Lampeter Grapevine Issue 78 April May 2020

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

Ebrill / Mai - April / May 2020

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The Secret Travels of the Grapevine…

Grapevine is now available around the world: issuu.com/ lampetergrapevine/stacks … but we are also really interested to know how far and wide the paper versions have travelled; what local villages and communities it has reached and what route it has taken - Or perhaps how many people have passed it on to someone else?

Are you planning any travels over the coming months? If so please don’t forget to pack your copy of Grapevine - we’re always fascinated to find out where in the world it goes.

Can your copy of Grapevine be the most environmentally friendly traveller? Or will yours be shared in unusual ways, be found in quirky local locations, be upcycled or recycled?

Where will your copy Grapevine end up? Why don’t you send us your photos: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com and we’ll publish them in future issues. Eds.

Thanks to Peter Martin for sharing this lively destination.

As founder of the original Tewkesbury Winter Ale Festival 25 years ago he was VIP for the day.

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@2022 TOTALLY LOCALLY, BUT PLEASE COPY IT AND SPREAD IT AROUND. IT’S NO USE IF IT’S NOT SHARED (AS OUR MUMS WOULD LIKELY SAY).

GRAPEVINE no. 78, April / May 2020 Post: c/o Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 7EE Email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com Published by: Transition Llambed Development Trust, Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter, SA48 7EE Printed by: TSD Reprographics, Lampeter, on paper from sustainable resources Printing costs sponsored by:

Croeso / Welcome to this unique issue of the Grapevine

…the first time we haven’t managed to get a printed copy circulated.

These are, afterall, extraordinary times and we find ourselves in a situation that is new to all of us. We our doing our best to accept this as a challenge and not a barrier. You will either be reading this as a digital copy or a downloaded PDF, which may have been printed. This is our way of trying to reach as many of our readers as possible. We hope you may be able to share a copy with someone else (as long as you can do this safely). The current situation may be unfamiliar, uncomfortable and a little surreal but I guess we all just need to learn to adapt. We need to accept new restrictions, support our most vulnerable and play our part in helping our community, our country and the world to survive this pandemic. Little did we know when thinking of themes for Grapevine that ‘Hidden Treasures’ would reveal itself in the way it has. Coronavirus itself is not the ‘treasure’ but I’m sure you would agree that the resulting effects have brought many hidden treasures into the limelight. Think of all the people on the frontline who are battling everyday on our behalf to fight the virus and all those helping to support these workers to continue their essential work; those ensuring the country is fed, or those designing, producing and delivering new equipment; volunteers are stepping up to help reach those who are more vulnerable; and communities are pulling together to do what they can. Everyone is being more creative and

To submit Articles, letters, reviews or enquiries: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com 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 and contributors: see grapevine page on www.vichall.org.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) Payment by bank transfer or cheques payable to TLDT

Copy deadline for June, issue 79: Fri 8 May Theme: ‘Diolch’ Circulation this issue: 2,500 copies distributed free in the Lampeter area We reserve the right to edit all contributions for reasons of space and clarity. The views expressed in letters and articles are not necessarily those of Transition Llambed Development Trust or the newsletter group.

Covid-19 Note: All information was accurate at the time of publishing.

resourceful, and repurposing services and businesses to fulfil a need. We all have our part to play. Maybe this is a wake up call - a time to act and a time to make a real difference. Perhaps going forward, there will be some long-term benefits to society as a whole, as well as to the health of our planet. Only time will tell. So for now, take a break and catch up with some positive news in the Grapevine. Please take care and stay safe.

Angie Martin, Darllenwch yn hapus / Happy reading.

polite reminder: If you are a regular contributor, we thank you for your continued support and commitment to the Grapevine but we do politely remind you that articles should be kept to 400 words to allow us space to include new material each issue.

If at any time you need a longer article, then please contact the Grapevine team prior to copy deadline and we will do all we can to accommodate your needs.

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 and artwork in jpg format as we cannot accept PDFs. For full guidelines for advertisers and contributors: see Grapevine page on www.vichall.org.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.vichall.org.uk/transition-llambed email: 2transitionLlambed@gmail.com Victoria Hall: www.vichall.org.uk To make bookings for Victoria Hall contact: victoriahall.transition@gmail.com or phone/text 07891 632614 People's Market: To book a stall contact: victoriahall.transition@gmail.com or phone/text 07891 632614 3

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Coronafeirws: Neges gan y Cyngorydd Ellen ap Gwynn, Arweinydd Cyngor Sir Ceredigion Coronavirus: A message from Ceredigion County Council Leader, Councillor Ellen ap Gwynn

18 Mawrth 2020

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Gyfeillion, Gallaf sicrhau pobl Ceredigion bod Grŵp Rheoli Aur COVID-19 Cyngor Sir Ceredigion wedi ei sefydlu ac yn gwneud gwaith hanfodol i baratoi’r sir i fynd i’r afael â’r Coronafeirws. Mae gan y Cyngor ddyletswydd gofal i’w weithwyr, i bawb sy’n dod i gysylltiad â ni ac i chi bobl Ceredigion yn gyffredinol. Mae’r staff yn derbyn y wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am y sefyllfa wrth iddi ddatblygu, yna byddant yn cysylltu â’r defnyddwyr gwasanaeth perthnasol i sicrhau eu bod yn ymwybodol o’r newidiadau.

All, I can assure the people of Ceredigion that Ceredigion County Council’s COVID-19 Gold Command Group has been established and is doing essential work to prepare the county to cope with Coronavirus. The Council has a duty of care to its employees, to all who may come into contact with our work and to you the people of Ceredigion. Staff are being kept informed of the situation as it develops. In turn, these members of staff contact the relevant service users to ensure they are aware of the changes.

Mae’r Cyngor yn gweithio’n agos gyda Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru a Llywodraeth Cymru a bydd yn dilyn unrhyw ganllawiau a ddaw oddi wrthynt. Os bydd cyngor Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru yn newid, bydd y Cyngor yn dilyn y cyngor ac yn cymryd y camau gweithredu priodol.

The Council is working closely with Public Health Wales and Welsh Government, and will be led by them on any guidance regarding the Coronavirus.

Should Public Health Wales’ advice change, the Council will follow the advice and act accordingly.

There is no doubt that Coronavirus will have an effect on us all in one way or another. You should ensure that you check Public Health Wales’ advice daily and if you develop any symptoms then please self-isolate for 14 days.

Does dim dwywaith y bydd y Coronafeirws yn effeithio arnom ni gyd mewn rhyw ffordd neu’i gilydd. Fe ddylech gadw golwg ar gyngor Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru bob dydd ac os oes gennych chi unrhyw symptomau, fe ddylech hunan-ynysu am 14 diwrnod.

It is great to see the community spirit of Ceredigion coming to the fore already. Many local groups are being set up to ensure that those who have to self-isolate have the help that they need to access food and essential medication. Many thanks to them all.

Mae’n braf gweld bod ysbryd cymunedol Ceredigion yn dod i’r amlwg ar adeg fel hyn gan fod sawl grwp lleol yn cael ei sefydlu i ofalu bod pobl sydd yn gorfod hunan ynysu yn cael yr help mae nhw angen i gael bwyd a meddyginiaeth angenrheidiol. Diolch o galon iddynt i gyd.

Keep safe and remember that you can contact us through Clic, on the website

Cadwch yn ddiogel a chofiwch y gallwch chi gysylltu a ni trwy Clic trwy’r gwefan

www.ceredigion.gov.uk

www.ceredigion.gov.uk

by email clic@ceredigion.gov.uk

ar ebost clic@ceredigion.gov.uk

or on the phone 01545 570881

neu ar y ffôn 01545 570881

All the latest in Ceredigion is available on the Council’s website:

Mae’r holl wybodaeth o Geredigion i’w weld yma: www.ceredigion.gov.uk/coronafeirws

www.ceredigion.gov.uk/coronavirus

Mae’r holl wybodaeth a chyngor diweddaraf ar gael ar wefan Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru:

All the latest information and advice is available via the Public Health Wales website:

https://phw.nhs.wales/coronavirus

https://phw.nhs.wales/coronavirus

Y Cyngorydd Ellen ap Gwynn Arweinydd Cyngor Sir Ceredigion

Councillor Ellen ap Gwynn Ceredigion County Council Leader

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Cronfa Eisteddfod Ceredigion 2020

Ceredigion 2020 Eisteddfod Fund

Llanbedr PS, Festri Brondeifi, 11 Ebrill 14.00 Te Prynhawn. Elw’r prynhawn tuag at Gronfa Eisteddfod Ceredigion 2020 a Chapel Brondeif.

