Working in a coal mine - 21

“Tell you what,” the leader said, “it’ll be dark outside, so we’ll sing ‘Ar hyd a nos’ for you.”

“Great,” I said, “lovely tune, well suited to you. Are you going to sing in Welsh?”

“You know what it is then?”

“Yes, ‘All through the night’”

“In Welsh, then, we were going to sing it in English.”

So they sang it in Welsh.

“Right, then,” the leader said - I had forgotten his name, “time to get back to work and see how your fix has worked.”

Although I was quietly confident, I didn’t know what I’d do if it didn’t.