Seren yr Wythnos #16
Sarah-Jane
Sarah-Jane was one of our earliest learners, and came on Bootcamp in our first year of doing them - and she was an early Angel, and one of our first major success stories - I’ll never forget the surprise of hearing that she had actually got a job with S4C through the medium of Welsh!
Over the years, she’s shifted from being ‘one of our learners’ to being ‘one of our Welsh-speaking friends who we see at the Eisteddfod most years’ - which is probably the ultimate marker of ‘normality’ in terms of becoming one of our Welsh-speaking friends…
SJ has always been a calm and friendly supportive voice on the forum, and she’s always thrown herself into supporting everything Welsh as much as possible everywhere - she was a long-term loyal Cardiff Meetupper until she high-tailed it to Jodrell Bank, she’s volunteered (more than once, I think, which makes her either unusual or plain mad) at the Eisteddfod.
It’s clearly done her Welsh no harm at all that oh, she just happens to be married to a Welsh speaker (although to be fair, she wasn’t actually married when she started) - the equally lovely Gareth is now on the forum occasionally in his role with the project to build a National Corpus for Welsh…
Sarah-Jane, thank you for all your loving support for this project and personal friendship over the years…
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
Diane Owen
Leia Fee
Sionned
Sarah-Jane