(1410) Afternoon all. (1521)

 

11. France

10. Moo corner

9. Aberfan

Someone told me it was tomorrow … it’s actually Wednesday 21st, early morn. This has been the song most associated with the disaster internationally, though maybe not within folk circles in Wales. It does not directly refer to Aberfan, it’s a reminder though.

Wiki:

“Although the Byrds were anxious to correctly pronounce the Welsh place-names in the song’s lyrics on their recording, they, like Seeger, actually mispronounced the name Rhymney as “Rimney” (it should be pronounced as “Rumney”).”

“Discrepancy

• “The Bells of Rhymney” is a poem written by Idris Davies in 1938 (published in his anthology Gwalia Deserta). It was later set to music by Pete Seeger in 1957 and made famous by the American folk-rock band The Byrds in 1965. Davies wrote the lyrics to highlight the grim conditions of Welsh miners, specifically inspired by the 1926 General Strike and earlier pit disasters like the 1913 Senghenydd or 1927 Marine Colliery tragedies. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
• The Aberfan Disaster occurred much later, on October 21, 1966, when a colossal National Coal Board colliery waste tip collapsed. It slid down the mountainside into the village of Aberfan, engulfing Pantglas Junior School and killing 144 people, including 116 children. [1, 2, 3]

Because the poem and song existed before 1966, “The Bells of Rhymney” does not explicitly mention Aberfan. The song explicitly voices the names of nearby mining towns—such as Merthyr (which sits in the same local borough as Aberfan), Rhondda, Blaina, and Caerphilly.”

8. With all the blackpilling going on

… lighten up for now and work out what she’s making: