Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Mar 29, 2023 19:50:09 GMT
SWANSEA UA; Penderry (Lab vacancy)
Candidates:
BAKER, Mair (Labour)
BURTON, Dan (Liberal Democrat)
DAVIES, Craig (Green)
GRUFFYDD-WARLOW, Ioan Macsen (Plaid Cymru)
HARRY, Jake (Conservative)
2022: Lab 1022, 1019, 967; Con 269
Jake Harry (Con) is the only candidate who stood last May in Morriston ward. The SOPN indicates that the Lib Dem candidate was a member of the Conservatives for most of last year.
Current Council: Lab 44; LD 11; Con 7; Ind 5; Uplands 4; Independents@swansea 2; Grn 1; 1 vacancy
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Post by jamesdoyle on Mar 31, 2023 9:54:14 GMT
Green and PC both standing; they'd seemed to be steering away from that recently.
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Post by phil156 on Apr 24, 2023 11:41:56 GMT
Swansea are counting on Thursday evening
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Post by evergreenadam on Apr 26, 2023 9:51:02 GMT
Good spread of candidates this time, so assume Labour vote will decrease as a result.
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Post by iainbhx on Apr 26, 2023 10:58:53 GMT
Good spread of candidates this time, so assume Labour vote will decrease as a result. There‘s been some activity from Plaid and the LibDems, but it’s quite an odd ward in some ways. |
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 26, 2023 11:39:43 GMT
Wonder if the LibDem recently being a Tory member will make any difference.
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timmullen1
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Post by timmullen1 on Apr 27, 2023 15:15:25 GMT
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Chris from Brum
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Post by Chris from Brum on Apr 27, 2023 15:46:56 GMT
The principal double bass in the video of Calon Lan is playing German bow while all the rest are playing French bow.
(I bet that's mystified almost all of you with the possible exception of batman). |
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Post by Penddu on Apr 27, 2023 16:35:46 GMT
The principal double bass in the video of Calon Lan is playing German bow while all the rest are playing French bow.
(I bet that's mystified almost all of you with the possible exception of batman ). I once attended a wedding near Cardiff where out of deference to the grooms English family, the English words of Calon Lân were sung. It was terrible - they are clumsy and dont scan. And nobody knows them, so everyones heads were buried in the hymn books mumbling and stumbling along. After the English verse it was switched to Welsh which was sung at full voice with ease. |
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Post by johnloony on Apr 27, 2023 16:54:40 GMT
I once attended a wedding near Cardiff where out of deference to the grooms English family, the English words of Calon Lân were sung. It was terrible - they are clumsy and dont scan. And nobody knows them, so everyones heads were buried in the hymn books mumbling and stumbling along. After the English verse it was switched to Welsh which was sung at full voice with ease. Was that at the specific request / agreement of / consultation with the groom and/or his family, or was it an example of patronising presumption by the organisers? I would have been annoyed if that had happened to me. (I remember being annoyed when a choir on “Britain’s Got Talent” sand “Calon Lân” and Simon Cowell said he hadn’t heard that song before). |
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batman
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Post by batman on Apr 27, 2023 16:58:27 GMT
The principal double bass in the video of Calon Lan is playing German bow while all the rest are playing French bow.
