Were off to the nether regions at some point today.

Pudsey Bear said:
I think I'll give the henge a miss, I dated a lady 17 years ago who gave me a personal guided tour of all the circles and I'm not going to get better access than that, I sometimes wonder how she's doing now, she was a truly lovely lady, but the distance killed it.
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Naw, Kev, I met Elaine via a Newsgroup [ Alt Penpals Forty Years Plus, 'APFYP', which was worldwide, but organised physical meetings for the Group for each country. The physical meeting took place in Lincoln on the May Bank Holiday, and within 1.5 hours I knew this was it. Elaine was living just outside Glasgow, I was living in Worthing, so I used to fly to Glasgow every Friday afternoon, get a return flight on Monday afternoon, and cram my working week into 3.5 days. On 9th October, I moved to Scotland to start a new life. Best thing I ever did.

Steve
 
We both had a business to run staff etc and she was a dedicated cat lady, I lost count of them and she never let them out so it was a bit catty, too catty for me.
 
Oh I managed to do that.


If she ever decided to do audio books she would make a fortune, sexiest voice I ever heard Steve, and a pagan godess too at least around Glastonbury
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Oh I managed to do that.


If she ever decided to do audio books she would make a fortune, sexiest voice I ever heard Steve, and a pagan godess too at least around Glastonbury
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Careful, Kev, you'll have me coming over all unnecessary, and with my blood pressure, it could be dangerous ... I'm still getting palpitations from this month's energy bill ... :rolleyes: . I think the hinge on my wallet needs lubricating :D

Steve
 
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We crossed over to the land where there be dragons last night stayed in a little coppice, it had a stream with a little wooden bridge, very quiet but no data signal.

We're just having coffee in Abergavenny.
 
I was just wondering if the Welsh speaking Welsh people read the bi lingual signs in English or Welsh?
 
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I was just wondering if the Welsh speaking Welsh people read the bi lingual signs in English or Welsh?
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Welsh, Kev, definitely Welsh! Old Max Boyce joke:

'I was 37 before I realised there was anywhere other than Barry Island for holidays. Trouble is, the place is full of North Walians, and they're like haemorrhoids; when they come down and go back up, they're OK. But when they come down and stay down, they're a pain in the bloody arse ...' 😁 Guess where the first Mrs March was born ...

Steve
 
They are a funny breed, being dyslexic would pee me off too.

Just wanted to go into the market hall in Abergavenny and they stopped us going in, some Edwards bloke memorial in there.
 
I'm not anti Welsh, but it defies any logic to have the important signage to be in Welsh first, the English speaking world reads left to right top to bottom, if I am coming up to a hazard I need to have the info presented to me effectively so I can act accordingly, I think I'm fairly safe in saying there will be few drivers on the Welsh roads who are not fluent in English.
 
We're seeing better prices for Diesel in Wales £1.65.9 yesterday, about time too, Shell %#@$% says highest profits for 115 years, so pay some windfall tax then Grrrrrr
 
Pudsey Bear said:
We're seeing better prices for Diesel in Wales £1.65.9 yesterday, about time too, Shell %#@$% says highest profits for 115 years, so pay some windfall tax then Grrrrrr
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But Mr Sunak left a barn door wide open for Windfall Tax avoidance by creating the offset of oil exploration investment against the tax liability, so the actual tax collection will be marginally less than the square root of sweet bugger all. Meanwhile Shell cannot deploy all the cash it is generating within the business, so it is buying back Issued Shares, to boost the earnings yield, and pushing up shareholder dividend payouts to disperse as much cash as possible, Which works nicely for shareholders, and Pensioners whose private pensions have investments in Shell, but has no benefit for the zero hours contract employee in the gig economy struggling to put £15 of fuel in the car for a working day

Steve
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I'm not anti Welsh, but it defies any logic to have the important signage to be in Welsh first, the English speaking world reads left to right top to bottom, if I am coming up to a hazard I need to have the info presented to me effectively so I can act accordingly, I think I'm fairly safe in saying there will be few drivers on the Welsh roads who are not fluent in English.
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I'm sure there's been research, Kev, to show that the human brain does an autofocus/auto filter to blank out the foreign language and to find the English [i,e, in our case native language] on the sign. I believe it's connected to the brain's 'auto correct' facility that enables us to fill in the gaps/errors in signage so that we 'see' the correct version of the word/phrase instead of the error/omission. And that, paradoxically, is what makes proof reading such a difficult task for the human brain to do!

Steve
 
My brain doesn't work like that though.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
My brain doesn't work like that though.
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Mine does, unfortunately. Kev! I well remember being the last delegate on a Bank Traing Course to spot the 13th [IIRC] mistake on a cartoon style large image [like a 'Where's Wally?' scene], because my brain was doing the 'autocorrect' thing whilst everybody else was having a good old laugh at my expense. The exercise was, of course, the first item on a week long Course, so I didn't get reminded about my faux pas/failure TOO often over the rest of the week ... :rolleyes:

Steve
 
I know mate it's hard being this perfick.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I'm not anti Welsh, but it defies any logic to have the important signage to be in Welsh first, the English speaking world reads left to right top to bottom, if I am coming up to a hazard I need to have the info presented to me effectively so I can act accordingly, I think I'm fairly safe in saying there will be few drivers on the Welsh roads who are not fluent in English.
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Not to us. There is a large minority of Welsh speakers in Wales with the stated government aspiration to raise this 1m by 2050. It's our country and our language so if you don't like it stay in Yorkshire :D
 
GMJ said:
Not to us. There is a large minority of Welsh speakers in Wales with the stated government aspiration to raise this 1m by 2050. It's our country and our language so if you don't like it stay in Yorkshire :D
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I think you misunderstood my post entirely G.

1m versus the rest of the English speaking world.

I think that there should be Welsh language signs but maybe on a different pole or a different colour text or background.
 
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