5th September 2024
It will be obvious to you all dear readers who is writing which bit of this post!! To all those non Welsh speakers don’t worry I don’t know what he is saying either. You could cut and paste into google translate. I did try to learn, we were hoping to have a family and what with a very lovable but rabid protector of the Welsh language as a mother-in-law, I started Welsh lessons. I used www.saysomethingin.com and can highly recommend them. I was really enjoying it, gaining confidence especially with “I’ve shut the window” and “I’m sorry I don’t speak Welsh very well, but I’m trying” Anyway once I outed myself by giving it a go, I got so fed up of having my pronunciation corrected (and not by my MIL) I gave up! Turns out I never needed it to speak to our children anyway.
The Welsh house has now sold; ironically, given the amount of fuss there is about local people not being able to buy locally, to a non-Welsh speaking Englishman moving to Wales from Surrey. We celebrated with Sunday lunch and a Tuscan GnT at the pub. Now we are solvent again and have funds for the solar panels and a new well pump. I have been really surprised how un-sad I have been leaving our base there. I can revel in the extraordinarily happy times we have had there with both sides of the family over the 16yrs we have have had a foothold in the area. We can always go back as proper tourists.
Pan oeddwn yn bedair oed ym 1969 dechreuodd fy rhieni mynd a ni ar wyliau haf yr holl ffordd o Lundain i draeth Poppit ar y ffin rhwng sir Benfro a sir Ceredigion. Nefoedd ar ddaear i ddau fachgen bach! Roedd yn teimlo (mae dal yn teimlo!) fel ochr y byd. Safle nesa? Iwerddon. Oedd fy hen fodryb ac ewythr yn byw lawr yr heol yn Aberteifi, a mae fy atgofion o’r amseroedd hynny yn felys dros ben. Roedd yn fraint cael y cyfle i brynu ty yn Llandudoch yn 2008. Mwy o atgofion braf ers hynny – ac yn awr mae’r antur wedi dod i ben. Ymlaen at y nesa! Felly hwyl fawr am y tro i sir Benfro – ond byth i Gymru.
ON: mae’n debyg mae fi sydd ar fai am beth ddigwyddodd efo’r hanes dysgu Cymraeg. Yn amlwg dwi wedi tyfu a gwella fel person ers hynny!
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