Eliza Bennet

Well now. A metaphor is a kind of analogy anyway - but this one isn’t a metaphor because I described something as being ‘like’ something else, so more of a simile, I suppose. Which is also a type of analogy.

It is about forty years since I pulled this one but I confess it worked a treat, not sure Benylin is what it was back then though

Well admittedly I have certainly had worse

All the hype and honestly AI is just bollocks isn’t it

Me too and I have listened through all sorts of tosh but I simply cannot believe this woman grew up in Ambridge and nobody has met her before…farms and farmers and farmers’ kids do not work this way, honestly I’ve had dreams that made more sense and my dreams are *barking*

The Esme thing is bonkers, it‘s just bonkers, honestly listening to #TheArchers at the moment is like trying to finish a crossword in Portuguese with a jumbo crayon while drinking a Benylin and brandy cocktail through a straw and hitting oneself repeatedly on the head with a giant potato

Perks you right up, doesn’t it? I love it!

So I translated it correctly in my original post, then? That’s a first!

Diolch yn fawr!

I’ve given up trying to pick it apart, I just learn the most basic of phrases and attempt them at random for the entertainment of proper Welsh speakers

The linguist in me is absolutely rubbish unfortunately or you’d get a proper answer to that one but I *think* ‘r is actually a contraction of yr which is ’the’ - so parti is ‘party’ and parti’r is ‘the party’

YouTube video by Aberhenfelen Parti'r Ysbrydion Huw Chiswell

For a proper happy Hallowe’en (Nos Galan Gaeaf hapus) what you need is Huw Chiswell singing Parti’r Ysbrydion (The Ghosts’ Party) on a video that looks as if it was recorded off someone’s nanna’s telly, through a window, in a heavy fog, in about 1982

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That poor woman, how she must have suffered

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I am absolutely completely totally and utterly not up for this, too appalling to contemplate

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Many international stories make me pause and imagine how it must feel to have that happening outside *my* home. We are all where we live by an accident of birth. Those of us who got to be born in a safe part of the world really need to remember how lucky that is.

EXACTLY

I don’t buy this “but I wanted to make a witch costume for Rosie” whinge from Pip, there’s no way she could be arsed, get yourself down to Asda where they’re doing them for four quid, they look quite good actually, I’d wear one if they did them in my size #TheArchers

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I wasn’t cut out for police work, that‘s for certain

Yes exactly and we can have chocolate and crisps for tea if we want, we are expected to police ourselves, how ridiculous is that

Well, it’s not all bad, I’d rather have Gil Scott Heron as an earworm than Carl Douglas singing Kung Fu Fighting which is what’s been lodged in my brain for the past three days

This one went round in my head non-stop for weeks after Trump got in last year and still pops back on an all-too-frequent basis

(Saving this to listen to when I have time to do you justice!)

Gil Scott Heron stops me in my tracks every time, fundamental and important

I think I’ve seen too much Reception class art to appreciate this one in the way you do, Mrs M, but it‘s certainly striking

Ballerina waxcap or porpolomopsis calyptriformis, a gorgeous little pink mushroom that starts off conical and then flares out and looks like a frilly tutu, this one is at the tutu stage

Spotted this little beauty on our morning walk, it's a ballerina waxcap and it's quite rare

I am turning into the sort of person who gets excited about fungi

I dunno, I think it’s sort of perfect as it is, less is more

I did wonder how long it would take for that shutter to be decorated and here we are #Caerffili