Christmas Poems

[Caspar]

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LLigwy Beach??--you know where Northop Hall is Caspar?

Spent nearly every day sunbathing (or cloudbathing) on Lligwy as a child. Stayed there two nights in my motorhome last week while visiting parents. Still go to Anglesey a lot - one of the very few places I can truly relax. It has something for everyone.

Started in touring then static vans on Tyddyn Isaf, then my parents bought a house in Pentraeth, then eventually the one in Moelfre.
Yes, I know Northop Hall! Why do you ask?

The other place I know well in Mold is the DIY shop Bevan's - spent many happy hours with that family in my younger days, lovely people!

[dogtired]

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Oh bless you. X

So sorry you lost your beloved mum.

Your very welcome honey XXXX

Thankyou.
This is really a wonderful site for all things
xxxxx

[Turboman]

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Spent nearly every day sunbathing (or cloudbathing) on Lligwy as a child. Stayed there two nights in my motorhome last week while visiting parents. Still go to Anglesey a lot - one of the very few places I can truly relax. It has something for everyone.

Started in touring then static vans on Tyddyn Isaf, then my parents bought a house in Pentraeth, then eventually the one in Moelfre.
Yes, I know Northop Hall! Why do you ask?

The other place I know well in Mold is the DIY shop Bevan's - spent many happy hours with that family in my younger days, lovely people!

Sorry to hijack your thread Di-but I am your mate & it is about your beloved Wales - albeit t'other end--lol

Caspar--40 odd years ago-I got transferred for a few years from "a very large enginnering company" here to "a very large enginnering company" there (I think you get my drift-lol) & I lived in Northop Hall.--know Mold backwards-stayed at Bry Awl while looking for a house--played for Halkyn also

What a beautiful place for your parents to livein-Moelfre

Re Lligwy--we used to go camping every annual holiday and most weekends--especially in those roasting summers of 1974-1976--boys like blackberries

Come up lane from beach-turn right-first site on your right after 50 yards-Tyn Rhos

Lovely times had at Benllech also--taught boys to swim at Amlwch baths

I remember Wheel & Anchor pub & Knockers Fish shop also

We went over a bit back for Lifeboat day celebrations-stay at Calfornia in Marionglas usually

What a small world as you say

[di30]

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Thankyou.
This is really a wonderful site for all things
xxxxx

Its my pleasure hon. Yes it is a great site for all-sorts, and so amazing too. XXXX
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Sorry to hijack your thread Di-but I am your mate & it is about your beloved Wales - albeit t'other end--lol

Caspar--40 odd years ago-I got transferred for a few years from "a very large enginnering company" here to "a very large enginnering company" there (I think you get my drift-lol) & I lived in Northop Hall.--know Mold backwards-stayed at Bry Awl while looking for a house--played for Halkyn also

What a beautiful place for your parents to livein-Moelfre

Re Lligwy--we used to go camping every annual holiday and most weekends--especially in those roasting summers of 1974-1976--boys like blackberries

Come up lane from beach-turn right-first site on your right after 50 yards-Tyn Rhos

Lovely times had at Benllech also--taught boys to swim at Amlwch baths

I remember Wheel & Anchor pub & Knockers Fish shop also

We went over a bit back for Lifeboat day celebrations-stay at Calfornia in Marionglas usually

What a small world as you say

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Hiya Turbo my lovely friend, you carry on, lovely pics by the way XXX.

[Caspar]

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Sorry to hijack your thread Di-but I am your mate & it is about your beloved Wales - albeit t'other end--lol

Caspar--40 odd years ago-I got transferred for a few years from "a very large enginnering company" here to "a very large enginnering company" there (I think you get my drift-lol) & I lived in Northop Hall.--know Mold backwards-stayed at Bry Awl while looking for a house--played for Halkyn also

What a beautiful place for your parents to livein-Moelfre

Re Lligwy--we used to go camping every annual holiday and most weekends--especially in those roasting summers of 1974-1976--boys like blackberries

Come up lane from beach-turn right-first site on your right after 50 yards-Tyn Rhos

Lovely times had at Benllech also--taught boys to swim at Amlwch baths

I remember Wheel & Anchor pub & Knockers Fish shop also

We went over a bit back for Lifeboat day celebrations-stay at Calfornia in Marionglas usually

What a small world as you say

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Knockers Fish and Chip shop still there, but new name - one of which was The Wheel and Anchor - the pub is the Kinmel Arms! Amlwch baths still going (Llangefni Sports Centre now closed!). I worked in the Californian Inn behind the bar as a summer job when at uni - might even have served you? Remember that pint that made you ill?

