of the Lampeter community. We hope that money can be made from the music

nights

facilities.

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help think

improve about

becoming part of it. Younger people very welcome.

Contact: Gary Thorogood 07891 632614 victoriahall.llambed@gmail.com Gary Thorogood

Where the Inner Journey and the Outer Journey Meet The earth turns and tilts on its journey through space, and we move into March. The Spring Equinox marks a moment of balance between the light and the dark before the days lengthen towards summer. For the Romans who named this month after Mars the god of war, this was the time of marching back into battle.

We might not think of ourselves as war-like, but we’re still engaged in ‘the war against cancer’, ‘the war against drugs’, and so on. We envisage our problems as things to ‘overcome’, so our mindset is embattled and that makes it difficult to imagine other ways of working with problems. ‘Fighting’ usually gives energy to the very thing we want to change!

If, like most of us involved in the Transition movement, you want to effect change that will bring about a society where we recognize ourselves as part of nature rather than separate and above it, then you may have already understood that this involves changing your inner self too. Our life’s journey will then also include a spiritual journey that involves an ongoing and sometimes difficult process of personal change and development.

Recognizing the interconnected nature of reality, and the radical interdependence of all that exists is fairly easy to understand cognitively. This is the kind of understanding that an over-rationalized culture allows, and the world of technology, science and commerce seems to be afraid of humans actually feeling this level of connectedness. If we did allow ourselves to feel the connection, we’d all be in deep mourning for the beautiful species we are losing daily. Radical changes in life-style would be easier to create if we really felt the suffering that our addictions cause to others, and when we finally realise that they are not making us happy either.

My own journey is ongoing and at times extremely challenging as I peel off more and more layers and get

closer to the source, but the more I’ve surrendered and opened the more help appears in the form of teachers and mentors, organisations and practices. These include art making, Mindfulness and Compassion practices, psychotherapy and my training as an Art Therapist, Raga (Indian devotional singing), First Nature (Voice, breathe and body work), ‘the work that re-connects’ (Joanna Macy).

Eco-spirit Workshops make use of these various approaches to help us deepen our connection with ourselves and Gaia. We aim to nurture the experience of spaciousness, developing compassion for ourselves, each other and the planet. Taking our time to become quiet and really experience ourselves within the web of relationships, we attune to the season and the turning of the year, drawing on various cultural traditions, and together create rituals of celebration.

One of the many origins of the word journey is “the distance travelled in a day”, and on Sunday 20 March we are inviting you to join us on the hillside above Llanddewi Brefi, to celebrate the Equilux and see how far we can travel on this spiraling journey together!

See the Grapevine listings section for more details or go to http://dylispugh.co.uk and follow the link to the ‘Eco-Spirit Groups’ page. There is an Early Bird Discount for those that book early.

Dylis Pugh artandtherapywithdylis@macmate.me

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The mild, wet and often windy weather during the first few weeks of the year has encouraged the early blooming of a number of spring flowers; the Lesser Celandine is about four weeks early. Birds, though, are more in step with the season and every day a new song is added to the dawn chorus. Herons returned to their colony at Cockshead Wood between Tregaron and Lampeter during the last days of January as they have done for the past twenty five years. This colony is one of the largest in Ceredigion. Rooks have been looking at their stick nests to assess the damage of the winter storms.

Mammals will also become more active over the next few weeks and, if you are lucky, you may see Hares boxing — a rather amusing spectacle. If you are able to stroll near rivers or ponds listen for the telltale “plop” of the Water Vole (Ratty of Wind in the Willows). This little chap is in serious trouble and is reported to be disappearing from some of its English strongholds. However they are sometimes seen along the banks of the Teifi especially on the slower stretches.

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A Personal journey from Saint Lucia to Lampeter I was born in Saint Lucia, a beautiful little island in the Caribbean Sea. We lived on my grandfather’s farm, it was an idyllic life. My early childhood was spent exploring the woodland playing on the white sandy beaches.

My father was a master tailor and had a thriving business in the town. I remember him coming home one day and declaring that we were all moving to London where he was going to set up a new business. So, at the age of seven, I left Saint Lucia with my parents and two younger brothers for our adventure to Great Britain.

It was winter when we arrived and snowing. We had never experienced this before so, although we were extremely cold, it was also very exciting. We moved to a tough area of South East London where I witnessed a lot of poor conditions, resulting in a lot of ill health amongst our neighbours. As a teenager I became interested in personal fitness and, in an effort to keep my younger siblings fit, busy and out of trouble, I took them all to the gym with me. This resulted in all six of us becoming fitness instructors as adults and the “Family Jacques” became well known around the gyms and leisure centres of London.

When I was nineteen I went to Goldsmiths College where I studied Graphic Art. I loved music and was a member of quite a few bands. I later studied for my degree in Sports Science at London Metropolitan University, covering all aspects of the human body from anatomy to nutrition.

Still passionate about health and fitness I trained as an “Extend” instructor (working with children, young adults and the elderly with disabilities). I have always had an holistic approach to health and was fascinated with alternative healing therapies. I began researching the possibilities and effects of combining

nutrition, exercise, lifestyle and relaxation. Over the next few years I became qualified to practice: Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Sports, Deep Tissue and Holistic massage. Then finally, The Bowen Technique. I am, therefore, a passionate advocate of all these disciplines. However, it is the amazing results achieved with the Bowen Technique which have impressed me the most. It seems a quite gentle therapy but it is, in fact, very powerful and can be helpful for most ailments from strokes, fibromyalgia, muscle damage, arthritis or autism.

It is safe for all ages from nought to a hundred! I have been practicing this therapy for fifteen years now but I am still blown away by the positive effect it has on the body.

I have been a practicing Nicherin Buddhist for nearly thirty years. This encourages the individual to achieve their full potential as a human being whilst recognising and respecting the “Buddhahood” of all others. This has been at the core of my life. It was while I was at the national Nicherin Buddhist centre in Taplow, Berkshire, seven years ago that I met my wife, Stephanie, who is also a Nicherin Buddhist. She lived in Lampeter and, after we got married, I continued to commute to and fro between Lampeter and London trying to balance my work life with my home life. I wanted to spend more time in Wales so I was, as you can imagine, delighted when Chris and Lisa Hutton invited me to open a clinic in their beautiful hotel the Falcondale Mansion, Lampeter.

“Bowen is amazing for treating so many illnesses and conditions that my aim is to make it accessible to everyone”.

Andrew Jacques For more info: www.backpainreliefandtreatment.com

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The Journey is as Important as the Destination

My name is Joanna Bond, I am based in West Wales, working from the Pottery Studio within Cardigan Bay Gallery, a cooperative gallery in the heart of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.

My work is often a response to the relationship and connection we all have with the natural world. This idea is incorporated into my unique tiles, jugs, jewellery and sculptural items.

The saying “the journey is as important as the destination” has been a mantra since I can remember. I have been on a journey to express myself through art, what seems all my life. In my thirty eighth year I feel I am getting closer to the true essence of what my art practice is all about, and what I feel I need in order to grow and develop as a human on this planet and my role as an artist within it.

My artistic journey kick started in 2011 with the launch my first solo exhibition “Pretty Common Things” an emotive response to our wild flowers growing in the hedgerows being cut in July before they had chance to set seed. This work is echoed in the ceramics jugs tiles, bowls and cups and I still make work on that theme.

However my desire to sing and perform was growing stronger, I made a conscious decision to connect with the performance side of me and combine it in a new project that would take me in a new direction. So in 2012 I started the project “Singing the Line into Existence”. This exciting project brings artists together to create a multidisciplinary performance and presentation of work, inspired by the landscape and history of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway line. The project runs in parallel to the ongoing Traws Link Cymru campaign to reinstate the

line. Having secured Arts Council of Wales funding, the project launched on 22 August 2015. In the following six weeks myself and a group of artists walked along sections of the old railway line, to dance, to film, to sing and record; to draw and make site specific art, reconnecting the locations and histories of the line through creative responses to the journey. Sharing stories and songs along the route, the artists blogged about the creation of new work as they went, developing ideas towards the final destination – a performance presentation first shown in Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth on 3 October 2015. If you missed the performance the first time, you will hopefully have a chance to see it in Autumn when we take it on tour to a few venues in Wales (to be confirmed) keep an eye on our blog singingthelineintoexistence.co.uk This is my journey to use art to support the campaign to reinstate the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen railway line. I am committed to continue on this journey until the railway line opens and I can travel by rail to see my family in South Wales.

The next phase of my journey has began as I recently won a residency for a nine months rent free studio at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. I am going to be using the space mainly for performance art and voice, for a new project inspired by a milk factory called Pont Llanio that closed soon after the closure of the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen railway line. I will be moving in on Fri 1 April.

Very excited!

My work can be purchased or commissioned at my studio and/or website shop joannabond@gmail.com Joanna Bond 11

Recent Reviews The Platform - Agriculture and Land Use in Wales Victoria Hall, Lampeter, Saturday 23 February 2016 Over 100 people gathered at Ceredigion Green Party’s latest Platform event, to consider how to best use land in Wales to develop sustainable rural communities and employment, and tackle climate change.

The Platform opened with a speech from Dr Sophie Wynne Jones from Bangor University, outlining some of the challenges faced by farmers, such as the pressure to specialise in a globalised market, reductions in subsidies and environmental change. Dr Wynne Jones also identified opportunities for collaborative working in community economies and the benefits available to farmers through using on farm renewables.

This was followed by group discussions on many themes, including diversification, sustainability, permaculture, localism and issues faced by young people in our rural communities.

Green Party lead list candidate for Mid & West Wales region in 2016 Welsh Assembly elections.

Dr Sophie Wynne-Jones, Lecturer in Human Geography, Prifysgol Bangor University.

Wyn Evans, President of Ceredigion NFU Cymru and NFU Cymru Livestock board Chairman Brian Williams, Wales Green Party candidate for Ceredigion constituency in 2016 Welsh Assembly elections.

Pippa Pemberton, archaeologist and Wales Green Party list candidate for Mid & West Wales region in 2016 Welsh Assembly elections.

Hilary Carberry, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University Jane Powell, co author of ‘A Food Manifesto for Wales’ Angie Polkey, Lampeter Permaculture Group Organisations in attendance Lampeter Permaculture Group, Paramaethu Cymru, Compassion in World Farming, Tir Coed, Swansea Biochar, NFU Cymru, FUW, Lampeter Beekeepers’ association

Wyn Evans, President of Ceredigion NFU Cymru and NFU Cymru Livestock board Chairman, said “Subsidies will drop by 40% and we have to adapt”. Mr Evans also identified small and medium sized farms as “good for communities and businesses”.

Ed Revell, of Swansea Biochar, noted the “frustration at subsidies” expressed at the event. He said “We can reverse climate change through enriching our soil with carbon. We can combat flooding by enriching our soil and working with the contours of the land.”

The event closed with a speech from Alice Hooker Stroud, Wales Green Party leader, who said “How we use our land and all the governance and economics issues that go with that are obviously important to our rural communities. I was heartened to see such a good turnout and to hear from local growers and farmers alike in this broad discussion.

There are many complex issues faced by our agricultural communities, and the solutions are not simple. The Wales Green Party believes in working with local communities, and supporting them to work towards a future where they are able to thrive, and a future that is beneficial to people, planet and Wales.”

Enquiries can be sent to: Julie Makin, Media Officer (jobshare), Plaid Werdd Ceredigion Green Party: julie.makin@gmail.com James Ruff, Media Officer (jobshare), Plaid Werdd Ceredigion Green Party: jmdruff@googlemail.com Julie Makin

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Details about notable Attendees Alice Hooker-Stroud, Leader, Wales Green Party and Wales

Victoria Hall

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Recent Reviews Agriculture and Land Use in Wales Several members of the Lampeter Permaculture Group attended The Platform/Y Llwyfan meeting on Saturday 23 January in Victoria Hall, organised by the Ceredigion Green Party and open to all.

It proved to be a really interesting, informative and lively exchange of ideas about how to create a sustainable future for agriculture and land use in Wales, with a wide range of ages and experience from the local community represented.

Sophie Wynne-Jones from Bangor University gave an overview of current concerns on the topic. We then broke into discussion tables to talk freely about a very wide range of issues such as the role of supermarkets, flood protection, forestation, biodiversity, wildlife and habitat protection, access to land for growing for potential farmers and horticulturalists and community groups, livestock farming, veganism, EU subsidies and planning legislation.

People were invited to write questions to be answered by a panel of three – Sophie, Wyn Evans (NFU Cymru, an upland Ceredigion farmer whose family have farmed the same area for 500 years) and Pippa

Pemberton (Green Party candidate for Mid and West Wales for the coming Welsh Assembly elections).

All three were outstanding in answering, on their feet, honestly, thoughtfully and showing great knowledge and awareness of the issues. Lastly, Alice Hooker-Stroud the newly elected leader of the Green Party in Wales summed up the day’s discussion.

I came away with more questions than answers but with an overriding concern about the future of our food in Wales. How can we increase the availability of locally produced healthy fresh food and combat the stranglehold of supermarkets, global capitalism and constantly changing subsidies, currently resulting in a damaging and unsustainable global food market? Farmers here are being forced to accept prices below the cost of production, while many consumers are unable to afford, or conveniently source, simple unprocessed food, yet as much as 50% of food may be wasted in the current system. Meanwhile there is concern about the degradation of soil quality, fossil fuel use and climate change, GM crops and pesticides.

Changes to subsidies currently

HOPE This Changes Everything How can we carry on living as if we had joy in our hearts if we are actually full of despair? Humans must have hope.

So forecasts of the end of the world, however exaggerated, tend to turn us off. I simply don’t read what I think will make me unhappy. I have to have hope.

That may be why I felt as if scales were being lifted from my eyes, and weights taken off the scales, when, last year, I read ‘This Changes Everything’ by Naomi Klein. It made me hope.

The book is an immense, densely argued and hugely researched investigation into climate change. I’ve referred to it before in these pages (May 2015). Despite the horrors which we know mankind is perpetrating on the Earth, she gives a message of hope.

She has found that movements by ordinary people, often

threaten the survival of small and medium farms, and with them the skills of farmers with generations of experience.

We need more opportunities like this for farmers and consumers to talk to one another and discuss ways that would improve the situation for both – distant powerful players control the situation, manipulating both ends of the chain in the interest of their profits.