Mynediad drwy docyn yn unig (£15).

Tocynnau ar gael: Ann Morgan 07791 966122; Carys Davies 07791 337891; Carys Lloyd-Jones 07976 645957; Y Pantri, Llambed

Lampeter, Brondeifi Vestry 11 April 14.00 Afternoon Tea. All proceeds to the Eisteddfod Ceredigion 2020 Fund and Brondeifi Chapel.

Entry by ticket only (£15).

Tickets from: Ann Morgan 07791 966122; Carys Davies 07791 337891; Carys Lloyd-Jones 07976 645957; Y Pantri, Llambed

Cronfa Eisteddfod Ceredigion 2020 Ceredigion 2020 Eisteddfod Fund

Welsh Culture Is World Culture – Part 5 Karuna Virus and the Hidden Treasure of the Holy Name When a reporter asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, “I think it would be a good idea.” In truth, any godless, money-worshipping culture is only ever going to buy itself into deeper and deeper levels of darkness and ignorance. While our present-day levels of technological advancement confer many impressive benefits, blind pursuit of short-term profit accelerated by thoughtless environmental destruction fully confirms the prophetic descriptions in the Celtic/Vedic tradition of a misdirected civilization devoid of capable and properly responsible leadership.

Bhagavad-Gita is described as a treasure chest of priceless, non-sectarian spiritual wisdom, illuminating the progressive yoga processes of action (base), knowledge (lid) and pure love (the ultimate treasure within). When God incarnated 5,000 years ago, He required full self-surrender in conclusion to His Gita (song). But when He re-appeared just 500 years ago in the supremely merciful mood of His female half as Shree Krishna Chaitanya, He asked only that all souls chant His holy names as the universal method to attain perfection (80+ names in the Old Testament alone).

With no rules or restrictions on chanting as a concession to this degraded age, those holy names have been proven so powerful as to eradicate disease (a very effective method of keeping the Corona virus at bay!), bring peace

into conflict zones and raise consciousness to the highest degree The voice of one principled man alone was sufficient to release India from the oppressive grip of an industrially-driven, money-darkened empire that has attempted but fortunately failed to erase the priceless treasures of our shared Celtic/Vedic heritage from the pages of history. A heritage demonstrating astounding scientific mastery preserved in its megalithic network, fully re-activated and complemented by the supremely powerful harmonic science of chanting the holy names.

Happily, the combined voices of God’s children (all of us) carry the full potential to raise mankind out of darkness.

Wales, the greatest preserver of the Vedic sciences outside India, is perfectly situated to lead the world’s singers in all traditions in helping Karuna (Sanskrit: kindness, divine mercy) go viral as the most powerful method for counteracting all negative influences and releasing countless souls from the illusory prison-house of godless consumerism. Love has the power to overcome all fear.

Madan Lloyd To see the Holy Name in action, Google “Nitai Gauranga” (Kirtaniyas video) For further info, please email madanlloyd@gmail.com www.wizardsofom.com and www.earthstars.co.uk Or visit the Welsh Culture Is World Culture Facebook page 6

News from Transition Llambed Development Trust Transition Llambed Development Trust “Increasing opportunities and developing a future for Lampeter residents by building a resilient community” Ymddiriedolaeth Datblygu Trawsnewid Llambed "Yn creu cyfleoedd a datblygu dyfodol cynaladwy i drigolion Llambed drwy godi cymuned wydn"

Victoria Hall, Bryn Road, Lampeter, Ceredigion. SA48 8JF Dear reader, Due to the Coronavirus situation, understandably, all our hall bookings have been postponed or cancelled by the hirers. We also have a duty of care to not facilitate public gatherings at the moment.

Therefore the Victoria Hall will be closed for the foreseeable future.

Please keep an eye on the website, vichall.org.uk and Facebook for updates.

Other Transition Llambed Development Trust business is still going ahead. The publishing of the Grapevine (available online only this time - but you can download and print a copy yourself), the refurbishment of the hall and the cycle path project.

If you require any further information please contact us victoriahall.transition@gmail.com or 07891 632614 Thank you to all our users and hirers. We hope to welcome you back soon. We hope to be up and running with a refurbished Community Hall ASAP. We wish you all well in these difficult times and let’s have a big party when it is all over.

Kindest Regards Directors of Transition Llambed Development Trust

vichall.org.uk

victoriahall.transition@gmail.com

07891 632614

Hello Transitioners The Transition Llambed/Lampeter Permaculture Group Film group says: “Sadly, due to the ongoing health crisis,

we need to postpone our film nights to later in the year when, hopefully, this has all blown over.”

Here’s some things we can do to help each other out at the moment: Lampeter Food Bank / Banc Bwyd voluntary groups. collection from a pharmacy, Llanbed will be needing extra gen@cavo.org.uk, reputable sources of Coronavirus/ help The Food Bank is likely to have 01570 423232, www.cavo.org.uk/ COVID-19 information, or even more referrals in the coming weeks, https://vichall.us8.list-manage.com/ shared ideas/tutorials for passing and several of its volunteers are in track/click? quarantine time. Whether you think the groups who are at risk or likely u=6e5eb6edd939783236de0c27e& you can help, want to help, or are to be asked to remain at home. If id=f9a8a35bc3&e=4c87a79cd0 just curious what might be on offer, anyone can offer some help to this group is for you.” meet clients and deal with referrals Or link up with others on social There’s also one for the whole of occasionally during this time it media…

Ceredigion would be greatly appreciated training and support provided.

If you can help contact: lampeterfoodbank@gmail.com Panic-buying affects what food and how much food we can provide, as well as the families and people on low incomes who need to use our service: If you can add something extra to your basket for the food bank when you shop, it would be much appreciated. Tins of soup, veg, meat, fish, or fruit; and oats, jams or Weetabix will help. Please leave in Lampeter Co-op.

Help the community via CAVO (Ceredigion Association of Voluntary Organisations) co-ordinating offers of help to

If you are concerned about getting through the Covid-19 pandemic, and you use Facebook, search for the new group

Lampeter Corona Virus Support Group COVID 19” or copy this link: www.facebook.com/ groups/710463783094284 https:// vichall.us8.list-manage.com/track/ click? u=6e5eb6edd939783236de0c27e& id=506c6baae2&e=4c87a79cd0 It has “specifically been set up for

local people to provide community support and share reliable info with one another in the coming months.

Whether it be shopping for those in isolation, a telephone call to someone living alone, medication 7

www.facebook.com/groups/ CeredigionCoronavirusSupport https://vichall.us8.list-manage.com/ track/click? u=6e5eb6edd939783236de0c27e& id=93cc87b690&e=4c87a79cd0 You might find it useful to join either or both.

It might even be worth joining Facebook just for this (yes, we know the downsides of social media… mind you, this one does attempt to weed out fake news and conspiracy theories).

We hope you all stay safe and well.

Warmest wishes Tîm Gweinyddiad Transition Llambed Admin Team

Where can I recycle foil lined crisp packets in and around Lampeter?

Reception, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Campus, Ceredigion SA48 7ED

Denmark Farm Conservation Centre Betws Bledrws LAMPETER Ceredigion SA48 8PB

CAVO Bryndulais Bridge Street Lampeter SA48 7AB

Victoria Hall, Bryn Road Lampeter, SA48 7EE

Useful local support groups: Lampeter Coronavirus Support Cefnogaeth Cymunedol Coronafeirws Llambed www.facebook.com/groups/710463783094284/

Ceredigion Coronavirus Support www.facebook.com/groups/CeredigionCoronavirusSupport?redirect=false

Enwebodd y Cyng. Kistiah Ramaya y Dirprwy-Faer y Cyng. Selwyn Walters yn Faer Llanbedr Pont Steffan am 2020-21 a chafodd hwn ei eilio gan y Cyng. Rhys Bebb Jones a chytunwyd hyn gan bawb oedd yn bresennol. Derbyniodd y Dirprwy-Faer y Cyng. Selwyn Walters y swydd a phenderfynwyd cael gosod y Maer ddydd Gwener 1af o Fai, 2020 yn PCYDDS. Enwebodd y Cyng. Dave Smith y Cyng. Helen Thomas ar gyfer swydd Dirprwy Faer Llanbedr Pont Steffan am 2020-21 a chafodd hwn ei eilio gan y Cyng. Kistiah Ramaya a chytunwyd ar hyn gan bawb oedd yn bresennol.

