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Rob Davies, Car Park attendant at the Ship Car Park in Llangrannog, was happy to take the £3.50 car park fee last Tuesday from a very smart Audi which swept into the parking area, closely followed by a Range Rover. Three men enjoyed some fish and chips while apparently waiting. Rob, also known as Dux, was astonished to see that they were waiting for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who had been walking along the Ceredigion Coastal Path with a lady-in-waiting, and after arriving in Llangrannog had a snack in The Patio Cafe on the sea front. Tuesday was a rest day in the heavy schedule of commitments that the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall had undertaken in Wales during their five-day stay. Rob was so delighted with his customers in the Car Park that he provided a huge grin and salute to his royal visitor when she left.

Diolch yn fawr Philippa a Nic am y Cyd barbiciw i ddysgwyr. Roedd y tywydd yn braf, roedd y cwmni’n dda a roedd y bwyd yn ardderchog. Llongyfarchiadau!

The good weather prevailed for Christine and Jan Newman’s Strawberry Tea in aid of St. Tysilio’s Church, one of the three in the parish of Llangrannog. The family, who live at Blaencwm Farm, had erected a marquee for a private event on the Saturday, and decided to add-on the fund-raising event on the Sunday, which was attended by well over 60 people. Music was provided on the harp by Martin Solomon of the Bristol based Pindrop group. There was a bring and buy and an auction, with local retired clergyman Martin Greig acting as auctioneer. One of the items auctioned was a print of an original Barry Arnold picture of St. Tysilio’s done for the Newmans’ daughter and son-in-law on the occasion of their wedding three years ago. The event raised £464.34.

Following on from recent publicity, Kevin Brown has now been able to arrange a public meeting for anyone interested in getting a longboat team together, and it will take place at the Ship on Thursday, 3^rd July at 7.30.

Items of clothing left on the beach, or washed up by the tide, are being cleaned and taken to a charity shop. If you find any clothes, please don’t bin them (which sends them to landfill) but leave them at the top of the beach and they’ll be picked up. If anyone has clothes left in a holiday cottage, take them to Anne at Bodawen who will ensure they go to charity.

to local resident and veteran cyclist Lynn Green, who came second at the Pembrokeshire Sprint Triathlon in Haverfordwest recently. Lynn, aged 50, completed the race in 50 minutes feels she is “always the bridesmaid” over shorter distances and decided to use the race as training for the Bala Middle Distance Triathlon in June, where she is more suited to the extended distance of a 2k lake swim, 50 mile cycle ride and half-marathon run done over 5 hours.

No travelling involved! Jane and Debbie in Y Caban have a re-cycling box, and the ‘phones will be taken to Ty Hafan, the Children’s Hospice, who will receive funds for each one handed in. Remove the SIM card first!

Local Artist Barry Arnold is willing to run one day courses for local interested people or groups, if a sufficient number of people contact him. 01239 654884.

On Saturday 12th April a film crew came to the village to film a reconstruction of last summer's beach rescue. Photographs with thanks to Martin Greig.

Llangrannog has no more of a litter problem than any other village which vastly multiplies in size during the holiday season. But we do have a beach and a village which we want to keep clean and tidy.

Members of the Boat Club clean up the beach regularly. They do a fantastic job, but even the next day you wouldn’t think that they’d been at work. The tide deposits more flotsam, picked up from other beaches, or thrown overboard from boats, and our beach gets its share all over again. The bio-degradable material is unimportant, but the plastic is horrible. If left to go back out to sea it can end up destroying marine life anywhere from here to the South Pacific. If you don’t believe this look at the Modbury experience, which stemmed from people seeing films of dead birds and animals who have choked on plastic bags and bits of plastic in the sea. See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1717476.ece

In addition, numbers of individuals in Llangrannog pick up litter around the lanes, and also dog mess. We would rather the dog owners cleared up their mess, but we also don’t want the visitors to have to endure it. Then, a couple of times a year there is a “Codi Swbriel” or “Litter Pick”, when the village turns out to do a massive tidy up. We did one just before Easter and will do one later in the year.

Each year the various litter pickers fill dozens of black sacks with rubbish. The key to cutting this down is to ask everyone, resident or visitor, to join the litter-pickers of Llangrannog and help keep the village clean and tidy. So ...

Don’t drop it, bin it!

If you see litter, pick it up and bin it!

If you see someone drop litter, ask them to bin it!

Remind people at the point of sale to bin rubbish!

THE keys to Capel Crannog were officially handed over to the people of Llangrannog by the chapel trustees this week.

The premises, which are a gift to the village, are to be developed into a community, arts and activity centre.

Chairman of the Canolfan Crannog steering committee, Aled Roberts said: "The village is extremely grateful to the trustees for their kind gift and we are now ready to start the work of achieving a centre that will reflect the wealth of enthusiasm and creativity that is an integral part of this area.

"There have already been many stimulating and diverse ideas put forward and the aim now is to realise the vision to establish Canolfan Crannog and to further develop and secure sources to finance this venture."

It is intended to re-develop the church, which was built in 1889, the vestry and the chapel house. Further plans will be unveiled during the next few months.