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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 3:59 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

Gervase wrote:

I had some Welsh single malt once which was called metheglin rather than whisk(e)y.

I thunk metheglin was flavoured mead? Or have I got that mixed up?

Metheglin is definitely a herby/flavoured mead

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:16 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Metheglin is definitely a herby/flavoured mead

Ah. I know it got me bladdered - which is probably why I can't remember what the bloody stuff actually was!

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:29 pm Post subject:

Gervase wrote:

Ah. I know it got me bladdered - which is probably why I can't remember what the bloody stuff actually was!

...and didn't we all know it at home?

When Gervase has been on the whisky, or similar, he starts sleep walking...or as Jack, our youngest, calls it "Whisky walking". This involves him staggering around the house at about 3.30 in the morning, imagining that he's plastering the walls and ceilings with a trowel and insisting (very loudly) that he knows exactly what he's doing, until I can coax him back to bed...whereby he passes out across it, face down and won't, or can't, move for several hours.

Last time was just before Christmas when two of our friends turned up from their smallholding in Ireland, with a bottle of whisky in hand. On that occasion I found Gervase downstairs in the the kitchen at 3am, insisting he was going to go outside to do some pointing up on the scaffolding. Hey ho.

I, of course, am a paragon of virtue by comparison.

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:30 pm Post subject:
Sounds perfectly normal to me. So what is your point?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 4:44 pm Post subject:

Silas wrote:

Sounds perfectly normal to me. So what is your point?

Like a pencil without lead Silas...it is pointless.

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 5:33 pm Post subject:
But, to return to the topic, it's more fun in Wales!

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 5:57 pm Post subject:

Gervase wrote:

But, to return to the topic, it's more fun in Wales!

...especially when you've been drinking the local brew!

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 9:13 pm Post subject:

I must admit apart from the climate (try and convince me if you like), we've been partly put off Wales by the idea of random dislikes. It seems that's perfectly possible, from Nanny's OH's friends' experiences, but then, there are such odd people *everywhere*. I've known a number of lovely Welsh people, and one or two utter...asterisks required for that description... so I guess the conclusion is they're mostly human

(apart from Jonnyboy but they cunningly solved that problem by fixing him up with an understanding Irish wife

)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46216
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 11:14 pm Post subject:
[ or either side of the Yorkshire border. n s w ?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46216
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 06 11:21 pm Post subject:
or was that denmark ?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 06 10:37 am Post subject:
Gervase has hit it on the head: it is more fun here. Just don't expect a quiet life! Friends said we'd be bored here. I'd love the time to be bored...

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 06 4:32 pm Post subject:

Azura Skye wrote:

Two people a few houses up, refuse to send their children to a Welsh school in the village, literally a five minute walk, and will send them instead all the way to Carmarthen, which is 16 miles away! I cant see the point in this, and its a obvious attempt at not joining the community. I think if you move from England into a Welsh village, you will be very warmly received, if you go and say hello and 'sut mae' to your new neighbours!
But thats true anywhere, Im sure.

untill three days ago i was taking the boys to a school out of the village...you arent talking about me are you????

Azura Skye

Joined: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 2199
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 06 6:14 pm Post subject:
hehe jamsam - well you never know, unless your avatar is a recent portrait of yourself then I might be able to answer more confidently. I lived in Pontyberem but now I'm in Cardiff. If I remeber correctly from some posts of yours before, you live IN Carmarthen?

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 06 6:58 pm Post subject:

i think the friends of mil picked the wrong valley

it was a great shame, the wife even tried to learn to speak welsh and they tried integrating but it was no use, the natives wouldn't have it and so they sold up and moved to norfolk

i think that what upset them most was that they were from the irish repunblic originally and not english at all so they couldn't understand why fellow celts were so anti

and it was about 12 years ago when mr nanny and i were seriously considering how to escape our rat race at the time

i am sure that when i go in july i shall have a lovely time and want to stay because of the mountains ...i miss the mountains

now you'll probably tell me there aren't any where we're going...

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 06 9:48 am Post subject:
Where are you going, Nanny? Large chunks of Wales are mountain-infested... We have a [problem finding flat land. Even our floors are sloping...

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