Derbyniodd y Cyng Helen Thomas y swydd.

Cynigiodd y Dirprwy-Faer y Cyng Selwyn Walter ein bod yn cofrestru diddordeb mewn cymryd rhan yn nathliadau Diwrnod VE ddydd Gwener 8 mai 2020 a fydd yn Ĺľyl banc.

Yn dilyn ymddiswyddiad y Dirprwy-Faer y Cyng. Selwyn Walters fel llywodraethwr o Ysgol Bro Ped,r mae'r Cyngor Tref wedi ethol y Cyng. Emma Wood fel eu cynrychiolydd newydd ar y Corff Llywodraethu.

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Cllr. Kistiah Ramaya nominated the Deputy-Mayor Cllr. Selwyn Walters as the Mayor for Lampeter for 2020-21 and this was seconded by Cllr. Rhys Bebb Jones and this was agreed by everyone present. The DeputyMayor Cllr. Selwyn Walters accepted the post and it was decided to have the Mayor’s installation on Friday 1 May, 2020 in UWTSD. Cllr. Dave Smith nominated Cllr.

Helen Thomas for the position of Deputy-Mayor for Lampeter for 2020-21 and this was seconded

by Cllr. Kistiah Ramaya and this was agreed by everyone present.

Cllr. Helen Thomas accepted the position.

The Deputy-Mayor Cllr. Selwyn Walters proposed that we register an interest in taking part in the VE Day Celebrations on Friday 8 May 2020 which will be a Bank Holiday.

Following the resignation of the Deputy-Mayor Cllr. Selwyn Walters as a Governor from Bro Pedr School the Town Council have elected Cllr. Emma Wood as their new representative on the Governing Body.

As my husband wrestles the mould to the back of the fridge, we are mindful of the consequences of inaction.

Our Public Inconvenience Announcement ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ Coronavirus may turn out to be a terrible thing, it may turn out to be a huge fuss over nothing, or it may herald important changes that might actually save us from extinction. The Government has the opportunity to prove it can respond appropriately to an emergency, they have the common sense to prepare for the worst with this virus, similarly – we all have to be prepared to accept and make the changes and compromises which may save our lives.

This may be the best opportunity we ever get to learn, practice and hone these skills.

There are positives and negatives to take away from this, I have to try and think of the glass half full.

It brings this virus into perspective when we are reminded that air pollution alone kills seven million people every year. Yet under lockdown China closed its streets, clearing its skies of the health damaging particulates that force masks to be worn each and every day, and reduced emissions from ordinary everyday activities by a quarter.

James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory regards Earth as a living, self-regulating, complex system that has evolved with everything tightly aligned and co-dependent.

The ability of the Earth to rebalance itself – a perfectly natural, restorative thing, that many of us already pray for, may in a way be punishing us for our inaction while at the same time shedding important light on how to react appropriately to the real emergency that everybody tries so hard to ignore; If hurtling towards a precipice from which there is no return, we would instinctively take our foot off the gas pedal, and instantly go for the brakes.

Meanwhile idiots like Treasury adviser Tim Leunig argue that the food sector is not 'critically important'...

Wendell Berry wrote “The idea that rural and urban America describe two economies, one thriving and the other failing, is preposterous”, joined at the hip, like it or not, we cannot continue to plunder rural communities and nature to create uninhibited urban growth and wealth.

It’s the Yin and Yang; something the Chinese understand very well; two principles, one negative, one positive, whose interactions influence the destinies of creatures and things.

Cheryl Hillier singer/songwriter, health and climate campaigner, and Biochar Lady 2transitionllambed@gmail.com

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LETTERS, NOTIFICATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES

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

email: lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

In order to give a broad and balanced view of any issues that are raised in letters or articles submitted for publication, the Newsletter Team reserves the right to seek and publish counter-opinions from other sources in the same issue. Eds.

Friday 6 March 2020

Hello from Saint Germain sur Moine in France Dear all, As a secretary of Saint Germain sur Moine Twinning Committee, I have been invited

by Rob Philipps and the

members

of

your

twinning committee to celebrate Saint David's day last weekend.

It has been a very good occasion to learn more about your culture and traditions.

We'd like to advertise our town in Grapevine as we think that many people from Lampeter don't know us.

I'm sending you a few pictures that we've taken on this wonderful stay in your town.

Laurence Brel-Fonteneau

What qualifies as a "hidden treasure"?

It can be a place, a memento or even a person - like the good neighbour, who, quietly and unseen, keeps an eye on an elderly neighbour who lives alone.

When one such "hidden treasure", Jan, told us that her next door neighbour, Tilly Williams, wished there was a bench she could sit on as a "rest stop" when she walked up to the cemetery at Capel Caeronnen to visit her husband's grave. Cellan Village Improvement Society Committee members decided unanimously to grant Tilly her wish by providing a bench. After all, as the oldest living resident of Cellan to be born in the village, Tilly is something of a "treasure" in her own right!

In the spring sunshine of St David's Day, committee members, Lunch Club members, neighbours and family gathered to present Tilly with her bench, dedicated, in accordance with her wishes, to her late husband, Ivor.

Seated on the bench are: Tilly (centre), son Douglas (left) and daughter-in-law Dee (right)

Thanks to everyone who played a part in making this possible. Could you be a "hidden treasure"?

Chris Lambert

Afterwards, everyone enjoyed refreshments in the Millennium Hall.

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Hidden Treasures with Y Stiwdio Brint

Plumber’s Plog (Plog is a word I’ve invented – it’s like a blog, but on paper instead of online)

I've been thinking about the theme for this issue, Hidden Treasures, and wondering how to begin because there are so many hidden treasures that I could write about! For example, as we go around the lanes in the district, every now and then we take a new turning, and come across a little shop, or a studio, or a garden centre or something, where someone has set up a little enterprise.

Even in the town itself there are new things opening up from week to week, and in the Grapevine there is a new initiative almost on every page. But you wouldn't know about it unless you knew, or were already involved, and so, often these treasures are hidden from view entirely.

Locally-made jam or honey, sold at someone’s gate - what better?

Even more important than that, the people who are doing these things, doing their best to keep the community alive and thriving, they are also hidden treasures to me. They very often go unacknowledged, and they may go on from week to week with not much reward or recognition for all that they do. Hopefully they will be remembered in the days to come, and their work will bear fruit even if they don't know about it - it might be hidden from them! - as I believe that no effort is wasted in a good cause. But they too are hidden treasures, and perhaps they don't know that they are.

Then there's also hidden treasures in the world that we don't see at all: things like kindness, respect, willingness, cheerfulness. We don't see them, they're hidden inside of people, and often we can forget that they're there. But they can make all the difference in a conversation or an exchange between two people (or more). When you have a quality like kindness alive in you, it can spread like a virus, but that's great - don't cover it up with your hanky!

And I am starting to think that there must be other kinds of hidden treasures, things we don't know about at all, otherwise they wouldn't be hidden.

What kinds of hidden treasures have we never yet imagined, I wonder? Let’s see.

Frank Pitcher

One of the greatest joys of having our shop is the privilege of being invited to share in the hidden history of our customers as they bring in treasured photos from the loft, hoping to replicate or digitally share them among their families for sentimentality and safe-keeping. Often these treasures sadly only come to light after someone’s passing, but every so often we see a cataloguing project undertaken whilst the familial knowledge is still widely available – compiling photos and related stories/information together within albums or photo books is a massive undertaking but one that is valuable beyond measure to future generations that often have no personal connection to the people of the recent past.

Some of the more exciting items brought in to us at the shop are: A very old, large porcelain photographic portrait that came in to be digitised prior to specialist restoration elsewhere; a beloved photo now in many tattered pieces that had been folded in a wallet for over fifty years brought in for extensive restoration (pictured); ancestral painted portraits brought in for reproduction in their beautifully ornate original frames; and a collection of local photographs from multiple sources that came to be digitised and enhanced to be sent on to Canada for publication in a local history book out there!

Having a hand in keeping these treasures alive is such a great feeling, and briefly connecting with their stories via chatting to their keepers in the shop is a lovely and often humbling experience. Reproducing fragile old photos to enable them to be handled once more, means safeguarding the memories that are in danger of being lost in the attics again – and we consider this among the most important tasks we do here at Y Stiwdio Brint.

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For further details, please contact Tregaron Surgery Tel: 01974 298218

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Encouraging Kindness and a Sense of Belonging ... someone else needs.

