Weather early 2009

[Paddy Tobin]

 Cé gur fiú ór í tá sí sásta le seacláid

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Cé gur fiú ór í tá sí sásta le seacláid

Paddy

Why, Paddy,  I believe that is the truth, indeed 

[Paul T]

Wow, John.  Nice to see that the owner of that poor half submerged red car dug it out sometime in the interim. So much snow!!    Well to me at least. 

[Paddy Tobin]

And to save anybody googling, the above means, "Although worth gold, she is happy with chocolate." Not to be found on the Scots Gaelic site.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

Are you fluent in Irish, Paddy?

[Paddy Tobin]

Comfortable, Mark, but not a native speaker.

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Well thanks a bunch Maggi, but.....
(Assuming Paddy's translation is of his reply to yours. And Paddy, if I'm worth gold, it's gold I want, thanks.

[Maggi Young]

Tá a luach ar ghach éinne agus beidh mise sásta le seacláid.............

Everyone has their price and mine is chocolate .

[Lesley Cox]

So not above rubies then?

[Martin Baxendale]

Lesley, just got your reference last August to Modest Mussorgsky (Night On A Bald Mountain)!!!! Thanks to a crossword I was doing today. No-one else will have the faintest idea what I'm on about. Apologies for being a musical ignoramus.   

[Lesley Cox]

Can't remember the reference at present but I was probably moaning about broadcasters playing "Night on Bear Mountain" instead of (correctly) "Night an a BARE mountain." Whether either the bear or the mountain was bald, I can't say.

[fermi de Sousa]

A grim, grey cold day here yesterday with little frost but never got properly light all day. Today, blue sky with watery sun, no frost but a biting wind.

So you probably won't commiserate with us poor unfortunates in the Southern Hemisphere who have suffered through 2 weeks without rain and temperatures in the 30s(^oC) then?
cheers
fermi,
spending more time watering the garden than re-potting bulbs!

[Martin Baxendale]

Can't remember the reference at present but I was probably moaning about broadcasters playing "Night on Bear Mountain" instead of (correctly) "Night an a BARE mountain." Whether either the bear or the mountain was bald, I can't say.

I was talking about Snowdon in North Wales and how I've always fancied spending a night camping on the mountain, and you said something about Modest Mussorgsky which I totally didn't get but forgot to query.

[David Nicholson]

30C, I could cope with that, blerdy cold here today

[TC]

If you can get hold of Disney's Fantasia there is a wonderful animation of Night on Bald Mountain complete with Demons.  My grandchildren like watching it on video.  It's a two cushion job with lots of twitching and jumping about.  An adult is required to be present or they are off out the door.