Glendalough

[sensibleken]

hey ho. so i took a trip out to glendalough yesterday a monastary founded in 617 by famous holy man, hermit, misogynist and woman murderer St Kevin.
 wind, rain, sleet and rain be damned i was goin to play with my fancy new camera come what may... soooo

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[ellen_melon]

i have just woken up after 2 hours sleep to thse beautiful pic's which have put a smile on my tired dile..i particularly like the lake ones (though im glad to not be thrown in it :D)

right, tá mé ag dul chuig leaba
(fear my shitty written irish!)

[sensibleken]

taim ag te a colladh anois freisin. oiche mhaith a chara

[ellen_melon]

i only understood the last bit! (which was very kind)...translation please? google is not helping me!

[sensibleken]

sorry. it means im going asleep now aswell. but im awake now!

[ellen_melon]

dont apologise :) now i know more irish! all thanks to you! just got to get the pronunciation now..

hope you have a lovely monday. i am, wierdly off to bed again soon. this has been one wierd day...

[sensibleken]

ill try and do it phonetically. tawm egg tay a cull-a an-ish freshen :)

[ellen_melon]

cheers! so is that like, im going too or something?

[sensibleken]

no it literally translates as im going to sleep now aswell. taim is 'i am' te a colladh is 'going to sleep', anois is 'now' and freisin is 'too' or 'aswell'. god i hope this is all right. im just expecting mynewhero so swoop in with his ninja highlighter and correct my grammer

[ellen_melon]

sweet! you've been super helpful thanks..i know have another sentence to add to my vocab :) though they all are bed or sleep related still. i could say "hello, how are you? im fine..im going to bed now" but it could get me in trouble LMAO

fear the ninja who's most powerful weapon is..the fluroescent highlighter..

[sensibleken]

ace. im going to try and do an irish course in the near future to improve it though

[ellen_melon]

i wanted to do one when i was there, but my mum discouraged me. she didnt see the point. i think its a lovely language though "in the name of the fada" has renewed my interest i think :)

[sensibleken]

whats in the name of the fada, a documentary or somethin?

[ellen_melon]

des bishop moves to connemara and learns irish. pretty much. :) he wants to do one of his gigs all in irish..its a pretty good doco.

[mynewhero]

ahem: táim ag dul a choladh fresin. or: tá me ag dul go dtí mo leaba, an bhfuil tú ag teacht? tá ispíní agus roint uachtar i mo sheomra! (le results gneasach.)

spelling was never my strong point

[sensibleken]

thanks ya big gaelgor, with the emphasis on gae. anyway my irish was emm.. with a dublin accent... you know coloquialisms and such.

"boo! you suck"(some guy in the crowd shouts at me)