I had picked up a leaflet entitled Maniffesto bwyd I Gymru/ A food manifesto for Wales with the website http://foodmanifesto.wales; I looked it up, and I encourage everyone to do so. A group of food researchers are inviting the people of Wales to discuss and think about our food – what it means to us and the food system we want. Government has a major role in the system, and in this election year we should make sure our politicians know that we value our food and food producers in Wales – the enthusiastic debate at The Platform shows this is a significant concern to our local community.

Judy Cooper

the minorities who have been trodden on for so long by capitalist society, are showing a way in which we can live better lives, and fight climate change. Once we truly learn that we cannot rule nature, but that we are a part of nature, then there is hope.

A fantastic film has been made based on the book, a film which everyone on Earth ought to see and reflect on. It’s easy on the eye and good to watch. We need to see it so that we can grow our own hope.

The film is being shown in Victoria Hall on Saturday 5 March at 7.30pm. There is no charge, though small donations to help with the running costs of Victoria Hall are welcomed. Refreshments will be available. Please come, please bring Granny, Uncle Sid, the twins from next-door, anyone you can persuade, cajole or lure.

WE CAN ALL HAVE HOPE!!!

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YO U M I S S E D I T !

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LLANFAIR VILLAGE HALL

SATURDAY 19 MARCH 11am — 3pm Local produce Local crafts, plants, Second hand goods.

LUNAR BACON BUTTIES!

01570 493288 Plaid Werdd Ceredigion Green Party is pleased to be welcoming Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party, and Alice Hooker Stroud, Wales Green Party leader, to Lampeter on Tuesday 22 March.

Natalie and Alice will be arriving in style – on the T1 bus from Aberystwyth! The pair hope to learn more about public transport in the area from those using the service.

Local residents are welcome to come along and meet Natalie and Alice at the Mulberry Bush café from 11am.

The Green Party leaders will also meet with the local Grannell Community Energy group, before travelling on to further events in the Mid and West Wales region.

Anyone wishing to know more details can visit the Plaid Werdd Ceredigion Green Party Facebook page, or email ‘ceredigion@walesgreenparty.com’.

Julie

WISDOM OF THE EARTH MEDITATIONS Learn how to receive and interpret natures messages Allow the earth to be your teacher Bring more awareness and understanding to your life situations Reduce tension, stress and anxiety Become more centred and calm Sleep better All is possible!

Starts 22 February Mondays 7-9pm

Ancient Earth Centre People’s

in Lanlas Fawr, Cellan SA48 8JA

Market

£5 drop in or £25 for a block of 6 sessions

2nd & 4th Saturday

Wear comfortable clothes Blankets and cushions optional

Victoria Hall, Lampeter

Contact Louise Nadim, 01570 421144 14

COEDWIG GYMUNEDOL LONG WOOD COMMUNITY WOODLAND The journey for Long Wood Community Woodland started in 2002 when a group of residents and representatives of the community councils, in the Lampeter area, felt that there was a need for community involvement with what was then woodland owned by the Forestry Commission.

Following lengthy negotiations, and the formation of a steering group, it was agreed that the woodland would be jointly managed giving the local community some say in what happened.

A year or so later grant funding was available through a new organisation called Cyd Coed. In order to access this funding the steering group was required to become a company limited by guarantee, thus ensuring that all profit would be put back into the woodland for the benefit the community as a whole.

Grant funding through Cyd Coed was successful but the projects were dependent on the felling and the removal of an area of non-native conifers, growing in Long Wood, on a scale that had not been attempted by any other community woodland group in Wales. Finally agreement between Long Wood and Forestry Commission on how this would be achieved was reached and a way forward found. The other Cyd Coed projects included building of the forest school area, compost toilet and fire pit alongside training a Forest School Leader and assistant and construction of a new bridleway and car park leading from Allt Cefn Foel. In addition, the area which had been felled was replanted, mainly by volunteers and directors, with 7000 native broadleaf trees. Various picnic tables and signs were erected throughout the woodland, a viewing platform created and events such as a Fungus Foray and Seed Gathering Days held.

In 2006 a local community group approached us regarding creation of a remembrance garden following the untimely death of a local wood carver, Hobs. The area is a peaceful spot within the woodland, which has become known as Hobs’ Garden and many of the wood sculpture erected in this and the surrounding area were created by Hobs himself.

2008 marked the end of Cyd Coed funding and brought new challenges to Long Wood in trying to balance a reduced income whilst maintaining ongoing existing projects and looking at possible new ones. Perhaps the highlight of that year was the very successful Open Day at the beginning of May. The event was opened by Rural Affairs Minister, Elin Jones with many local traders and organisations attending and visitor numbers exceeded all expectations at over 800.

In 2009 the Woodland Theatre was built by the Prince’s Trust in partnership with Tir Coed, provided an exciting venue for a production of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream in 2010. Our coppicing scheme was piloted and, following donations from Hobs’ family, the building of the roundhouse, in Hobs’ Garden, was undertaken by international and local volunteers under the watchful eye of Tony Wrench. Further support from Environment Wales allowed Long Wood to employ wardens responsible for the upkeep of the woodland and the development of our volunteer opportunities.

It was around this time that it became clear that in order to manage Long Wood as a true community woodland it needed to be in the ownership of the community. After considerable hard work and lengthy negotiations with Forest Commission a successful bid was submitted, to the Big Lottery Community Asset Transfer Fund and the Ceredigion Social Enterprise Development Fund, allowing the purchase of the 300 acre site, the building of our fantastic eco-friendly centre and the employment of staff to begin to develop Long Wood as a sustainable not for profit business.

There are still two years left of the funding from Big Lottery and Long Wood staff, directors and volunteers still continue to face challenges, not least the most recent difficult decision to clear-fell an area of conifers which had become dangerous to public and staff due to extensive wind blow. Over the coming years Long Wood aims to establish itself as a source of quality timber and firewood as well as a site where visitors can come and enjoy the woodland as a leisure facility. Currently, alongside walkers, cyclists and equestrian use, Long Wood offers volunteer opportunities, themed events and opportunities for the development of micro business, such as our coppicing projects and charcoal burning. We are also currently developing other exciting woodland based services and continue to work with our longstanding partner Tir Coed under the Volunteers In the Natural Environment project.

So this particular journey has been an interesting one with lots of achievements, challenges and certainly a huge learning curve for everyone involved. For my part I have joined this journey part way through and hope that I am able, along with my colleagues, directors and all those involved in Long Wood today, to take the project forward for the benefit of the community at large. Remember, this is your woodland; please let us know what you want from it , become involved either through our regular Wednesday volunteers days or by coming along to one of our events or the monthly public meetings or just contact me with your thoughts on info@longwood-lampter.org.uk Wendy Campion Long Wood Development Manager

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

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Ail Ddiwrnod Celf yn y Dyniaethau Rhyngweithiol

Mae Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant yn gweithio ar y cyd ag Ysgol Bro Pedr yn rheolaidd gan gynnig sesiynau i rannu syniadau a gwybodaeth. Un digwyddiad o’r fath yw’r ‘Ail Ddiwrnod Celf yn y Dyniaethau Rhyngweithiol', a gynhaliwyd ar gampws Llambed ar ddydd Iau, 14 Ionawr, 2016.

Yn dilyn ymlaen o lwyddiant Diwrnod Celf Rhyngweithiol y llynedd, daeth dros 100 o ddisgyblion o Ysgol Bro Pedr i ymweld â champws Llambed eto i gymryd rhan yn y diwrnod a drefnwyd gan academyddion y brifysgol.

Mynychodd y myfyrwyr amrywiol sesiynau ymarferol ac fe ddangoswyd iddynt sut y mae staff academaidd YDDS wedi ymgysylltu â chelf, cynrychioliadau artistig, eiconograffi ac eiconau drwy eu hastudiaethau a’u hymchwil i’r dyniaethau.

Cymerodd staff a myfyrwyr Archaeoleg, Hanes, Anthropoleg a’r Clasuron ran yn y dydd, gan gynnig gweithgareddau amrywiol yn cynnwys darlunio molysgiaid microsgopig, ail-ddylunio llawysgrifau canoloesol a phaentio mewn arddull Andeaidd.

Dywed Ros Coard, archeolegydd yn YDDS a phrif drefnydd y digwyddiad “nod y ‘Diwrnod Celf yn y Dyniaethau Rhyngweithiol’ yw dangos i ddisgyblion er mai efallai nad ‘Celf’ yw prif reswm neu ffocws ein haddysgu a’n hymchwil, y bu’n rhaid inni gyd ymgysylltu â chynnyrch y meddwl dynol creadigol. Wrth ymchwilio ym maes y Dyniaethau, nid oedd yn fwriad gan yr un ohonom astudio 'celf' ein hoes, ond bu'n rhaid i ni i gyd, ar ryw bwynt neu'i gilydd, ymgysylltu â chynrychioliadau pobl, yn aml yn y gorffennol, fel ffordd o ddeall eu safbwynt ar y byd, sut roedden nhw'n gweld ac yn deall eu byd.”

Diolch i adborth positif a gafwyd gan yr ysgol, rydym yn gobeithio gallu parhau â’r berthynas gydag Ysgol Bro Pedr a chynnal y digwyddiad hwn eto'r flwyddyn nesaf am y trydydd tro.

Hefyd, mae Tîm Cyswllt Ysgolion a Cholegau YDDS yn gweithio’n agos iawn gydag Ysgol Bro Pedr ar lawer o brosiectau yn ystod y flwyddyn. Ym mis Medi, mae'r tîm yn croesawu myfyrwyr Blwyddyn 12 newydd i gampws Llambed ar gyfer eu rhaglen anwytho. Yn ystod yr

anwytho hwn, rhoddir iddynt wybodaeth am sgiliau astudio a fydd yn hwyluso'r cyfnod pontio i'r Chweched Dosbarth a'u paratoi at astudio'n annibynnol.

Mae’r Tîm Cyswllt Ysgolion a Cholegau yn cefnogi’r Chweched Dosbarth gyda ffug gyfweliadau, proses UCAS, ac yn rhoi adborth ar gyrsiau YDDS, yn ogystal â chroesawu myfyrwyr Blwyddyn 12 i'r ffair UCAS flynyddol ar gampws Caerfyrddin YDDS. Hefyd, mae’r tîm yn mynychu'r digwyddiad gyrfaoedd a gynhelir yn yr ysgol i fyfyrwyr Blwyddyn 9 a hŷn.

Yn ddiweddar, mwynhaodd Blwyddyn 11 weithdy sgiliau astudio yn ystod diwrnod ABCh wrth baratoi at eu harholiadau TGAU. Yn ogystal â chefnogi myfyrwyr Ysgol Bro Pedr, mae'r Tîm Cyswllt Ysgolion a Cholegau hefyd yn rhoi hyfforddiant a chymorth i'r athrawon trwy ein Consortia Penaethiaid Chweched Dosbarth.

Os hoffech ragor o wybodaeth am y Tîm Cyswllt Ysgolion a Cholegau, cysylltwch â Melanie Jones ar: melanie.jones@uwtsd.ac.uk, 01267 676794

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Second Interactive Art in the Humanities Day

The University Wales Trinity Saint David works collaboratively with Bro Pedr School on a regular basis offering sessions to share ideas, knowledge and experiences. One such event is the ‘Second Interactive Art in the Humanities Day’, hosted on the Lampeter campus on Thursday 14 January 2016.

Following from the success of last year’s Interactive Art Day, over 100 pupils from Bro Pedr school visited the Lampeter campus again to participate in the day organised by the university's academics.

The students attended various practical sessions and were shown how the UWTSD academic staff have engaged with art, artistic representations, iconography and icons through their study and research of the humanities.

Staff and students from Archaeology, History, Anthropology and Classics were involved in the day, offering wide-ranging activities including drawing microscopic molluscs, re-designing medieval manuscripts and painting in Andean style.

Ros Coard, archaeologist at UWTSD and chief organiser of the event says that “the ‘Interactive Art in the Humanities Day’ aims to show pupils that, as academics, we may not have ‘art’ as the main reason or focus for our teaching and research but that we all had to engage with the products of the creative human mind. When researching in the Humanities none of us intended to study the ‘art’ of our period but we all had to, at some stage, engage with the artistic representations of people, often in the past, as a way of understanding their world view, how they saw and understood their world.”

Thanks to positive feedback from the school we hope to continue the relationship with Bro Pedr School and run this event again next year for the third time.

UWTSD’s Schools and Colleges Liaison Team also work closely with Bro Pedr School on many projects throughout the year. In September the team welcome the new Year 12 students to the Lampeter campus for their Induction programme. During their induction they gain knowledge of study skills that will ease them in to the Sixth Form and prepare them for independent study.

The Schools and Colleges Liaison Team support the Sixth

Form with mock interviews, the UCAS Process, and give advice on UWTSD courses, as well as welcome the Year 12 students to the annual UCAS HE fair on the UWTSD Carmarthen campus. The team also attend the careers event for Year 9 students and above at the school.

Recently Year 11 enjoyed a study skills workshop during a PSE day in preparation for their forthcoming GCSE exams. As well as supporting the students of Bro Pedr School, the Schools and Colleges Liaison Team also provide training and support for the teachers through our Head of Sixth Form Consortia.

If you would like more information about the Schools and Colleges Liaison Team, please contact Melanie Jones on: melanie.jones@uwtsd.ac.uk, 01267 676794

“The 2015/2016 rugby season is a very special one for the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. It marks 150 years since Rowland Williams, Vice-Principal at St David’s College, Lampeter - now UWTSD - introduced the sport to Wales,” says the Venerable Randolph Thomas, Chair of the University Council.

“It is our aim to raise awareness of Lampeter’s connection with the game whilst also allowing University staff and students, the people of Lampeter and rugby fans across Wales to find out more about its history and its origin. We are very proud of the University’s role in the development of rugby and are delighted to be marking the anniversary with a fitting celebration.”

