The Eisteddfod was mostly a success, and we got on stage with a number of competitions. We got 3rd place lots, but never out of just three, so that's OK. Bits of the TV broadcast are on the S4C website, only one of which I can find at the mo (the mixed choir for 40 or fewer voices).

The Bond film Never Say Never Again is really awful. It's unofficial (in that it wasn't made by the same people who made almost all the other ones), but it's not what makes it crap. It's crap because it has Sean Connery phoning in a role on a mobile with one bar of reception, because it has some utterly dire dialogue, a chronically stupid plot, a ( Read more... )

I would write a description of this song, but given that I came across it randomly on Youtube and that it's called The Wales and Badger Song, that's probably all you need to know.

Things that irritate me. In no particular order ( Read more... )

I've been asked by a composer friend to write some (Welsh) lyrics for him to turn into a "Christmas song" for our choir to sing. I write lyrics now and then and once I get a bud of an idea I can get a whole song out of it fairly quickly. Trouble is, I've written at least three original lyrics concerning Christmas in recent years, and am, as then, ( Read more... )

Things have happened! Crikey. However, I'm too lazy to write it all up right now. So instead I've procrastinated expertly by changing my LJ layout 'n' stuff. But I guess I can bullet-point a bit ( Read more... )

Various things, with no order, as am lazy/embroiled in werk:

1) I've been asked to be a standby contestant on Mastermind next month. Downside: this means I have to go down to Cardiff for two days and hang around waiting for one of the real contestants to get sick/storm off/die in freak accident. Also, I was gleefully told "16 people got a higher ( Read more... )

A friend recently gave me (for no adequate reason--I think because he vomited in my sink) an Itunes gift voucher. I've never bought stuff from Itunes before (I just burn my own CDs, the law-abiding cost-shirking citizen that I be), mostly because I don't have a tinternet connection at home. But I do at the office, and this money voucher's not going ( Read more... )

Argh, my brain is not working and I need to radically realter my analysis procedure to cope with something I hadn't considered before. Question: does a mismatching head/modifier order in a clause containing a dichotomous subject/verb order suggest an ambiguous matrix language? Does the head/modifier order even matter to the remaining morpheme order ( Read more... )

Want to synchronise Ipod. Ipod works. Itunes works. But. Laptop won't recognise that my USB cable is npresent. So. I check on work computer. Cable works. Comclusion: laptop = cackypoo. Must pummel with cudgels until it submits. (Something I frequently do when things dinnae go my way.)

L was on TV last night on Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol (Welsh ( Read more... )