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Love to all on Santes Dwynwen's Day

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/faq/stdwynwen/


Not forgetting:

A very interesting little snippet, Alan. Shame these things don't seem to happen these days, well, apart to me of course.

All goes on over in your neck of the woods Alan.

MW

An interesting folkloric tale Alan, I have a small collection of elderly books from my grandfather's interest in the subject.

"The popularity and celebration of St Dwynwen's day has increased considerably in recent years, with special events, such as concerts and parties, often held and greetings cards printed. Although still not as popular as St Valentine's Day in February, St Dwynwen is certainly becoming better-known among today's population of Wales."
I'm afraid I find all this sort of thing very sad. We've got fringe politicians saying gay marriage brings floods, large areas of the USA teaching creationism at the expense of evolution and, judging by the recent "Pilgrimage" programmes, veneration of relics is on the increase. Before long instead of watching the weather forecast we'll be treated to live coverage of people making offerings to the gods to increase or decrease the rainfall whichever seems more appropriate at the time.
What has happened to education across the world? Surely reliance on the various big books of stories, myths and legends should be fading away and rationality prevailing.

I always look forward to the myths each night on the television, it's called the weather forecast.

There's a little niggling voice in all of us that wants to believe we are not to blame....

Well, I am glad we had a celebration on Santes Dwynwen's Day!

For my OH's VERY significant birthday the whole extended family met for a celebratory lunch today at a local hostelry and enjoyed good food, a small drink or two and, most importantly, shared lots of memories and laughter!

An example: One of my grandsons who is for ever ribbing his siblings and everybody else had made a particularly barbed, though funny, remark to somebody, when my daughter (his mother) said: "You want to be careful. If you carry on taking the micky out of people, nobody will love you any more and nobody will come to your wedding", to which his fiancee responded in a flash, "Not even I". I thought that that was rather funny.

Monika
Pleased to hear about your great day. I guess your OH is somewhat older than 21
But 25 January is Dydd y cariadon (Lovers' day) - says nothing about young or old

Geoff
I think we in Wales take St Dwynwen as a story with no more religious significance than St Valentine or Santa. The dangers not from myths but from people who believe what we call myths are actual historical truth

Well we have just had a Burns Night Sunday lunch with haggis, needs and tatties and as we're having an alcohol free January our local myth was that we had to test an elderly bottle of whiskey in the drinks cupboard to check that it "hadn't gone off"