You are always so kind and generous @tatjana. Diolch. Un diwrnod we can chat away and get to know each other better.
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Diolch. 
Thank you again. Iām following my feelings and trying to grow.
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One joyful memory: during Bootcamp, as we walked through the winery, and it dawned on me that I was chatting to the owner in Welsh, just as naturally as I would have done in Englishā¦
One event Iām looking forward to: meeting my best friend tomorrow at Oriel Ynys Mon, to go round the Kyffin Williams gallery.
One good deed this week: Iām about to join the SSiW Kiva team, which youāve just made me aware of. Thank you for that!
One person I greatly love and admire: Jan Morris, 90 this year, for her wonderful writing which has accompanied me all my life, and for her insistence that in the end, kindness is the only thing that matters.
What good I would do with Ā£10,000: Iām so grateful to have a roof over my head that if Ā£10k could put a roof over someone else, it would be money well spent.
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- One joyful memory
Seeing my daughter represent our county for the first time at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Arfon. She had been trying for years, always being thwarted at the final county round, and then suddenly she won through in not one but two categories.
- One event from your calendar that youāre looking forward to.
Palenco and y Niwl are playing at the Parrot in Carmarthen on Friday.
- One good deed first this week.
Covered for a colleague while he bunked off work to sort his mortgage out.
- One person you greatly love / admire and why.
Gareth Bale: Possibly the most talented footballer in the world, but nevertheless modest and hard-working and fully aware of his responsibilities to his family, his club, his country and the footballing world in general. Association football isnāt really renowned for producing role models like this, but Gareth Bale is one, and heās ours!
- What altruistic good would you choose to do with Ā£10,000
I have absolutely no idea. Or imagination, it would appear.
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What a lovely thread this has become. Diolch, everyoneā¦ 
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Nice to get a mention Margaret!! Will think about these questions!
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Brilliant.
One joyful memory. When I think of the word ājoyā, I think of every day with my cat. I hate to be that person, but I am. We have a five oāclock outside play appointment. And she is very cute.
One event from your calendar that youāre looking forward to. Okay, not just a cat lady, but Iām into genealogy AND Matlock ā I am looking forward to the Society for Mayflower Descendants 100 year anniversary meeting tomorrow. Itās a little dorky, but this is a new hobbie and I canāt seemed to get anyone else in the family excited about being descended from the first British boat to cross the pond and stay.
One good deed for the week. Did it. I helped the most adorable 97 year old woman use her iPhone to take an Uber car service to Chin Chin, a Chinese food place for LA suburbanites. She in turn, showed me photos of her son, who turned out to be Gary Oldman. She was sooooo awesome and funny. It was really my pleasure.
One person you greatly love / admire and why. My boyfriend tops my list every time. After ten years, it still amazes me how solid his character is. Just a good man.
What altruistic good would you choose to do with Ā£10,000 Jeez, Iām realizing how grandiose my fantasies are. I always imagine buying entire nature preserves for wild horses and such. And truthfully, if I had that amount Iād probably convince myself I needed the better part for myself. But if someone gave me that amount and for some reason it just could not be used to benefit me, Iād use it to buy musical instruments for schools in undeserved neighborhoods.
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My word, are we fellow ELO fans seniors now? I think we must be at least closing in on it, and thatās incredible. I love The Move and Wizzard too, but cello rock forever!
I plead guilty to seniority (although Iām completely innocent of maturityā¦), but I must admit that for some reason, ELO passed me by at the time, and I only really knew The Move and Wizzard when they were going. Iāve been discovering ELO via Youtube though.
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Iāve still got an ELO compilation on Vinyl (Three Light Years - "On the third Day, āEldoradoā, āFace the Musicā). 
To restore my credibility, however, Iāve also got some Cream and Zappa. 
Edit: To be honest, I think my wife brought the ELO to the marriage (1978) as part of her dowry. In the event of a divorce, I shall not be contesting this item.
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Cream & Jack Bruce solo stuff for me too and I know @louis is an āoutā Zappa and Captain Beefheart fan. āTime, like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons awayā. Time for strong drink, Iād say 
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One joyful memory
My daughterās wedding on a sunny day in a park right on Sydney Harbour 3 years ago
One event from your calendar that youāre looking forward to.
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2017
One good deed for this week.
Cleaning up the garden in the local museum yesterday
One person you greatly love / admire and why.
Kon Karapanagiotidis for his work helping Australian asylum seeker in the face of relentless sabotage by the government here
What altruistic good would you choose to do with Ā£10,000
Give it to The Smith Family education charity here
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Well, when Iām depressed Iām (sadly though) most creative and that time was yesterday. I just wanted to create something nice and I wanted to be for good cause so I remembered this:
I was aimed to sing to wish him a special happy birthday and I even recorded a video, but watching the recording afterwards I seamed to myself like wild āauntyā who every child would be scared of so instead Iāve put all my effort into magic of digital graphic softwares and animation and made this.
Penblwydd hapus dyn ifanc bach!
Iām a bit too late but itās from the heart!
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Lovely, Tatjana - but I donāt think most children are at all scared by wild aunties - theyāre more likely to be favourite relations. (I hope my nephews and nieces think so.)
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Yah, but I really seamed I appear owfully scarry on that video so I dismissed the thought. Iād like to spare kids of unpleasant moments if I can.
Thank you.
if you have an Elo vinyl then play it backwards - if you have a belt drivinng the turntable then just put a twist in it and it will play the record backwards. I used to have a few ELO LPs and one of them constantly said 1turn it back, turn it back.
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Beuno thought it was a lot of fun Tatjana! Diolch! X
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Croeso.
I was extreamly glad to do it.
All the best to all!
Tatjana
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One joyful memory: Watching a Fallow Deer playing with the pegs on the clothes line by butting them with her nose on the clothes line in my back garden.
One event from your calendar that youāre looking forward to: Going to Belfast in a couple of weeks to vis it my old History teacher who is going to show me some of the beautiful landscapes of Ulster.
One good deed for this week: Was sitting in the crowded Royal Festival Hall, London. A very elderly Jewish lady was shuffling around looking for a seat, she needed the seat more than I did and was grateful when I offered it to her.
One person you greatly love / admire and why:
Dr Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Environmental activist. She started a charity called Green Belt that buys seedlings and trains women in Kenya to start their own tree nurseries, giving them independent income, tree food crops. The trees prevent deforestation, flash floods and are a CO2 sink.
What altruistic good would you choose to do with Ā£10,000?: How about 10k for the āSay Something Inā fund to build courses for all the Celtic languages.?Iām very enthusiastic about these and am currently learning Kernewek alongside Cymraeg. The languages are similar in many ways so itās reasonably easy to learn. When I make my fortune, Iāll let you know.
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Out of interest: are you member of ONE Campaign?