So this Monday my beloved L went off to China as part of a mission funded (AFAIK) by the Welsh Assembly Government to promote Welsh culture in the land of the Qin. ( Adventures in an oriental clime )

Having admittedly been away from Livejournal (at least, not posting) for about two months, and this without any particularly good reason, I return with a vaguely dull (to anyone who isn't gripped by Welsh linguistics) academic quandary. I'd be grateful if anybody who considers themselves either speakers of, or otherwise world experts on, a South ( Read more... )

Cocknobs, it's been a while since I posted. Much happen, yea. Will sum up in least boring way.

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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... )

I've just realised (although they've been out for months) that BBC sitcom Maid Marian and her Merry Men is available on DVD. Why do I find this when I have absolutely no money? Life is a fecund whore tempting us with sparkly dangly things that we yearn for but cannae reach ( Read more... )

Pissed off and ravaged am I. Night before last two friends needed to stay over at mine, but the morning after one of them was obviously really ill so they had to leave in a hurry on the 9am train, leaving their car behind in the station. Now this morning I get a call from them saying that they didn't have time to get a ticket for the parking before ( Read more... )

I am actually still alive, just in case anybody thought/hoped otherwise. Just been otherwised engaged. Fewer of those jokes, please, symbelgalActually, by "alive", that doesn't count the fact that I've been ill on and off for the past three weeks. First, a throat infection (penicillin! yay!), then a cold, and now another cold. Bastard, bastard, bastard. I'm ( Read more... )

Apologies for the dearth of entries of late. (This is assuming anyone particularly noticed.) I've been shitting busy with the choir, as we had a major concert yesterday, being the first one we've actually set up and organised ourselves and featuring, pretty much, just us (we also invited a national-winning baritone, who ahemhappensahem to be a past ( Read more... )

OK, so I haven't posted in ages, which means I now have far too much to report than I have the time/energy to type, so I'll pick out the less dull stuff ( Read more... )

This week I'm going to Limerick, Ireland, for a Sociolinguistics symposium conference thingy. It lasts three days (til Saturday) and there'll be tons of papers and presentations being given, many at the same time, most I will not understand. So I may get out-conferenced very soon and go and get drunk in a bar. Of course, I shall have to be ( Read more... )