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[Garza]

Just walked up the lane to be greeted by a sheep/Ewe giving birth
Not bad timing for spring I guess

Edited by Garza, 01 February 2012 - 03:36 PM.

[Boadacia]

I've guessed you don't live on the high street there.

[Tatty]

My uncle's a sheep farmer and he's got a fair few lambs already. Not great when the weather's as cold as it has been here these last few days.

[OldEngineGuy]

Quite a few in the fields by the road to Abergele... look to be at least a fortnight old... reminds me, we need mint sauce...............

Alan.

[Snaggletooth]

Tis the eve of Imbolc (in milk), Paganally speaking

Mint sauce with that?

[Tatty]

OldEngineGuy, on 01 February 2012 - 03:52 PM, said:

Quite a few in the fields by the road to Abergele... look to be at least a fortnight old... reminds me, we need mint sauce...............

Alan.

That's probably bang on - Last time I spoke to my uncle was a couple of weeks ago and he was telling me about the newborns.

Dunno how he deals with lambing season at his age (pushing 70) but it's in the blood, I guess.

[Dragonmum]

Thanks Garza - a really cheering thought at last; just went to put recycling out and it's nobbling out there; still, the crocuses are flowering in what the dog has left of my garden.

[Boadacia]

That reminds me - I'm moving to the South West of France!

[Dragonmum]

Let's hope someone's warned them!

[Boadacia]

Dragonmum, on 07 February 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

Let's hope someone's warned them!

O leiaf ni fyddant yn cael eu siarad yn Swahilli, a bwyta platiau llawn o cyfog gwyrdd llysnafeddog erchyll!

[DannyBoy]

Boadacia - I think your keyboard is broken!!!

[Boadacia]

I know it appears so, but I was answering in the dribbley language she's used to.

[Dragonmum]

Dannyboy, it's not her keyboard that's broken (sniggers helplessly)!!!!!

[Pottski]

Our Daffs are just popping up through the soil

[Snaggletooth]

Blew the cobwebs off the bike & trampled a few newly emerged crocuses

[Maz]

Boadacia, on 08 February 2012 - 07:13 AM, said:

I know it appears so, but I was answering in the dribbley language she's used to.

I wasn't aware it was still used, apart from my son coming back from school spouting gibberish I haven't heard it once round here in about six years. You might think you have if you bump into some pissed-up item from the vaaaleeeys but you haven't, they're trying to speak Engklisjh

[Boadacia]

Enough to make Max Boice turn in his grave, eh?

[Dragonmum]

Maz, on 08 February 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:

Boadacia, on 08 February 2012 - 07:13 AM, said:

I know it appears so, but I was answering in the dribbley language she's used to.

I wasn't aware it was still used, apart from my son coming back from school spouting gibberish I haven't heard it once round here in about six years. You might think you have if you bump into some pissed-up item from the vaaaleeeys but you haven't, they're trying to speak Engklisjh

Maz, you know that's absolute rollocks; it's painted all over the roads, every bill we get has a duplicate sheet in "The language of Heaven" as the late, much loved Ryan dubbed it, and zillions go on schools where every subject is taught through the medium of Welsh. As for speaking it though......try Swansea Market on a Thursday - I've heard it there, I think!

[Maz]

lol..


In places like Swansea it's just a waste of paint, ink and paper writing it everywhere, no bugger can understand it, around here it's just a bloody nuisance. The worst example of bilingual bollocks are the booklets and books printed by Swansea council, on the rare occasion you might have cause to read one you get precisely half way through and then you panic that you've suddenly had a stroke as it goes from (reasonably) legible info to upside down gibberish because some genius came up with the masterstroke of printing English if you open the book from one side one way up and Welsh if you open it from the other side the other way up.
If anyone should know nobody in Swansea speaks Welsh it should be Swansea ufcking council!

Whenever someone mentions the language I instantly think of this Blackadder quote, I can't help myself

Quote

Blackadder : Have you ever been to Wales Baldrick?
Baldrick : No, but I've often thought I'd like to.
Blackadder : Well don't, it's a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrorising people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the placenames. Never ask for directions in Wales Baldrick, you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.

Edited by Maz, 09 February 2012 - 09:44 AM.

[Boadacia]

I thought that down thar - with you Western Welshies, <=(wasn't that a bus service in Pontypool in the past?) - it was all phlegm and patriotism? According to my mother, they're all upper class and related to Welsh royalty, there, in Pontarddulais, and those in the East are just hybrid barbarians? (But she isn't generally renown for the full bag of marbles)

Edited by Boadacia, 09 February 2012 - 11:05 AM.