What Bethan Jenkins writes in This article on the Welsh version of the bbc news site was translated by me (with some corrections by my boss and a few small changes by the BBC)! The English version is here. This morning Bethan's press officer came down and said that BBC wanted an article (in English and Welsh) by 3pm and though he's a Welsh speaker ( Read more... )

Well there's a lot of kerfuffle about Archbishop Rowan's lecture on Civil and Religious Law in England: a religious perspective. Most of it seems to be from people reacting to the media coverage rather than what ++Rowan actually says, and as ever the media coverage doesn't get to grips with ++Rowan's deep thoughts ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas!

Hope it's going well for everyone. We had a good midnight mass -- 43 people which was pretty good. Reasonable amount of smoke and not many coughs!

I am semi-pelagian though!

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You are Chalcedon compliant. Congratulations, you're not a heretic. You believe that Jesus is truly God and truly man and like us in every respect, apart from sin. Officially approved in 451.

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mair_aw has just posted about supporting Sustrans UK's bid in the People's Million. I tried as one of the projects if very close to my work and being able to go over to Penarth would be fun, but the stupid website won't let me register because it tells me that the security code is wrong. I can't work this at all. I wonder whether it doesn't like Firefox.

I know I was late going to bed (getting on for 1am) but by the time I was still wide awake at 5am having added at least 15 things to a to do list for tomorrow (well today technically) I decided to attack one of them. Now an hour later I am beginning to feel tired. Unfortunately I need to get up in 3 hours to get to church to be thurifer for ( Read more... )

Ok Googling Middle Welsh verb forms isn't the best solution! Not quite sure what languages I've ended up with there. The first looks Cyrillic!

Форум на islam.ru :: Просмотр темы - Деление муслимов на течения ( Read more... )

Well Done South Africa.

I've been thinking again this evening about the fact that I get the impression that there is a lack of Welsh-speakers with good computer support skills. So for instance in various digitization programmes etc there are the people who have the academic skills (Middle Welsh) and those who can do the technical side (but have no Welsh at all). Or, and ( Read more... )

If one is going away for the weekend to be somewhere on Saturday 13th this means being away on Friday 12th and Sunday 14th too. This is awkward if one already has commitments on those dates ( Read more... )