Today we held a car boot sale to which one car turned up. That car was friends from Trebanos, Jan & Pat Frayne who like myself are pipeline campaigners. We have fought together for about eighteen months to get the safety of the huge LNG pipeline from Milford Haven to this village of Cilfrew out into the open. They are now good supportive friends and even though they were the only car in our car park
(the old pub car park in the village) we had a few visitors come from the village. We had a lift to bring the chapel long wooden tables and benches the couple of hundred yards down the road from the vestry and back again. Apart from that we carried from our homes all we needed. A few of us had made cakes, which were displayed on the chapel table covered in a white lace cloth on silver plates with doyleys. We had gateaux and cream and mugs of tea and coffee. So we sat there and had fun. In this village we are having fun again as we used to long ago, without using oil. The more events we can put on in the village the less carbon footprint we create and the more our community will thrive. The children love it. They help us carry chairs to the car park and they sit and listen to what we have to say. There is room there for them to kick their balls about and there are many people watching them. Children for far too long have been allowed to rule out of doors while the parents and grandparents sit and be entertained in doors. We now sit with them on occasions and see the far better side of our own children who await eagerly the next ‘event’. I feel it is up to us as the older generation to bring back our communities and not allow them to die and our children not know how to socialise and organise their own lives. This community living could be extended to our food also. We need local food, then we can have our own food events, our own fun, sustainable living with jobs and roles for everyone. It is not a dream, it is our children’s future.
