I lived in Gloucester (Caerloyw) until I was nearly 12, and of course it’s not that far from Wales, but I was never totally sure whether Monmouth/ Monmouthshire was in England or Wales. My Dad occasionally had to work in Chepstow on relief for people off sick/on holiday, and until recently, I’d always been under the incorrect assumption that it was in England. 
I got this and am reading it… unfortunately, it’s arrival coincided with Cwpan Rygbi, so I’ve only just started really. I was in the year before o’levels in ‘57, so fairly oblivious to anything in y gogledd!! I remember realising Suez was historic. I thought it was the first really historic event I’d remember… I was born in Oct ‘41, so the War just was!! The king’s death & the coronation were what happened in monarchies, not interesting like Edward VIII running off with his divorcee!!
The bit about the Nigerian chap rang a bell!! I was just like him, although one reason I didn’t get to Cambridge was that nobody knew what to teach me in the 3rd Year sixth at a Girls’ Grammar.
I was studying Chemistry not arts subjects like all the others!! (I never thought to ask if I could go to the Boys’ School… but my Head would have vetoed it anyway!!!).
However, I do not think the Nigerian would have got to Bangor via clearing!! I found an obscure London College to put as last choice on my forms as they were so obscure they were grateful for any science students with halfway decent A-levels!! I don’t think clearing was invented until '61+.
I can sympathise with so much in the book… the attitudes I remember!! Ifan & Bryn’s mother is exactly like mine was!! Tom isn’t like my Dad. He wanted me to do anything except teach… he had a poor opinion of ‘school marms’!!!
I now really understand how Liverpool got away with it! I was looking back with the Investiture protests and S4C etc… all in my memory and forgetting what it was like in my innocent mid-teens!!
Glad you are enjoying the book. Gareth is one of our Bore Coffi group here in Cowbridge so we are keen to support him, especially as he is now fluent and helps us a lot. ( Gwylim in the book is him really )
Like you I wasn’t old enough to appreciate what was going on with Trewerin at the time but became more aware of Welsh politics in my teens with Dafydd Iwan and Tebot Piws! Learning about the politics through Gareth’ s book was fascinating to me.
Although brought up in Llanelli , as in the book , my parents thought that English was the way to get on in the world and it has taken me until now after many stop/start attempts to be able to hold a conversation in Welsh ( albeit with mistakes galore). Largely thanks to SSIW which has given me so much more confidence.
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Hanging cliffs and new programs!
I am getting quite cross with series that end with me saying, “But…but…???” Main character unconscious…total confusion within a family… OK they want us to watch the next series, but by then the suspense is lost and I’ve forgotten exactly what came before!! It is not unknown for a program to be axed despite a cliffhanger and the fans left never knowing what was supposed to come next!!
That said, I quite like the new legal series, “Dim ond y gwir”. I realised I couldn’t have been a lawyer after all, because I couldn’t prosecute unless I was sure of guilt or defend unless I was sure of innocence! I see ‘35 diwrnod’ is coming back. I hadn’t expected that as the orignal was so convoluted that it’s hard to imagine what they can do to ‘cap that’!!!
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Please do tell him I think his book is brilliant and his characters are either me or people I suffered from or was supported by!!! Diolch!!
NB I am hopeless at this sort of thing, but I’ll try to send a link to the prgram Tri Tryweryn-
http://www.s4c.cymru/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=510707315
Yes, I couldn’t wait for the week to pass to find out what was happening next in Lan a Lawr, only to find it was the last episode of the series and now I’ll have to wait who knows how long? I have made S4C aware of my feelings though through Facebook 
I haven’t watched the first episode of 35 Diwrnod yet (it started last night) but I will as soon as I get a chance. It’s a whole new set of characters and set in Cardiff, so completely different from the first series but designed in the same way - a ‘whodunnit’ thriller with complex characters harbouring deep secrets. Should be great! And they’re running a competition - after the first 4 episodes you can send in who YOU think was responsible for the murder http://www.s4c.cymru/35diwrnod/e_index.shtml
Convoluted, as expected!! I don’t think I’ll enter the competition, even if I think I know the answer. It encourages hopelessly unlikely plot twists!!