By encouraging communities to get together and connect through kindness and conversation the project hopes that the people involved will be able to build the trust and confidence needed to link up, both locally and to wider support networks within the county.

Any activities that take place will be critical to the success of the project and we’ll need your help to make sure that everyone is having fun, doing the things they love and having the opportunity to try out something new (hopefully many new things). We want you to take part, to share with your friends and to come back again and again. We want you to tell us what you need in your community to make it work, local knowledge is going to be a key cornerstone in developing communities that can thrive and flourish.

People coming together to do the things they love and to share their knowledge and enthusiasm can bring real concrete benefits to communities and to the service providers who work with them.

2020 sees the start of an exciting new project across the region, “Connect2Ceredigion” The project aims to get people involved, doing what they enjoy and sharing their skills with others. It is a project that will support our communities in Ceredigion to come together, a friendship movement that encourages kindness and a sense of belonging while celebrating the wonderful part of the world we live in.

During the current crisis we have to think differently about how we can support each other, social distancing means that we cannot share a cuppa with a neighbour or meet up with our friends at our local community hall. There are however so many examples of kindness happening all over Ceredigion, people are offering to support each other and to be kind in whatever way they can. Although we are having to physically keep our distance in many ways we are also developing closer knit communities.

Kindness will run through the project, it’s a key part of what will link us together, whether it’s a random act of kindness from a stranger, a neighbour walking your dog when you aren’t able to, or sharing your cooking skills with someone who has never had the opportunity to learn. We all have something that we can give or a skill that

If you’d like more information, please do get in touch kate.naidoo@cavo.org.uk and I will be happy to answer any questions.

Kate Naidoo Swyddog Datblygu Gwirfoddoli Cymunedol / Community Volunteering Development Officer

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Coronafeirws: Gwasanaethau Gwastraff Coronavirus: Waste Service Diwedd y dydd, ddydd Gwener 20 Mawrth 2020, bydd pob gwasanaeth casglu Gwastraff Cartref Swmpus a Gwastraff Gardd yn cael eu gohirio hyd nes y ceir hysbysiad pellach.

Hyd nes y ceir hysbysiad pellach, ni fyddwn yn derbyn ceisiadau newydd ar gyfer cadis bwyd na bocsys gwydr.

As of close on Friday 20 March 2020 all Bulky Household Waste and Garden Waste collection services will be suspended until further notice and the Council will not be accepting new requests for glass boxes or food caddies.

Byddwn yn parhau i ymdrechu i ddarparu gwasanaethau casglu gwastraff craidd fel yr hysbyswyd.

Os nad yw hi’n bosib darparu casgliadau fel yr hysbyswyd, cadwch eich gwastraff yn eich cartref ac arhoswch am wybodaeth bellach.

The Council will continue in the efforts to provide core waste collection services as advertised.

Priority will be given to residual (black bag), food and Absorbent Hygiene Product (AHP) collections.

If it is not possible to provide collections as advertised, please take your waste back in and await further information.

Helpwch ni i ddiogelu ein staff casglu gwastraff drwy wneud y canlynol:

Please help us to protect our waste collection staff by taking the following steps:

Rhoi eich holl wastraff personol (megis hancesi wedi’u defnyddio) a chadachau glanhau yn eich bag du a chlymu’r bag.

Clymu bag sbwriel ychwanegol o amgylch eich holl wastraff.

Placing all personal waste (such as used tissues) and disposable cleaning cloths in your black bag and tying the bag.

Double bagging all waste at this time.

Rhoddir blaenoriaeth i gasgliadau gwastraff gweddilliol (bagiau duon), gwastraff bwyd a Chynnyrch Hylendid Amsugnol (AHP).

Bwriedir darparu cyflenwad o fagiau ailgylchu clir a leinwyr bin bwyd i leoliadau yn y gymuned gan gynnwys:

Y tu allan i swyddfeydd canlynol y Cyngor:

Neuadd Cyngor Ceredigion, Penmorfa, Aberaeron, SA46 0PA Aberystwyth, Swyddfeydd y Cyngor, Canolfan Rheidol, Rhodfa Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, SY23 3UE Llanbedr Pont Steffan Swyddfeydd y Cyngor / Llyfrgell, Swyddfeydd y Cyngor, Stryd y Farchnad, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, SA48 7DS Aberaeron Swyddfeydd y Cyngor / Llyfrgell, Neuadd y Sir, Heol y Farchnad, Aberaeron, SA46 OAT

er mwyn i’r cyhoedd gael rhagor o gyflenwadau. Bydd y rhain yn cael eu rhoi mewn biniau olwynion ar y safleoedd hyn, a byddant wedi’u dynodi’n glir.

DEFNYDDIWCH Y RHAIN YN GYNNIL A CHYMERWCH YR HYN SYDD EI ANGEN ARNOCH YN UNIG! Estynnwn ein diolch diffuant i’r holl drigolion am eu cefnogaeth a’u dealltwriaeth. Drwy weithio gyda ni yn ystod y cyfnod anodd hwn, gallwn sicrhau bod gwahanol fathau o wastraff yn cael eu rheoli cystal â phosib a bod Ceredigion yn cael ei chadw’n lân.

Byddwn yn ceisio darparu rhagor o wybodaeth a chyngor pan fo hynny’n bosib er mwyn ymateb i newidiadau yn y sefyllfa.

It is intended to deliver stocks of clear recycling bags and food caddy liners, for the public to replenish their stocks, to locations in the community including:

Outside the following Council Offices:

Neuadd Cyngor Ceredigion, Penmorfa, Aberaeron, SA46 0PA Aberystwyth Council Offices, Canolfan Rheidol, Rhodfa Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, SY23 3UE Lampeter Council Offices / Library, Market Street, Lampeter, SA48 7DS Aberaeron Council Offices / Library, County Hall, Market Street, Aberaeron, SA46 OAT Cardigan Council Offices / Library, Morgan Street, Cardigan, SA43 1DG These will be placed within clearly marked wheelie bins at these sites.

PLEASE USE THESE SPARINGLY AND TAKE ONLY WHAT YOU NEED! We extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to all residents for their support and understanding.

By working with us at this difficult time we can ensure that waste, in its various forms, is managed as well as possible and that Ceredigion is kept clean.

www.ceredigion.gov.uk/preswyliwr/newyddion/coronafeirws-gwasanaethau-gwastraff/ Updates: www.ceredigion.gov.uk/resident/news/coronavirus-waste-service/ 14

Gwisgo Bookworm Covid-19 Community Support Books are an essential part of life and important for many who are self-isolating and/ or alone. But we are about more than just selling books and enjoy chatting to our customers about a variety of topics.

If you are staying at home and want to talk please contact us. You might also wish to join our community contact list to ensure a check-up call to make sure everything is ok if we don’t hear from you.

Gwisgo Bookworm’s shop is now temporarily closed following government guidelines, but we continue to be available by phone, email, Messenger and via our website. If you can’t get hold of us straight away, please leave a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

We are also very happy to take book, music and DVD orders to help enhance any period of self-isolation. If you don’t know what you want, we can make recommendations to match your budget and usual authors.

We are also offering a delivery service to the house-bound in the Lampeter and Aberaeron area and a postal service to those further afield.

Please see the following details on times, contacts, delivery and services and do contact us with any questions or requirements.

Niki and Karen Brewer Community Contact List for Self isolating Customers Contact us once or twice a week with any concerns, needs or just for a chat If you wish, we will contact you if we’ve not heard from you for a week to check you’re ok Contact details Tel: 01545 23 82 82 10.30am – 4.30pm or leave a message Email: info@gwisgo.co.uk Facebook: @gwisgobookworm Website: www.gwisgobookworm.co.uk Orders and Delivery We can take orders by phone, email or Messenger and can take payment by card over the phone or via PayPal Delivery - we will deliver free of charge wherever possible and with a minimum charge for more distant deliveries. Orders will be left in an agreed place to avoid direct contact Collection - for those who prefer to collect books, we are happy to deliver to your car if you don’t want to come into the shop Postage - we can post orders out with a charge of £1 per book Any contact details will remain confidential and will not be shared with any other company or organisation. Should you wish us to delete them at any time please let us know.

