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This film combines three fantastically unrelated activities: putting up a deckchair, shearing sheep and selling onions.
Guto Roberts, the actor renowned for his role as ‘Fo' in the Welsh language TV series ‘Fo a Fe', and as the first character to speak in the first ever episode of ‘Pobl y Cwm', the Welsh-language TV soap, here makes an amusing meal of putting up a deckchair in the garden. Following on, long-suffering sheep endure the electric shears and an onion seller visits with his vegetable wares. Guto, after his labours, lights a cigarette, to puff his cares away.
Guto Roberts was exceedingly well known as ‘Fo', the north Walian father of a son who, to his father's horror, married a woman from the south, thus making the two fathers into relatives of a sort. ‘Fo' is the north Walian word for he/him, ‘Fe', the south Walian equivalent. It was one of the most popular Welsh-language sit-coms ever, broadcast on the BBC from 1970 until 1977 when ‘Fe' – Ryan Davies – died unexpectedly young. Guto Roberts, from Rhoslan, near Cricieth, was also a writer, poet, film-maker and local historian.