He looks a bit dodgy in that raincoat don't you think ... read on ...and you'll see why .............. There I was, hot and bothered after trudging round the massive loop around Grumbling Stumps, finally staggering into the drinks parlour and looking forward to a nice chat with like-minded folk, when who should I find myself stuck with but The King of Bryher ..... just him. You know what he's like .... he just slags me off all the time. Chwarae teg, he slags off everyone else as well ... but this time, "everyone else" wasn't there. Ouch. So after he's grilled me about about all the species of Shrike I'd seen, and where, and when, and in what detail, and whether I'd really been on any of those Scilly Pelagics at all, and ridiculed my (very few) notable discoveries, I decided on a new line of approach. I told him straight ... any more of "that sort of thing" and I would only speak to him in Welsh !! That way, he wouldn't know what sort of horrible things I was calling him ... aha !! Well, he didn't like that. He looked a bit glum. "Iawn" , I said to him, "Myndwch, tin wyneb ! Dwi'n gyrru yn ôl adref, dych chi dyn ofnadwy !! " And I did. If you google translate it, just remember google doesn't know what "tin" means. It means "arse". It gives the "Tintin" books a whole new dimension ! Mind you, before that all kicked off, we did have good laugh about that Unwanted Gimbo thing !! Here it is, in all its glory ... or rather, ignominy 94-the-mysterious-unwanted-gimbo.html All I need now is ... darn o seibiant ! A pryd ti'n wael Mi awn ni i'r haul Pob hyn a hyn mae angen seibiant O mae'r tonnau'n taro'r lan yn ddi-baid O'n blaen, o'n blaen ...... (ac ati !) Dw i wrth fy modd gyda geiriau caneuon. Maen nhw’n gallu cydweithio gyda’r gerddoriaeth i dorri dy galon, neu i droi’r alaw ar ei phen. Dw i wastad wedi caru geiriau’r Cyrff am eu bod mor farddonol. Dw i’n cofio synnu pa mor brydferth oedden nhw (a meddwl bod pawb yn y gogledd yn siarad fel ’na). Maen nhw’n gwneud y gorau o sain yr iaith ac yn llawn odli mewnol – ac maen nhw’n swnio’n berffaith gyda llais Marc, wrth gwrs. Dyma rhai o fy hoff eiriau, er y byddai’n rhwydd dewis mwy. Here's a pic of Y Cyrff ( The Bodies) when they first started .... The bigger question is ... was what I did a tactic or was it a strategy ?
And anyway, can you remember the dates and locations of every shrike you've seen over the years ? Actually, I have a much better recall of the various ones I didn't see, but spent ages looking for ! Now there's a thing.
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