Coronavirus information websites Mae’r wybodaeth a’r cyngor diweddaraf ar gael ar wefan Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru: https://phw.nhs.wales/ 8 Sgwâr Alban, Aberaeron, SA46 0AD

New books, records, CDs & DVD’s 2nd hand books & records order by phone, email or online

Delivery Service Available www.gwisgobookworm.co.uk Books – Bags – Vinyl DVDs – CDs – Maps – Cards Mon-Sat:10am-5pm

Sun:11.30am-4pm

facebook.com/gwisgobookworm info@gwisgo.co.uk 01545 23 82 82

Mae’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf ynglŷn â’r sefyllfa yng Ngheredigion yn cael ei rhannu’n rheolaidd ar wefan y Cyngor:

www.ceredigion.gov.uk/coronafeirws Gallwch hefyd gael y wybodaeth ddiweddaraf drwy Facebook, Twitter ac Instagram.

All the latest information and advice is available via the Public Health Wales website: https://phw.nhs.wales/ Regular updates on the situation in Ceredigion are provided on the Council website at: www.ceredigion.gov.uk/coronavirus You can also keep up to date via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Hidden Treasures - Yr Efail So, we are confined to our garden = our very own ‘Hidden Treasure’ How lucky are we to have a lovely open space to live and work in every day?

We are currently closed to visitors, as are all NGS gardens, but look forward to welcoming you back before the end of 2020.

We aim to encourage you to grow your own; just one tomato plant or a pot of peas can give such delight – as well as delicious rewards. Children make great gardeners – get them on it!

Be inspired by Tregaron’s own Huw Richards’ YouTube channel and his excellent latest book ‘Grow Food for Free’. You can grow seedlings in egg boxes, yoghurt pots and toilet roll inner tubes etc. and April/May is peak sowing season. Try lettuces, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, potatoes, peas, broad beans, runner beans (mid-May), onions, courgettes – Ooops! - I’m getting carried away. Share ideas, equipment and packets of seeds, borrow from a nearby gardener, you can grow in any space and there really is nothing like home-grown veg. Flowers too – especially ones that can also be eaten, like nasturtiums – and of course herbs. We have a year round source of rosemary, mint, sage and parsley. Yes, it can be daunting when slugs are a pest, but persevere and you will be well rewarded.

At Yr Efail we are reaching the end of winter staples, (parsnips, leeks and a range of brassicas), and we look forward to fresh, new lettuces, carrots, beetroot, cabbages and radishes from the tunnel very soon.

Also, the asparagus bed should be in full production this year. Being able to grow our own vegetables is such a delight for body and soul.

Keep gardening – the fresh air and positivity of nature can only make things better. Our best wishes go out to you all.

Ceredigion NGS gardeners will be working hard to maintain and further improve your visitor experiences when restrictions are lifted. If you have questions please do get in touch or visit https://ngs.org.uk/find-a-garden to unearth some of the hidden treasures on your doorstep.

Shelagh & Steve Yeomans

01974 299 370 shelaghyeo@hotmail.com

Yr Efail – Something for Everyone We booked to see Yr Efail, we chose a perfect day And, after a warm welcome, we had a lovely stay There were fine herbaceous borders, a thriving veggie plot. A wildlife pond and woodland, this garden’s got the lot.

But it was the polytunnels that really seemed to please, You could almost hear folks thinking, “Wish I had one of these!”

by Elaine Izett written after a visit by Ponterwyd Garden Club to Yr Efail in 2019

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INCREDIBLE GARDEN GUARDIANS As they say, sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees. And sometimes a “Hidden treasure” is pretty much out in the open. But, only you can’t see it because it is SO out in the open.

What am I on about? Many of you will have noticed by now that Lampeter can lay claim to three Incredible Edible/ Bwyd Bendigedig Food Gardens. The first and most prominent is outside the Lampeter Co-op.

Then two more appeared at the Washtub and Watson and Pratt’s. (The next food garden will be built in Parc Orsedd in the Spring.) But, they aren’t hidden at all. In fact, they are deliberately out in the open so that passers-by can both harvest the food and also learn something about local food sovereignty. However, there was no food fairy who magicked these gardens into existence. They were built by a small team of “Garden Guardians”. Incredible Edible UK came up with the name Garden Guardians for the volunteers who build and look after food spaces and who try to spread the Incredible Edible message.

OK, maybe the Lampeter Guardians are not so hidden after all. Almost every time they worked on a bed, local folk have come up for a chat and to discuss what food sovereignty and local resilience could mean in our area. As Incredible gardens are designed with minimum input and maintenance in mind - leaving most of the work to Nature - it means that the Guardians need only visit each garden occasionally. However, this does not mean no visit or no work whatsoever. All gardens need tender loving care. Even a minimum maintenance garden.

The team hope to be more visible in the future by setting up a portable notice board which will be displayed at an Incredible garden stating when the team will be working there. The idea being to meet local folk and talk about resilience and food. And anything else that’s of interest.

So, look out for the notice board next time you visit one of the gardens. Also, if you support and enjoy what the Lampeter Garden Guardians have done and continue to do, why not think about becoming one yourself and Banc Bwyd Llanbed help to care for an Mae angen mwy o bobl ar y Banc Bwyd Incredible garden near you.

Llanbed ar frys i'n helpu ni i gymryd atgyfeiriadau ar ein ffôn, ac ymateb i You can get in touch and ymholiadau. check up on future events Ffoniwch ni ar 07582 905743 os gallwch chi helpu. via Facebook at “ediblellambed”.

Lampeter Food Bank And meet the team at the Watson and Pratt’s Spring Lampeter Food Bank urgently needs a few more people to help with holding our Garden Day on Saturday 9 phone, taking referrals and dealing with enquiries.

May (if this still takes place If you can help, please contact us on 07582 905743 considering the current covid-19 restrictions … and if not then perhaps we can Copy Deadline for June, Issue 79 meet up some other time).

Fri 8 May The Incredible Edible/ Bwyd Bendigedig Theme: ‘Diolch’ Llambed team

lampetergrapevine@gmail.com

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Multiple Sclerosis Support Group - Lampeter & District - ‘Nature as Therapy’

‘Everyone’s rubbish is someone else’s treasure’. One of our members said this at our last Support Group meeting which has made me think back to days of volunteering in charity shops, helping at my friend’s boot sales, sorting through things that people have no longer any use for, or even any feelings for. Our feelings can be so interwoven in all the ‘things’ we accumulate over the years. Some people are so good at getting rid of these accumulations and others, like me, find it impossible. I know I have many ‘Hidden Treasures’ so hidden I don’t know where they are, but what a wonderful feeling when sorting through junk, I suddenly find something that I had completely forgotten

about. This can, to me, also become a burden… what to do with objects or even clothes that I have loved in the past, or even things that other long-gone members of the family have loved that I just cannot part with!

As we discussed in the meeting, so many things are treasures, people are treasures, shoulders to cry on, hands to hold, a special long-distance friend, old photographs, the love of maps old and new, books, memories, archaeology, Operation Julie, the dream of freedom, dawn, health, time-capsules, hidden letters, the finds when doing building work on Cellan church including a hidden door now brought to light, all these things obscured and out of sight but once re-discovered, valued greatly. One day when out with a friend I found a book on birds, hidden away at the back of a shelf. It is a lovely little book with beautiful illustrations. I always know where that book is. It is not on the bookshelves with all the other bird books but hidden away in a cupboard. My own ‘hidden treasure’. We discussed metal detecting and the things that have been discovered, sometimes of great monetary value that then may become treasure trove but other things that have their own personal values such as odd bits of pottery which to the discoverer have great value...history in the garden. A piece of pottery, what was it used for, who used it, was it a valued bit or dumped as a broken bit of no use anymore? But now a valued memory.

All these things, often obscure, secret, unseen and very subjective, but when re-discovered are of great personal value. We forget, but others remember. Oral histories and reminiscences, talking with older people...so many memories for us to value. So many ‘hidden treasures’.

Jottings In order to find nature’s hidden treasures the naturalist has to follow a number of clues; a knowledge of habitat and animal behaviour is essential. Failing that, serendipity. Amongst the woods and copses in the upper Teifi valley there are hidden ponds where you can hear the frog and toad chorus in spring, glades where, if the light falls slantingly, you may chance upon the tylwyth teg and, where the woodland is on the moorland’s edge, the lekking ground of the Black Grouse. A number of animals and plants can hide in plain sight. They do this by means of camouflage. The Woodcock for example deploys cryptic colouring; the Buff tip moth and the Red sword grass moth both use shape and colouring to look like bits of wood. Treasure and those who seek it feature in myth and legend. Some elusive species of birds are the object of modern day quests. I have heard a few local bird enthusiasts ascribe such a prize to the Lesser spotted woodpecker. This bird is not much bigger than a sparrow and spends much of its time in the canopy where its black and white plumage allows it to blend in with the thin branches; even when it nests on the underside of a branch it is almost impossible to see. At this time of year birds displaying - especially where the male bird performs a butterfly flight - is a sight to treasure.

