Seren yr Wythnos #12
Huw Jones
Huw was on our first ever Bootcamp - yes, he’s a founding member of our Magnificent Saith! - where he startled me by displaying a far wider range of vocabulary about all things gourmet than I had - in fact, I’m ashamed to say I still can’t remember the names of half the fish he taught me (and, ahem, I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t be able to recognise them, either)…
And from then on, he’s been a wonderful, ever-supportive member of this community - with his calm, friendly contributions on the forum, but also with huge amounts of unseen work behind the scenes.
Huw took over the project management of our ‘Importing Team’ - the fantastic volunteers who used to stitch the courses together in the days before SSiBorg (using the Spennyware->adapted-by-Jeff-to->Jennyware), which was a huge amount of work to take on. He also did a huge amount of the importing itself - which I can still remember (despite all the therapy) as a brutal, soul-draining experience (although, admittedly, still a million times better than the ‘by hand’ version we started off, which I now struggle to imagine).
He’s always been a delightful presence at our birthday parties - I’m fairly sure Catrin went through a stage of inviting Nia Parry mostly so that she could watch Huw blushing and getting flustered - and he’s been a generously and warmly open host to fellow SSiWers - I remember @Sionned having a lovely time staying with Huw and Maureen for one birthday party in Aberystwyth (I think that was the one when Iestyn and I decided we should build SaySomethinginKlingon, but in our defence it was very late at night and a very long walk back into town).
He also recently arranged a reunion meeting for the first Bootcampers - the Magnificent Saith - which was an absolutely fabulous evening - which will be one of our abiding memories.
He’s given so much to this community - particularly via his areas of passion! - that he’s ended up being adopted as Catrin’s spare father - a very dangerous fate for anyone to face. His courage in that particular line of fire has been inspirational…
So, Huw has impacted your learning journey with SSiW if you’ve ever:
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used the forum, or
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used any of the imported lessons (which is most of them!).
In which case, now would be a wonderful time to thank him…
Huw, diolch o waelod calon 
Iestyn ap Dafydd
Catrin Lliar Jones
Cat Dafydd
Dee McCarney
Spenny
Jeff Lewis
Ifan Baines
Kev Smith
James Mahoney
Louis van Ekert
Rob Bruce
Huw Jones