(I bet that's mystified almost all of you with the possible exception of batman ). when I was a boy I knew Oliver Knussen, a composing prodigy (though a bit older) as I myself was at that time, and his father Stewart. Stewart was principal double bass player in the LSO and I asked him why he bowed differently from all the other double basses. He replied that they were all out of step with him not vice versa! |
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Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Apr 27, 2023 19:04:10 GMT
The principal double bass in the video of Calon Lan is playing German bow while all the rest are playing French bow. (I bet that's mystified almost all of you with the possible exception of batman). I'm a cellist so chalk up another understander of the arcanity... |
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Post by andrewteale on Apr 27, 2023 20:41:59 GMT
The principal double bass in the video of Calon Lan is playing German bow while all the rest are playing French bow. (I bet that's mystified almost all of you with the possible exception of batman ). I once attended a wedding near Cardiff where out of deference to the grooms English family, the English words of Calon Lân were sung. It was terrible - they are clumsy and dont scan. And nobody knows them, so everyones heads were buried in the hymn books mumbling and stumbling along. After the English verse it was switched to Welsh which was sung at full voice with ease. I did look around for an English translation of Calon Lân that actually works as poetry and fits the tune, and the one in the Preview (taken out of an old hymnbook) is the best I could come up with. It's not a bad rendering, but you can see why the English-language words haven't caught on. Incidentally, the lyrics are a screenshot of the original version of the column on my computer, because it turns out that Medium doesn't support tables. That's one of a number of reasons why I wouldn't recommend Medium as a blogging platform, but it wasn't my choice to put the Previews there. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2023 21:57:32 GMT
ALDC say Labour won:
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Post by jamesdoyle on Apr 27, 2023 22:16:36 GMT
For anyone who doesn't want to venture into Twitterdom:
Baker, Mair (Lab) - 485 - 53.5% (-25.7%)
Burton, Dan (LibDem) - 274 - 30.2% (+30.2%)
Davies, Craig (Green) - 42 - 4.6% (+4.6%)
Griffths-Warlow, Ioan Macsen (Plaid) - 34 - 3.8% (+3.8%)
Harry, Jake (Con) - 71 - 7.8% (-14%)
Pretty decent for the LibDems
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peterl
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Post by peterl on Apr 27, 2023 22:41:45 GMT
Poor showing for the Tories, a third of what they got last year, considering all the additional candidates would on paper seem more likely to take votes off Labour.
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Post by iainbhx on Apr 27, 2023 22:48:19 GMT
Poor showing for the Tories, a third of what they got last year, considering all the additional candidates would on paper seem more likely to take votes off Labour. Nah, the Con vote in that election is an anti-Labour vote or people who didn't like one of the Labour candidates for personal reasons. |
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Post by Penddu on Apr 28, 2023 5:14:23 GMT
I once attended a wedding near Cardiff where out of deference to the grooms English family, the English words of Calon Lân were sung. It was terrible - they are clumsy and dont scan. And nobody knows them, so everyones heads were buried in the hymn books mumbling and stumbling along. After the English verse it was switched to Welsh which was sung at full voice with ease. Was that at the specific request / agreement of / consultation with the groom and/or his family, or was it an example of patronising presumption by the organisers? I would have been annoyed if that had happened to me. (I remember being annoyed when a choir on “Britain’s Got Talent” sand “Calon Lân” and Simon Cowell said he hadn’t heard that song before). Patronising presumption..... I remember Simon Cowell's comment - on first showing of Boys Aloud - and remember thinking 'how has he never heard this song before? He is supposed to be a music producer!' |
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Apr 28, 2023 5:56:36 GMT
Was that at the specific request / agreement of / consultation with the groom and/or his family, or was it an example of patronising presumption by the organisers? I would have been annoyed if that had happened to me. (I remember being annoyed when a choir on “Britain’s Got Talent” sand “Calon Lân” and Simon Cowell said he hadn’t heard that song before). Patronising presumption..... I remember Simon Cowell's comment - on first showing of Boys Aloud - and remember thinking 'how has he never heard this song before? He is supposed to be a music producer!' You expect truth from Simon Cowell's mouth.  |
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Post by Penddu on Apr 28, 2023 6:35:15 GMT
I once attended a wedding near Cardiff where out of deference to the grooms English family, the English words of Calon Lân were sung. It was terrible - they are clumsy and dont scan. And nobody knows them, so everyones heads were buried in the hymn books mumbling and stumbling along. After the English verse it was switched to Welsh which was sung at full voice with ease. I did look around for an English translation of Calon Lân that actually works as poetry and fits the tune, and the one in the Preview (taken out of an old hymnbook) is the best I could come up with. It's not a bad rendering, but you can see why the English-language words haven't caught on. Incidentally, the lyrics are a screenshot of the original version of the column on my computer, because it turns out that Medium doesn't support tables. That's one of a number of reasons why I wouldn't recommend Medium as a blogging platform, but it wasn't my choice to put the Previews there. An accurate translation would be: I dont want a life of luxury The worlds gold, or luxury pearls I ask for a happy heart An honest heart, a clean heart. It should be easy to modify these words by only a little to make them fit the tune - rather than the clumsy mess in the 'official' english version. But lets just stick to the correct version - yn Gymraeg |
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