CROESO I BAWB/WELCOME TO ALL. Our Support Group meets (when not in lockdown) on the first Monday of the month from 1.30-3.30, in the back room of The Mustard Seed, Lampeter. We welcome anybody with MS, carers, and anybody wanting to know more, from wherever you are.

You are also welcome at our Aberystwyth group which meets in Tesco’s community/charity room 12-2 on the 1st FRIDAY of the month.

Judith McKay, Support Volunteer, 01570 493509 Hazel Ellis, Chair of Ceredigion Branch, 01974 261640 (See our MS Support Group page on Facebook) Can you spot the ‘Grapevine grin’?

Somewhere amongst the pages of Grapevine each issue you will find this sunny smile.

Maybe tucked away or perhaps clearly in view?

Where will it be this time?

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Volunteer@Denmark Farm!

Our volunteer group has had a busy couple of months, and discovered some hidden treasures along the way!

During February and March we coppiced willow from our Wetland Ecological Treatment (WET) system. As well as providing willow for our basket-making courses, the larger branches will be used to create paths around the site.

We also installed reptile mats (‘refugia’), and carried out frogspawn surveys in our pond and scrapes (small shallow ponds in the fields) and were very excited to find large numbers of developing tadpoles. A pair of mating toads were also discovered (apologies to them for the intrusion!), plus an adult palmate newt. The reptile mats will be checked regularly by our volunteers over the coming months to enable us to monitor our amphibian and reptiles.

We also held an owl pellet analysis day for volunteers and local families, and searched for the hidden treasures (also known as small mammal bones!) to be found within barn owl pellets from around Ceredigion. Thank you to everyone who came along and threw themselves into it with such enthusiasm.

No two volunteer days are the same – we vary the tasks each time, giving volunteers the opportunity to spend time in different habitats on site, learn new skills, and discover more about the wildlife which lives here.

Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Denmark Farm is now closed to residential guests, and all volunteer activities, courses and events are cancelled until further notice. Follow our Facebook page, or visit our website for further updates as the situation evolves www.denmarkfarm.org.uk We look forward to welcoming our volunteers back again soon, but in the meantime, if you’d like to find out more

about future volunteering opportunities, please contact volunteer@denmarkfarm.org.uk Thank you to the Landfill Disposals Tax Communities Scheme for funding our current volunteer project ‘Cadw Natur Mewn Côf / Nature in Mind’ Aline Denton www.denmarkfarm.org.uk

Denmark Farm Conservation Centre is a 40-acre nature reserve and will remain open to the public. Over the next few months access to fresh air and nature will be vitally important to everyone for exercise, health and well-being.

Please respect staff, our tenant and other visitors (although there are unlikely to be many!) and keep a safe distance. Nature will keep on growing fast at this time of year and without our amazing volunteers we will be struggling to maintain access to trails.

In order to help us cover the additional costs of essential site management we are requesting donations from all of our friends and supporters. You can either put your donation into the box in the welcome shelter or donate online: localgiving.org/appeal/DenmarkFarmCovid-19Appeal/ For more info please visit our website www.denmarkfarm.org.uk or call us on 01570 493358 Mara Morris Denmark farm Conservation Centre Facilities and Events Manager 19

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

Victoria Hall: regular activities and classes Bryn Road, Lampeter SA48 7EE To book Victoria Hall phone: 07891 632614 Email: victoriahall.llambed@gmail.com Community groups & local, small-scale commercial: We have a committee room and small therapy/ class /conference rooms.

Licenced bar on request for functions. Catering service available.

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Due to the Coronavirus situation, understandably, all our hall bookings have been postponed or cancelled by the hirers. We also feel we have duty of care to not facilitate public gatherings at the moment.

Therefore the Victoria Hall will effectively be closed for the foreseeable future.

Please keep an eye on the website, vichall.org.uk and Facebook for updates.

Other Transition Llambed Development Trust business is still going ahead. The publishing of the Grapevine (although not in print this time but online instead), the refurbishment of the hall and the cycle path project.

If you need any further information please contact us victoriahall.transition@gmail.com or 07891 632614 Thank you to all our users and hirers. We hope to welcome you back soon. We hope to be up and running with a refurbished Community Hall ASAP. We wish you all well in these difficult times and let’s have a big party when it is all over.

Kindest Regards Directors of Transition Llambed Development Trust

Please presume that everyone will be taking the Government advice to Stay at home, Protect the NHS and Save lives.

If you need specific support then please use the contact details below.

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Please presume that everyone will be taking the Government advice to Stay at home, Protect the NHS

and Save lives, and so will not be conducting face to face consultations at this time.

For potential options please contact the individual using the details listed below.

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Yng nghanol y dyddiau anodd hyn, mae Eglwysi Llanbedr Pont Steffan yma er mwyn eich cynnal a’ch cefnogi, yn ysbrydol ac yn ymarferol, ym mhob dull y gallwn. Er i ni dderbyn cyfarwyddyd i beidio â chynnal oedfaon cyhoeddus ar y Sul, y byddwn yn gweddïo’n gyson dros y dref a’r gymdogaeth. Os bydd angen cymorth ymarferol ar unrhyw un, trwy ôl bwyd, meddyginiaeth neu unrhyw angenrheidiau eraill, peidiwch ag oedi cysylltu. Dyma rifau cyswllt: ‘Bwrw dy faich ar yr Arglwydd, ac fe’th gynnal di’, Salm 55:22

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Yoga with Elena Gilliat - All classes cancelled. Tues, 7.30pm, Ffarmers and Thurs, 7.30pm, Crugybar. Elena, 01558 685321, elenamgilliatt@hotmail.com Yoga with Karen Hills.

Karen, 07547 125937 www.breatheinyoga.co.uk

religious services/groups _ Churches of Lampeter - COVID-19 During these difficult days, the Churches of Lampeter are here to lend support, both spiritual and practical, in any way we can. Although we are being advised not to meet for public worship, we will be praying regularly for our community. If anyone needs Polite Request practical help, in the delivery of food, To prevent confusion and avoid medicine or any other essential unnecessary disappointment and supplies, please do not hesitate to inconvenience … Please inform us contact us. Below are some contact ASAP numbers: if details in your listings change ‘Cast your burden on the Lord, and he Diolch / Thank you will sustain you’, Psalm 55:22 Eglwysi Llanbedr Pont Steffan - COVID-19 lampetergrapevinelist@gmail.com 23

CELLAN MILLENNIUM HALL

Covid-19 restrictions Please presume all group meetings are postponed.

Please contact individual listings organisers for any temporary arrangements and updates.

For updates see www.cellanhall.wales Or Cellan Facebook page

Film Nights

01570 422066

Cellan Film Nights are postponed until further notice.

Check our website or Facebook page for updates:

LLANFAIR CLYDOGAU VILLAGE HALL SA48 8LG Join Llanfair Clydogau Facebook page for updates Information: 01570 493288

http://cellanhall.wales/film%20night.htm https://www.facebook.com/groups/2392309707725267/

or search for “Cellan Village Community Group�.

being. For updates please visit: www.denmarkfarm.org.uk/volunteering/

volunteer@denmarkfarm.org or 01570 493358

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Hidden Treasures – What’s the Problem?

This issue’s theme made me think fondly of Bill Mollison, the co-founder of Permaculture. Bill was a mischievous man and when he developed his vision for creating sustainable human settlements – Perma(nent)-culture – one of his guiding principles was ‘The Problem is the Solution’. This is the hidden treasure inside any challenge that we face, from small to large and complex. A wry example from Bill that’s often quoted is – ‘if you think you have a surfeit of slugs, maybe you actually have a deficit of ducks!’…especially Indian Runners or Khaki Campbells that have a strong penchant for slimy snacks.

This thinking turns issues around and asks, What can we learn from this situation and how does it guide us in terms of our next steps? You can apply this in your personal life, to work, communities and the wider environment but it requires something extra from us. Deep and sometimes patient observation. It’s very easy to jump to conclusions and react in a way that isn’t the best in the longer term – especially in an emergency. Yet if we have the time to take a step back, observe and deduce both cause as well as effect, we’re much more likely to be able to re-design a system that will function better.