Time

Activity

Location

1pm

UWTSD Women v Lampeter Town RFC Women

Lampeter Town RFC

2pm

Launch of Publication The Fighting Parsons: – the role of St David’s College Lampeter in the development of rugby in Wales,

by Selwyn Walters

Lampeter Town RFC

3pm

UWTSD v Welsh Academicals (invitational side)

Lampeter Town RFC

5pm – 6pm

Opportunity to view an exhibition of rugby related artefacts and memorablia

Roderick Bowen Library, UWTSD

6pm

Unveiling of Memorial to Rowland Williams and Lampeter – the birthplace of Welsh rugby

Canterbury Building, UWTSD

Trawsnewid Addysg; Trawsnewid Bywydau - Transforming Education; Transforming Lives

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With “Journey” being this month's Grapevine theme, it seems particularly apt to talk about reopening the Carmarthen March Update to Aberystwyth railway. Imagine getting on a train at Lampeter and, three-quarters of an hour later, getting off in Aberystwyth or Carmarthen.

Refreshed after a relaxing journey, having watched the lovely countryside pass by, maybe having enjoyed a cup of coffee, or even having done some work on the laptop. No waiting for a crowded bus that then winds interminably through village after village, or flinching behind a steering-wheel as a succession of tankers, livestock lorries and extra-wide tractors with hay-bale trailers force you hedgewards, in the rain. Imagine being able to get a through train from Aberystwyth to Cardiff in around three hours, stopping at Carmarthen, then Morriston Parkway and Bridgend - rather than in four and a half hours via Shrewsbury, as at present. Or going from Carmarthen to Bangor via Aberystwyth and Caernarfon without having to go into England, and without taking six and a half hours!

Our vision – to link up the whole of Wales by rail by restoring two missing links in the chain: reopening the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth and Afon Wen to Bangor lines, both closed in the 1960s by Beeching, which help link West Wales more generally with the wider world. It often feels quite remote, living where we do at the moment, particularly if you are reliant on public transport. Rail link improvements will also become increasingly important in the future if HS2 goes ahead and with the electrification of the main line to Swansea. Our particular focus is on reopening the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line, and there have been some significant developments lately. After the publication of the Scoping Study (commissioned by Edwina Hart, Transport and Finance Minister at the Welsh Government) by AECOM consultants in December, a Working Group was set up to advise on the next steps. The group includes representatives from Welsh Government, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire County Councils, Network Rail, Arriva Trains Wales, First Great Western, Mid-Wales Economic Forum, Mid-Wales Railway Implementation Group and of course Traws Link Cymru.

Update on recent events: 25.01.16: TLC members had a productive meeting with local AM, Joyce Watson in Carmarthen. She published an account of this in her monthly newsletter, pledging full support for the campaign. She said “Re-connecting by rail Carmarthen and Aberystwyth and onto North Wales is a grand vision”.

28.01.16: Full backing for the campaign from Lampeter Town Council after Mike Walker gave a presentation. Speaking after the meeting, Cllr. Rob Phillips praised the “well-researched and well-argued presentation” and maintained that the objective of establishing such a rail link was feasible and “not pie in the sky”. He went on to say that “the economic benefits to Lampeter and the rest of West Wales, would be massive if the line was reinstated”.

08.02.16: Excellent coverage of meetings in Cambrian News.

09.02.16: First meeting of the ‘next steps’ Working Group took place. The Scoping Study was discussed thoroughly and TLC members Mike Walker and Adrian Kendon were able to present reasons for supporting the line's re-opening. Costs 18

and benefits, alignment and environmental/conservation considerations were also covered. Claire Falkiner of AECOM is to carry out an infrastructure appraisal using Welsh Transport Planning and Approval Guidance (WelTAG), looking closely at the objectives of reopening the railway, and the problems that it would address. The Working Group should get the report by the end of February, hopefully with recommendations for a full feasibility study.

Future TLC Presentations: Spring Conferences: Labour and Plaid 01.03.16: Ysgol Bro Pedr School 10.03.16: Swansea Council Chambers Watch this space: Spectacular DVDs showing the whole line and beautiful route filmed from the air, will soon be available!

Resident artist, Joanna Bond has been awarded nine months free tenure of a studio at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

A new performance art project inspired by the old milk and cheese factory at Pont Llanio (forced to shut down with the line closure in 1973) is planned.

For more information, please go to our smashing new website: www.trawslinkcymru.org.uk or Facebook page, simply type in Traws Link Cymru. Even better, get involved in the campaign - we are always on the lookout for new members, particularly to serve on the steering group (which meets fortnightly at the Black Lion Hotel, Lampeter).

Interested? Please contact Adrian Kendon: adrian.kendon@gmail.com Gareth Walters, Traws Link Cymru

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.

We also have office space, committee room and small therapy/ class /conference rooms.

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

Day

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

Time

Activity / Class

Monday

W

1-3pm

W

W 29 Feb to 14 Mar

Name

Number

Welsh Class

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

67.30pm

Girl Guides

Sandra Carbin

07949 479185

67.30pm

Soundscape Workshop

Maya waldman

6.308pm

Singing Workshop

Rachel Hargrave

7.309pm

African Drumming Workshop

Pete Stacey

Part of Earth Hour Celebration Contact Rachel: 01545 590536

Tuesday

W

5.306.30pm

Pilates

Ann Inshaw

07826 692110

Wednesday

W

10-12pm

Welsh Class

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

F

24.30pm

Young at Heart

W

4.306pm

Brownies

Nikki Mead

07790 987070

W

5.306.30pm

Pilates

Ann Inshaw

07826 692110

W

6.308.30pm

Welsh Class

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

W

1-3pm

Welsh classes

Meryl Evans

01545 572715

W

6-7pm

Pilates

Ann Inshaw

07826 692110

W

8-9pm

Boxersize

Oliver Leighton

07918 661194

W

11.30am1pm

Five Rhythms Practice Group

Irene Sullivan

01545 561334

W

4.306.30pm

LYTSS: Lampeter Youth Theatre & Stage School

Tracey Reynolds

07976 052888

2nd & 4th Sat each month

10am1pm

People’s Market

Local food, produce and crafts.

Plus café, live music & other attractions

W 12 March

2-5pm

Lantern Making Workshop

Part of Earth Hour Celebration

W

10am7pm

Lampeter Evangelical Church

Gareth Jones at the Mustard Seed café

M Every third Sunday

79.30pm

Custard Queens WI

Jen Pink

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

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Sandwiches & social for the wiser folk of Lampeter

01570 423344

01570 471209

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

courses________________ Denmark Farm Conservation Centre, Betws Bledrws.

Tues 1 & Sat 5 Mar: Volunteer Days Sat 5 March: Charcoal Making Fri 11 - Sun 13 Mar: Gardening with Wildlife Sat 12 - Sun 13 Mar: Traditional Hedge-laying at Cors Caron, Tregaron Tues 15 & 29 Mar: Volunteer Days Sat 19 - Sun 20 Mar: Traditional Stone Faced Walling (at Cors Caron) Sun 20 Mar: Willow Weaving Garden Structures Sun 20 Mar: Nature Journal Workshop Sat 26 Mar: Easter Egg Hunt & Nature Trail Weds 30 Mar & Weds 6 Apr: Wild In The Woods (Children's event) Sat 2 - Sun 3 Apr: Cob Oven Building Sun 3 Apr: Drawn to Paint Nature Sun 10 Apr: Peg Loom Weaving More information: 01570 493358, www.denmarkfarm.org.uk Film ‘This Changes Everything’. Sat 5 Mar, 7.30pm, Victoria Hall, Lampeter.

Free showing of the inspiring film based on Naomi Klein’s book.

Touch Base Movement Group for Wellbeing and Creativity. With EevaMaria Mutka and Andy Paget. Weds, 1 -3pm, from 24 Feb to 11 May (excl. 30 Mar & 6 Apr), St Peter’s Church Hall.

Combining movement and other forms of creative expression like writing, mark making and pattern making with natural objects. For people age 16+ who are finding it difficult to keep up with all the demands life throws at us and feel stressed, depressed, lonely or anxious. Free workshops run by HAULarts in health. Booking essential: 01559 362082, heather@haul-artsinhealth.org.uk

creative_______________

Start Some Art: Beginners art classes for adults. Fridays, 10am-12pm, at Lampeter Leisure Centre. £12 per session, limited spaces. Contact: Emma Chapman, 07531 542878.

Rag Rug Making Workshop. Sat 19 Mar, 12.30-5pm, National Wool

Museum, Dre-Fach Felindre, nr Newcastle Emlyn. Make a Giant Sunflower whilst learning rag rug making techniques of hooking and prodding. £30, all tools and materials provided. Contact: Sue, 01974 298100 or sue@ragartstudios.com to book.

Pegloom Workshop. Make a fleece rug in a day. 11am-4pm, date tbc. £35 including use of loom and all materials. Limited places so book promptly. Ceredwin 01570 421476.

Abercoed Studios, Tregaron. Creative wool shop, hand-made crafts, art and prints, tuition, supplies. Coffee shop & WiFi. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. 01974 299105, www.blacksheeptregaron.co.uk Spinning Lessons with Ann Fisher Rhodes at Ffarmers Neuadd Bro Fana/ Village Hall. Thurs 1.30-3.30pm, £8.

Contact: Ann, 01558 650760, spinwise.uk@btinternet, www.spinwise.co.uk Jewellery Making Course Beginners: basic jewellery-making skills. Held in the local Ceredigion area, courses and times by mutual arrangement.

Contact: Peter, 07984 883453.

events ________________

Economics of Happiness - from Global to Local. Free workshop with Angie Polkey. Sat 27 Feb in Tregaron.

Contact: Angie, 01974 831300 or info@purposefulpermaculture.co.uk Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Community Woodland. Join us for a winter walk into Long Wood.

Sun 28 Feb, 10.30am, meet outside Gwili Tractors, Lampeter.

Sun 20 Mar, 10.30am, meet outside Llanfair Village Shop, Llanfair Clydogau. Please dress suitably.

Contact: Wendy, 07557386755 info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk.

Ysgol Archaeoleg, Hanes ac Anthropoleg/School of AHA. Cyfres Seminarau Ymchwil/Research Seminar Series. Dyddiau Mercher yn yr Ystafell Goch/Wednesdays in the Red Room, 3.30pm. Mawrth/March: 2 Art, religion and social structures at Gobekli Tepe. William Sanderson; 9 - 3D Recording of boats and ships in 20

archaeology. Selina Ali; 16 - A day in the life of a heritage industry: Thoughts, concerns and the future.

Therron Welstead; 23 - The value of books as visual and cultural artefacts, book bindings in the Lampeter founders’ library. Allen Barton.

Unforgettable: Welsh Quilt Centre Exhibition. Quilts from the collections of Ron Simpson and Jen Jones. Opens 5 Mar, Tues-Sat, 11am-4.30pm, Town Hall, Lampeter. www.welshquilts.com.

Lampeter & District Beekeepers’ Association AGM. Tues 8 Mar, 8pm, Millennium Hall, Cellan. £2 incl. tea & biscuits. Review of year, election of committee and charity auction of bee and beekeeping books. If you would like to get involved, we welcome nominations for the committee. info@lampeterbeekeepersassociation.co.uk

Cymdeithas Hanes Llambed. Tues 15 Mar, 7.30pm, Old Hall, UWTSD. Talk

by Yvonne Davies on “Lampeter Pubs” as part of the “Pint of History Please” project. Croeso cynnes i bawb, all welcome. £2 for non-members.

Circus Skills - Skill Share. Sun 20 Mar, 2-4pm, UWTSD Lampeter. All welcome, with or without previous experience. Contact Peggy 07974576325.

Know Your Blood Pressure. Sat 23 Apr, 10am-4pm, Adrian Thomas Pharmacy, High St, Lampeter. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Lampeter to raise awareness of the link between high blood pressure and stroke, this is a free blood pressure monitoring service with information and advice on stroke related health issues.

health & well-being _____

Eco-Spirit Equinox Workshop, Sun 20 Mar 10.30am-5pm, near Llanddewi Brefi. Day of deepening our relationship with self and nature through mindfulness, compassion practice, creativity and ritual, in stunning setting. £25 incl. teas (£20 if paid by 10 Mar). Vegan lunch £3 or bring your own. Contact: Dylis, 01974 299017, www.dylispugh.co.uk. artandtherapywithdylis@macmate.me

health & well-being cont.d __ Banc Bwyd Llambed/ Lampeter Food Bank is open Mon, Weds, Fri 9am5pm (but closed 25 & 28 Mar).

Referrals are made by local agencies.

Non-perishable in-date food donations can be left in the Banc Bwyd collection boxes at Lampeter Co-op and Yr Hedyn Mwstard cafe.

Banc Bwyd Tuesday Food and Fellowship Lunches are from 12-12 at Emmaus Christian Fellowship, 78 Bridge St. We offer a simple free soup lunch and friendly chat (siaredir Cymraeg hefyd). All are welcome.

Banc Bwyd is an initiative of Lampeter and local churches.

Lampeter Support for Sight loss. New group. Meets 2nd Wed each month, 24pm, St Thomas’ Church. £2 includes home-made cakes & raffle. Open to anyone with any form of sight loss; carers, partners, friends, are always welcome. Themes for March, Sing-along; April, IT for sight loss; May, Tactile paving. Contact: Diana Williams, 01570 640034 Weight-Watchers meets in Lampeter every Tuesday night. St Peter’s Church Hall. Join any week, weigh anytime between 5.30pm-6.30pm. Meeting talk 6.30-7pm. Just turn up on the night or for more details contact: Eleri, 07748 270439, eretallick@weight-watchers.co.uk Alcoholics Anonymous meet at the Catholic Church (white church opp. the police station) in Lampeter. Weds 8-9.30pm. For info, national helpline: 0845 7697555 Support Group for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in Lampeter: Meets first Monday each month at Yr Hedyn Mwstard/Mustard Seed Café, College St, Lampeter. 1.30-3.30pm.

Croeso i bawb. For details contact: Judith McKay, 07938 571164.

Narcotics Anonymous meet at St Thomas’ Methodist Church (end of Drovers Road/Peterwell Terrace), Mon 7.30-8.30pm. National helpline: 0300 9991212 Headway, the Brain Injury Association. Have you survived a brain injury? Do you care for someone with brain injury? Headway Ceredigion is holding drop in sessions on the first Monday of each month, 2–4pm at

Mind Aberystwyth, Mill Street, SY23 1JB. Join us for a cuppa and a chat.

