For Rob and Flo
Wishing you both all the happiness in the world
Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know.
Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
bara brith: speckled bread, a fruit cake
betgwn: the outer garment of most Cardiganshire working women in the nineteenth century. It featured a tight, low-cut bodice, worn over a blouse, with a long back, sometimes gathered up into a ‘tail’, and was worn over petticoats and an apron
ceffyl pren: wooden horse. A traditional form of folk justice in the area
cymanfa ganu: a singing meeting, usually to sing hymns at chapel
gwylnos: watchnight, a night sitting in vigil with the dead
plwyfwas: parish servant, a parish constable
Shoni Goch: Red John
swci lamb: a lamb whose mother has died and which has been hand-reared