Hot weather - will we have water restrictions this year?

[Pabmusic]

(This probably should be in Pedants corner ?)...

Yes but it's interesting though. Welsh is most closely related to Breton and Cornish. Gaelic refers to the languages of Ireland, subsequently exported to the Isle of Man and parts of Scotland.

Now I'll shut up.

[MrGongGong]

Yes but it's interesting though. Welsh is most closely related to Breton and Cornish. Gaelic refers to the languages of Ireland, subsequently exported to the Isle of Man and parts of Scotland.

Now I'll shut up.

I've had a similar experience in Ireland where people speak Irish
Only in Stornaway did they say they spoke Gaelic

[kernelbogey]

Absolutely - it's only been drunk once, unlike London's, which has been drunk several times....

I can verify that London tap water has poor taste, even after filtration.

The urban myth - or is this fact? - which is more worrying is that it is saturated with oestrogen/progesterone from contraceptive medication.

The Portsmouth Water from my tap, which tastes brilliant, comes of course from a more chaste source .

[ahinton]

I was only joking when mentioning Gælic in the context of Welsh and Welsh speakers!

Doubtless Anna will have something to say about that shortly...

[Pabmusic]

I was only joking when mentioning Gælic in the context of Welsh and Welsh speakers!

Doubtless Anna will have something to say about that shortly...

I'm terrible at missing jokes. Always have been. Typical.

[amateur51]

(This probably should be in Pedants corner ?)
I got in trouble for suggesting to some musicians in Cardiff that they spoke Gælic when they were speaking Welsh !

I had a colleague from Latin America who tried to insist that Welsh was merely an English dialect.

She only tried it the once

[Serial_Apologist]

Certainly will, and no problems with transportation, as it's downhill all the way.

Not if you lay the atlas down flat...

[greenilex]

I think we are tipped towards one corner of the island - and the slope may be growing?

Perhaps we should all go and lean over the other rail?

[eighthobstruction]

Daaaaaaaar, all you Flatlanders with your Artesian ways, indoor flushing, and bidets....what's wrong with a half filled gallon bucket with a soup can for sploshing....hope you run out, then you'll be running to us who have a bit more gradient gravity....

[mangerton]

Not if you lay the atlas down flat...

Damn! Never thought of that.

[kernelbogey]

Daaaaaaaar, all you Flatlanders with your Artesian ways, indoor flushing, and bidets....what's wrong with a half filled gallon bucket with a soup can for sploshing....hope you run out, then you'll be running to us who have a bit more gradient gravity....

Eighth, is your Cyber Hill perchance in Nepal? I ask, as I encountered the 'soup can for sploshing' technology in Nepal, where they also have endemic giardia.... .

[Richard Tarleton]

I had a colleague from Latin America who tried to insist that Welsh was merely an English dialect.

I was in the waiting room of the audiology dept of our local (Welsh) hospital the other day when I overheard ( - we weren't there for me ) someone telling his neighbour that Welsh was the oldest European language. I think he meant UK - I didn't correct him as I didn't want to start a fight. But I think Basque predates the Indo-European languages of which Welsh and the other Celtic tongues are but some by a few thousand years.

[Serial_Apologist]

Daaaaaaaar, all you Flatlanders with your Artesian ways, indoor flushing, and bidets....what's wrong with a half filled gallon bucket with a soup can for sploshing....hope you run out, then you'll be running to us who have a bit more gradient gravity....

Ah - such pride comes before a fell.

[Dave2002]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23325078

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23325078

Heat alert triggers for 28 C in the Northeast, and 32 for London. Shouldn't that be t'other way around?