General Chat

Thanks Everyone <3

See you later, thank you for another fun time everyone :-D :-D <3 <3

Well done Wales - England you could do better :-(

Ref - nul point

FRANCE v SCOTLAND

NO GAME TOMORROW AS FRANCE HAVE A COVID OUTBREAK IN THEIR CAMP

The game has been postponed. No doubt we will find out soon whether or not they can carry on

ROUND 3 FINAL RESULTS & TABLE

ITALY 10 ~ IRELAND 48
Match Report:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56224324

ITALY v IRELAND VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNGozhiFiXw



WALES 40 ~ ENGLAND 24
Match Report:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56225219

WALES v ENGLAND VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5_693YB4N8


FRANCE v SCOTLAND WAS POSTPONED (Covid Outbreak in France Squad)



TABLE POSITIONS TO DATE
(Postponed France v Scotland Round 3 game yet to be played)

1. WALES ............... 14 Match Points (Points Difference +22)
2. FRANCE ............... 9 Match Points (Points Difference +42)*
3. IRELAND .............. 7 Match Points (Points Difference +31)
4. ENGLAND ............ 6 Match Points (Points Difference +2)
5. SCOTLAND .......... 5 Match Point (Points Difference +4)*
6. ITALY .................... 0 Match Points (Points Difference -101)

*France and Scotland still have their Round 3 game to play


***** NO GAMES THIS WEEKEND*****

Unless they decide to re-schedule the France v Scotland postponed game for this weekend- Watch this space
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Prynhawn Da / Good Afternoon
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd / Happy St David's Day to you all <3

WELL IT'S MARCH 1st 2021 ALREADY!
and what a difficult year it has been for us all!

So, for anyone that has tuned in to "Radio Jem" this afternoon, stay around and join me for a LIVE St DAVID'S DAY SPECIAL!

For the next hour or so, I shall be posting favourite Welsh / Welsh themed songs or other entertaining clips to enjoy.

I shall be "transmitting" in REAL TIME, but you can use our "Catch-Up Function" ;-)
by clicking on the links at any time :-D :-D


****I am waiting for OH's GP to phone, so if Radio Jem stops transmission .... that is why! :-D

To start us off today ....

RADIO JEM'S THEME SONG ;-) BEING SUNG LIVE

YMA O HYD (STILL HERE)
DAFYDD IWAN A'R HOLL ARTISTIAID (Dafydd Iwan and All Artists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUbJwikfUz0

Chorus:
[Chorus]
Ry'n ni yma o hyd,
Ry'n ni yma o hyd,
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth,
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth
Ry'n ni yma o hyd.
Ry'n ni yma o hyd,
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth,
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth
Ry'n ni yma o hyd.

English Translation
We are still here
We are still here
Despite everyone and everything
Despite everyone and everything
Despite everyone and everything
We are still here
We are still here
Despite everyone and everything
Despite everyone and everything
Despite everyone and everything
We are still here.

Aw wow! I've never heard that clip before! It gave me goosebumps<3

SO GOOD THEY HAD TO SING IT TWICE :-D

Dafydd Iwan's mother taught me Welsh in our Grammar School
His late brother, Huw Caredig (Jones) played Reg Harries in my favourite Welsh Soap- Pobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001pp0l

Here's a traditional Welsh Folksong sang beautifully by EVE GOODMAN the daughter of TV presenter and historian Ruth Goodman

This is a stripped back and pure rendition

DACW NGHARIAD (Here's My Love) ... EVE GOODMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrkgdj0bVAo

HERE'S THE BOY FROM THE VALLEYS

I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN (1967) ...... TOM JONES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vMx63ZCd88

Now for some Welsh rugby .... and not any old Welsh rugby ....

A tribute to.....
SIR GARETH EDWARDS ~ THE GREATEST SCRUM HALF OF ALL TIME <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZwF3jcXQ4

THIS IS A BRILLIANT CLIP!

It's by the late great RYAN DAVIES. A brilliant entertainer. Comedy genius and beautiful singer too.

It's HIS VERSION of the JEMIMA NICHOLAS STORY

"NAPOLEON v MAM!" ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRtsgOYJoD4


*Jemima Nicholas of course was the original Jemima Fawr (Jemima The Great or Big Jemima) who fought off the French Invaders near Fishguard in 1797!
She was my 5x Great Aunt! <3

It doesn't matter how many times I watch that clip, it never ceases to crack me up! :-D :-D

Next ....
Another favourite Welsh Songbird ....

THOSE WERE THE DAYS ..... MARY HOPKIN (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE

Next is the favourite hymn of, not only Wales Rugby Fans, but many other people!

This week I found I had a DNA match to a direct ancestor of WILLIAM WILLIAMS PANTYCELYN, an 18th Century prolific Welsh Hymn Writer whose hymn Arglwydd Arwain Trw'r Anialwch became...


GUIDE ME O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH (Bread of Heaven)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4n1hGjDDg

HERE IS OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0eNEKax_Rc

Hello Radio Jem...... just in time to SING LOUDLY to Bread of Heaven tralala. A favourite family hymn.

Happy St David's Day to one and all XX

Here's the girl from Tiger Bay....

I WHO HAVE NOTHING ....... SHIRLEY BASSEY (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDAoSDsAS4

Good Afternoon Kandj <3
Lovely to see you

I hope some of these Welsh songs remind you of your lovely Welsh Mam & Dad xxxx

Here's another favourite, this time sung by the beautiful....

KATHERINE JENKINS ~ CALON LAN (PURE HEART)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7nNhiwTW-w

CALON LAN
Nid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus,
Aur y byd na'i berlau mân:
Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân.

Calon lân yn llawn daioni,
Tecach yw na'r lili dlos:
Dim ond calon lân all ganu
Canu'r dydd a chanu'r nos.


ENGLISH LITERAL TRANSLATION:

PURE HEART
I don't ask for a luxurious life,
the world's gold or its fine pearls,
I ask for a happy heart,
an honest heart, a pure heart.

A pure heart full of goodness
Is fairer than the pretty lily,
None but a pure heart can sing,
Sing in the day and sing in the night

Some of you may have seen the clip I posted a little while ago by Ryan Davies and his version of the Jemima Nicholas story!

Well he was not only a really funny man, but also a beautiful singer!

Here he is singing a Welsh Version of SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW while accompanying himself on the piano

RHWYLE DRAW DROS YR ENFYS .... RYAN DAVIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFfpwYyKzU

They really do Jem. I was brought up with Mum and Dad having sing songs around our piano with the neighbours when I was growing up. Happy days, and such lovely special memories left now.