Wherein I seek out Capel West End, compete in Preliminaries, and engage in a bracing musical bout of… Crowdsourcing?

October 31, 2010

The church, as you can see, was beautiful. We found West End Chapel with Kev’s help, and I don’t know how we would have done it otherwise — most of the people we asked weren’t entirely sure where it was. We did find it, though, and so did the Seattle contingent who arrived to cheer [...]

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Interlude: Saturday Morning Cartoons

September 25, 2010

While you’re waiting on the rest of the story… you might want to check out the booklet we put together about our trip to Wales. It gives away some of the details and should serve to properly whet your appetite! (Especially the parts about the food. Yum yum!) Megan & Marty Go To Wales! View [...]

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Reception, Rehearsal, and… (Part Three)

September 1, 2010

Marty and I had some time to kill before the Cymru A’r Byd reception, so we settled into a nice restaurant tent, cafeteria style, and he went off to find some food. For a few minutes, I talked myself through Min y Mor as promised to Gareth, wondering if I would be able to memorize [...]

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Reception, Rehearsal, and… (Part Two)

August 30, 2010

Ah, now we begin to catch up with ourselves! Once again it’s Wednesday, August 4th… and I have a rehearsal to get to. We found Gareth as planned at the main entrance — aaaaaall the way at the other end of the Maes. Wrapped up in my tartan, we found him and exchanged warm and [...]

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Reception, Rehearsal, and… (Part One)

August 27, 2010

I was going to call this particular series of posts “Reception, Rehearsal, and the First Tiny Stirrings of An Unnameless and Overwhelming Desire to Make Something Wonderful Happen”. Then I decided that would be far too long, and would be something of a cop-out in terms of taking responsibility for the real content of the [...]

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