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Book Review | Ellie Ment and the Material Matter
Title: Ellie Ment and the Material Matter by Bertie Stephens Pages: 318 Publisher: Clean Planet Foundation (Jun. 25, 2025) Genre: fantasy, children’s, middle grade, adventure Summary Ellie doesn’t believe in magic, she believes in science.But science is magic! Science explains everything, right? But when Ellie’s school burns down in roaring purple flames (wait, what?), her favorite teacher…
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Startup Aims to Turn Waterborne Plastic Waste Into Fuel
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Bertie Stephens sings a comic song called Caseg Ddu (Black Mare). It is known elsewhere as Ffair Henfedde (Henfeddau Fair). It tells of a man buying a knackered old mare for a pound, and how he was robbed at half the price. In the last verse he asks for a penny to buy a new horse.
Bertie Stephens
Bertie Stephens was born in 1900 near Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire, but since 1930 has lived in Llangeitho, in the Aeron valley, Ceredigion.
He worked as a farmer and bred hunting dogs. He also devoted a great deal of his time to singing: He performed regularly in local concerts and his voice was heard on radio and television. His greatest delight is singing the songs he picked up aurally in his community when he was a boy and a young lad. He heard most of these at fairs and markets in Llandeilo, Llanymddyfri, Rhydamman, Caefyrddin and elsewhere. These were the product of popular ballad sheets, but Bertie didn’t depend on these printed sources - he would pick up the words and the tune by ear after two or three listens. It is a measure of his exceptional memory that he recorded over sixty songs of the Welsh Folk Museum between 1961 and 1966.
A religious or moral note is struck in many of these songs; many of them also are humorous - how could it be otherwise, with hthe singer himself so full of humour.