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To everyone else, do any of you have trouble telling the characters apart? Almost all the men seem to be of a height, have dark hair and wear beards. I will not solve this case, because I still can’t tell who is who or who does what to whom!!!
I don’t have a problem with the men, but there are too many women with short, blonde hair! I get them very confused. I might have to start watching it again from the beginning to figure out what’s going on.
Of course, as it happens, the actual perpetrator was not one of the ones who confused me, but I found this series far less satisfying than the first! The end, to me, was a cop out!!
I haven’t watched the last few episodes. I’ll have to sit down and have a viewing evening and see what I think.
To all outside UK
@YDraigGoch can no longer receive S4C in Borneo. I had a feeling some of you were getting better coverage lately. Can anyone help?
p.s. I am still enjoying ‘Dim ond y gwyr’.
I’m watching it too! It’s getting better! I was fearing they would never show an episode where the court would actually reach the right decision, but they did, luckily:)
Can you help @YDraigGoch? I know you are not near Borneo, but you are not next door to the UK!!! He says he is not very computer literate. Maybe I should ask @tatjana ??? 
I honestly don’t understand much about it! I have access to the S4C International page and I seem to be able to watch everything there as usual. Let’s maybe tag @tatjana, she understands much more about computer things than I do?
@YDraigGoch, here’s the URL to S4C international (which I didn’t see presented on their main page though) http://www.s4c.cymru/en/international/. There you can watch quite some things although not everything you’d possibly like to watch, but anyway, at least something. You can download the DalAti app from Google Play (if you have android) or App Store (if you have iDevices) also and watch some things through it, but not much though. There’s also S4C app but we, out of UK, don’t even get to see it (at least not in Google Play). You can see it on PC, but you’re not able to download it though.
All the rest ways around are illegal and this for I won’t explain them here and besides, if you are using computer for other purposes also, like playing games, accessing some sites etc, yuo can get in trouble and even get banned from some services so I don’t recommend too much playing with that or you’d have to be extreamly careful.
Please (for the safety of this forum, SSiW company and community) don’t discuss those illeagal resources on this forum but limit to those legal ones. Also there’s a thread about watching S4C elswhere then UK here in which there was quite “hot” discussion about all this and you might read this first. You might find (among our arguing what’s leagal and what not) some useful resources there too.
This is all from my point. More I don’t know regarding this matter either.
I’m sorry @henddraig, @stella and @YDraigGoch but I’m not superpower hero even in tech area though. 
Thanks,
You talk about aps and androids. You have no idea how much I don’t know about technology but at least a friend has sorted something out for me with your assistance.
Many thanks and Happy New Year.
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I’m glad to hear you’ve sorted something out. And no problem. We can’t be all for everything, can we?
Happy new year to you too!
I’m so glad. Have you signed the petition at
to @tatjana Thank you very, very much!! And please, I hope you know I don’t expect you to tell anyone of anything illegal!
I am as clueless as @YDraigGoch about aps and androids!! Clever mobile phones have only just started to be usable here and I have managed until now without!!
Don’t worry. You’ll get used to technology in time if you’d need it, I’m sure.
I know. I just want to make sure that those “hot discussions” we once had and @wondersheep had to edit posts afterwards (even mine) wouldn’t happen again.
Being edited has one brilliant side effect (if you’re not banned of course - hehe) though: You can quickly learn what’s wrong and what right and become more careful about what you post and how forum works in the future. All I have established about the forum and its rules I have to somehow thank to @wondersheep, @Sionned and @aran. Diolch i chi (tri) bawb.
But, of course, I don’t suggest you should do wrong on purpose.