cymru am beth

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 11:21

did'nt we do well !!!!!!

Kitty1


Joined: 15/03/2007
Posts: 683

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 11:58

Oh yes!!!



I suspect John Inverdale is now eating his poorly chosen words of a few weeks ago when he claimed that England were in a very good position to win the championship.



I'm part English myself but I can't help sniggering about that one.

odgy47


Joined: 04/01/2008
Posts: 75

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 13:55

anyone remember what austin healey said in paris a couple of weeks ago .totally blinkered.

JamesB


Joined: 07/02/2007
Posts: 450

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 13:56

Well done Pat!

Kitty1


Joined: 15/03/2007
Posts: 683

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 15:25

And to make us Cymraeg feel even prouder Pat, here's a little something just for you (we had this on a Max Boyce LP when I was a little girl):



There's a story told in the valleys and I'll tell it as best as I can

The story of one William McGonegal Morgan nd of his incredible plan.



It all started off on a cold winter's night, a night that was strangely, so still

When the rugby club's general commitee banned 'Sine-Die' their ticket sec...Will.



He was in the wrong, we knew all along, there was no point in petitions and pickets

He was caught with this woman at the back of the stands With the club's allocation of tickets.



What made it worse... she wasn't the first He'd been caught with Ben Water's wife, Ethel

We all knew her with her fox and her fur, she wore it on Sundays to Bethel.



Will was sine-died, he broke down and cried, I've never seen a man in such sorrow

'Cos like Judas of old, he'd sold more than gold, with a Scotland and Wales game tomorrow.



Then he had this idea... he'd go in disguise. He had it all drawn up and planned

And he went to the game, to his family's shame as one of the St. Alban's Band.



Back in the village, they all got to know 'Make one for me, will you?' they'd say

They'd ask, 'Any chance, for one against France?' And fair play, like... what could he say?



But the man's very able, I think he's in 'Table' (Roundtable?). He was working all hours, fair play!

He gave of his best, he was down to his vest making about fifty a day.



But Will's getting on and his best days are gone, 'Well, my lad... I'm sad.' he'd say

'Will, you're on the floor... you can't do no more', And he'd say, 'Where there's a Will there's a way!'



So he put an ad. in 'The Guardian' to employ a few men starting Monday

And he started some men, I think about ten - three shifts and some working Sunday.



They made about three or four hundred when the night shift was sent 'two 'til ten'

The jigs were all changed and the tools rearranged and they started on ambulance men.



Then they ran out of buttons and bandage, so policemen were next on the plans

While 'B' shift made refs. with dark glasses, alsatians, white sticks and tin cans.



Then production was brought to a standstill, and the union could quite understand

When management tabled the motion how things were a bit out of hand!



I'll never forget the day of the match the likes of I'll ne'er see again

I can see them all, still... coming over the hill hundreds and thousands of men.



The refs. came in four double deckers. It was going exactly to plan

And the St. Albans Band came in lorries and the police in a Griff Fender van!



I'll never forget the day of the match the likes of I'll ne'er see again

When Queen Street was full of alsatians and the pubs full of ambulance men.



It was then I saw Will for the first time, I was standing on the steps by 'The Grand'

He was in a camel-hair coat... dressed up as a goat marching in front of the band.



It was then that the accident happened! The roads were all slippy and wet

He was struck by a man in a greengrocer's van and they took him to Davies... the vet.



Now Davies the vet's a bit short sighted. He said, 'I'm afraid it's his heart...

But he wouldn't have lived longer, if he'd been stronger - His eyes are too far apart.



The funeral was held on a Monday, The biggest I'd ever seen

The wreaths came in four double deckers

There was one from Prince Charles and The Queen.

(Sorry!... 'The Price of Wales' and 'The Queens')



There were sprays there from three thousand policemen

And one from the St. Albans Band

And the bearers were refs. with alsations, dark glasses, white sticks and tin cans.



We sang at the graveside, the old funeral hymns

And we all went to comfort his son.

What made him sad, he said, was his Dad had died, not knowing we'd won.



I couldn't sleep for most of that n

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 17:29

excellent kitty , i vaguely remember some parts , i used to see max boyce regularly when i was younger { but not much }.diolch yn fawr , pat

Jachin



Joined: 05/02/2008
Posts: 99

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 17:36

France has to win by 20 points to win the championship. So I think we have it in the bag.

TonyH


Joined: 22/11/2007
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 17:36

your Turkish is coming on well Pat

glencoe


Joined: 01/02/2008
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 21:07

Hello Jachin

hope you dont come from bo*az

but lets err on the safe side and say hopefully it will be in the bag

It was a great day for the Celts

Used to love my trips down to Gilfach Goch (hope I spelt it right) every second year, keep it up boyo's

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 21:16

Have i missed something here havent got a clue what your all talking about.