Tyn Rhos now a massive commercial concern. Still owned by the Owens. Don't know how well you knew the owners, but Mr and Mrs passed away (old Age), Kathy the disabled daughter has married and moved away, Rick now runs things - he was always a bit of a Del Boy, very rarely see him now.

Happy memories eh.......
Attached another couple of photos - sadly can't find one on this computer of view from mum and dad's house! First is Lligwy, second Benllech.

HEY DI!
Are you a welsh gal too?

[Sapphire]

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I you lot start singing Land of my fathers I will start banging your heads together :bolt:

[Caspar]

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I you lot start singing Land of my fathers I will start banging your heads together :bolt:

Right then everyone, after three, one, two, three........ Hope you enjoy it Sapph!!!!!:tinysmile_aha_t:

Hen Wlad fy Nhadau
Welsh National Anthem

Melody -



Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol rhyfelwyr, gwlad garwyr tra mad,
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.
Chorus:
Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
Tra mor yn fur
I'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau. 2. Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd,
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i'm golwg sydd hardd;
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.
Chorus: 3. Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed,
Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ag erioed,
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad,
Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.
Chorus:

[Sapphire]

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FFS :faint2:

[Caspar]

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Sorry - couldn't resist it!

[di30]

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Hi David

lol, yep, from South Wales , I don't actually speak fluent Welsh though,may have that little accent to the non Welsh, yet both parents are both from the Welsh Valleys where its mostly spoken. lol. XX
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Lol David...........

Well I have this here lol

THE WELSH NATIONAL ANTHEM,
AN UNOFFICIAL ENGLISH VERSION

The land of my fathers, the land of my choice,
The land in which poets and minstrels rejoice;
The land whose stern warriors were true to the core,
While bleeding for freedom of yore.


Chorus
Wales! Wales! fav'rite land of Wales!
While sea her wall, may naught befall
To mar the old language of Wales.




Old mountainous Cambria, the Eden of bards,
Each hill and each valley, excite my regards;
To the ears of her patriots how charming still seems
The music that flows in her streams.


My country tho' crushed by a hostile array,
The language of Cambria lives out to this day;
The muse has eluded the traitors' foul knives,
The harp of my country survives.

[Turboman]

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Knockers Fish and Chip shop still there, but new name - one of which was The Wheel and Anchor - the pub is the Kinmel Arms! Amlwch baths still going (Llangefni Sports Centre now closed!). I worked in the Californian Inn behind the bar as a summer job when at uni - might even have served you? Remember that pint that made you ill?

Tyn Rhos now a massive commercial concern. Still owned by the Owens. Don't know how well you knew the owners, but Mr and Mrs passed away (old Age), Kathy the disabled daughter has married and moved away, Rick now runs things - he was always a bit of a Del Boy, very rarely see him now.

Happy memories eh.......
Attached another couple of photos - sadly can't find one on this computer of view from mum and dad's house! First is Lligwy, second Benllech.

HEY DI!
Are you a welsh gal too?

Ah yes of course--Kinmel Arms---went over for a day trip (yes from Hull area) a couple of years ago--took our friends round the old Beaumaris Jailhouse
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Caspar--she ain't told you yet---but that's Di in the Avatar

[Caspar]

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[quote=di30;180706]Hi David

lol, yep, from South Wales , I don't actually speak fluent Welsh though,may have that little accent to the non Welsh, yet both parents are both from the Welsh Valleys where its mostly spoken. lol. XX
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Lol David...........


That's where we are - right in the valleys! Beautiful! No welsh spoken though (well, very little!)

[di30]

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[quote=Caspar;180712]

Hi David

lol, yep, from South Wales , I don't actually speak fluent Welsh though,may have that little accent to the non Welsh, yet both parents are both from the Welsh Valleys where its mostly spoken. lol. XX
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Lol David...........


That's where we are - right in the valleys! Beautiful! No welsh spoken though (well, very little!)

Wow really?
It is a very small world.

My aunt speaks very welshy (mum's sister), she lives in Rhonda Valleys...........my mother is also from here.
My dad's side from Old Tredegar & Ebbw Vale, they then have relations all over, but some in the North of Wales too. xx

[Turboman]

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[quote=Caspar;180712]

Hi David

lol, yep, from South Wales , I don't actually speak fluent Welsh though,may have that little accent to the non Welsh, yet both parents are both from the Welsh Valleys where its mostly spoken. lol. XX
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Lol David...........


That's where we are - right in the valleys! Beautiful! No welsh spoken though (well, very little!)

In South wales?

Sorry Di---your thread well 7 truly hijacked---lol

[di30]

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In South wales?

Sorry Di---your thread well 7 truly hijacked---lol

That's okay Turbo, your welcome too. lol X