Speaking about Vaughan Roderick, which we weren't, we used to be part of a little group of young Plaid Cymru supporters.I can't remember exactly who were with us at the time except for Cherry (Ceirios) Lewis from Bargoed.We finished the evening in his parents' house in Rhiwbina sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags and I will always remember his mother the following morning turning them inside out and hanging them up on the line outside. And then (that 'And' after the full stop was deliberate)there was Aled Eurig who came in to my bar, didn't recognise me and didn't even realise, and still doesn't know, that he was my chauffeur from Sian Tesni's house,Y pobydd, ei dad hi, Bryngolau, Pencae, Llanarth, to the Eisteddfod in Aberteifi;there was a boy with us who's been to my bar more than once who was from that area who went to work in the National library in Aberystwyth; we also went together to the Colonel's house in Talgarreg,Llandysul(Neil ap Siencin or Neil Jenkins as I know him from Merthyr)he used to teach up the road from my house,in Gellifaelog school, and we used to drink in the same bar, 'The Lamb,' although I was younger,the bar where I met Harri Webb for the first time when I was 17 or 18 years old,I was arguing for Owain Glyndwr and they got someone to invite me into their corner, now I've started digressing I will continue. Whilst sitting at a table in the 'Llew du' I think it was, also during the Eisteddfod Aberteifi, Harri wrote for me;
There was a young fellow called Byn
Who thought the Eisteddfod was fun,
In Cardigan town he was drinking it down
'Cos Plaid Cymru in Merthyr had won.
He wrote me three poems right there on the table.The next one is directly connected to the first and is an extra one for Meic Stephen's collection,they were written just after the Labour party had lost power to Plaid cymru;
Sad is the face of Tal lloyd,
Bryn Watkins is feeling annoyed,
And all the old gang are going to hang,
'Cos their racket has now been destroyed.
In hindsight it didn't quite work out.
Another episode with Vaughan, we all wanted to go down to Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen)to celebrate Gwynfor's 10th anniversary of having been elected to Parliament and at the time I was regularly hiring coaches for some reason or other, so Vaughan telephoned me to get a bus to come down from Merthyr and meet the Cardiff contingent outside the Welsh Office; there is still a girl whom I can see in my mind's eye who didn't pay: her father was or perhaps still is a broadcaster on an evening programme and she had her sister with her,they were both beautiful dark eyed, dark haired girls.
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