I have created an album of photographs for Liz’s family, containing pictures of her enjoying life in and around Wales with friends and fellow learners. It is a shared Google Photos album which anyone can contribute to. I would like to ask all of you if you could help me fill it as a gift to her family.
All you have to do is click on the link below and then click on the ‘add to album’ icon at the top right hand side of the screen. But could I ask kindly for you to have a quick browse through the album first, just to check that we don’t have any/too many duplicates. Diolch o waelod calon i chi gyd!
Liz made a great impression with us in October 2018 when she popped in to see us. Liz was visiting her son and grandchildren just down the road.I remember her later saying how astonished her family were when she told them when asked, that she had just popped into the local pub to talk Welsh with some locals she had never met before. ‘Like one does’ as she said.(East Dereham. Norfolk, England) This is what she wrote in her blog,
Announce to your son and his wife that you are going to meet some friends at the pub
See their puzzled faces
Explain how even though you have never been to Norfolk you have a number of friends in the area
Realise this might in fact be a bit odd
Though it doesn’t feel odd.
It feels perfectly normal
Because you’re going to the pub to speak Welsh
(as you do)
That in fact the whole big beautiful messy journey you’ve been on all comes back to the Welsh language
. I have just got home from holiday to the devastating news! Liz and I spent a wonderful time together back in September “yn siarad Cymraeg” after her very kind response to my post on the Forum asking if any SSiWers in Melbourne would like to meet up while I was visiting my son and family in Spotswood. She was SO encouraging and helpful and so easy to chat to. It was what seemed the start of a lovely friendship, but sadly it wasn’t to be. But the lovely memory of our time in Melbourne will never leave me. I have put this photo in the Google album because although taken in Melbourne in her favourite Hipster cafe it is so typical of her passion for learning Welsh and helping others, as her comments show.
Elizabeth Jane Corbett to SaySomethinginWelsh.com - the online audio Welsh course
5 September 2019
I’d never met Andrea Eynon before today but when she got in touch via the Say Something in Welsh forum to say she was coming to Melbourne, we arranged to catch up. We did so today and had a lovely long chat in a hipster cafe on Sydney Road (as you do).
Half way through the conversation, Andrea mentioned this was the longest conversation she’d ever had in Welsh. Which I found hard to believe as she was chatting away quite naturally. She said she usually had trouble following conversations but that she understood me perfectly. We decided this was probably due to our shared ‘upbringing’.
On confessing she’d not yet had the courage to join the SSiW Slack group, I told her she was well and truly outed as a fair dinkum Welsh speaker and that I was going to dob her into ‘Mam, Tad, and our ‘big sister’ Dee.
Aran Jones Catrin Lliar Jones Cat Dafydd Iestyn Ap Dafydd (I can’t seem to find a Dee to tag her?), I am happy to make coffee in a Hipster cafe on Sydney Road an official SSiW thing for anyone who happens to turn up on my doorstep,
Not sure if this belongs in the album, or here, or elsewhere, but Golwg has an article on Liz this week. It leads with the academic perspective, the loss of the valuable research she was engaged in on the life of Owain Glyndwr’s wife.
