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Some of us went to the summer school in Pontypool this year, which was held in two sessions in July. I went to the one at the end of the month, five whole days for £60 including lunch and tea/coffee.
Well worth it. All those of my acquaintance were at Uwch or Uwch/Hyfedredd level. We had someone from Radio Cymru (with gift of music CD), a useful pack from Coleg Gwent (Gwrando’n Astud, Gwylio’n Graff). One day there was a Welsh Book shop in attendance and another day, a hall full of stands proffering membership of various organisations.
Midweek we spent an afternoon walking along the canal (with heron demonstrating how to catch and swallow a large fish), then up the hill to see the amazing shell grotto of the Hanbury family, and back via the Pontypool rugby ground. Some of us skipped that, laughing at how ‘the boys’ wanted to see a patch of grass with a couple of H’s either end. Only later did I realise I’d missed seeing the hallowed ground of the famous ‘Pontypool Front Row’!