Pnawn da!
Popping in out of the blue and feeling a little guilty for not being a consistent contributor to this thread - I’m still trying to figure out how to ‘adult’ efficiently. Not quite managing to successfully juggle kids, dog, running a house/garden/chalet, writing a book and being a good ‘llais y gogledd’ all at the same time. 
Anyway, better late than never, right?
I would like to say thank you to you lovely lot for making our lives so constantly interesting. For filling our hearts with friendship. For keeping us on our toes. For being part of this HUGE SSiW family. For kindness and generosity.
We’ve had an epic few weeks, full of the stuff that makes life colourful and it’s all thanks to you.
It begun with a family holiday to London and the absolute pleasure of seeing @Charlottevaughan playing Carlotta in Pantom of the Opera, at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Haymarket. This was accompanied by an unforgettable back stage tour and the chance, following the show, to have a chat over coffee with the talented Charlotte and to get to know her better. Diolch Charl!!!
We came home from London to the arrival of Milla (@Novem ) from Finland, who came to stay with us for a few nights. Wow, how to describe this wonderful young woman? Milla is (only) 16, but has a very mature head on her shoulders. She is of half Finnish, half Italian descent and is fluent in both languages, as well as being unbelievably fluent in Welsh, after only a relatively short time learning. It was an absolute pleasure to have her here. A gentle and kind soul, always interesting to talk to and so easy to have around - we sure hope that your dream of coming to Bangor Uni to study in two years time comes true! Diolch Milla!!!
During Milla’s stay we popped down to Caernarfon to meet @Ben from Chicago and and @Karla from Melbourne for a cuppa at Caffi Maes, both fresh from Bootcamp! I’d had the pleasure of Skype chats with Ben, so was such fun to finally meet him face to face. His Welsh was just fabulous and it’s amazing to think that he quite randomly decided to learn the language. Karla’s Welsh is also impressively fluent and she is another gentle soul with an ambition to come to live and work in Wales - I so hope this works out Karla, you are obviously so talented! Karla came to stay with us for a night and we had a fun evening around the fire in the garden with much wine, the family, a friend from Brittany and a friend from California! Diolch Ben and Karla!
Friday the 4th of August was an EPIC day in the Jones household! We already had Karla staying. Then our friend Brieg from Brittany arrived with his tent (delivered by 3 other Bretons). Jesse from LA came in on the train to Bangor. Then in the afternoon we were visited by the ever charming @louis and his wife Wendy who came with love, cake and bubbly. Then the legendary @Deborah-SSi came with smiles and hugs to see our new home and to kindly pick Milla up for the Eisteddfod. Then on the Saturday we had ther pleasure of meeting John from Oxford, who very kindly came to pick Karla up to take her to the Eisteddfod. Diolch o waelod calon Louis, Wendy, Dee, Brieg and his 3 Bretons, John and Jesse for coming to our home, for bringing love and friendship and making our lives ever interesting.
We then had our two days at the Eisteddfod, where we met buckets full of SSiWers, all happy, friendly and enthusiastic, all with their own unique stories… @S_J , @gruntius, @Kinetic, @amandalaing, @samholland @jonathan_simcock_7 Phil Wyman @erisculpepper @netmouse @karengo @Y_Ddraig_Las @ali and Phil @mintonman and I’m sure many more which I’ve failed to remember because of my candyfloss brain.
Diolch to all of you for being there and for being awesome. 