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

Headway Ceredigion yn cynnal Sesiynau galw i mewn ar ddydd Llun cyntaf pob mis rhwng 2-4pm yn Mind Aberystwyth, Stryd y Felin, SY23 1JB. Dewch draw i ymuno â ni am baned a sgwrs. Contact: Dave Maggs, Wales Development Manager, Headway UK, 01446 740130, 07941 855935 walesdm@headway.org.uk

kids ___________________

Easter Egg Hunt, NT Llanerchaeron.

25-28 March, 11am-4pm. Join us for a fun-filled Easter extravaganza! Hunt for clues around the estate to claim your chocolate prize. Trails for all ages available. For more events, visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/llanerchaeron

Little Rangers: Play, Explore, Discover. Weekly parent and toddler club for children aged 2-5 years. Child-led play sessions led by Forest School trained staff, Lea and James, out in the woods. 1-3pm every Thurs at Denmark Farm. Early bird tickets £4.50 adult, £4 2nd adult, £2.50 child. Or just drop in on the day: £5 adult, £4.50 2nd adult, £3 child. Kids under two free. Contact: James, 07876 794098. Tickets www.woodlandclassroom.com/kids-clubs

Young Rangers: Play, Explore, Discover. Weekly after-school club for 6-11 year olds. Woodland activities, games, nature awareness and bushcraft led by Forest School trained staff. £6 per session, £5.50 for siblings. 4-6pm Tues & Thurs at Denmark Farm. Booking essential. Phone 07876 794098.

Tickets and details at www.woodlandclassroom.com/kids-clubs

Easter Egg Hunt @ Denmark Farm.

Sat 26 Mar, 1-4pm. James & Lea from Woodland Classroom will create a trail of clues around the woods. A pop-up café will serve tea and cakes (separate charges apply). Each child gets their own boxed, fairtrade chocolate egg.

Roast a marshmallow on the campfire. £7 per child. Booking essential.

Contact: James, 07876 794098 www.woodlandclassroom.com/events 1st Lampeter Brownies. Meet Weds, 4.30-6pm, term-time. Contact: Nikki, 07790 987070.

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1st Lampeter Girl Guides. Meet Tues, 6-7.30pm. Contact: Sandra Carbin, 07949 479185.

Ray Ceredigion Free Play Sessions.

Parc yr Orsedd & Victoria Hall every Thurs, term time only, 4-6pm. Croeso i bawb/All welcome. Rhaid i blant dan 8 fod yng nghwmni/Children under 8 must be accompanied. 01545 570686, rayceredigionadmin@btconnect.com Facebook: RAYCeredig.

Lampeter Youth Theatre and Stage School (LYTSS) runs 3 terms per year every Friday at Victoria Hall, 4.306.30pm. £40/child/term, £35 siblings, £30 conc. Contact Tracey, 07976 052888.

Little M’zzz indoor soft play centre, Llanybydder (nr 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.

"Lampeter Little Ones" is a Facebook group for parents of pre-schoolers in the Lampeter area. Wondering what groups and activities are available for your baby or toddler? Please join up and have a look: www.facebook.com/ groups/lampeterlittleones.

markets _______________

People’s Market, Victoria Hall, Lampeter, 10am-1pm every 2nd & 4th Sat each month. Next markets: 12 & 26 March.

Lampeter Farmers' Market, High Street, Lampeter (new location), 9am2pm alternate Fridays. Next markets: 4 & 18 Mar 2016.

Ffarmers Market, Neuadd Bro Fana/ Village Hall, Ffarmers, 10am-12.30pm 1st Sat in month.

Llansawel Market, Llansawel Village Hall, 10am-12.30pm 3rd Sat in month.

Aberaeron Farmers’ Market & More!

Feathers Royal Hotel, 9am-2pm every Weds. Find us on Facebook. move your body _________ Cerddwyr Llambed (Ramblers). A warm welcome to new walkers and those who wish to try a ramble or two.

Contact James 01570 480743 or Kay 01570 480041 for future dates.

Gentle Yoga: Thurs, 6-7.30pm, Cellan Millennium Hall. Contact: Karen 07547 125937.

canolfan hamdden a phwll nofio llambed lampeter leisure centre & swimming pool am rhagor o wybodaeth cysylltwch ar ganolfan for more information contact the leisure centre

01570 422552 / 01570 422959 lampeter-leisure@ceredigion.gov.uk facebook: hamdden llambed leisure

Dydd / Day

Dydd Llun Monday

Dydd Mawrth Tuesday

Dydd Mercher Wednesday

Dydd Iau Thursday

Dydd Gwener Friday

Dydd Sadwrn Saturday

twitter: #lampeterleisure

Amser / Time

Sesiwn / Dosbarth

Session / Class

Pris / Price

1-1.45pm

Troelli Amser Cinio

Lunchtime Spin

£4

5.30-6.30pm

Aerobig Step

Step Aerobics

£4.75/£3.85

6.30-7.30pm

Cylchredai

Circuit Training

£4

7.45-8.30am

Troelli Cynnar

Early Bird Spin

£4

3.45-4.45pm

Pêl Droed Merched

Girls’ Football

£2

3.30-5pm

Clwb Cleddyfau

Lampeter Town Fencing Club

£4.50

5.30-6.30pm

Kettlebells

Kettlebells

£4

6.45-7.30pm

Troelli Profiadol

Advanced Spin

£4

12-12.45pm

Ffitrwydd Ysgafn

Ease Into Fitness

£4.75/£3.85

1-1.45pm

Troelli Amser Cinio

Lunchtime Spin

£4

3.30-4.30pm

Pêl Fasged IZB

IZB Basketball

5.45-6.30pm

Troelli Dechreuwyr

Beginners Spin

£4

6.30-7.30pm

Kettlercise

Kettlercise

£4.75/£3.85

6.45-7.30pm

Troelli Profiadol

Advanced Spin

£4

7.30-8.30pm

Boxercise

Boxercise

£4

3.30-5pm

Gymnasteg

Gymnastics

5.15-6pm

Aerobeg

Aerobics

£4.75/£3.85

6-6.45pm

Troelli Gweledol Dechreuwyr

Beginners Spin

£4

6.15-7.15pm

Clwb Rhedeg Sarn Helen

Sarn Helen Running Club

7-8pm

Cylchedai HIIT

HIIT Circuits

£4

11.30am12.30pm

Aerobeg Dwr (yn y pwll)

Aqua Aerobics (in the pool)

£4

12.45-1.30pm

Troelli Amser Cinio

Lunchtime Spin

£4

3.30-5pm

Zumbatomic

Zumbatomic

Am ddim/Free

5-6.30pm

Troelli Dechreuwyr

Beginners Spin

£4

6.30-8pm

Troelli Profiadol

Advanced Spin

£4

6.30-8pm

Clwb Cleddyfau

Lampeter Town Fencing Club

£4.50

9.15am-1pm

Ysgol Gymnasteg REES

REES School of Gymnastics

2-3pm

Disco Rhowl

Roller Disco

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£3.15/£2.30

move your body cont.d _____ Hydrospin (Aqua Cycling) at Lampeter Swimming Pool, Mon 10.15am & 8pm; Aberaeron Swimming Pool, Tues 11.30am & 6pm. Contact David Maund to book 07792 351607.

Couch to 5K Running Group. Mon & Weds, 6.30pm from the Rookery Car Park, Lampeter. A 9 week course aimed at complete beginners who wants to improve health and fitness.

Free! Facebook: Lampeter Couch to 5K Running Group or contact Helen 07817 543257.

New American Tribal Style Bellydance: Tues 1-2pm & Weds 6-7pm, dance studio above the university Sports Hall. Wendy Steele, 01570 472921, 07752 478779.

Belly Dance & Yoga Classes. Belly Dance: Tues 5.30-6.30pm. £3 Beginner Yoga: Thurs 7-8.30pm, Crugybar Village Hall, and Tues 78.30pm, Ffarmers. £5. Contact: 01558 685321, elenamgilliatt@hotmail.com.

Yoga class. Mixed abilities: St Thomas' Hall, Tue 7.30-8.45pm, £6. Contact Su Bates (BWY teacher) 07588 527512.

Yoga. Weds, 5.30-7pm, Cellan Millennium Hall. Small friendly group led by Pat Beaton, 01558 650594.

Yoga & Pilates with Ann Inshaw.

Power Yoga: Mon 5.30-7pm and Fri 10-11.30am, UWTSD Sports Hall.

Pilates: Tues 9.30am, Memorial Hall, Aberaeron. Tues 5.30pm and Thurs 6pm, Victoria Hall, Lampeter.

Yogalates: Weds 5.30pm, Victoria Hall, Lampeter. Contact Ann: 0782 6692110 Lampeter Egyptian Belly Dance.

Fri 9.45-11am, £5. Very few spaces left in this class. Lunchtime Fit For Life For Over 50's, Fri 12.15-1.15pm £4.

Gentle exercise based on Belly Dance.

Spaces available. Both classes at Sally Saunders Dance Studio, Unit 22, Lampeter Industrial Estate, SA48 8LT. First session free. Rose Barter, 01239 851737, rosebarter@btinternet.com Jane Guy School of Dance. Established 1977. Ballet and stage work; annual production; RAD exams. Classes: Tues eves and Sat, Shiloh Chapel, Lampeter. Thurs 4.30-7.30pm, Theatr Felinfach. Contact 01570 470645.

Walk Out Workout. Join the WOW posse for a brisk fitness walk around

Lampeter on Thursday evenings. Meet at 6.30pm at the Leisure Centre for a 3 -4 mile walk, including an optional hill at the end. Expect to be out for around an hour. It’s fun and it’s free!

Fabulous Friday Walkers: meet 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 for coffee. Philip Lodwick, 01570 422181 Sarn Helen running and cycling club welcomes all abilities. Junior runners (age 8-16) meet at Leisure Centre, Tues 6.15pm. Adult runners meet Rookery Car Park, Tues 6.15 & 8pm, Thurs 6.15pm. For cycling (road and MTB): www.sarnhelen.org.uk.

Black Wolf Karate Club. Every Thurs at St James Hall, Cwmann: 6.30pm juniors; 7.30pm intermediate juniors/ seniors. £3.50 a class, first lesson free.

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.

Mat-based Pilates. Suitable for beginners. Please bring a mat or equivalent. ‘The elegance of a dancer and the strength of an athlete’ sums up what you could attain through regular practice. Benefits include improved posture and body shape, muscle toning, increased energy, strength, agility and stamina, and greater mind/body/spirit connection.

Llangeitho Village Hall, Mon 2pm with Shân Rees, see details above.

music _________________

The Backroom Band. Fri 11 Mar, 8pm, Victoria Hall, Lampeter. Presented by Lampeter-Twinning Committee and supported by the Arts Council of Wales. Tickets £5 adults, £2 children, 07883 163631 / 07970 466575.

Lampeter Music Club - Public Concert Series: The Galliarda Quartet. Thurs 17 Mar, 7.30pm, Old Hall, UWTSD, Lampeter. An unusual combination of instruments, with soprano voice, two viols, recorders or flute, combined 23

with lute, early guitar, theorbo and percussion. The Quartet will play a programme of Spanish, Italian and French music, including works by Vivaldi, Fontana, Frescobaldi, Juan Vasquez, Jose Palomino and J.P.A. Martini. Tickets at the door: £11; concessions £9. Students free with Union Card. Two children free with paying adult. Contact: 01558650569, hollycook@live.co.uk, www.lampetermusic.co.uk.

Lampeter Folk. Fri 25 Mar, 7.30pm, Victoria Hall (small room), Lampeter.

A Good Friday edition of Lampeter Folk. Bring your instruments, voices and friends. We look forward to hearing folky friends who've been before as well as new faces who wish to share music or poetry in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. £2 ticket includes tea, coffee and light refreshments or BYOB.

permaculture, gardening & conservation ___________

Lampeter Permaculture Group is a collective of like-minded people, interested in principles and practice of permaculture and sustainability. www.lampeterpermaculture.org Living Willow Creations. DIY or expertly installed in your garden. Great activity for older children.

Contact: Angie, 01974 831300 info@purposefulpermaculture.co.uk Live an Abundant Life! Let permaculture open the door for you.

Short courses/advice.

Contact: Angie, 01974 831300 info@purposefulpermaculture.co.uk Create a Paradise for You and Nature.

Simple, low input conservation and wildlife gardening advice.

Contact: Angie, 01974 831300 info@purposefulpermaculture.co.uk Cothi Gardeners meet at 7pm, on 3rd Weds each month, Coronation Hall, Pumsaint. Membership £12, visitors £2 per meeting. Contact: Daisy, 01558 650829, www.cothigardeners.com, www.facebook.com/cothigardeners

religious services/groups _

St Cybi’s Church, Llangybi.

Main Sun Service: 9am (Bilingual).

St Bledrws’ Church, Betws Bledrws.

Main Sun Service: 10.45am St Sulien’s Church, Silian.

Main Sun Service: 2pm (Bilingual).

religious services & groups cont.d _____________ Lampeter Parish St Peter’s Church, Lampeter.

Main Sun Service: 10.30am Bilingual.

Other services: 8am Holy Communion (English), 9.15am Cymun Bendigaid Cymraeg (pedwerydd Sul yn unig).

Church Hall available for hire, £8.50 per hour. Kitchen facilities. Enquiries/ Bookings: Beryl, 01570 422324 St Mary’s Church, Maestir.

Main Sun Service: Eucharist 2.30pm (2nd Sun only) English.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Lampeter.

Sun Mass 10am. For other services see church notice board.

St Thomas' Methodist Church.

Sun service 10.30am, creche and youth activity. Times apply to the first four Sundays in each month. For the few fifth Sundays there is a single United Parish Service at 10am: location will be published in local newspapers.

Emmaus Christian Fellowship meets Sun 10.30am and 5pm at rear of 78 Bridge Street, Lampeter. Contact: David Patterson, 01570 422529 Noddfa, Eglwys y Bedyddwyr, Stryd y Bont, Llanbedr Pont Steffan. Cwrdd a chymundeb ar y Sul 1af am 3.30 ac am 10.00 ar y trydydd Sul. Gwasanaethir gan ein gweinidog ar y Sul 1af a chan y Parch D. Densil Morgan ar y trydydd Sul. Oedfa deulu arbennig ar 28 Chwefror am 5 o'r gloch.

