Subject: Happy St David's Day From: Mick Tems Date: 01 Mar 12 - 03:25 AM Many sessions and events are taking place on this, our national saint's day. There's a massive parade in Cardiff city centre, leading to one hell of a big session in the Owain Glyndwr pub. I shall be there, wearing my daff! |
Subject: RE: St David's Day From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:24 AM Sounds great! I wish I could be there. Our Welsh-American St David's Society (Kansas City) is having an event on March 12. There will be singing and harp music, among other things. |
Subject: RE: St David's Day From: Flash Company Date: 02 Mar 12 - 10:33 AM St David's day is, alas, the 37th anniversary of my fathers death, I tend not to celebrate it! FC |
Subject: Happy Saint David's Day From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Mar 15 - 06:52 AM Must be the first time I have I have managed to get this in first. My name saint and christening day when I was but 3 weeks old! Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant! (I think) :-) Cheers DtG |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: GUEST,dewi the gnome Date: 01 Mar 15 - 07:29 AM Missed out the happy bit apparently Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Sant hapus ! Good link for anyone interested. |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: GUEST,John James Date: 01 Mar 15 - 08:03 AM On this day, yr dydd cyntaf mis Mawrth, the first day of March, we all marched from school to one of the many local chapels and had a service of celebration. and in the school playground during playtime we could hear the grown-ups singing away at their Cymanfa Ganu..a singing festival, if you like. Clearing the winter cobwebs out of the tubes! Dydd Dewi Sant..gave way to Gwyl Dewi Sant..a festival of celebration of a culture, and survival ! Yma o Hyd & all that. Diz Disley enjoyed speaking to me in a Welsh accent..he spent his childhood in Wales. Reservoir dear boy, Reservoir...(as in Au'voir of course not as in Tryweryn) JJ |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: Musket Date: 01 Mar 15 - 10:10 AM White Rabbits! More importantly it's my birthday. |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: breezy Date: 01 Mar 15 - 02:09 PM Wearing the welsh scarf , red rugby -without brandings - a large cushion with y ddraig goch emblazened upon and 3 daffs I sat and played a selection of welsh tunes - tonau - ar y gitar in memory of my father and in celebration of yesterday's rugby result , as the whistling wind wended wildly. then retired to support the green team Next date 14th march |
Subject: ADD: Miracle on St David's Day From: Felipa Date: 01 Mar 15 - 03:34 PM I love this poem, and it's a true story Miracle on St David's Day They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude - The Daffodils - William Worsworth An afternoon yellow and open-mouthed with daffodils. The sun treads the path among cedars and enormous oaks. It might be a country house, guests strolling, the rumps of gardeners between nursery shrubs. I am reading poetry to the insane. An old woman, interrupting, offers as many buckets of coals as I need. A beautiful chestnut-haired boy listens entirely absorbed. A schizophrenic on a good day, they tell me later. In a cage of first March sun a woman sits not listening, not seeing, not feeling. In her neat clothes, the woman is absent. A big mild man is tenderly led to his chair. He has never spoken. His labourer's hands of his knees, he rocks gently to the rhythyms of the poems. I read to their prescences, absences, to the big, dumb labouring man as he rocks. He is suddenly standing, silently, huge and mild, but I feel afraid. Like slow movement of spring water or the first bird of the year in the breaking darkness, the labourer's voice recites The Daffodils'. The nurses are frozen, alert; the patients seem to listen. He is hoarse but word-perfect. Outside the daffodils are still as wax, a thousand, ten thousand, their syllables unspoken, their creams and yellows still. Forty years ago, in a Valleys school, the class recited poetry by rote. Since the dumbness of misery fell he has remembered there was a music of speech and that once he had something to say. When he's done, before the applause, we observe the flowers' silence. A thrush sings and the daffodils are aflame. Reprinted from :- Gillian Clarke:Collected Poems Carcanet 1997 The man who recited Wordsworth had been silent, not speaking, for years! |
Subject: Happy Saint David's Day From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Mar 24 - 06:02 AM 71 years ago today I was christened and as I was already named after the Saint it was a very apt day for me baptism :-) It pleased my maternal grandmother no end as she was half Welsh! Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: GUEST,Steve Shaw Date: 01 Mar 24 - 07:28 AM About 40 years ago we went to a concert on a beautiful May evening at St David's cathedral, 'twas a chamber orchestra playing all six Brandenburg concertos. One of those pleasurable events in life that sticks in your mind for evermore. Sorry about your spellchecker woes, by the way, Dave... ;-) |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Mar 24 - 01:32 PM :-D I was once told off for calling Clynnog-fawr Klingon Four so I had to point out that while we were there I overheard a Welsh conversation at the bar that finished with the phrase "funking Black and Decker" :-) |
Subject: RE: Happy Saint David's Day From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Mar 24 - 01:51 PM Autocorrect cleaned that up! |
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