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i-Cambria The online magazine that celebrates all things Welsh! Summer 2009 Cambria Summer 09

BEYOND CAMBRIA
The Welsh people has helped enhance the quality of life of people all over the world says DR R. BRINLEY JONES

REMEMBERING THE SHIELD OF WALES
DR CRAIG JONES on the life and reign of one of Wales’s forgotten heroes, the Welsh Prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn, honoured with the title ‘Tarian Cymru’ - Shield of Wales

TREGARON - WALES AND THE WILD WEST
Tregaron lies in the very heartland of Y Fro Cymraeg. World-renowned Celtic jeweller Rhiannon looks back on more than 30 years of change

MENDELSSOHN
The composer Felix Mendelssohn first visited Wales in 1829 staying at Rhydymwyn near Mold, but he was less than impressed by traditional Welsh folk music says DAVID JONES

ROY NOBLE A fair to remember

TRAVEL Touring France in the footsteps of Samuel Beckett

CULTURE
GWYN GRIFFITHS on Tregaron; Profile: CHRISTOPHER MEREDITH
BOOKS
MEIC STEPHENS on the publishing scene in Wales
POETRY
SAM ADAMS: Gone Away; GILLIAN CLARKE: Coins
MUSIC NORMA LORD: Alan Osborne’s This is the Day - The Oratorio
OPERA JOHN

NATURE
CHRIS KINSEY Nature Diary; KARL SHOWLER on Bees
ENVIRONMENT
WOOD IS GOOD: heating through wood gasification
GARDENS
CAROLINE PALMER: Pontypool’s picturesque splendour
MOTORING
JOHN E. EDWARDS: The long days before SatNav

DIRECTORY The best places to eat in Wales
FOOD DOROTHY DAVIES on Garlleg gwyllt - Wild garlic

ONLOOKER CeltFest09; West Wales Food Fair at the NBGW
FESTIVAL GUIDE Gregynog; Two Rivers; Green Man
WEB DIRECTORY cambria’s Welsh website guide
WHAT’S HOT Events and happenings around the country
EDITOR’S LETTER
LETTERS

POLITICS & OPINION
CLIVE BETTS, SIÔN JOBBINS, ROYSTON JONES, HUW LAWRENCE

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Editorial June09

‘THE LAND IS IN ITS PRIME’ SAID TONY, WHOSE COWS INHABIT THE FIELDS AROUND US. I had been commenting on the beautiful weather and luxurious growth of grass. Looking down the Tywi Valley bursting with health and vitality, it seems the perfect description of a promising early summer. Long may it remain so.

It seems to me that recycling is common sense, if something can be used again, use it again, otherwise it is sheer profligacy. We live in bounteous times, in many ways no o...
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A Fair to remember

By Roy Noble
His nose was big - that was the problem! Wherever he went, his nose got there a fraction before him and in the ring of that boxing booth, it was a tempting and frequent target for his opponent. The sign outside was clear enough, ‘last three rounds of two minutes each against our National Champion, and win £10’. Once ‘the drink is in, the sense is out’, in the same way that when your logic goes to your loins - you’re lost! Bravery gets to the br...
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