A very topical example of this is flooding. Amidst cries to dredge rivers, canalise water channels and raise defences, a wiser, systems-based approach looks at the whole catchment, particularly ‘upstream’ in terms of both land use and the ultimate source of the problem – climate change. A systems approach asks questions such as, Why are we having these unpredictable heavy rain and storm events? Why does water move so quickly through our landscapes? What are the other impacts, such as loss of soils and degradation of our rivers? What can we learn that will help us regenerate more resilient water catchments and communities and reduce the likelihood of these events in the long term?

These aren’t easy matters to address and recognising that fact also brings hidden treasures. Our amazing natural world is complex and cannot be reduced to simplistic fixes. The ‘wicked problems’ (ie. with no single solution) that we’ve created as a society will have correspondingly interrelated ‘wicked solutions’ – so we can all play a role in working towards their resolution. Slow down, look around and inside yourself - and your part, your hidden treasures, will be revealed.

Angie Polkey, Lampeter Permaculture Group http://www.lampeterpermaculture.org

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

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

We see that publishing Papur Bro Clonc is as important in these difficult times than ever. We feel that Clonc can ease the experience of self-isolation from the Coronavirus.

But due to the risk of spreading the infection we cannot ask volunteers to assist with the folding and distribution over the coming months. We therefore intend to publish a digital edition only.

The next issue can be read on your phone / tablet / computer at www.clonc.co.uk . It will be available worldwide. You can print copies yourself for others without digital equipment. The digital copy will be free of charge on the internet and will not be available in shops for purchasing.

Bethel Parc-y-rhos’ Minister, the Rev Huw Roberts will be publishing occasional reflections on the chapel's website www.bethel.btck.co.uk as services are not held during the Coronavirus period.

Gwelwn fod cyhoeddi Papur Bro Clonc cyn bwysiced yn y cyfnod anodd hwn nag erioed. Teimlwn y gall Clonc leddfu ychydig ar y profiad o hunan ynysu rhag y Coronafeirws.

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Cofiwch fynd i’r wefan hyperlleol am newyddion Cymraeg ardal Llanbedr Pont Steffan. Dyma grynodeb o rai storïau diweddar.

Please go to the hyperlocal website for Lampeter area news in Welsh. Here is a summary of some recent stories.

Inter College Eisteddfod Chair and Crown from Lampeter

Cadair a Choron Eisteddfod Ryng-gol o Lanbed

By Dylan Lewis 14/03/2020 The main prizes for the Eisteddfod in Aberystwyth were made by Alec Page.

Gan Dylan Lewis 14/03/2020 Gwnaed prif wobrau’r eisteddfod yn Aberystwyth gan Alec Page.

Murder, mystery and a hamster… Pontsiân YFC drama!

Llofruddiaeth, dirgelwch a bochdew… drama CFfI Pontsiân!

By Endaf Griffiths 08/03/2020 Video and report of the Club’s success in the Welsh final.

Gan Endaf Griffiths 08/03/2020 Fideo ac adroddiad am lwyddiant y Clwb yng nghystadleuaeth Cymru.

Dark stories about people on the edge by a popular author

Straeon Tywyll am bobl y cyrion gan awdures boblogaidd

By Gwenllian 07/03/2020 Heiddwen Tomos from Pencarreg launching her new book in Gorsgoch.

Gan Gwenllian 07/03/2020 Heiddwen Tomas, Pencarreg yn lansio ei chyfrol newydd yng Ngorsgoch.

Local candidates in university elections

Ymgeiswyr lleol mewn etholiadau prifysgol

By Dylan Lewis 06/03/2020 Iwan Evans standing for President of Bangor Welsh SU, Morgan Lewis for President of Aberystwyth Welsh SU and Alpha Evans for General Secretary in Swansea SU.

Gan Dylan Lewis 06/03/2020 Iwan Evans yn ceisio am Lywydd UCMB, Morgan Lewis am Lywydd UCMA ac Alpha Evans am Ysgrifennydd Cyffredinol Undeb Abertawe.

Gof o Lanbed yn torri recoed byd

Lampeter blacksmith breaking the world record

Gan Dylan Lewis 04/03/2020 Kevin Jones yn adeiladu gradell anferth er mwyn goginio’r Welshcake mwyaf.

By Dylan Lewis 04/03/2020 Kevin Jones building a massive griddle to cook the biggest Welshcake.

Canolfan Dulais over the years

By Dylan Lewis 03/03/2020 History of the building being demolished on Pontfaen Road.

Canolfan Dulais dros y blynyddoedd

Lampeter’s St Davids Parade

Gan Dylan Lewis 03/03/2020 Hanes yr adeilad sy’n cael ei dymchwel ar Ffordd Pontfaen.

By Ann Bowen Morgan 02/03/2020 Video and report of the successful parade organised by the Town Council.

Parêd Gŵyl Dewi Llanbedr Pont Steffan Gan Ann Bowen Morgan 02/03/2020 Fideo ac adroddiad y parêd llwyddiannus a drefnwyd gan Gyngor y Dref.

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COTHI GARDENERS Cothi Gardeners are a group of passionate, friendly people with a shared interest in all things horticultural. We meet at 7.30pm on the third Wednesday of every month, in Coronation Hall, Pumpsaint SA19 6UW. Guests are very welcome, ÂŁ3 each including refreshments.

Sadly March's meeting was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. It is likely that the April and May meetings will also be cancelled. Please see our facebook page and website for up-dated information.

April's planned guest speaker is Bill Law, talking about the studies he has made of 'Artists' Gardens'. The talk will feature the gardens of 20 influential artists ranging from that of Frida Kahlo in Mexico to the Cornish garden of Barbara Hepworth.

It will be a fascinating talk with wonderful slides of glorious colourful gardens, how the artists created their gardens and their gardens shaped their work.

May's planned talk is by Carley Green on 'Conservation and Propagation of Native Welsh Plants at the NBGW'. The NBGW is contributing to the conservation and propagation of some of the most endangered plants in Wales. The work there has made Wales the first country in the world to DNA barcode all native species of flowering plants and partnerships with other countries is helping them to follow this way.

Both talks will be fascinating and we welcome guests whenever these meetings eventually take place. www.cothigardeners.com Facebook.com/cothigardeners

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Karen’s Creative Compendium 053 A walk on the beach is often a source of inspiration but images today may sadly not all be picturesque as our race leaves its mark on the natural world. But beauty survives thanks to the restorative tide and the pull of the moon on the cycle of life, listening as our pages turn.

An intriguing letter, like the classic tome ’Falling Off A Cliff’ by Eileen Dover and an exclusive entrance to the world of the Hopi, hwyl, Karen

New Depth Discovered

Strand Line

by Amanda Pickering

Scent of gorse mingles with salt, kelp a line of rubbish left by the storm, Coca Cola cans plastic cutlery, enough for a picnic one neon flip flop crisp packets frayed nylon rope Cadbury wrappers wet wipes water bottles.

Further down the beach milky sea glass driftwood smoothed to bone pebbles, buff and beige, striped and speckled sand glistening, pearl, apricot.

Pools, Venus shells a mermaids purse coral weed, carrageen, furbelows, velvet horn foam filmy waves shimmering indigo tangerine, copper, rose sundown ocean.

Life is Listening

J. Sandover

After the storm Reflective sands on the ebb tide Sky blue pink crystalline Puddled in patterns spiralling Echoing around rocks My heart gives thanks for the cycles Restoring calm Believing in salvation The rising sun The epic diminished Into the everyday Reaching down into this moment I palm a perfect pyramid A basalt touch of earth In water reflecting sky Feeling that ancient fire Reconnected The rock pool shimmers Giving way Unsheathing a perfect mirror point Crystal quartz prismatic Catching the dawn's first rays Refracting wonder A sovereign sword A magic wand An hidden treasure A promise A blessing to carry me through All my days Why would I give it away?

The Girl With Two Legs

by Karen Gemma Brewer The Hopi tribe lived in a circular terrace, each bamboo hut sharing plaited leaf walls with neighbours on either side. Weddings were a month long ceremony for the whole community with every home demolished and then rebuilt in a larger ring to accommodate an additional hut for the new couple. A similar but solemner ceremony followed death, with the ring moved inward so no one lived next to an empty hut.

Immediately outside the ring was a closely cropped circular strip kept clear of trees and vegetation so leopard had no leaping points, snakes no hiding places and the patrolling rota of Hopi warriors could easily ward off inquisitive wildlife with a flash of flames and banging of drums.