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 21:37

Hi tonyh , thanks i've been practising

nos da , pat

steelman550


Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 41

Message Posted:
10/03/2008 23:57

Glencoe,



Your spelling is spot on, I worked in Gilfach Goch for 7 years. Had many a good night at the rugby club. People up there are the salt of the earth.



Regards

Fiona

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 03:59

Well done to Wales.......but please do not mention Max Boyce. I also remenber him as one of the most unfunny people ever to appear on TV. Year on year with a big dafodil and a big false laugh. Toothache would be the nearest thing to him. Not trying to offend but I bet someone will say the opposite. Possibily a blue rinser.

glencoe


Joined: 01/02/2008
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 07:54

Tiggy

One man's meat is another man's poison

LOL



Fiona - they tell me I had a few good nights there as well ??

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 09:43

well greg , you really must have had a good time if you can't remember

pat

glencoe


Joined: 01/02/2008
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 10:07

Pat,

U got it in 1

wot a place, used to go down every second year on the bi annual pilgrimage and the Welsh boys used to come to my pubs in Perth, if any of them read this remember the Thistle tavern and the Robert Burns lads.

they never went to Murrayfield - watched the match on tv and had a ball and so did we down there, great times indeed*

Bilko


Joined: 11/03/2008
Posts: 98

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 10:20

We did do well, here's to the Grand Slam on Saturday.

When I was in the Welsh Guards eons ago, the Regimental Motto was



Cymru am Byth



'Wales Forever'



ambitious but apt!

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 10:30

shwmae bilko , croeso , o ble wyt tin dod ? dw in dod o abertawe ,

pob lwc , simbas

tin siarad cymraeg ?

Bilko


Joined: 11/03/2008
Posts: 98

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 19:34

Simbas

Trust your message is favourable - by way of explanation in English via a Turkish keyboard; Dad was Welsh (Llangollen), Mum from Liverpool, born in Chester, National Service by way of 'signing on' at local recruitment office. On offer was Signals, Engineers, Cheshires or Welsh Guards - opted for the scarlet tunic, bearskin and 'ceremonials', never saw either, always soldiering, for five years at various hotspots. (Signed on as a regular for the extra Queens shillings).

Never learned the Welsh language, no need to really, not even on the rugby pitch (BAOR Champions 1960/1/2) but the whole battalion cheered to Cymru am Byth at sports occasions, or when in enemy 'skirmishes'.

C'mom Wales, c'mon you Pumas!!!

Yaki dar (?)

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
11/03/2008 20:12

hi bilko , i will interpret , hello bilko welcome , where do you come from , i come from swansea good luck .not a lot of welsh people i meet speak welsh , great pity i had an old friend who used to be in the blues and royals , he's dead now , do you live in nc full time ?

regards simbas

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
12/03/2008 00:16

Simbas,

You are very harsh!



I was just messing, to see if anyone would take the bait!!!!!



LOL



P.

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
12/03/2008 02:58

Sorry Simbas,



I got your message mixed up with Glencoe and it should have been his name I was replying too.



What a fool eh!

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
12/03/2008 04:58

yeh {only joking }

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
12/03/2008 05:32

Yep.....a harsh lady!



Im at work

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
12/03/2008 06:12

well dont work too hard , i'm making coconut curry , for my granddaughter ,she's 9mnths old now , this will be her first taste of curry

hope the rest of your shift goes well for you

have a good rest , pat

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
16/03/2008 11:18

ooooops , we did it again !!!!!!!!!!!

HER INDOORS



Joined: 14/12/2007
Posts: 152

Message Posted:
16/03/2008 20:55

What a brilliant match Pat.I wish I could have been at the Millenium Stadium.I bet the atmosphere was electric !

"We are the Champions, we are the champions!!



Terri

TonyH


Joined: 22/11/2007
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
16/03/2008 21:20

What did you win?



Something to do with egg chasing at a guess.

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
16/03/2008 22:10

keep up tony ,keep up

TonyH


Joined: 22/11/2007
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
17/03/2008 09:20

I watched the game actually Pat. It was great stuff.

Kitty1


Joined: 15/03/2007
Posts: 683

Message Posted:
17/03/2008 14:40

Yes Pat, we did it again! Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! What a team and what a coaching staff.



I was told this morning that before Shane Williams was first capped, his father put a bet on with a local bookie that his boy would one day break the Welsh try-scoring record. He put down 50 quid and got odds of 500 - 1. He is now a cool 25 grand better off! I think that's fantastic.



So, anyone else out there with a budding international in the family that we can have a flutter on?