Seren yr Wythnos | Star of the Week

aran · July 14, 2017, 6:20pm

I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while…

Seren yr Wythnos #17

Geraint Scourfield

Geraint, or @gruntius as you will probably know him, has a beard.

To be honest, everything else I say is just going to be gilding the lily.

Oh, sure, I could tell you how I first met him at the Hwb/SSiW stand in the Learners’ Tent in the Eisteddfod, and how he said ‘My wife’s wearing an SSiW T-shirt, aren’t you going to look at it?’ and then ‘Why are you looking at my wife’s chest?’ (except, of course, he didn’t phrase it that politely) - allowing me to form an immediate wary dislike of him.

Or I could tell you about his many and varied adventures on Bootcamp, and the miles he logged as our official minivan driver - his endless enthusiasm and support for other learners.

Or I could tell you about his frankly insane habit of waking up in the morning in Wrecsam, deciding that it was a nice day to go to the beach in Pen Llŷn, which is NOT near Wrecsam, and then phoning us at random and saying ‘I thought I might call round for a panad’, ‘Oh, sure, when?’, ‘In about five minutes? We’re already in Mynytho’…

Or how many times he’s gone miles out of his way to help us as a family - sorting out and putting down laminate, failing to teach Beuno to play drums, demanding chocolate cakes from my wife…

Or his advancing career as a Welsh celebrity, cropping up on so many TV programmes that people are starting to mistake him for Eleri Siôn…

But none of that matters.

All that matters is the beard.