I won the Welsh market treats lottery! They were having a little contest at the market today where you were supposed to find three 'misplaced' items, and then write down the stall number where they were 'hidden' and enter to win a hamper full of stuff. And I won! I actually won something! The hamper contained some thick-cut bacon, wild boar cross apple & leek sausages, chili-marinated chicken wings a big gammon joint, a Welsh black beef brisket, two pork steaks (all local and organic meats!), local Welsh honey, homemade lemon curd, orange & cider brandy marmalade, half a dozen organic free-range eggs, an asparagus quiche made with goats milk and goats cheese, a dozen welsh cakes, a loaf of lovely sundried tomato & herb artisan bread, and a big hunk o' cheese (not sure what kind but it's tasty)! Probably like £50 worth of stuff. :) So needless to say, I am somewhat off the healthy eatin' bandwagon today, heh. Once I ate a few welsh cakes it was all over!

Hoozoo!

Tags: aberystwyth, food, welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: full
groovin' on: Ian singing Steeleye Span

Saw a dude at the gym who bore an uncanny resemblance to Karl Agathon. Heh.

Tags: aberystwyth, gym, welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: amused

Or, in Welsh 'Ffred'. :p

My Welsh coursebook has a little 'dialogue' in each lesson which we usually act out in pairs to practice whatever we just learned. The two main characters in these are Fred and Sandra. Sandra is Welsh and Fred is learning Welsh. They start off as 'friends' then Fred asks her out and they go on a couple fairly innocent dates. I was boredly reading ahead today though, and it gets more and more weird and soap operatic...

First Sandra wins the lottery, then Fred asks her to marry him, because now she's rich AND speaks Welsh (a big plus for Fred I guess). She waffles on it for a couple dialogues, then when he finally demands an answer, it turns out she's already married to some guy named Gordon. But she's in love with Fred now! Because he can speak Welsh and Gordon can't (he is a dirty Englishman and lives in London)! Oh noes! So the two of them carry on behind Gordon's back for a few lessons and then Gordon finds out from someone who saw them in the Llew Ddu. Sandra tells him she is just helping Fred with his Welsh and Gordon seems to buy it... but then he RUNS OVER FRED'S DOG WITH HIS CAR O_o. Fred beats him up and then goes to jail. O_o Sandra promises to look after the ailing dog while he is in the big house. In the last one I read, Fred was writing her a letter after getting out of prison.

This is my textbook! O_o

Tags: welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: lethargic

Mae gwenyn 'da fi!

Tags: bees, welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: bees

Prynes i Scrabble yn Gymraeg...

Dw i'n NERD. -_-

Tags: welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: geeky

Dwedes i feth beth, yn y pen ôl!

Tags: welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: educational

They say 'sick as a dog' but I don't recall ever having a dog that was sick for like 2 weeks at a time...

I went to LRP last night and played my little heart out until the drugs and caffeine wore off and I collapsed, at about 10:30. I really love playing this character. People take her at least somewhat seriously, unlike Jennie Blades, who really *was* a stinking rich baroness, incidentally, or poor Persimmon, who only ever had anyone pay attention to her to say that she was nuts. August actually has conversations! And she is Interested in Things! Some people do think she is a nutter, but I think as time goes on they will get used to her... she's just very religious is all! :) And even the people who think I'm a nutjob are happy to have me heal them. And I'm going on that adventure on Saturday unless I am coughing up blood.

Today I have to take the train to Welshpool for an interview to get a National Insurance Number... Won't that be fun? Blaaaaaaargh. Me and my interestingly coloured snot/phlegm wanna stay in bed! :(

Dw i'n mynd i'r Trallwng!

Tags: geekery, health or lack thereof, larp, life, welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: sick
groovin' on: Shannon - Let the Music Play

Before I head off for the weekend... :V



... And just wait until I make it all epileptic and stuff! :V

Tags: geekery, welsh
Current Location: Aberystwyth
i feel: geeky