Acknowledgements for my holiday in Wales March'07

Yesterday I forgot to thank Gareth ap Sion for not denying me lodging space the night before the St. David's day march and for not throwing me out when his computer stopped working after he put the cup of coffee too close to it; thanks to Rhobert ap Steffan for getting me to the festival in Porthcawl and the caravan and his wife Marilyn for putting me up for days in Llangadog; to Mike Davies for showing us his boat in Neyland, taking us to that lovely little rustic pub at the top of one of the Cleddyfs where the landlady sold the beer from the barrel behind the bar to jug to glass and to his wife for the meal at their home in Llandovery with Mike's own honey in the coffee; to Geoff and Ann Thomas, thanks for getting me back in the Imp, and for putting me up at the Parade, Thomastown, Merthyr Tydfil; to Graham Rees for getting his wife and daughter to drive me back and forth in Merthyr and for a good evening in the pubs,the "Red Cow" in Pontsticill, "Anchor" and "Imperial" in town, where are you Graham, I've lost your co-ordinates and you were supposed to be getting back in touch with me last summer; to 'Al Tal' Williams for letting me stay with him and his family in Pontardawe, I've known him for 25 years and hadn't realised that he is a gifted photographer and concert pianist;then back to Ap Sion's with a gift of a pot of bara law and for such a patriotic Welshman, I was astonished when he didn't know what it was.Now I'm about to digress; off to Mike Steven's 65th birtday party in the coal exchange, we missed 'Bara Menyn' with Heather Jones and Geraint Jarman. It was their 1st concert for over 20 years, I think, anyway I'd never been to a pub in the area and I told Ap Sion that they always put the low class acts on first, by the time we got back they'd been and gone. I spoke to Heather for the first time except for perhaps a hello in Llangrannog, in Nantes for the Canada rugby match, she was with Catherine from the group that they were in together. I met Catherine for the first time in the Imp in Merthyr Tydfil I think it was, or rather it was most probably upstairs in the Belle vue, I used to organise the fund-raising events in Merthyr for Plaid Cymru in the mid 70's, she thinks she knows me from the Conway. I once got a gig for her group 'Nellie' in Pontypridd organised by Philip Goodwin. I also remember that anytime we needed a bit of extra money I'd telephone Max Boyce and he never refused, then one day his Agent answered, I never bothered again. He told me once that the worst thing he ever did was to go on opportunity knocks, Mary hopkin had previously done remarkably well, they both began their careers singing in Welsh at the same time. Max had recently been building up a following in the valleys and he'd brought out a record of songs in Welsh, but after his television appearence the clubs got back in touch with him and he had to painstakingly rebuild his career. Anyway, back to the holiday; thanks Ap Sion for letting me stay in your flat and for taking me down to the 'Mochyn Du' to watch us lose controversially to Italy. End of holiday.