Archive for February, 2009

New Year (Sort Of) – New Body

24Feb09

Now that I’ve reached 21, I’ve realised that I haven’t reached one goal that I had fantasised about when I was about 18 or 19; that I’d have a toned and athletic body by the time I was 21.

That still hasn’t happened.

While I was out with my boyfriend and his friends last week, something happened [...]


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Cymru a’r Eira (Wales and the Snow)

03Feb09

I thought this was a really cute way of using the bad European weather for marketing:
Cymru – ‘Wales’ in Welsh
This was the main image on the BBC Cymru homepage today, and it reminded me of the dozens of times I had written ‘Éire’ (Ireland) on a fogged-up window as a kid. It’s nice to see [...]


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A Snowy Dublin Café

02Feb09

The word I was thinking of was ‘committed’… I’ve really lost my command of English lately!


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Y Gymraeg a Fi (Welsh and Me)

01Feb09

Dw i wedi dysgu’r Gymraeg am 2.5 flwyddyn nawr, ond dw i ddim yn medru ei siarad yn dda eto…
(I’ve been learning Welsh for 2.5 years now, but I’m still not good at speaking it…)
The Welsh language is fascinating to me; to your average Joe Anglophone, the written language looks like an alphbetical car-crash. It [...]


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