With laughing song and happy dance

[peredur_glyn]

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

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[donals_girl]

What goes on during a diolchiadau? And how do you pronounce it?

Beer festivals are fun, especially if the weather's warm. I like the deep-fried Mars Bars you find at the Cambridge one. And the commemorative pint glasses.

Have you put the mirror on your ceiling yet? Don't use blu-tak, because if it won't hold up my butterfly mobile, it won't hold up a sheet of polished glass.

Got to go - the men in white coats are here to take me away for my own safety and that of those around me.

[peredur_glyn]

Diolchiadau (DEE-olch-IAD-aye, ish) means "thanks" or, more accurately, "thankings", but in the context of any Welsh gathering it's the formal thanking at the end, by some poor sap who's been chosen to do it, of everyone who took part in the event or brought about its existence. Usually the list is long, and you have to explain exactly why they need to be thanked. I don't think this is particularly unique to Wales, but what follows is what I've not seen outside this country, and that is the reinforcement of the thankings. This doesn't usually happen in a big concert, but it often does in smaller events, where, after the first thankings have been made, somebody else then chooses to stand up and say "May I reinforce those thankings," and then goes on, usually, to thank the person who thanked originally, and then going to repeat thanks to some people he/she found particularly engaging. It's not then unheard of for someone to follow these reinforcements up with more reinforcement (the Welsh word is "ategu", meaning something like "say

[symbelgal]

Have put a poster of Keeley Hazel topless on the wall, though.

Inspired taste, Mr Davies.

Does she have a topless picture of you on her wall though?

[peredur_glyn]

Assuming she too has inspired taste, she probably does. There's a good line of posters of me on myposters (though they've clumsily misnamed me as Tom Cruise, the eejits).