Helo bawb - hopefully we have a drier (and warmer!) week ahead of us this week and we’ll be able to meet up again in the open air on Friday, so here’s the plan:
12:00 Tuesday 25th May / dydd Mawrth 25ain Mai via Zoom
12:00 Friday 28th May / dydd Gwener 28ain Mai in Montag House garden - see above for directions
Get in touch if you need login details for Zoom on Tuesday or have any questions - newcomers welcome, as always!
Hwyl a chadw’n iach
John
PS Do let us know if you’d like to join us but find days/times don’t suit - additional sessions might be possible if there’s the interest
I was hoping to finally be able to join you all in the garden today but it wasn’t to be as I’ve had to wait in for some drain people. Hope you didn’t get wet.
Helo bawb - we’re continuing with the same pattern of meetups for now, but we’ll probably only be able to have a couple more meetups in Montag House garden after this Friday so we’ll need to start thinking about another venue soon:
12:00 Tuesday 8th June / dydd Mawrth 8fed Mehefin via Zoom
12:00 Friday 11th June / dydd Gwener 11eg Mehefin in Montag House garden (see earlier post of 5 May for directions)
Helo pawb - there’s heavy rain forecast throughout today (Fri 18th) so rather than getting soaked in the garden we’ll be meeting up via Zoom this Friday lunchtime (PM me if you need login details).
Helo bawb - this week may be our last chance to meet up in the garden of Montag House on a Friday as a new cohort of US students is probably arriving (I’m checking with Autumn that this is still going ahead given concerns here about the Covid Delta variant) - the weather forecast for Friday’s a bit iffy at the moment but hopefully it might improve a bit come Friday Ta waeth/Anyway, here are usual meetup details for this week
12:00 Tuesday 22nd June / dydd Mawrth 22ain Mehefin via Zoom (get in touch if you need login details )
12:00 Friday 25th June / dydd Gwener 25ain Mehefin in Montag House garden (last but one meetup here - see post #2089 above for directions or contact me )
Helo eto - Autumn has confirmed now that the students will be coming, so this Friday will be the last opportunity to meet up in Montag House garden (let me know if you have any suggestions for alternative meetup venues in July :).
Also, this Friday we’ll be using the other part of the garden as there’s scaffolding ibeing put up against the part of the building facing the section of the garden we’ve been using until now (keep a watchful eye for people wielding scaffolding poles as you arrive!) Hwyl am y tro
John
Helo bawb - as yesterday was our last meetup in the garden hyfryd Montag House, both meetups as we move into July next week will be via Zoom (I won’t be able to make either of these, I’m afraid, but do get in touch if you need login details ). Hopefully we’ll be able to find another venue where we can meetup in the open air forthe following weeks - any and all suggestions /awgrymiadau welcome!
12:00 Tuesday 29th June / dydd Mawrth 29ain Mehefin
12:00 Friday 2nd July / dydd Gwener 2fed Gorffenaf
Today marks 450 years since the founding of Jesus College, the Welsh College in Oxford! There was a service in the University Church which included a reading of a poem commissioned in both Welsh and English. I don’t think I posted this back in March, so here it is in case you’re interested; the texts are slightly different in the two languages …
Helo bawb - Just to confirm this week’s meetup days/times:
12:00 Tuesday 6th July / dydd Mawrth 6ed Gorffenaf (via Zoom - get in touch if you need login details )
12:00 Friday 9th July / dydd Gwener 9fed Gorffenaf (provisionally via Zoom as well but may be in the open air if it’s dry and we can come up with a suitable venue, so keep an eye out here for updates )
I’m sorry I ve decided I don’t feel comfortable to go to central Oxford tomorrow after all. So I am going to give Broad meadow a miss for the moment . Hope you enjoy yourselves . Hwyl Bethan
What are other people’s thoughts on a Broad Meadow meetup rather than over Zoom tomorrow? Presumably it’s going to be there for a while, so there’s no need to rush.
I could do either so I’ll see what others want to do and check back tomorrow before 10:00. I was in central Oxford (Westgate - St Aldates) today and it was all right. I didn’t get as far as Broad Meadow. We got the bus to Wolvercote and walked back along the river. We were shattered.
Sue
I did a quick reccy this morning at around midday and Broad Meadow wasn’t crowded - there seemed to be roughly the same number of empty benches as occupied ones. Depending on numbers, finding a couple or more benches close enough to chat from might be more of a problem but it looked as if a couple had been moved by people aready, so maybe not
If all else fails there seemed to be plenty of places to sit on the steps outside the New Bodleian Library and The Clarendon Building, and thesteps to the museum of History of Science (which is closed) were completely unoccupied.
Maybe we could give it a try tomorrow as an experiment although we could leave it to another Friday if that meant more people could make it?
If we were to try Broad Meadow meetup tomorrow, those who can’t make it could still meetup on Zoom, of course.
) week ahead of us this week and we’ll be able to meet up again in the open air on Friday, so here’s the plan:
this week and ‘hello’ to June! 
, but the same pattern as before for our meetups :
for people wielding scaffolding poles 
as you arrive!)
I’m happy to meet outside in Broad Meadow ! Bethan