So with no dictaphone to distract me, I uploaded this coming weekend’s radio programme to the office for them to fit into the live stream<\/p>\n
When the nurse came he was his usual chatty self but he didn’t have all that much to say for himself. This shopping list though is growing and if we carry on like this we’ll need a lorry to bring it all home<\/p>\n
But seriously, that’s the one thing that’s worrying me about moving. How’s it all going to work without a band of willing volunteers? <\/p>\n
Like most things these days, it’s something just to ignore and hope that it all goes right on the night.<\/p>\n
As I said earlier, the lesson passed quite well. We were doing the Genitive case today, “the bag of Sian” and all that. It’s quite complicated because in Welsh it’s all written in archaic form, there are contractions that don’t follow any rules and some other contractions have rules that just aren’t logical<\/p>\n
But this is the problem with a language where its development and evolution was suppressed for over 70 years, from 1894 to 1967, and this was a time when a lot of linguistic evolution was taking place.<\/p>\n
The French Community in Qu\u00e9bec had similar issues but even so they had “la Hexagone” in Europe on which to fall back. Nevertheless, you’d still be surprised at the difference between Qu\u00e9becois<\/em> French and thenFrancais de Paris<\/em>. The Welsh had no similar benchmarks.<\/p>\n There were the usual pauses during the lesson, during which I made a start on editing the radio programme that remained from the batch that I’d dictated on Saturday. And by the tie I’d reached the end of the day I’d done about a third of it. I’m not doing too well with my editing right now. I need to put my foot down.<\/p>\n But I had several pauses, including one for my hot chocolate and slice of chocolate cake that still seems to be doing well in the fridge in its airtight container.<\/p>\n Tea tonight was, as usual, a stuffed pepper. And there’s piles of stuffing left for a taco roll and for a leftover curry on Wednesday.<\/p>\n This batch really is excellent and quite spicy. It’ll probably put hairs in places where I didn’t even realise that I had places.<\/p>\n So now I’m all tidied up, washed up and finished I can do what I need to do and then go to bed<\/p>\n But talking about Qu\u00e9bec reminds me of the two guys living in Trois Rivi\u00e8res where there’s that great big sundial on the side of the church tower.
\n"What time is it?"<\/em><\/strong> asked one of the guys
\n"No idea"<\/em><\/strong> replied his friend
\n"Go and look at the Sundial then"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Don’t be silly"<\/em><\/strong> replied the guy. "It’s dark outside"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Well"<\/em><\/strong> said his friend. "Take a torch with you!"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