Gwasanaeth i'r plant a ieuenctid gan Mr Nigel Davies a bydd gweithdy i'r plant lleiaf. Paned i ddilyn a chymdeithas.

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

Croeso i bawb.

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: Revd. Bill Fillery, 01570 421425.

St Mary's Church, Llanfair Clydogau.

Bilingual services every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, 10.15am. A warm welcome to all. Baptisms and weddings by arrangement. Contact:

Revd Bill Fillery, 01570 421425.

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. Crynwyr Llambed. Cwrdd bob ddydd Sul, Canolfan Steffan, Rhodfa Peterwell, 10.45yb. Croeso i bawb. Cysylltwch/ Contact: 01570 480083, deborahjrowlands@gmail.com www.crynwyrcymru.org.uk (Cymraeg).

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Golden Broth Lunch Club: We hope more local people will join us for lunch and cake, on Mondays from 11.30am2pm. Llanfair 7 Mar; Cellan 21 Mar. We play cards and Scrabble, or just relax and natter to friends. £1 per person. Contact: Linda (Llanfair) 01570 493706 or Amanda (Cellan) 01570 421338 to register your interest.

Merry Makers. Every Weds, 10.30am3pm, St James’ Hall, Cwmann.

Disabled access and toilet. Free car park. £2.50 a session (includes vegetarian lunch & all activities). Drop in when you please. New members welcome.

2 Mar: Creative writing 9 Mar: Quiz 23 Mar: Painting Contact: Patsy 01545 590391 or Bella 01559 370981.

Siop Siarad Llambed.

Dewch i ymarfer eich Cymraeg/ practise your Welsh. Yng nghaffi'r hedyn mwstard o 10.30 i 11.30 ar fore iau 4ydd a 25 Chwefror. Dewch i gymdeithasu!

Cyswllt/Contact Ann Morgan 01570 422413.

Custard Queens WI: We meet every third Sunday of the month, 7-10pm, at Victoria Hall, Lampeter. Ages 18 to 80+, all welcome.

Sun 20 Mar: Pampering Night. Feel relaxed at our session on skin care and relaxation.

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Sun 17 Apr: Ursula Martin, One Woman Walks Wales. Surviving ovarian cancer and walking across Wales.

Contact: 01570 471209, custardqueenswi@gmail.com www.custardqueenswi.weebly.com www.facebook.com/custardqueenswi CYD Llambed. Ymarfer eich Cymraeg/ Practise your Welsh. Dydd Mawrth 11yb-12yh/ Tues 11am-12pm, 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.

Third World Lunch at St. Peter’s Church Hall, First Friday of the month, 12-1.30pm. Payment by donation, all donations to Christian Aid Food Growing Programme. Your support appreciated.

Cynhelir Cinio’r Trydydd Byd yn Neuadd Eglwys Sant Pedr bob dydd Gwener cyntaf y mis, o 12-1.30yh.

Anfonir pob rhodd i Brosiect Tyfu Bwyd Cymorth Cristnogol.

Gwerthfawrogir eich cefnogaeth.

Sew, Knit and Natter. Weds, 1-4pm, Cellan Millennium Hall. All welcome.

Whist Drives, every fortnight at Hafan Deg, Lampeter. All welcome. All Funds to Hafan Deg League of Friends.

Contact Gwen Davies, 01570 481152.

Cinio Cymraeg Tregaron. Welsh language monthly dinners at the Talbot Hotel, first Tues each month.

Not suitable for absolute beginners but anyone who has attended classes for a year or two will probably find the events enjoyable. Completely informal. We meet in the bar 7pm for 7.30pm. A small group, normally 6 to 8, including 2/3 fluent Welsh speakers.

Contact: Myra Mortlock, naturals@btinternet.com Listings:

lampetergrapevinelist@gmail.com

Adverts & Classifieds:

lampetergrapevineads@gmail.com

Articles & Letters: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

Copy Deadline: April issue Friday 11 March 2016

storytelling, books & volunteering ____________ creative writing _________ Coedwig Gymunedol Long Wood Meanwhile Storytelling presents Eric Maddern and Snowdonia Songlines, The Mythic Journey of Gwydion Ap Don. Join us for an evening of tales.

Thurs 3 Mar, 7:30pm, £5 donation, Old Hall, UWTSD, Lampeter. Info h.addis@live.co.uk www.aworldenchanted.com/meanwhile

Creative Writing Workshop. Sat 12 Mar, Tysul Hall, Llandysul, 2-4 pm.

Tutor novelist Rosie Dub. Refreshments available. Cost £10.

Contact Kelly: 07888841140 or yamazaki.kelly@yahoo.co.uk Lampeter Writers’ Workshop welcomes new members and meets weekly. Tues 7-9pm, Wolfson Room, UWTSD Lampeter, during college term time. Come and join us. Contact: Sue, 01570 423167.

Meanwhile, Storytelling Circle, first Thursday each month. Come along and learn new skills or improve old ones. It’s easier than it looks. Wolfson Room, UWTSD Lampeter, 7.30pm.

Contact: Hayley: h.addis@live.co.uk

Community Woodland: Woodland Wednesdays. Join our regular Wednesday volunteering sessions at Long Wood. Develop practical skills and feel the benefit of working in this beautiful environment. One session in four is devoted to your own woodcraft project. No experience required, training given. Visitor Centre, 10am. info@longwood-lampeter.org.uk Lampeter Credit Union. Would you like to do something that will make a positive difference to local people?

For details: 07891 632614.

British Legion Lampeter is recruiting members. This is your opportunity to become a member of the Legion.

Contact Sharon, 07971 806886.

Home-Start are looking for volunteers to become part of our team for a couple of hours every week. A national charity supporting families struggling to cope. Can you help?

Contact: Jan Young, 01570 218546.

Denmark Farm Conservation Centre.

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Denmark Farm Conservation Centre is looking for trustees to join our charity ‘Shared Earth Trust’. We are seeking individuals with diverse experiences and skillsets. If you would like to be considered for this rewarding and varied voluntary role, send your CV to: trustees@denmarkfarm.org.uk For more information please visit our website www.denmarkfarm.org.uk or call us on 01570 493358 Cellan Village Improvement Society needs volunteers to help to run Cellan Millennium Hall and the fortnightly Film Nights. You don't need to be a 'committee person', just bring energy, fresh ideas and a willingness to help take this successful community facility forward into 2016. Phone Gary 01570 493 117 or Chris 01570 422066 for more info.

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complementary & alternative therapists Charlotte Allen RSHom Homeopath over 15 years clinical experience. Homeopathy makes a difference and is excellent at helping with chronic ill health, gently, safely and holistically. Llanfair Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter, SA48 8EG. 01570 493746 Val Allen, BACP senior accredited counsellor/psychotherapist. UKRC Registered. Offering counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, EMDR. 23 High Street, Lampeter SA48 7BA, 01570 493522, valallen@surfanytime.net Thai Massage. Lose your aches and pains. Deep remedial massage to soothe aching joints and muscles, improve mobility, release trauma, stress, headaches, PMT, allowing state of deep relaxation and wellbeing. Contact: Iain 01570 493066, 07852 626001, cameronbodywork@gmail.com

Joanne Camlin WSHom BSc. Homoeopathy is a safe and effective system of medicine. With lots of experience of treating childrens’ ailments, Jo now works from Cellan / Victoria Hall. 01570 421480.

Alison Kaye MBAcC. Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. Llanfair Clinic, 41 Bridge Street, Lampeter, SA48 7AA. 07779 256388 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 Dylis Pugh: Art Therapy, a fantastic way to engage your creativity in your own healing / personal development - you don’t have to be ‘good at art’! Llanddewi Brefi.

With fantastic long fermentation sourdough loaves available Tuesday to Saturday now is the time to pay us a visit. Making bread from scratch each day from nothing more than flour, water and salt — our range now include six organic loaves as well as seasonal products.

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01974 299017 / 07963866516 Irene Sullivan is a qualified and experienced massage therapist, practising total rejuvenation body massage, Indian head Massage, Hawaiian Kahuna massage, chair massage, Thai massage and Reiki.

Based in New Quay but home visits available. Contact: 01545 561334 Bones for Life: practices to stimulate bone strength, protect vulnerable joints, improve posture and increase vitality. Contact: Marye Wyvill, 01570 421027, maryewyvill@hotmail.com Reflexology. Annie Zakiewicz MAR is a fully-insured member of the Association of Reflexologists and practises from Cellan. Contact: 01570 493295, 07790 107521, www.reflexologywithannie.co.uk

Ysgol Bro Pedr — Eisteddfod Results

Y Canlyniadau / The Results: School Eisteddfod Highlights 2016 On Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 & 10 February, our annual School Eisteddfod was held in the senior campus hall, followed by the Pigion yr Ŵyl highlights concert on Thursday night. We were captivated by a wide variety of performances from all three houses, including the mime, sketch and the house choirs.

The past few weeks have been very busy ones for the house Captains as they created and organized each stage competition entry. We commend them for their hard work and determination throughout the hectic Eisteddfod period.

Uchafbwyntiau’r Eisteddfod Ysgol 2016 Ar ddydd Mawrth a dydd Mercher, 9fed a 10fed o fis Chwefror, cynhaliwyd ein heisteddfod Ysgol flynyddol yn neuadd y campws hŷn, gyda’r cyngerdd uchafbwyntiau ‘Pigion yr Ŵyl’ i’w ddilyn ar nos Iau. Cafwyd gwledd arbennig o berfformiadau lliwgar gan y tri thŷ, gan gynnwys y meim, y sgets a’r côr.

Mae’r wythnosau diwethaf wedi bod yn rhai prysur iawn i’r capteiniaid tai wrth iddynt greu a threfnu pob darn ar gyfer y cystadlaethau llwyfan. Rhaid i ni gynnig pob clod iddynt am eu gwaith caled a’u hymroddiad trwy gydol y cyfnod Eisteddfod.

1af/st - Teifi (gyda/with 602 o bwyntiau/points) 2ail/nd - Dulas (gyda/with 524 o bwyntiau/points) 3ydd/rd - Creuddyn (gyda/with 449 o bwyntiau/points) Grwp Pop / Pop Group: 1af/st – Dulas, 2ail/nd –Teifi, 3ydd/rd - Creuddyn Offerynnol Iau / Junior Instrumental: 1af/st - Sioned Davies (Teifi), 2ail/nd - Liberty Yospa (Teifi), 3ydd/rd - Owen Schroder (Dulas) Stori a Sain / Story and Sound: 1af/st – Iwan & Rhys (Creuddyn), 2ail/nd –Teifi, 3ydd/rd - Dulas Unawd Offerynnol Hyn / Senior Solo Instrumental: 1af/st - Nest Jenkins (Dulas), 2ail/nd -Alpha Evans (Teifi), 3ydd/rd - Tomos Evans (Creuddyn) Dawns (Agored) / Dance (Open): 1af/st – Dulas, 2ail/nd – Teifi, 3ydd/rd - Creuddyn Unawd Merched Iau / Junior Girls' Solo: 1af/st - Hanna (Creuddyn), 2ail/nd - Nia (Creuddyn), 3ydd/rd - Elan (Teifi) Unawd Bechgyn Iau / Junior Boys' Solo: 1af/st - Gruffydd (Dulas), 2ail/nd - Idris (Dulas), 3ydd/rd - Nathan (Dulas) Llefaru Cymraeg Ieuaf / Junior Welsh Recitation: 1af/st Sioned (Teifi), 2ail/nd - Beca (Teifi), 3ydd/rd - Elan (Teifi) Llefaru Cymraeg Hyn / Senior Welsh Recitation: 1af/st Nest Jenkins (Dulas), 2ail/nd – Briallt Williams (Dulas), 3ydd/rd - Iwan Evans (Creuddyn) Deuawd / Duet: 1af/st - Meirion & Natalie (Dulas), 2ail/nd - Rhys & Morgan (Creuddyn), 3ydd/rd - Chloe & Elan (Teifi) Areithio / Public Speaking: 1af/st - Rhys Davies (Creuddyn), 2ail/nd - Iwan Evans (Creuddyn), 3ydd/rd Morgan Lewis (Creuddyn) Unawd Merched Hynaf / Senior Girls' Solo: 1af/st - Elin Hughes (Teifi), 2ail/nd - Fflur Griffiths (Creuddyn), 3ydd/rd - Meinir Davies (Creuddyn) Y Goron / Crown: 1af/st - Julianna Barker (Teifi), 2ail/nd Jack Guy (Teifi), 3ydd/rd - Cerian Jenkins (Dulas) Meim / Mime: 1af/st – Dulas, 2ail/nd – Creuddyn, 3ydd/ rd - Teifi Unawd Bechgyn Hyn / Senior Boys' Solo: 1af/st - Meirion Thomas (Dulas), 2ail/nd - Morgan Lewis (Creuddyn), 3ydd/ rd - Rhys Davies (Creuddyn) Sgets / Sketch: 1af/st – Teifi, 2ail/nd – Creuddyn, 3ydd/rd - Dulas Parti Merched / Girls' Choir: 1af/st – Creuddyn, 2ail/nd – Dulas, 3ydd/rd -Teifi Parti Bachgyn/ Boys' Choir: 1af/st – Teifi, 2ail/nd – Creuddyn, 3ydd/rd - Dulas Cadeirio'r Bardd / Chair Competition: 1af/st - Twm Ebbsworth (Teifi), 2ail/nd & 3ydd/rd – Nest Jenkins (Dulas) Côr Tŷ / House Choir: 1af/st – Creuddyn, 2ail/nd – Dulas, 3ydd/rd - Teifi 27

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Ydych chi wedi cael eich copi chi o raglen newydd y gwanwyn eto?

Os na, galwch mewn i’r Theatr i gasglu’ch copi neu medrwch fynd Ar-lein i’n gwefan a’i llawr lwytho o’r fan honno theatrfelinfach.cymru. Mae nifer o sioeau da ymlaen o hyn i ddechrau Ebrill ac rydym wrthi’n cynllunio rhaglen yr haf yn barod!

