Is the plan for another Skype session today, 7 pm @ramblingjohn ?
i have been a bit busy this weekend so will try for next Sunday.
Please carry on without me and enjoy.
Cheers J.P.
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Just in case you didn’t know or you have automatic Skype updates off. According to your Skype would work properly you need to update it. I’ve seen the notices from the last group calls that I, @Y_Ddraig_Las and Kim Erswell (don’t know forum name) must update Skype. I updated it immediately after last Sunday so if you did too, then no worries.
Will aim to open skype at 7 pm tonight (Welsh time zone).
Cheers J.P.
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I will look in briefly at 9pm, in case anyone is still around. (No problem if not, I’d only have a few minutes anyway.)
Oh, great! I and @brigitte have already wondered yesterday if there will be any sgwrs heno … 
Allerting @Y_Ddraig_Las, @Flynn and @seren in case they didn’t see this …
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Unfortunately I have my dissertation in tomorrow, and still have stuff to finish up, so will have to be another time. Have fun!
Sounds like a well attended meeting of
Yr clwb cymraeg crwban - the welsh tortoise club
is on the cards this evening.
to get the conversation started.
Roedd yr haul yn gwenu lle ydych chi’n byw heddiw. - Was the sun smiling where you live today.
A few of the words that appeared tonight.
Barcud - Kite
gwyntog gryf – strong wind
planhigion - Plants
brawddeg - sentence
cris T – T shirt
distawrwydd – silence.
ffuglen wyddonol – science fiction.
ffuglen - fiction
ffuglen hanesyddol – historical fiction.
Crynwyr – quakers.
a few more from last nights skype.
Lliw – colour.
Lliwiau – colours.
Lliwgar – colorful.
Planhigion – plants.
Blodau – flower.
i flodeuo – to flower.
Cheers J.P.
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mae’n amser i ddefnyddio ein dychymyg (ni) – It’s time to use our imaginations.
Hen coeden afal - old apple tree.
Just trying to think of idea’s for next time, maybe sentences about the old apple tree in the garden
would be a starting point.
There could be things on, above or under the tree. (birds, colourful tortoise or dancing frogs).
Is there a wall around the garden, clouds in the sky.
do you like to sit beside the tree and enjoy tea, coffee, wine, reading.
The idea is to think of the those annoying words that keep slipping from your memory.
Write them here so we can all make a point of using them.
With practice they will become familiar.
Perhaps together we can paint a rather nice picture (yn cymraeg).
Cheers J.P.
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I will aim to open the group call 7pm (Welsh time) Sunday 20th.
Cheers J.P.
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Since we’ve mentioned on our today’s practice also what kind of coffee we like to drink, here’s a little video about what coffee I drink and how I cook it as I think many didn’t quite understand what I wanted actually to say.
And note … the coffee has to be made so that you can actually cook it. That one for expresso machines is not suitable for preparing it like this.
Enjoy!
[size=9]And, yes, this is me sipping my beloved beverage, enjoying the lovely sunny afternoon many years ago when i was way younger and not so grey haired then I am now. - hehe[/size]
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I forget that people who didn’t grow up in Wales don’t know about Mr Urdd! 
or the Urdd movement in general
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUpOeH7mfY
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I’m hoping Tatjana will post her apple tree here,
will get the word list up as soon as i get time.
Cheers J.P.
Well, let it be then …
Since I didn’t get much of idea what to add to the story I carfully listened to what the others spoke about, searched the words I didn’t understand and drawn this Apple tree … imaginary one we’ve told the story about.
Well, I took ArtRage Oil for doing this (it’s what I have on my tablet) so the picture isn’t as “accurate” as it should be, but I hope it did the “trick”.
Enjoy.
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I’m impressed you can sit and paint while talking.
Some words used last night.
Rhywle - somewhere
hyderus – confident.
rhywbeth fel na – soemthing like that.
canol - middle
ŵyr = grandson
cyngor - council
faint oed - how old
urdd – guild.
Pwll- pool.
dychmygu – imagine.
grifft – spawn.
llyfant – frog.
Ystlum = Bat.
pen I waered (wyneb i waered)– upside down.
dangos = show.
ymddangos = appear (show themselves - reflexive)
hedfan – fly.
neidr = snake.
neidr gantroed = centipede.
nedir filtroed = millipede.
poeni – worry.
sglodion = chips.
selsig – sausage.
heb – without.
seidr = cider.
yn yr haf yn yr ardd – in summer in the garden.
Llosgfynydd- volcano.
mynydd = mountain
losg = burning.
tu ol – behind.
llifogydd-floods
llwglyd – hungry.
newynog – hungry.
Glo – coal.
llechi- slate.
Bol- tummy.
peintio – painting.
hanner ffordd – half way.
rhwng – between.
Feel free to add any that did not get typed into skype or any you think would be useful.
Any feedback on what is good or not so good with this format is welcome.
as are any more illustrations.
Cheers J.P.
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Thanks, J.P.
Lovely painting, Tatjana.
I enjoyed the conversations. I think I understood some of it!
Was there a yellow parrot In the tree, or did I just dream that?
It was, @Y_Ddraig_Las’s one but it flew away as he was scared of the draig (if I understood the things correctly).
Thank you. Nothing artistic in it though. I actually can’t draw but like to put my ideas on the (digital) canvas if even they’re never a mindblowing piece of art though …
I’m glad you enjoyed it and I believe (according to my feelings listening you responding to the course of speaking) you’ve understood not just some of it but quite a lot, surely more then I did. I’m not sure but I am noticing I understand less and less with each conversation, just like someone would block my brains and when I speak … oh, you’ve heard what a word mess it comes out of me. - hehe
Sorry, but I had a kind of feeling @Flynn wasn’t too satisfied with our story invention so I’d really like to hear what he’d expect us to discuss next time. Whatever I hope he comes next time again.
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Haha, I loved the directions the story went. So unexpected at every step! (or every 100 steps?)
I thought choosing the old apple tree as the basis for the story was a great idea, with the story expanding from there. It gave such a wide field within which to talk that it was difficult to be lost for words
Not sure about exact ideas, but something like last night, where we choose a starting idea and build on it seems like a really good exercise, and lots of fun too!
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I’m just relieved our newest member found it acceptable.
This could become Diary of the hen coeden afal (beth bydd’n digwidd yr wythnos hon.
Start at the same point and see where we end up, there are plenty of words, sentences
from the course that didn’t get used.
(e.g. the singing dog didn’t get to eat any cheese). (mae’r cath gwyn a ddu ddim yn cael newid ei smotia).
Cheers J.P.