Lots of blue today much to the enjoyment of the holidaymakers already thronging the village. Right now (5.00) a cold sea mist is rolling in and the temperature is dropping. Last night I could smell smoke again. This may have been coming from a third wild fire which is burning near Aberhosan (the mouth of the sock?) a village on the far side of Mach, 22km away as the crow flies.
We had our usual Welsh lesson this morning. We started with a difficult exercise to do in pairs where we had to fill in the blanks in a piece of writing. Most of the blanks were prepositions which are tricky in Welsh. Basically there is a different use of prepositions so you cannot always say that they translate the same way or at least where we might say eg 'of' in English in Welsh you might say 'with'. Don't know if that example is correct but we have to just learn which prepositions are used in specific cases. Looking in the dictionary ar has eight different meanings/uses and I bet the rest are as complex. Halfway through the lesson our tutor lost power and disappeared from our screens. She was able to contact us through WhatsApp by which time we had already begun the next exercise which we could see was a set of questions to answer. The first question was How do you watch programmes? (Sut dach chi'n gwylio rhaglenni?) I was the last to answer and as everyone had already given most options I had to be silly and answer - I watch programmes with my eyes. There's always one in every class or is it just my literal mind?
Earlier I had done some more sorting in the utility. Having lost three-quarters of a cupboard I need to be even more organised. The lack of ample storage is a problem in this house, I may even have to clear out some things. I'm working on it bit by bit. After class I sowed some more lettuce and some round courgettes that I'm trying this year.
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