Os byddwch yn galw yma, cymerwch gip ar ein harddangosfa gelf ddiweddaraf gan yr artist talentog lleol, Meinir Mathias (www.meinirmathias.co.uk) Cofiwch hefyd os ydych yn edrych am ofod i gynnal Cynadleddau, Cyfarfodydd neu Ddigwyddiadau - Mae Campws Felinfach mewn lle canolog a hawdd ei gyrraedd. Wedi ei leoli yn Nyffryn Aeron yng nghanol Ceredigion, ar y brif ffordd (A482) rhwng tref farchnad Llanbedr Pont Steffan a thref arfordirol Aberaeron. Mae’n ddewis perffaith a chyfleus ar gyfer cynadleddau undydd neu gyfarfodydd byr, gydag adnoddau o safon uchel sy’n cynnwys cyswllt diwifr a pharcio am ddim!

Mae Campws Felinfach yn cynnwys y Theatr, sydd â llwyfan eang ac awditoriwm 242 sedd sydd wedi ei gosod ar oledd (“raked”), a’r Ganolfan sy'n cynnwys nifer o ystafelloedd cyfarfod a hyfforddiant.

Mae'r adnoddau yn y ddau yn addas ar gyfer cynnal cyfarfodydd, sesiynau creadigol, ymarferion a chynadleddau. Yn ogystal ag amrywiaeth o adnoddau technegol, gallwn ddarparu amrywiaeth o luniaeth yn ôl eich anghenion Ceir yma nifer o ystafelloedd cyfarfod sy'n amrywio o ran maint a naws, o rai ar gyfer cyfarfodydd bychain iawn hyd at rai sy'n dal 240 o bobl. Mae gan Gampws Felinfach adnoddau clyweled o'r radd flaenaf, gan gynnwys taflunydd digidol sgrin fawr, taflunydd mewn amryw o’r ystafelloedd cyfarfod, system ddiwifr gyhoeddus ac adnoddau Sain a Recordio.

Yn ddiweddar, ailwampiwyd Y Gwndwn drwy grant gan gronfa’r Loteri Fawr Miliynau’r Bobl mewn cydweithrediad ag ITV Cymru Wales. Mae’n cynnig gofod gwych ar gyfer cyfarfodydd, gweithdai, ymarferion a mwy ac mae ynddo adnoddau cegin a all ymdopi ag anghenion arlwyo bychan.

Mae Campws Felinfach yn gwasanaethu Adrannau Cefnogi Polisi a Gwasanaethau Dysgu Cyngor Sir Ceredigion yn ogystal â’r gymuned ehangach. Mae hefyd yn cynnig cartref i nifer o gymdeithasau eraill, gan gynnwys CFFI Ceredigion, Gwasanaeth Ieuenctid Ceredigion a Cered, Menter Iaith Ceredigion. Mae’r Campws yn le bywiog iawn gyda’r nos hefyd gyda nifer o gymdeithasau a grwpiau'n cyfarfod neu’n ymarfer. Mae yma awyrgylch glos a Chymreig ac mae’r tîm sy’n gwasanaethu’r campws yn gwbl ddwyieithog. Cewch yma groeso cynnes! http://bit.ly/CampwsFFHurio Cysylltwch â ni am wybodaeth bellach a phrisiau.

Stiwardiaid Ydych chi wedi ystyried bod yn stiward yn Theatr Felinfach? Rydym yn edrych am aelodau newydd i ymuno â’r tîm drwy’r amser, felly beth amdani. Cyfle da i gwrdd â phobl, manteisio ar weld amrywiaeth o sioeau cymunedol a phroffesiynol yn ogystal â lansiadau a digwyddiadau megis Eisteddfodau’r Urdd ac yn y blaen.

Have you picked up a copy of the our Spring brochure yet? If not, call in to Theatr Felinfach when you’re passing and pick one up or go online to our website – theatrfelinfach.wales and download the information from there. There are many excellent shows and performances on this season so don’t miss out. If you decide to call in, have a look at our current Art Exhibition. The guest artist until Easter is the extremely talented Meinir Mathias (www.meinirmathias.co.uk) Have you ever thought about Campws Felinfach when looking for a space to hold Events? - Campws Felinfach is conveniently located and easy to access. Set in the beautiful Aeron Valley on the main road (A482) between the market town of Lampeter and the coastal town of Aberaeron, it is central to all parts of Ceredigion. It’s a perfect location for all types of meetings and conferences, and boasts high quality facilities that include free wi-fi and plenty of free parking!

Campws Felinfach hosts both Theatr Felinfach, a theatre with a wide stage and raked 242 seat auditorium, and The Centre which has a number of meeting or training rooms.

The theatre also has spaces for meetings, workshops and rehearsals. As well as a range of technical resources, such as a digital large screen projector and projectors in many meeting rooms, Campws Felinfach can provide various catering services for your needs.

The campus has a range of meeting and training spaces that vary in size and atmosphere, and are suitable for small meetings or large conferences. Campws Felinfach can provide audio-visual equipment, digital projectors, wi-fi network and has excellent sound and recording facilities.

Y Gwndwn, recently refurbished through a grant from The Big Lottery People’s Millions in conjunction with ITV Cymru Wales offers a great space for meetings, workshops, rehearsals and more. It has its own kitchen facility to cater for smaller scale catering needs.

As well as being part of the local authority’s Policy Support and Learning Services Departments, Campws Felinfach is also home to other organisations, including Ceredigion YFC, Ceredigion Youth Service, and Cered – the Welsh Language initiative in Ceredigion. Many other community groups use the site and its facilities for meetings and rehearsals. All members of staff are bilingual and a warm welcome awaits you at Campws Felinfach. http://bit.ly/CampwsFFHiring Please contact us for further information and prices.

Stewards Have you considered being a steward at Theatr Felinfach? It’s an excellent way to meet new people, to take advantage of the varied Community and Professional shows, launches and events. Interested?

Beth sy’ Mlaen yn y Theatr? What’s On in the Thea02/03/16

Urdd Gobaith Cymru

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cysylltwch â /contact: Tess, 01570 470697, teresa.price@ceredigion.gov.uk

Cylch Aeron Eisteddfod Jamie Smith’s Mabon

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An Evening of Plays

10/03/16

Theatr Pena

The Glass Menagerie

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Theatr Bara Caws

Hogia Ni – Yma o Hyd

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Opra Cymru

Deigryn yn y Dirgel (L’elsir d’amore) Donizetti

The Space Between Tour Eisteddfod Rhys Thomas James Pantyfedwen (English language synopsis available)

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Cwmni’r Gobaith

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Dawns Ceredigion

Ceredigion Dance Companies

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Ysgol Henry Richards — Pontio & Food from around the World Primary pupils from Ysgol Gynradd Dihewyd, Henry Richard, Pontrhydfendigaid and Llanilar enjoying one of the lunch time activities at the recent PONTIO – Cockerel racing!

PONTIO A pupil’s journey through school usually involves many moves.

As a 3-16 school, the pupils at Ysgol Henry Richard begin their journey with us at 3 years old and stay until after they sit their GCSE exams at 16 years. Other pupils join us on the way from primary schools in the area and further afield and in order to make them feel more comfortable we arrange PONTIO days every fortnight during Year 6 so that all the pupils get to know each other, the staff and vice versa. During these days the pupils receive lessons in the core subjects of Welsh, English, Maths and Science as well as Art, French and Geography. The highlight of the day for many of the pupils is lunch in the school canteen and after this the pupils enjoy lunch time activities of Drama and various indoor and outdoor sports. PONTIO has proved to be a great success and has been complemented on several occasions by the authority and ESTYN, the school inspections system in Wales.

All pupils, as they move from KS3 to KS4 choose up to four subjects in addition to their core subjects and a well-attended options evening was held recently for pupils in Years 8 and 9 and their parents to hear more about the requirements of the different subjects. Few schools offer an option to pupils in Year 8 but at Ysgol Henry Richard we feel that this is an opportunity for them to choose one subject in order to sit the exam in Year 10 and lighten the load at Year 11.

Mr Dorian Pugh, the acting head teacher at Ysgol Henry Richard addressing the parents and pupils at the recent Year 8 & 9 options evening.

FOOD FROM AROUND THE WORLD Pupils from Ysgol Henry Richard don’t have to travel far in order to taste delicious food. The school held a special breakfast event recently to celebrate the National Farmers Breakfast Week and were joined by Geraint Lloyd, a former pupil and presenter on BBC Radio Cymru. Not only did Geraint enjoy the breakfast but also broadcast interviews with staff and pupils on his show.

This year’s task for those competing in the Urdd Cogurdd competition in Years 7-9 was to prepare muffins, flat bread and Mexican style dips. For those in Years 5 and 6 the task in the first round was to prepare a Greek Salad and in the second round an Italian style Minestrone soup and sweet French crepes. Congratulations to all who competed including Neid Willis, Dylan Isaac and Will Hockenhul who represented the school at county level.

Shrove Tuesday was held in style with the French department running a Crêperie with many classes. This was one of the ideas of the school’s language ambassadors who recently trained at an event at Swansea University.

They have more plans for the future including a pop up French Bistro, a disco of French music and a trip to France.

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EARTH HOUR Come and celebrate Earth Hour with us at Victoria Hall.

World Wild Fund for Nature’s Earth Hour is an annual global celebration where people switch off their lights for one hour to show they care about the future of our planet. This year’s celebrations will be on Saturday 19 March from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.

Here in Lampeter a special lantern-lit celebration with music and song will take place at Victoria Hall. You can be part of it by coming along to the free workshops, or just come and enjoy the fun on the night.

Mulberry Bush Cafe will be offering delicious food from 7pm. The ‘lights out’ performance will begin at 8.30pm.

If you would like get involved with making the lanterns, please come to Victoria Hall on Saturday 12 March 2–5pm. (All the materials will be provided.)

This series of free workshops has been organised

by Community Music Wales.

More info contact: Rachel, rhmojas@hotmail.com, 01545 590 536

Film Night Fri 4 Mar 2016 “Spectre” (12A) Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz and Léa Seydoux

Fri 18 Mar 2016 “Suffragettes” (12A) Starring: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter

Fri 1 Apr 2016 “Lady in the Van”(12A) Starring: Maggie Smith, Dominic Cooper, James Corden and Jim Broadbent

Fri 15 Apr “Bridge of Spies” (12A) Tom Hanks, Eve Hewson and Amy Ryan Starring

DOORS OPEN 7.15pm for 7.45pm start Admission by Donation BIG SCREEN & DIGITAL THEATRE SOUND HEARING LOOP NOW AVAILABLE

For more details WWW.MILLENNIUNHALLCELLAN.CO.UK Volunteers required Please contact Amanda Newman, 01570 421338

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6.30-8pm: Canu

(natural voice) with Maya Waldman

(llais naturiol) gyda Maya Waldman

7.30-9pm: African Drumming

7.30-9pm: Drymio Affricanaidd

with Rachel Hargrave (instruments provided)

gyda Rachel Hargrave (darperir offerynnau)

6-7.30pm: Soundscape with Pete Stacey (use your

6-7.30pm: Seinwedd gyda Pete Stacey (defnyddiwch

mobile phone tablet to make recordings of

eich ffon symudol neu lechen i recordio seiniau

environmental sound to be used in our Earth Hour

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Banc Bwyd Llambed Food Bank Annual report Jan-December 2015

Celtic Christianity: Part XX Saint Justinian Ascetic.

Reposed 6 century.

Remembered December 5 St Justinian was from Celtic Brittany. He was visited by Saint David who was so impressed with his holiness that he made him his confessor and Abbot of St David's (Menevia) Cathedral.

However, Justinian became disillusioned with the poor attitude of the monks at St Davids and took himself away the short distance to remote Ramsey Island that he received as a gift from Honorius, the son of King Thefriauc, and established a more holy spiritual community. The more loyal monks followed him. He was eventually murdered by some who were devoted to the devil, by beheading him. Later his corpse arose, picked up his head in his arms and crossed Ramsey Sound by walking on the water and his body was buried in the small chapel which still stands on the mainland at St Justinian's, immediately opposite his island home. A 14th century pilgrim church, also built on early foundations, lies opposite the island on the mainland at Llanstinian near Fishguard. It is listed Grade 1. His body was transported to the shrine of Saint David in St David's Cathedral. The remains of their bones are housed in a casket in the Holy Trinity Chapel there. Justinian is listed on very ancient Welsh calendars of saints and martyrs.

Harry Harrison

Lampeter Food Bank/ Banc Bwyd has had a year of changes, although sadly the change we all wish to see, an overall reduction in the need for our service, has not happened. In March we started a Tuesday lunch hosted by Emmaus, using surplus food from local outlets: the Co-op and Organic Fresh Foods have been especially involved in supporting this project, which is well established and provides a basic weekly free soup lunch for young and old.

Peggy Hemingway, who established the Banc Bwyd and put most of the systems in place, stepped down over the summer. We owe her an enormous debt of gratitude for the years of time and care that she gave and we wish her well. To fill the gap she left, the committee recruited a small group of volunteers from the supporting churches, who assist with taking referrals and making up food parcels for collection.

Over 2015, Banc Bwyd responded to 148 referrals (90 households in all), providing meals for 187 adults and 96 children: 2,597 meals in total. More than 10% of the adults referred were in work often on zero house contracts: the main reasons for using the food bank were benefit delays, cuts and sanctions, including one disabled person who was sanctioned for not attending an appointment while in hospital. Several homeless people were referred this year, including some whose benefits could not then cover the costs of moving into housing.

Banc Bwyd is supported by ten Lampeter churches, as well as churches in Llanllwni, Llanwnnen, Dihewyd, and Ciliau Aeron. We continue to be grateful for the support of our local community, who give generously to the food boxes in Hedyn Mustard and the Co-op: to the Co-op particularly for their donations to food parcels; and to Aled Williams and the University for providing a room. We ask you all to continue to hold in our thoughts the Banc Bwyd and those who need to use it, as well as the need for a more just society that will render food banks unnecessary.

Julia Lim

Cothi Gardeners Now that one of the wettest winters on record is behind us, Cothi Gardeners have launched their 2016 programme and are looking forward to their next speaker on Wednesday 16 March. Keith Treadaway will inspire us with his talk about the ever-popular Clematis. Which variety is best for your garden? Join us to hear his advice on choosing the right species, care and positioning of your clematis. In February we learned so much about photography in the garden from Mary Pipkin, now we can take great pictures of our favourite clematis blooms.

