5 Conceptions & Births

Just thinking to myself that I've been present at/witnessed 5 conceptions & births: Dowlais Rugby Club in 1975; my daughter Morwen in 1980; my son Dewi in 1982; the Coreff brewery in 1985; and 'Les Vieilles Charrues' in 1992. In 1975 Sid Hill took me to the Bruce Hotel in Dowlais to show me a room that would be the initial clubhouse for his new rugby team who now play in the Swalec League Division 3 South East; two bank clerks came to see  me in 1984 with an idea to set up the first modern micro brewery in Brittany inspired by a vist to Cymru/Wales, they were athletes who worked at a bank as union officials whose term was coming to an end, they couldn't abide the idea of going back to a desk and would I join them in selling their beer, I accepted, so did Roger Ty Coz in Montroulez/Morlaix and Bernard Thomas, Chez Tom in Lesneven, they called their beer 'Coreff' which was a north Breton word for beer discovered by George Jouin in his own bookshop, similar to the Welsh 'Cwrw(f); A group of student school supervisers [pion(ne)s] for a few years prior to 1992 used to organize parties in my pub, I let them bring their own food & wine, I would heat their food in my micro-wave, or they would cook sausages & potatoes over a tripod until one day they hired a field in Landelo/Landeleau before going on to become the largest open air music festival in France at Karaez/Carhaix, naming it 'Les Vieilles Charrues' as a parodic reaction to the coastal festivals such as 'Les Vieux Gréemonts' it included invented traditional peasant games.