Mic ar y Meic DJ with karaoke, singing, dancing, laughing. Folk dancing!!…

It was all happening last night (27th November 2009) in the Clawddnewydd Community Centre, with Grease the Movie shown by the Denbigh Film Club .

Some people had ordered a Chinese delivery from town and ate that whilst watching the film, others had brought their own food…..then Mic ar y Meic (be his fan on Facebook) started with the music, some light entertainment provided by 3 calendar girls for Mr July!! “Hopelessly devoted to you…” was sung to him by Miss January, Miss April and Miss August…..

Most of the calendar girls and boys danced to the folk dancing entertainment organised by Mic and most people got on the floor to dance various hits from the 60’s to today…Tom Jones made an appearance too….Eirion of course!!

Money raised by the event has brought the total to date now up to £9978.

On this site, for instance, I can tell at a glance that in the first eight hours of today we had 55 hits. Yesterday there were 150.

Since the site was launched last October there have been 27,953 and this has settled down now to a respectable 155 hits a day.  The best day was 1,342 hits on the 6th of January when a story about our calendar was was featured on the AOL web site’s main news page.

These are genuine hits too, as the system discounts all webmaster and admin hits.

Now if this is all starting to sound a bit nerdy, things get a little more interesting when you get to the bottom of things.

Back in February we asked readers to vote on who had the best bum.  The candidates were:  the iconic Athena tennis bum poster, Anna Kournikova’s version, Kylie’s remake and, of course, our own featuring the lovely Ellen Griffith.

Ellen won by a mile of course and that story planted a few tasty keywords for the great Googlegod to consume – and it turned out he/she was very hungry.

On any web site, many of the “new” visitors arrive via search engines.  The Stats Application on our site is set up to show us what phrases people typed in to the search engines when they discovered our site – and boy does it make interesting reading!

It would appear there is a lot of interest in bums!  Stats for the 50 most popular search terms used to find our site in the last three months show that almost 300 people  searched with phrases relating directly to the four bums in our poll and that 106 of these has a specific interest in our own Miss February’s derrière!
Mr February’s bum, on the other hand, scored just four search engine hits – but don’t tell Dylan!

Tech note: In reality these figures are much higher as the system only displays the 50 most popular search terms. There were another three or four hundred that were used only once, twice or three times that are not displayed in the table.

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Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK with 35,000 men diagnosed every year.  One man dies every hour in the UK from this form of the disease.

So don’t let your support for cancer research start and end with buying the Beauty and the Beast calendar.

High Street retailers Marks and Spencers is working with The Prostate Cancer Charity to educate men (and women) about the disease and raise money for research, support, information and campaigning.

Their stores are selling pin badges and “trolly pounds” to help raise funds and awareness and are also donating 10% of the sales of underwear products in their Autograph range.

Jayne, Chris and all the twenty-four Clawddnewydd Calendar Crew would like to wish Eifion Edwards a speedy recovery and hope this card cheered him up.

Eifion, Mr November in the 2008 Cheeky Chappies calendar, is currently recovering from a spinal operation.  Let’s all hope he is back to 100% soon.

And Boy! – Have we got something to shout about!  That ribbon on the home page just gets pinker and pinker.

Next Friday (January 30th) twelve beauties, twelve beasts and two very proud photographers will hand over a massive cheque to the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd breast cancer and testicular cancer unit.

The ceremony will take place during the Calendar charity winding-up party at the Glan Llyn Clawddnewydd which starts at 7.30.

The place will be crawling with local celebrities.  The local press and television will be there too – so don’t miss it!

Most of all, if you’ve not bought a copy of the calendar yet, please do so now.  there are still a number of these left after the last print run – so lets turn them into pounds and push that final figure even higher.

Photo of the Glan Llyn copyright Eirian Evans
(reproduced here under Creative Commons licence)

What’s all that about?

Once the initial rush of interest following the publicity surrounding Launch Night had died down, the Stats for the Beauty and the Beast web site have been ticking along at a very respectable 200 – 250 unique hits per day.

There was a blip new year’s eve when, along with several others hosted by the same ISP were hacked by some uncharitable git who replaced all our files with a single page in Arabic.

Then all of a sudden – 1,330 hits on the 6th of January – just three short of our best ever the day after launch night.

It is pretty certain this was the result of our calendar being featured on the main page of the AOL website.  In fact a friend of Miss April’s Dad emailed to say he had gone into an internet cafe in New York and the first thing he saw as he logged on was a feature on our calendar!

World Famous Eh!

The feature is now on the AOL Ruby Room blog featuring Miss February illustrating  the article Bizarre cheeky calendars as well as joining Miss March,  Mr March and Mr September in the “Eye Candy” slide show!

AOL – The Ruby Room

And not just a “mention” either.  Miss February’s picture illustrates the article Bizarre  Cheeky Calendars and no fewer than four pictures appear in the accompanying “Eye Candy” slideshow.

Very Charitable!!!  NOT!!!

Much of the recent material has been lost.  But we will strive to bring the site up to date over the next few days.

If you’ve any news or pictures from recent events/gatherings please let us know via the Comments box below.

The event was held to raise cash to fund the printing of the forthcoming Beauty and the Beast 2009 Charity Calendar that is set to raise thousands for cancer charities.

You can view more pictures on the Beauty and the Beast FaceBook Page