Further speakers this year will include experts on perennials, growing vegetables and roses. We will also

welcome representatives from some local gardens which are open to the public. Full details please contact Daisy on 01558 650829.

Cothi Gardeners meet at the Coronation Hall, Pumpsaint, on the third Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm.

Annual membership costs ÂŁ14, visitors and guests are most welcome too, ÂŁ3 including refreshments. Have you seen our website? Cothigardeners.com is where you will find more information, or check our facebook page.

Croeso i bawb, everyone welcome.

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The Secret Travels of the Grapevine …

Last issue we mentioned that Grapevine is now available around the world digitally via https://issuu.com/lampetergrapevine/stacks … but how far and wide have the paper copies travelled?

This is Sarah Mayo (letters, issue 36) who sent us some images from Texas to start the journey!

Where have you taken yours?

Why don’t you send in photos to let us know and we’ll publish them in future issues.

The People’s Market Every 2nd and 4th Saturday 10am-1pm

Sarah Mayo with Bryn, Carys and Bronwyn in front of a Texas-sized fireplace.

Sarah with Texas and US flags and palm trees.

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Journey

to accept the uncertainty of such a diagnosis. I think one of the worst things about MS for me and probably many other people is this uncertainty. There is no guarantee that how I feel now is going to last tomorrow, the next day, weeks or even for only a few minutes! Many of us find it difficult to cope with change and may find ourselves spiralling down into the unknown...but wait...there is also the opportunity to embrace this change as an exciting new journey of exploration. I have learnt so much about other people’s problems and have gained so much from attending the Support Group. I am amazed by the resilience and fortitude shown by people who attend. We all have our individual journeys to travel.

We have to try to live life to the full. It is certainly different… no charging around the badminton court for me any more... but by living in the moment our journeys can still be worthwhile.

Sitting yesterday doing a collection for MS, in the cold foyer of a supermarket in Aberystwyth, I enjoyed ‘peoplewatching’, talking to, yes sometimes sad people, but also people who enthusiastically shared new ways of coping.

We do this in the Support Group so come along and join us on the first Monday of the month in Lampeter and the second Monday of the month in Aberystwyth. Our groups welcome those with MS, carers, friends and relatives.

Share your experiences with us, have a laugh, have a wonderfully relaxing reflexology session with Annie Zakiewicz, and a lovely cuppa and cake at the Mustard Seed. Thanks to Annie and the cafe. Croeso i bawb, Multiple Sclerosis Support Group – Ceredigion For details contact us on the following numbers: Judith McKay, Support Volunteer. 01570 493509 Hazel Ellis, Chair Ceredigion MS Branch 01974 261640 Judith McKay

I am sitting here all ready to take my ‘journey’ across this blank sheet of paper. Where will my pen take me? There are so many confusing thoughts coming into my head so I ask myself, ‘where do I start?’ As I sit I think about all the possibilities. Should I write about the journey into Multiple Sclerosis, from the appearance of symptoms, through all the tests to arrive at a diagnosis, or just the word ‘journey’ in relation to life in general? We all of us are on a ‘journey’, aren’t we whether we have any illness or not?

I sit and think and as I do my mind is taking its own journey into the minutiae of life with MS, symptoms so obscure that they can be unnoticeable to others but can cause debilitating problems to the sufferer. Many of us with MS have trouble keeping in a straight line when we walk. We’d never pass a test about walking on a yellow line in the road! People think we are drunk hence the MS Society has produced badges for us that say ‘I’m not drunk I’ve got MS’.

How hard it can be when a young person is told he/she has Multiple Sclerosis. This disease has many forms.

Relapsing & Remitting MS (RRMS) can occur in adolescence. The youngest person identified developed MS as a child of five. What a journey that person has to make.

People with RRMS can go on to develop Secondary Progressive and may have very disabling symptoms. I have Primary Progressive MS which first appeared in 2002. Although it occurs in people who are older it is progressive from the start. I have been lucky on this ‘journey’ as my MS has progressed slowly.

Thinking, re-thinking memories of those days when I had

Cymdeithas Hanes Llambed The March meeting will be held on Tuesday, 15 March, 7.30pm at the Old Hall, University of Trinity St David. Yvonne Davies will be giving a talk on Lampeter pubs; information gathered for the ‘Pint of History Please’ project undertaken by members of Ceredigion History Forum for the People’s Collection. Croeso cynnes i bawb, all welcomed; £2 admission for non-members.

Amgueddfa Llambed / Lampeter Museum The Museum will be re-opening before Easter on Tuesday 22 March, when volunteers look forward to welcoming the local community as well as visitors once more to browse

around. There will be new collections of exhibits to see, namely 1916 memorabilia from the Great War; a display of memorial cards; a collection put together by the Pencarreg Community Council on the stories and history of Pencarreg Parish; a display of farming implements and history of Mountain Farms; various items from the Old Quarry Bottling plant, and a new exhibition on the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Lampeter Railway Station (not to be confused with the previous exhibit on the closure of the railway). Therefore, loads of ‘new’ information to gather, and another journey around Lampeter’s past history. We don’t want to hear anyone saying ‘Been there, done that! – please do come in and have another look around. Opening times: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10am-4pm.

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Karen’s Creative Compendium 012 If you were unable to solve the mystery of KCC011, there are further clues in the opening poem of this month’s edition as Derek, making his KCC debut, travels a similar path. Answers in April. Our mix of new and traditional continues with Sarah’s haiku tryptic and Doris’ cinquain. A poem of five lines that do not rhyme, the cinquain dates from the early 1900s and was inspired by the ancient Japanese haiku. Doris uses a strict structure of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables in each stanza. Add a fifth stanza and it would become a Crown cinquain, go another step and it could become a Garland cinquain although this form requires the sixth stanza to contain The Backroom Band one line from each of the first five. Majikle’s poem, also in five-line form but not a cinquain, captures rhyme in its moments of love. Simon looks one day forward while Stan’s story takes us on the longest journey of all. Please email your fiction, poems and scripts to: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com clearly marked KCC. Pob hwyl, Karen

Lifeline

by Derek Moore When a small child who wanted nothing You were constant Two of you turning separately Meeting each hour to stay in touch As I began to want and experience life You became variable Painfully slow when I was expectant or bored Faster when enrapt or intrigued However you still met at those times each day Now in twilight years so fast you turn Days, weeks and years fly by And I don’t recall yesterday Because tomorrow is already here Like a fan cooling me towards my demise When your hands stop turning for me And you become irrelevant in my consciousness Will you still meet up each day?

Tomorrow

by Simon Battersby What does tomorrow have in store A million different things!

None of which we can control For we don't pull the strings You think you know your future plans But fate has the last say No matter how you set out your hand It might not turn out that way Freedom of speech - a right to choose Are all worth fighting for But whether you win or whether you lose Only hindsight knows for sure I'm not saying not to dream I'm not saying don't have goals I am saying life is like a stream That babbles fast then slows That sometimes runs in torrents That other times runs dry It has vast changing currents That are invisible to the eye It can be soft and gentle And sometime quite serene Sometimes it can be fatal Sometimes it’s just a stream

Tryptic Haiku Values and Valuables

by Sarah Eyles Ancient golden coins Hidden deep in a gnarled oak Covered in droppings ***************** A boy finds treasure Proudly shows his doting dad Pebbles and feathers ***************** Diamonds to kill for Worthless earthworms aerate soil Unnatural values

Progress

by Karen Gemma Brewer Black slash on green traffic blood streams can’t staunch the flow green forego

Biscuits

by Doris Critchley

Bread sticks Cornish wafers Cream crackers with some cheese Ryvita crispbread, butter puffs Crunch them Rich tea Morning coffee Shortbread made with butter Garibaldis flecked with currants Bite them Fig rolls Jammy dodgers Custard creams and bourbon Round ginger nuts hard as rock Dunk them Hob nobs Jacobs orange Chocolate digestive Cadburys fingers in a box Yum yum

Death comes to a Tidy House

by Majikle Sorted out suburbia Spread like sheets of neat Geometry planned for unrelated families Becalmed by sleeping policemen In leafy bedroom avenues But in slinks cancer, sharking still Vintage lacy curtains offering no protection Against her looking glass skill And beyond the fury at life hewn savage blue A love of moments, may yet find you.

Corbynarium

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Galileo’s Dog by Stan Scan Perhaps the wide canvasses of elephants can detect it or the highly tuned receptors of bats, but it is our blessing that the plaintive cries ringing out across the universe are beyond human ears.

It is all too easy to blame NASA and their adherence to mechanical science in an emotional vacuum. But they did not comprehend the perpetual loneliness their systems would impose. A loneliness beyond the understanding of its victim. It is, perhaps, a combination of complete ignorance with steadfast loyalty and innocent faith in the face of continual disappointment that makes the reality of my story all the more painfully sad.

We begin with a journey, a launch into the unknown, with 35 million miles travelled and numerous hazards successfully negotiated. The trials encountered over many months would make an exciting tale in themselves, but my story begins at the journey’s end. Although, how much the participants knew of their one-way-ticket is open to speculation.

From the window, picturesque canals could be seen as they came in to land. Bathed, as everything, in a soft red light. The sun shone brightly in the sky, turning the dust into a heavy mist of graffiti red that painted slogans on boulders as it settled.

Galileo, a fine figure in silver and grey, buried his feet in the dust, absorbing the impact in the joints of his legs as he jumped to the ground. It was good to feel something solid underfoot and stretch his limbs, to level off, after such a long flight. The cool breeze was also a comfort after the intense heat of atmospheric friction. Raising a finger to the wind, he pointed to the sky and whistled. Rover was sound asleep, anaesthetised while they sped through the heavens, but at the unmistakeable sound of his master’s voice, he burst immediately to life like a desert flower after rain. Joy emanated in waves from his wagging tail as he poked his nose into the dusty air and ran down the ramp to sit at his master’s feet.

Rover’s role, the role he was designed for, that seemingly made him so happy, energetic and full of love, was to follow his master’s command, wherever it might lead, even to the ends of the universe. To respond to every request, every signal, with total, unquestioning obedience. To come when called, go when sent, stay when stayed and just to be there, there with Galileo, when there was no need for orders.

If Rover’s love for Galileo could be measured, it would add up to a preparedness to die for him. Not that he had ever reasoned this out, Rover was not capable of such thought, but just to see them together, you could tell that he would.

Without question. Equally, you could not imagine Galileo without his loyal friend. His protector, his sanity, his joy!

Galileo whistled again, there was work to be done. Rover padded obediently into the dust, feeling his way around the rocks strewn across his path. Pausing to sniff carefully at those he was directed to by Galileo’s whistled commands, tasting their minerals, memorising their structure. They worked until the sun set on Rover’s fatigue and he drifted into a deep sleep as the night froze around him. Galileo laboured on, sending the information back to earth, to the scientists at NASA. Only when communications were completed did he turn off the lights and prepare to sleep, for the first time, on Mars.

Galileo was stirred from his slumber by an impatient companion. The sun had been up for hours and Rover was re-energised and raring to be sent back to work. The old explorer clicked on his switches and whistled his sidekick into action. Rover trundled this way and that, nuzzled the red pebble, the blue stone, the yellow dust and the orange boulder. He punished his tired frame until it could move no longer and fell abruptly into slumber as the sun set on their second day on the red planet.

As Rover rested, Galileo again worked on, transmitting their discoveries to the distant blue sphere. He congratulated the scientists on their foresight in fitting him with batteries, rather than leaving him at the mercy of the stars like his solar powered friend.

Like man and dog, Galileo and Rover continued about their task day after day, Rover reacting to every whistled command during daylight, then slumbering in the darkness while Galileo continued into the night, sending the information back to NASA. They had been doing well, a great team, but the long hours were beginning to take their toll on Galileo. He was growing old, the cold was getting to him and every day seemed longer than the last as tiredness welled up inside.

These days, Rover had to bark for hours before Galileo awakened and he went back to sleep before dark, leaving his partner waiting in the afternoon sun for the next whistle. Rover did not complain, he continued to rise with the sun, bark until Galileo responded, work for as long as commands were issued and continue waiting when they ceased, just in case there was one last requirement before sundown. “I’m getting too old for this boy,” Galileo whispered one afternoon. “My batteries are running down.” Rover did not understand, just barked a response that said ‘I love you.’

Next morning, Rover barked and barked but Galileo did not respond. Rover barked all afternoon, but there was no comforting whistle. Rover barked until the darkness blacked him out. Up with the sun, Rover barked all the next day. He did not know that Galileo was dead. He would not understand if he did.

Rover knows that Galileo would never abandon him. He does not understand why he does not answer, but knows he will.

Until then he barks on, day after day, waiting for the echo of his master’s voice. He asks no questions, seeks no explanations, just expresses how he feels every day, from sunrise to sunset.

“I love you,” he says. “I am here and I love you.”

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The Beginners’ Course consists of 5 theory classes followed by practical classes in our apiary & a honey extraction class; fee includes 1st year membership of Lampeter Beekeepers’ Association and the cost of the Taster Day is refunded to those who also book on to the full course.

Both courses will be held in the Millennium Hall, Cellan.

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Vintage & designer clothing & accessories

National Wool Museum, Dre-Fach Felindre, Newcastle Emlyn.

Saturday 19 March, 12.30-5pm.

Make a Giant Sunflower whilst learning rag rug making techniques of hooking and prodding. £30.

All tools and materials provided.

Book with Sue, 01974 298100 or email sue@ragartstudios.com

Job Offered: To proof read and correct 18 pages of Welsh.

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Rag Rug Making workshop

People’s Market 10am-1pm Victoria Hall Bryn Rd Lampeter

Every 2nd & 4th Saturday

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Woodland Classroom: Play, Explore, Discover learning to express themselves through words, pictures and metaphors while sending messages to their subconscious minds where new ideas are stored and used at a later date to relate to future experiences. So, you can see why we’ve been telling stories for thousands of years.

The journey stick is an easy activity that can be done in any outdoor space. Try it for yourself next time you’re on a walk and don’t forget to have your own stick because the best way to encourage our kids is to lead by example.

Who knows what you might learn about yourself along the way.