Beyond the shorn strip lay a dense circular forest, the Hopi’s natural source of food, clothing and building materials, but also home to all their fears, dangers and adventures. As a race, the Hopi were not designed for adventures. Short, potbellied and one-legged, the dense forest offered more than enough challenges for even the most pioneering amongst them.

The forest in turn was surrounded by a steep, sharp, rocky ridge, high and inhospitable, that no Hopi had ever scaled and few had even seen. The forest was offlimits to all but warriors and initiates and took half a season to cross and return, so no one knew what, if anything, lay on the other side of the ridge. Even their stories, and the Hopi had many stories that they shared and embellished every evening, for all their imagination and wonder stretching even to the stars in the sky, never strayed beyond the ridge that marked the edge of their world.

Could they have taken to the air, they might have seen they lived in a giant, luscious crater, isolated from the rest of the planet, but the Hopi had no such technology and most never once in all their lives considered there might be any world other than their own.

Mtembi was not ‘most Hopi.’ For a start, she had two legs! (to be continued)

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by Kiara

Life is listening Like a great warm spirit animal Close around me Tender against my face and hair She knows me My breath moves through Her And every impulse of my being Ripples in the endless ocean of Her unguarded body She is close by where my soul touches the infinite And where my feet meet the earth She breathes within the mother She receives all of me In tender and absolute intimacy She rocks me like the sea And knowing Her I can never be lonely And my best work is ever to take care That my words and thoughts Enter the sacred space of Her body In love And gratitude

A Letter

by Polly Phemus Dear Sir Was it in your magazine that I read recently an article by someone called Trevor Potts?

Honestly, what on earth were his parents thinking? And I feel sure I've also come across Mr and Mrs Peace and their son Warren; I certainly feel for poor Richard Head who must have had such a terrible time at school. Thank heavens my parents had no discernible sense of humour!

Yours faithfully Theresa Green PS. I've just realised I must marry. But not to someone called Brown.

Symptomatic

by Stan Scan

Stick a parsnip up your nose Flake a wholemeal slice of bread Catch the crumbs between your toes Spread lemon curd upon your head Put sweet potatoes in your ears Marmalade behind your knees In each armpit tuck two pears Do anything but cough or sneeze

Celtic Christianity LV I I St Cadgyvarch Reposed 490.

Remembered 24 January.

The son of Cadvrawd, and brother of Gwrmael.

Enwogion Cymru: CADOG, the son of Brychan, was one of the Welsh saints, who flourished in the fifth century. According to Cressy he died A.D. 490, and he is commemorated in the calendar, 24 January. He was the founder of several churches, viz.

Llanspyddyd, Brecknockshire; and Llangadog Vawr, in Caermarthenshire; and a chapel, called Llangadog, which formerly existed in the parish of Kidwely, was also dedicated to him. He died, and was buried in France. (Bonedd y Saint. Myv. Arch. ii. 30.)

St Cado / Cataw Reposed 6th Century.

Enwogion Cymru: A saint who was one of the sons of Geraint ab Erbin, prince of Devon. He was a member of the college of Garmon, and his name is recorded in the Triads as being famous for his wisdom. "Tri dyn a gavas ddoeth-ineb Addav, Cado hen, a Beda, a Sibli ddoeth. Cyn doethed oeddynt yll tri ac Addav ei hun." (Myv. Arch. ii. 2.)

St Caian I / Cain / Ceinwen / Keina Reposed 5th Century.

Remembered 25 September.

Enwogion Cymru: CAIAN, a saint who flourished about the middle of the fifth century, being the son or grandson of Brychan. He was the founder of the church of Tregaian, in Anglesey, and his festival was observed on 25 September.

St Cain II Reposed 7th Century.

Enwogion Cymru: CAIN, a saint who was the daughter of Caw, and flourished in the early part of the sixth century. She was the founder of Llangain, in Caermarthenshire.

St Callwen Reposed 5th Century.

Remembered 1 November.

Enwogion Cymru: CALLWEN, a saint who was a member of the holy family of Brychan, and was the founder of the church of Callwen, in Devynoc, Breconshire. Her festival day was 1 November.

St Cammarch Reposed 6th Century.

Enwogion Cymru: CAMMARCH, a saint who flourished in the early part of the sixth century. He was the son of Gwynllyw Vilwr, a prince of Gwynllwg, in Monmonthshire. Cammarch founded the church of Llangammarch, Breconshire.

St Canna Enwogion Cymru: CANNA, a saint who was the daughter of Tewdwr Mawr ab Emyr Llydaw, and wife of Sadwrn, to whom she bore Crallo.

She accompanied her husband from Armorica, and became the founder of Llanganna, or Llangan, in Glamorganshire ; and Llangnn, in Caermarthenshire. She was married, secondly, to Gallgu Rieddawg, by whom she was the mother of Elian Geimiad.

Harry Harrison

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Chess Puzzle 4 Can you solve this chess puzzle?

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Chess Puzzle 3 Solution:

Bxf7+ Ke7 Nd5 mate

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Across 1. Negative effect of flying food when bacon profit torn apart (6,9) 9. First man’s embarrassment not saved when entire fog is dispersed (2,3,4) 11. River is red hot in East (5) 13. Cape Verde island has Spanish condiment (3) 14. Served unhittable one right before competed at speed (5) 15. Greasy star was a rat unit of electrical potential recharged (8) 19. She is the French half of table salt (4) 20. The sixth Roman cardinal go endlessly viral (2) 21. Petrol company has frozen heart as muscle (5) 23. Aberystwyth bridge over the river Rheidol (9) 25. Slight advantage of outside limit (4) 26. Maori language concerning nothing (3) 27. Print option for the brave? (4) 30. Times Aberystwyth has hosted the national Eisteddfod? (5) 31. Son of Kunti is a rank outcast (5) 33. Personally sound like a lion, or air disturbed (1,4) 34. Nothing and no ending for many Japanese towns (3) 35. Newish department store on Park Avenue, Aberystwyth (1,3,1) 38. Feel sick when all left out and I join in (3) 40. The person to blame in Latin or in Middle English with a finish (3) 41. What colour introduces Island Ceramics of Borth? (4) 42. Water spirit for mayfly genus (11) 45. First and ninth is mimicking cognitive functions (Abb) (1,1) 46. Gestured courteously and played the fiddle (5) 48. Back endless bill for 60s party (Abb) (3) 51. Endless stage disapproval belongs to him (3) 53. Single unit of Macao currency found in the Savoy (3) 54. Call stockbroker and arrange everything needed for firing (4,5,6)

Down 1. Where the Cliff Railway runs in Aberystwyth (12,4) 2. Refer total dam breakup for action to bolster Grahame’s river-banker (7,2(Abb),4) 3. Cat turned to express surprise (Abb) (1,1,1) 4 & 32. The end of what is commemorated by Mario Rutelli’s statue in the castle ruins? (5,5,3) 5. End of call dog has no right to start (4) 6. Penglais green area opened in 1996 (4) 7. I have mid-point for acidic organic compound (5) 8. Railway which goes up to Devil’s Bridge (3,4,2,7) 10. Indo-Aryan centre for galley tool (3) 12. Hot point left pedlar half aided (6) 16. Excessively uses visor to expel disguise (12) 17. Left with frozen water might cause head scratching (4) 18. Databases centre reveal Nigerian city (3) 22. Re-use rinse back in storage for sea fish (2,5,4) 24. Nonsense Pan’s adversary with nothing left out to end sum (5) 28. Negative reversal when electricity is flowing (2) 29. Narrative French poem about Lisa (4) 32. See 4 Down 36. She switched many around pointlessly (3) 37. Deaths alternative to Morse long sound (3) 39. Syrian village air swirls round (3) 43. In a way half deep laugh found in London district (4) 44. Swedish group lost first, replaced by East German girl (4) 47. First lady even if the end point is lost (3) 49. I have nothing of Jupiter’s moon (2) 50. Basic ends in preparation for Jesus (Abb) (1,1) 52. One hundred for the leader (Abb) (1,1)

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Congratulations to large number of puzzlers who completed cryptic crossword 61: Sheila Beaumont, Daniel Davies. Jen Davies, Sarah Davies, Carol Evans, Joan Gower, Llinos Griffiths, Trevor Harris, David Hyde, Brynmor James, Susan James, Michael Jones, George Kinchington, Merry Makers, Ann Morgan, Pam Owen, Hugh Parry, Revd. Marty Presdee, Ieuan Reid, Jessica Reid, Caroline Smith and Marye Wyvill.

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