Thinking in Welsh

Thinking in Cymraeg - the aim of every Welsh language learner. But how do you know when its working? Perhaps these are the early warning signs?

You see the following road sign and think …

Hmm … why has the word mwy been mutated to fwy?

Scanning the books on the library shelves, do you see the word hen (old) and think …

Oh look, a paper back romance for senior citizens!

Putting a batch of large print books together, do you see the acronym RHYW and think …

Wow! A new Welsh publishing company.

Do you make Welsh cakes for St David's Day and put them on the tearoom table with a short explanatory note but …

You forget to provide a translation!

What do you think? Am I developing a Welsh frame of mind?

Mwy = more and in certain cases would be mutated to fwy but not to my knowledge after the words via or Nunawading
Hen = old, as in: Mae hen wlad fy nhadau ...
Rhyw = some, gender
Pice bach = little cakes
Mwynheuwch = enjoy

St David's Day - Ashburton Library

Australian country towns

Hot, wide streets
Hotels
A post office
And a mechanics institute
All from a bygone era
A Chinese restaurant
Always a Chinese restaurant
With a numbered menu
The roadhouse
A caravan park
And a budget motel
Sometimes even a cafe
With a cappuccino machine
Though not always good coffee
Depends how many tourists
Tree changers
Retirees
The Memorial Hall - lest we forget
And an Anzac statue
The oval, of course
With cars parked around the edge
Netball courts
A cinder playground with a locked bin

State registered school

Empty churches
A small district hospital
The nursing home on the edge of town
Old men shuffling head down in the hot, dry wind

Final Five Nomination for the VBA

Okay, here are my final five nominations for the Versatile Blogger Awards. I have had a great time updating my feedreader and feel in touch with new elements of the blogosphere. Make sure you check these ones out.

Guernsey Author
Sarah Jane Down the Lane
Clearly Vintage
Poems and novels
Momastery

The Rules for excepting the Versatile Blogger Award are as follows:

Thank the person who nominated you. Tell 7 things about yourself, so that your readers may learn more about you, and nominate 15 other newly discovered bloggers, then let them know you nominated them.

Five More Fantastic Blogs

hundred and one things
toast for tea
fluent in 3 months
mocking bird don't write
Helen in Wales

Make sure you check them out.

The Rules for excepting the Versatile Blogger Award are as follows:

Thank the person who nominated you. Tell 7 things about yourself, so that your readers may learn more about you, and nominate 15 other newly discovered bloggers, then let them know you nominated them.

Food glorious food

Food glorious food,
Hot sausage and mustard
While we're in the mood
Cold jelly and custard
Pease pudding and saveloy
What next is the question
Fructose friendly it has to be
A gluten free sandwich!

The things I hate about day surgery

1) walking past the Hudson's cafe when you are fasting.
2) finding out your surgery is not scheduled until mid-day even though you have been told to arrive at the crack of dawn
3) trying to talk seriously to a man in a shower cap about your odds of waking up, and the fact that you have missed your morning coffee
4) looking for a quiet corner in which you might sit and do your Welsh lesson, only to be told that you MUST stay in the waiting room
5) thinking naked we are born and naked we depart as you change into your theatre gown
6) walking down the hospital corridor with your clothes in a shopping bag and your unstrapped sandals on your feet wearing your old black dressing gown which you washed specially for the occasion
7) lying in a corridor (let's call it what it is) behind a pale blue curtain, waiting and waiting
8) looking into the rheumy old eyes of the woman opposite and wondering how much it's going to hurt
9) squeaky rubber shoes

10) soap

11) disinfectant
12) running water
13) machines bleeping
14) the smell of the nurse's coffee
15) the rheumy eyed lady being wheeled away
16) knowing your next in line
17) thinking yikes! This is it. My turn