Welsh Club Preston

Ar ôl y dosbarth ardderchog fore Iau, dan ni’n barod i gefnogi Cymru heno!  Dewch i ymuno â rhai ohonon ni yn nhafarn O’Neills, Preston, heno.  Mae’r gêm yn dechrau am 8 o’r gloch, ond dan ni am gyrraedd tua 7 i gael bryd o fwyd ymlaen llaw.  Pob lwc i’r crysiau cochion!

Following Thursday’s excellent revision class, we’re ready to support Wales tonight!  Come and join some of us in O’Neills pub, Preston.  Kick off is 8pm but we’re planning to arrive around 7 to have something to eat first.  Best of luck to the red shirt team!

http://www.oneills.co.uk/content/oneills/en/national-search/north-west/preston

I atgoffa pawb – to remind everyone, and to invite anyone who’s interested in learning Welsh – we’re holding a catch-up/revision/beginners’ class in The Harris Library, Preston on Thursday 24th Sept 2015 from 10.00am – 1.00pm.  Bring your own refreshments.  Email us if you’d like further details.

Croeso i bawb – All welcome

Dioch i bawb wnaeth ddod i weld y ffilm nos Fawrth.  Cawsom noson ddiddorol iawn, roedd hi’n braf gweld pawb ac yn enwedig o dda i gyfarfod â ffrindiau newydd.

Thanks to everyone who came on Tuesday evening.  We had a very interesting night, it was great to see everyone and especially good to meet new friends.

This year is the 150^th anniversary of the sailing of the ship, the Mimosa, from Liverpool Dock, carrying the first Welsh settlers to a new life in Patagonia in Argentina.   To mark the occasion, we are showing the film “Patagonia” on  Tuesday, 15 September, at  The Continental, in South Meadow Street, Preston, starting at 6.30 pm.

The film is about “the journey of two women, one looking for her past and the other for her future”, and stars Matthew Rhys, Marta Lubos, Nahuel Perez Bisayart, Nia Roberts and Duffy.   One of the women “travels South to North through the Welsh springtime and the other East to West through the Argentine Autumn”.  The dialogue is in Welsh and Spanish with English subtitles, and the film carries a ‘15’ rating.

Entry is free of charge and is open to all.

Dewch i ymuno â ni – croeso arbennig i unrhyw un newydd.

Come and join us for our (short-ish) AGM and (longer) social evening at Wetherspoons “The Grey Friar” on the corner of Ringway/a59 and Friargate in Preston on Thursday 11.6.15 at 6.30pm.  Regulars and newcomers welcome.

Some of us are driving down on Saturday 30 May to have a bite of lunch and then wwitness the 3.00 unveiling of the memorial at Princes Dock of the Mimosa setting sail 150 years ago to establish the Welsh settlement in Patagonia.  We’ll be staying on for some of the succeeding celebrations too.

We can probably offer lifts if you aren’t driving down yourself/taking the train.  Email us on clwbsiarad@gmail.com or phone 0759409803.

The full schedule for the celebrations is down the page here: http://www.liverpool-welsh.co.uk/cegm_w.htm

Roedd llawr o hwyl dydd Iau diwetha’.  Our thanks to our friends in Hoghton Folk Dance Club who guided us in the dances and did so much to enable us to  thoroughly enjoy ourselves.  And what is more, we all have a freestanding invitation to go along to their weekly club nights (Tuesdays 7.45) at Hoghton Village Hall.

Mi wnaeth bedair ohonon ni, sef Margaret, Jenny, Catherine ac Anne fwynhau’n fawr iawn yn Y Nant yn ystod wythnos gynta mis Mai.  Dysgu am hanes a chefndir cerddoriaeth Gymraeg o hen emynau hyd at ganeuon modern, canu bob dydd, gwneud ffrindiau newydd, wrth ein boddau yn yr amgylchedd unigryw, dawnsio Twmpath, cyfrannu at Y Noson Lawen ac, wrth gwrs,  blasu cwrw lleol yn Y Fic.  Mor braf oedd treulio pedwar diwrnod cyfan yn cyfathrebu yn “yr hen iaith” – mi wnaiff hi barhau!

Four of us thoroughly enjoyed ourselves in The Nant during the first week of May.  Learning about the history and background of Welsh songs from old hymns to modern pop, singing every day, making new friends, in our element in the unique environment, dancing the “Twmpath”, contributing to the Variety Evening and, of course, sampling the local brew in The Vic.  It was so good to spend four whole days conversing in “the old language” – she will continue!

Our meeting this May is triply different.
It is not on the first Thursday in the month, but the second, the 14th.
It’s not in the Lending Library, but in the Harris Education Room (the annexe facing the main entrance).
And we’ll be trying out some traditional Welsh dances under the guidance of members of Hoghton Folk Dance Club.