Helo bawb - well, it looks as if there’s likely to be enough of us, @Betterlatethan, @chris-roberts & me at least, for a meetup in the Weston on Friday.
By the way, if anyone out there’s visiting Oxford for a bit of Christmas shopping on Friday, you’d be welcome to join us :
12:00 Tuesday 19th December / dydd Mawrth 19eg mis Rhagfyr ( via - do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
12:00 Friday 22nd December / dydd Gwener 22ain mis Rhagfyr ( ‘Space for Reading’, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford - inside entrance hall to the right, next to windows & opp. side from the excellent cafe )
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, bawb! - hope everyone has had a good Christmas/amser Nadolig da
Our Oxford group meetups are restarting this week::
12:00 Tuesday 2nd January / dydd Mawrth 2fed mis Ionawr ( via - do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
12:00 Friday 5thJanuary/ dydd Gwener 5ed misIonawr ( ‘Space for Reading’, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford - inside entrance hall to the right, next to windows & opp. side from the excellent cafe)
Newcomers welcome and, particularly, anyone who has just started to learn Welsh - no problem if you prefer to just to introduce yourself in English & listen in to begin with and see how it goes.
Sorry, it looks as if I shall not make it today. The buses are in a mess. The signs say that they are coming and then they don’t. The next two trains are cancelled. Better luck next week, I hope.
Sue
Helo bawb - hopefully the floods will have subsided and Oxford area buses etc will be operating more or less as normal this week.
Just to confirm this week’s meetups:
12:00 Tuesday 9th January / dydd Mawrth 9fed mis Ionawr ( via - do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
12:00 Friday 12thJanuary/ dydd Gwener 12fed misIonawr ( ‘Space for Reading’, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford - inside entrance hall to the right, next to windows & opp. side from the excellent cafe)
I did see a couple of 35s Sue but no doubt they were running very erratically. Hope to see you next time.
John & Bethan - I realised afterwards that I kept saying gwallt instead of gwair when talking about our lawn . That may have caused some confusion when I mentioned getting some seeds for the bald patches!
Helo bawb - after a bumper turnout of eight at last Friday’s meetup, how many of us will there be next Friday? Why not come along and find out!
Here are the details for the Tuesday and Friday meetups:
12:00 Tuesday 16th January / dydd Mawrth 16eg mis Ionawr ( via - do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
12:00 Friday 19thJanuary/ dydd Gwener 19eg misIonawr ( ‘Space for Reading’, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford - inside entrance hall to the right, next to windows & opp. side from the excellent cafe)
Welsh evensong on St David’s Day, Friday 1 March 2024
5.45 p.m., Jesus College Chapel, Turl Street
Preacher: The Rt. Rev’d Wyn Evans (Former Bishop of St. David’s)
Livestream & recording will be available on the Jesus College Chapel Facebook page
X (Twitter) meets Wales: St David’s Day @ The Digital Hub
3-4.30 p.m., Friday 1 March 2024
To celebrate the bond between Wales and Jesus College, the Digital Hub invites you for a talk by Professor David Willis during which we will explore the spread and evolution of Welsh language on social media. This will be followed by a tea and cake reception during which you can try your hand at our English language quiz and let the computer guess where you are from based on how you speak.
Helo bawb a diolch i Bethan, Sue, Anne & Harry who joined me for last Friday’s sgwrs in the Weston - this week’s meetups again on Tuesday & Friday:
12:00 Tuesday 23rd January / dydd Mawrth 23ain mis Ionawr ( via - do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
12:00 Friday 26thJanuary/ dydd Gwener 26ain misIonawr ( ‘Space for Reading’, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford - inside entrance hall to the right, next to windows & opp. side from the excellent cafe)
Do get in touch if you’d like to join us or have any questions
Hwyl a chadw’n saff
John
PS Don’t forget, if you’re interested, to make a note in the diary about the 4 Oxford events highlighted last week - see @owen-mcknight’s posts above
Helo bawb - here are the usual details of our meetups for this week. As always all welcome, whatever your level of Welsh - and we do mean that! Even if you haven’t yet spoken a word of Welsh to anyone, you’ll be welcome - no problem either should you prefer to just sit and listen to the sgwrs to begin with
12:00 Tuesday 30th January / dydd Mawrth 30ain mis Ionawr ( via - do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
12:00 Friday 2ndFebruary/ dydd Gwener 2fed misChwefrwr ( ‘Space for Reading’, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford - inside entrance hall to the right, next to windows & opp. side from the excellent cafe)
Just learned that Gwyneth Lewis, the first National Poet of Wales, is Artist in Residence at Balliol College this term. Dr Lewis will be giving a joint reading with the new Oxford Professor of Poetry on Thursday 29 February:
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- do get in touch for login details if you’d like to join in )
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, bawb! 
. That may have caused some confusion when I mentioned getting some seeds for the bald patches!