Preferences for the pub pot - old pubs, creaky pubs, carpets/floorboards/oak panels (much better for hearing Welsh I’m told). My uncle used to drink too much in the Eagle and Child, so I’m fond of that. Like The Turf Tavern, and the absolutely ancient wonky one - is it the Bear? Can’t remember!
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Diolch @cat-1 that’s a good selectin to start with and yes, they do say that The Bear’s the oldest continually occupied pub in Rhydychen .
Now by “popular demand” (diolch @rebecca &@RichardBuck 
) here’s a list Cymraeg for people to choose from of Central Oxford/Jericho pubs, including @cat-1 's suggestions above, which are open by 11:00am on Mondays:
* Y Goron, Marchnad Ŷd
* Arfau y Brenin, Stryd Dreffynon
* Y Meitr, Stryd Fawr
* Yr Alarch a’r Castell, Stryd Y Castell
* Tafarn yr Arth. Stryd Alffred
* Y Siecrau, Stryd Fawr
* Yr Eryr a’r Blentyn, Stryd Sant Giles
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Tafarndy Jerico, Stryd Wal y Dref
* Yr Oen a’r Faner, Stryd Sant Giles
* Y Llew Coch, Stryd Gaerloyw
* Yr Wlithen a’r Letysen, Castell Rhydychen
* Tafarn y Dywarchen, Stryd Fadd
* Yr Ysgub, Stryd Fawr
* Y Ceffyl Gwyn, Stryd Llydan
Hwyl, John
That’s not a list to choose from - it’s surely a list to work through! Gwaith da!! 
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As a well-known meeting place for that well-known Welsh learner Tolkien, why don’t we start with the Eagle & Child then (Monday 15th Jan 11:00am as doors open)?
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Perffaith for me!
Be quick, If anyone’s interested in attending the April bootcamp - booking opens 9pm tonight!
https://forum.saysomethingin.com/t/bwtcamps-2018/10305/13
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I’ll be at Yr Eryr a’r Blentyn yfory! Unless I’m full of start-of-term lurgy (the kids are, and I’m showing signs) in which case I’ll spare you my germs.
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I think I’ll give it a miss - coughing and sniffling a bit and don’t want to make you all yn dost. Will focus on beating it in time for Thursday!
OK, diolch @rebecca - hope you manage to fight it off and are feeling better yn fuan / toc / cyn bo hir!
That one was a favourite of my Dad’s, to whom it meant “when I can be bothered…”.
I’ve read/heard that it replaced the earlier “directly”, used in Victorian or earlier times.
Just reminded me of the somewhat confusing use in Canada (maybe also US?) of ‘momentarily’ to mean ‘shortly’.
A couple of dates for the diary:
- Sat 24 Feb: Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir St David’s Day Celebration (as yet no further details: http://www.oxfordwelshmvc.org.uk/events.html & https://www.facebook.com/OxfordWelsh
And, 2018 being the centenary of the death of Morfydd Llwyn Owen https://www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/illuminate-blog/rhian-davies-an-incalculable-loss-morfydd-owen-1891-1918
- Fri 9 March: Concert by Illuminate of “works of women composers and performers … will programme new works … alongside pieces by a number of historical women composers such as Morfydd Owen …” St Michael’s Church near Northgate
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“Stryd Wal y Dref” Dyfeisgar iawn!
Beth am “Jude The Obscure” - “Jiwd yr Aneglur” …?
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A former classmate of mine’s dad was born in the top room of “Y Ceffyl Gwyn” (his granddad was the landlord at the time). Partly for that reason, he and another classmate and I have taken to holding our informal annual reunions there. (Also as it happens, my daughter served behind the bar there at one time). It’s another of those interesting little Oxford pubs, although perhaps a bit too “bijou” for a sizeable meetup, and potentially noisy, I suppose.
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Did she get a chance to appear behind the bar in any of the many(!) episodes of ‘Morse’ when the Ditectif Brif Arolygydd was drinking in Y Ceffyl Gwyn? Although, I suppose, they might have been filmed somewhere else …
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A quick reminder about the meetup tomorrow (Thurs 18th) from 12:00 in the Modern Art Oxford cafe, Pembroke St/St Ebbe’s St.
Also for Monday’s 11:00am meetup (22nd Jan) we’ve chosen Arfau y Brenin, Stryd Dreffynon (The King’s Arms, Holywell St, at the far end of Broad St)
Hwyl, John
PS Helo @Deborah-SSi - just to confirm for the newsletter that for the time being we’ve settled on two meetups a week (might be reviewed after Easter):
- Mondays from 11:00am, but in a different pub/cafe each week announced on this thread by the day before
- Thursdays from 12:00am, Modern Art Oxford (MAO) cafe, Pembroke St/ St Ebbe’s St
Diolch yn fawr!
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I thought briefly that I might make it tomorrow, but one of our shop volunteers has gone down with a nasty lurgy and I have to cover his shift. Oh well, one day…
Sue
Can’t be there today - work calls! Hope you all have a good old sgwrs. Hope to see you all on Monday. 
@Betterlatethan - boo hiss for other’s lurgies, there have been some awful ones around (lurgies, not others 
). Very much hope to see you soon!
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