David's blog

Well its the Olympics so I decided to get active, so I decided to try a bit of wils swimming yesterday.  The place where I went was a lake which is on now a closed down golf course.  When the golf course was open, people use to lose their balls in there all the time and some locals used to go swim in the lake to find the balls and then sell them in the golf shops around the area.  My brother was one of those who went golf ball hunting. he used to go with a friend and his canoe, my brother use to dive for them.7 When I got to the lake yestday, which is known locally as llyn Pencefn, I was a bit apprehensive as, the media is full of old or middle aged men diving into things other than the municple baths and coming a cropper or even worse just ending up dead, probably due to their age and the condtions, no fool like an old fool I guess.  Anyway I had come prepared so I thought I would first dip my toe in like you do, in most things in life, in doing this I felt slippery stone at the bot

The danger of the internet came to the fore again this week.  The girl who probably tweeted about the Welsh language did not want everyone to see it. I am sure she will not make the same mistake again or maybe she will.  Its quite easy to forget that what you write on here is there for the whole world to see sometimes this mistake can be classed as naive, but I guess when you are not thinking, which I guess you should always do really when posting on here, it is very easy to make a mistake.  I know I did it a few years ago and suffered the consequences.  On here the printed word can be taken out of context and lead to backlass as happend to this BBC researcher.  I had a go at this BBC person whihc was wrong I guess in hindsight as I have done the same thing so I suppose I ahould have had some sympethy. I blasted some people for the way I was treated in relation to something, I blasted them on here, the mistake I made was that they were local, I did not in my my naievity think anyone

This week the Welsh language seems to have been picked on a bit. I obviously speak Welsh so am a bit protective of my culture.  Last week the media wer having a go at the Eisteddfod for the fact that the they were not honouring the Welsh football team and were putting down to the fact that that the team, though some do, do not speak Welsh,  I am sure the  Welsh football team were not that interested in getting something from the Eisteddfod anyway.  The next episode was a woman on a programme about Pwllheli, who did not want her child being taugh through the medium of Welsh, she seemed to want it treated like the French language is treated, in basically an area where Welsh is gpoken by most people, and where the culture Cymreag is alive and well though it would nto be if were for idiots like this woman. What chance does the Welsh language have it even inhabitants of the area do not respect the language and the culure.  The third episode of the language being picked on happend yesterday,