Wales v Samoa 2011

Bumped in to an old friend in Hamilton! Idris the Dragon!!! Plus someone I haven't seen in 17 years!!

This is a KIWI Idris ... plus a Welsh lava lava

Gleision miners

Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, Garry Jenkins, 39, and Phillip Hill, 45 perished in a mining disaster in Swansea today. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their familes.

Hannah's HAKA

GCSE Results

The GCSE results were released this week. Thursday the 25th August and Iolo Caudy was to find out how his exam preparations had gone. He went to the school to get his results. In summary his results were:

8A* - Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Welsh, IT, Media Studies, Maths, Stats
3A - DT, Geog, English Lit
1B - English Lang

All those days of preparations, of Sunday afternoons, of chats and days in school. All those times when your work came first has been rewarded.You have done so well and everyone is so proud of you. I am proud of you. Well done Iolo. Keep aiming high. As the Kiwi's say "go hard or go home". Keep going hard.

Cathy did well too and she got 8A* and 4As.

Kia Orana Day at school

August the 4th is KIA ORANA day. This is the day that the culture minister declared for singing and dancing in celebration of the Cook Islands. Previuosly people would sing and dance to celebrate political perties or village and tribal events. On this day the culture minister declared that people should come together and celebrate being a Cook Islander. At our school there are many Cook Islanders and infact I have been linked with the Cook Island whanau. Here are a selection of the pictures of the day's celebration.

The Penclawdd Mafia in New Zealand

The Penclawdd Mafia get everywhere. This is Huw Davies who was born and brought up in Bridgend but is descended from family in Penclawdd. He emigrated here 40 years ago and has named his house PENCLAWDD. This is a small world.
We live in Howick up the road from Cockle Bay beach. The girls go to Cockle Bay primary school and the next village over is Whitford. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

The link is as follows:

His father was one of six brothers. David Davies, Eufrion Davies (Father), Vincent Davies, Miall Davies (head of Penclawdd School), Tommy Davies, Meirig Davies. 

His cousin is Elwyn Davies...

If life gives you lemons and cockles

There is a saying that if life gives you lemons make lemonade. Well life gave us lemosn and cockles this weekend. Cockles from shelly bay where we met the local fisheries guy called BAZZER! I went over to ask how many cockles we could collect and he greeted me with "Iechyd da boyo!". A kiwi greets me in Welsh! It turns out he has a good friend who is Welsh called Huw Davies. I gave BAZZER our telephone number and he passed it on to Huw.

Huw called last night it turns out he's from Bridgend and his Dad was from Penclawdd!!! We spoke for 68minutes on the phone. Small world eh?!