The Child’s Journey of Learning

Some of the most crucial learning for children takes place through play. The journey from childhood to adolescence is filled with experimentation, role-play and trial & error mostly through the medium of play.

For children (and adults) metaphors of myth and story can be useful when trying to make sense of the world and what is happening to them. Children can relate their experiences to objects and situations they see in nature or storybooks, especially useful when their vocabulary is not developed enough to be able to fully express themselves. Stories have always been a powerful tool for communicating information and educating the young.

The hypnotic affects of a good story can also induce alpha brainwaves, which is the optimal state for learning and remembering.

In our Forest School we enjoy telling stories around the campfire and giving the children the opportunity to create their own. A great aid to this process is the use of a journey stick. Here’s how it works; each child finds their own stick and takes several short lengths of coloured wool. The group then goes on their journey. Along the way everyone collects items from their walk and ties them to their Llinos with her Journey stick made in the woods stick, each new addition to the stick represents a part of their journey and this is what builds up their personal story, ready to share around the fire at the end of the walk.

If a picture is worth a thousand words and a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures, you can see how the journey stick can be a useful tool for children in developing their imaginations and making natural associations between one idea and another. According to psychologists our memories seem to work best when we can see things as part of a recognized pattern and when the information appeals strongly to our senses.

The child telling the story is exercising their memory muscles, practicing their vocabulary and making connections between real life and their emotions, www.facebook.com/woodlandclassroom

Go on a Journey: Join the Easter Egg Hunt Another journey you could take your kids on is an Easter egg hunt. This year we’re teaming up with Denmark Farm in running their popular annual hunt, adding our own ‘forest school’ twist to it. So, as well as a fairtrade chocolate egg for each child, there will be tasty treats along the way and a campfire where you can toast marshmallows and play in the woods where there may be a few more surprises waiting for you. There’ll also tea & cakes served in a pop-up café. Join us on Saturday 26 March, from 1pm till 4pm. Why not make it a family day out and maybe make a journey stick too. To find out more visit the events page on our website: www.woodlandclassroom.com/events

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What you need: Orange peel Egg boxes Split pins String Scissors Paintbrush Yellow paint Cut the orange peel into flower shape & allow to dry out Cut egg box to create the daffodil trumpets Paint and allow to dry Fix to orange peel petals using split pin Create hole in one petal & thread string through for hanger or stick to a card for Mother’s Day

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This twenty first Local General Knowledge and Cryptic Crossword is sponsored by Cash Inn. The owner has kindly offered the winner a voucher to spend in the PRIZE: Voucher store.

Cash Inn was opened in Bridge Street five years ago

by Robert who has lived in Lampeter since the age of four. It offers two services; a place where people can get rid of items, still in good condition, they no longer want, and receive a payment for this; a store offering Prize Local Knowledge/Cryptic Crossword No 21 (Jeep) a wide 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 range of different 9 10 second11 hand products at very reasonable prices. Products for sale include CDs 12 and DVDs, games for consoles such Xbox and PlayStation, new 13 14 15 greetings cards, electrical items, musical instruments and bicycles.

16 Cash Inn will accept most smaller items for cash payments and 17 will display more expensive items, such as guitars, on a commission basis. A service is offered for people who are looking for specific 18 19 20 21 22 purchases, which can then be ordered through the internet for 23 24 collection in store.

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Across 1. Remote region choked abbey font reveals when stirred (3,4,2,6) 9. Slow introduction to getting healthy at the Leisure Centre, Tuesday 12.00 -12.45 (4,4,7) 11. Many intelligent theorist started this university in Cambridge USA (abb) (1,1,1) 12. Royal? Loyal? Two men leave to create solid bronze alliance (5) 13. I even it out and welcome the guest (7) 14. Room you left briefly redesigned in imitation gold (6) 17. The trail left as we import exotic food, drive a car, or duplicate with a typewriter (6,9) 18. In need of the intermittent orange drink or an episodic dance? (10,5) 23. Not near supplying the backward RAF (3) 24. Exist in a bed? (2) 25. Pitifully cry, ‘He dwelt a broken wreck!’ (10) 29. Rub up right and make a whirring sound (4) 30. Swiss river a far franc away (3) 31. Nothing you place tea on if workers are on strike (3) 32. Sports club on the North Road (8,4,1,1,1) 33. Revolving areas had spin off for trustworthy support (4,4,2,5)

Down 1. Became patron of Trinity Saint David in 2011 (3,6,2,5) 2. Levers an alternative way out but simply comes face to face with the captive (8) 3. Types of films shown at the Magic Lamp, such as Shaun the Sheep (10) 4. A drum that bands used for making tea? (6) 5. Shades of grey that are only half a century (5) 6. East? I have the right for any one of two (6) 7. Exaggerate and do rove around (6) 8. Car derbies. Counteracts rides that are smashed up (11,5) 10. A line is redrawn and shows a flow through Sudan and Egypt (4) 14. Beat anyone not in the drama (7) 15. Took intervals in mean rain as she won Wimbledon in 2004 (5) 16. How the graduates from Lampeter University are dressed when they receive their degrees (6) 19. Vehicle discarded at heart? (3) 20. Speciality provided by Conti’s Cafe without the cold part (5) 21. Award set endlessly showing too much body fat (5) 22. Particle tore nun apart! (7) 26. It released a flow of water when Pat came back (3) 27. Move stealthily and find this annoying person (5) 28. National gambling available at Sainsbury, the Coop, Spar and Lomax (5) 29. A roll that would be found in knotted hair? (3) 31. Endless howl is reaction to pain (2)

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Closing Date for Entries: Fri 11 March 2016, 5pm Name: ............................................................... Tel: ............................................( Day)................................................(Eve) Email: .....................................................................................................................

Place in Competition Entries box in Library, Mark Lane Bakery or Postbox at Victoria Hall By post: Cryptic Crossword No. 21, Grapevine, c/o Victoria Hall, Bryn Rd, Lampeter SA48 7EE.

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Film inspired by Naomi Klein's international 2014 bestseller Seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing.

THIS CHANGES

EVERYTHING

Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the crisis of climate change to

transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

It’s time to stop pretending we can control nature!

To be shown at

Victoria Hall, Lampeter Saturday 5 March 7.30 p.m.

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Sauerkraut for Lampeter people – news from People’s Market In December last year Peggy Beer joined the People’s Market Lampeter with a small local food business called Eldertree. The business specialises in producing fermented raw foods and, besides other products, has three different kinds of Sauerkraut on sale: the original one made only with organic white cabbage, salt and little water; a very colourful variation made with organic red cabbage; and an Indian variation, also known as ayurvedic sauerkraut, with a combination of spices to further enhance the benefits to the digestion.

Sauerkraut is produced by a special variety of bacteria called lactobacilli that occur naturally everywhere on this earth. Those bacteria turn natural sugars in cabbage into lactic acid and produce a distinctive sour flavour and a product with a long shelf life, due to the lactic acid. When consumed raw it has the biggest range of lactobacilli and offers the greatest health benefits. Lacto fermentation or wild fermentation is an old way to preserve a variety of fruit and vegetables, milk, grains, meads, wines, ciders, beers, beans seeds etc. During industrialisation it got substituted by pickling with vinegar, canning and pasteurization. The reason for abandoning the old tradition was that the final fermented product is not always uniform in taste, as the varieties of lactobacilli naturally change from batch to batch. What people forgot though was that the newer methods killed all the health supporting lactic-acid-producing bacteria which are crucial for a well-balanced digestive system. And a well-balanced digestive system is needed to support the rest of the body and provide it with all the nutrients.

Lacto fermented foods have got many health benefits.

Lacto fermentation increases vitamin and mineral levels.

Lactobacilli produce helpful enzymes, antibiotic and anti-carcinogenic substances and boost the immune system by increasing the amount of antibodies that help fight off E-coli, salmonella, and candida. Cabbage is high in vitamins A and C and also provides a rich source of phytonutrient antioxidants. In addition, it has anti-inflammatory properties and contains isothiocyanates, which according to Finnish researchers, is said to help prevent the growth of cancer.

The nutrition specialist Sally Fallon summarizes the health benefits that way: She says ‘Scientists and doctors today are mystified by the proliferation of new viruses, intestinal parasites and pathogenic yeasts, even among

people’s market people

those whose sanitary practices are faultless. Could it be that in abandoning the ancient practice of lacto-fermentation and in our insistence on a diet in which everything has been pasteurized, we have compromised the health of our intestinal flora? If so, the cure for these diseases will be found not in vaccinations, drugs or antibiotics but in a restored partnership with the many varieties of lactobacilli [Sally Fallon in ‘Nourishing traditions’] Archaeological evidence suggests our forefathers would have consumed large numbers of live lactic acid bacteria.

The Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC) wrote about the healing effects of sauerkraut. In China a version of the pickled cabbage dish was consumed 2,000 years ago and the juice was prescribed as a home remedy for many common ailments. The Roman army travelled with barrels of sauerkraut. British, Spanish and Portuguese seafarers had it on board and in the late 1770’s, Captain James Cook circumnavigated the world without losing a single sailor to scurvy, due to the foods his ship carried, including sixty barrels of sauerkraut.

Sandor Ellix Katz, probably the most known fermentation supporter of our days, says ‘Wild fermentation is a way of incorporating the wild into your body, becoming one with the natural world. Wild foods, microbial cultures included, possess a great, unmediated life force, which can help us adapt to shifting conditions and lower our susceptibility to disease. By eating a variety of live fermented foods, you promote diversity among microbial cultures in your body. Call it microbiodiversity. Your body is an ecosystem that can function most effectively when populated by diverse species of microorganisms. By fermenting foods and drinks with wild microorganisms present in your home environment, you become more interconnected with the life forces of the world around you. Your environment becomes you, as you invite the microbial populations you share the earth with to enter your diet and your intestinal ecology.’ [Sandor Ellix Katz in 'Wild Fermentation: The Flavour, Nutrition and Craft of Live-Culture Foods’] So if you love sauerkraut or you would

love to try don’t miss the opportunity to come to the next peoples market, on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month in Victoria hall. This could be a start to develop your own special relationship with this incredibly local super food that has a long tradition in the human food history, as well as fermented foods have in the rest of the animal world.

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Eldertree also supplies Raw Sauerkraut to Organic Fresh Food Company Lampeter and Mulberry Bush Wholefoods. Contact: peggyclaudia@yahoo.com.

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A Day Out with Lunch for Only £2.50

That’s what Merry Makers Women’s Group offers. Now in their eighteenth year the group came about after a 20/20 vision course run by Gillian Metcalfe and Lucy Evans. At the end of the course the women wanted to keep in touch with each other and the creative activities they had enjoyed. Originally called The Women’s Workshop the group changed its name last year as they felt it did not express all that they did. As friendship and laughter seemed to be a large part of the day the name Merry Makers was chosen.

On offer every week are creative activities: writing, painting, singing, knitting,

crochet and craft are regular activities. At least once a term there is a play reading session, which is proving very popular. We also have people in to give talks and demonstrations.

Recently Leonora, a Dementia Friend Ambassador, gave us an illuminating talk, and several members have become dementia friends as a result. February also included a painting class led by an artist, and an unusual pancake making session.

“The group is very friendly and has been a life saver now that I’m a widow” one member said. Another “it’s great to come here and have a laugh. It gets me away from my problems”. There is a wide range of ages in the group, and no one is too old to join.

There is no joining fee or annual subscription, just £2.50 for each session attended, paid on the day. This fee is deliberately kept low so that it is accessible to all women; a delicious vegetarian lunch is included in the price. We are a self-funding group and subsidise the fee through selling our crafts at Christmas events.

The group meets on Wednesdays at St James’ Hall, Cwmann, 10.30am-3pm and welcomes new women members of any age. The hall has disabled access, disabled toilet and free parking. The bus will stop outside the hall.

Members come from the Lampeter area and also from Llandysul, Aberaeron, and Aberystwyth. For more details contact: Bella on 01559 370981.

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University of Wales Trinity Saint David celebrates Lampeter as the birthplace of Welsh rugby Time

Activity

Location

1.00pm

UWTSD Women v Lampeter Town RFC Women

Lampeter Town RFC

2.15pm

Launch of Publication The Fighting Parsons: – the role of St David’s College Lampeter in the development of rugby in Wales, by local historian Selwyn Walters

Lampeter Town RFC

3.00pm

UWTSD v Welsh Academicals (invitational side)

Lampeter Town RFC

5.00pm – 6.00pm

Opportunity to view an exhibition of rugby related artefacts and memorablia

Roderick Bowen Library, UWTSD Lampeter Campus

6.00pm

Unveiling of Memorial to Rowland Williams and Lampeter – Commemorating the contribution the birthplace of Welsh rugby

Canterbury Building, UWTSD Lampeter Campus

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) is preparing to celebrate Lampeter as the birthplace of rugby in Wales with a full day of rugby related events.

On Wednesday 23 March, rugby will be the main focus for both the town and the University with a range of events organised to commemorate Lampeter’s contribution to the sport.

The 2015/2016 season is the 150th anniversary of the first competitive rugby match ever played in Wales. The game was played on the University’s playing fields in the town and the match was between St David’s College (now UWTSD) and nearby Llandovery College.

It is widely accepted that rugby was introduced to Wales by the Rev. Professor Rowland Williams, who became Vice-Principal of St David’s College in 1850 and who’d played Rugby Football as a student at Kings College, Cambridge. The Welsh Rugby Union has also given the anniversary celebration its full support, acknowledging Lampeter’s importance to the birth of rugby in Wales.

With articles in the University’s archives featuring former

students reminiscing about playing rugby at Lampeter in the 1850s, rugby matches were certainly thought to have been played between students from 1850 onwards, although the first competitive match using the rugby rules wasn’t played until 1866.

A centenary event was held in 1966 that featured a rugby match between St David’s College and an Invitational Welsh XV which featured some of the era’s greats, including former UWTSD Carmarthen lecturer, the late Carwyn James; former UWTSD Carmarthen student, Barry John as well as Wales legend, Delme Thomas, now a fellow of the University.

Fifty years on, the University is planning a full day of events including two special rugby fixtures, the launch of a new book written by local historian Selwyn Walters, the unveiling of a memorial to commemorate Rowland Williams’ contribution to Welsh rugby and an exhibition featuring an array of St David’s College rugby related items.

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