Pump am y Penwythnos / Friday Five 10/04/2020 5️⃣

Bore da everyone and Pasg Hapus / Happy Easter!

1) What strange thing have you recently had to do for the first time ever?

2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?

3) When was the last time you were distracted enough to forget about it all?

4) I LOVED your limericks from last week, soooo… 'Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent…'

5) For this sunny Easter weekend share with me a must try recipe and one feel good song.

And because it’s a holiday weekend…

6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…

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1) What strange thing have you recently had to do for the first time ever?
Not new nor strange but I have started doing jigsaws again after decades of avoiding them. On my fourth one now and hoping to move up to a 50 piece one later today.

2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?
No bunnies, no chocolate eggs but lots of jigsaws (if I have spent 27 hours doing them they are not going back in the box, ever).

3) When was the last time you were distracted enough to forget about it all?
Two days ago when I could’t find the jigsaw piece with Woody’s cowboy hat on it.

4) I LOVED your limericks from last week, soooo… 'Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent…'
Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent,
Had isolated themselves in a tent.
They had a jigsaw of Welsh verbs,
And the most difficult words,
But had no idea what they meant.

5) For this sunny Easter weekend share with me a must try recipe and one feel good song.
I’ve probably used this example before but I am even finding The Smiths song, ‘Heaven knows I am miserable now’, uplifting!
There are seven adults in my house on lockdown so my must try recipe is anything on toast.

And because it’s a holiday weekend…

6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…
There was a Welsh Londoner on lock down…

Um, I think I will give this one a miss.

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1) What strange thing have you recently had to do for the first time ever?
Kiss my grandddaugher through a double-glazed window - not good :frowning: The two families have since conscientiously lived through our self-isolation periods but will re-impose them when anyone goes out. The bottom line is that normal cwtshing has resumed. :grinning::heart:
2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?
My canny wife (Jiw, there’s glad I am that I married her) bought Easter Eggs for us all before the plague and when they were still cheap. :laughing: There are no bunnies, but lots of fluffy Easter unicorns. Do they count?
3) When was the last time you were distracted enough to forget about it all?
When Maureen kissed me :heart_eyes::heart_eyes:
4) I LOVED your limericks from last week, soooo… 'Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent…'
Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent
In order to celebrate Lent
They put in a bag
Their love of Cymraeg (that rhymes and scans in the valleys :laughing:)
But soon they began to repent
5) For this sunny Easter weekend share with me a must try recipe and one feel good song.
I was going to suggest Easter Bunny but that may not go down well (as it were), so I’ll trot out my usual “Cig Oen a Mel” - Leg of lamb (sealed all round in a pan), Rosemary, Ginger (powdered or fresh), dry cider, honey (to taste, salt and black pepper) -bung them in a pot and cook for ages. :yum: Mwynhewch.
Oh I forgot the feel good song. It makes me cry but it also makes me feel good. :cry::smile:
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…
Sori - rhy flinedig :sleepy:

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1) What strange thing have you recently had to do for the first time ever?

I have recently had to train a clinical specialist physiotherapist (big cheese, works with surgeons effectively as a registrar, does everything orthopaedic save the operations themselves) on how to work on a ward.

Due to this adeg, for a better word, loads of staff have been redeployed to work on wards to improve the flow of the system (acutely unwell - ward based recovery - rehab - discharge). This means our normal team of 4-6 (part time fluctuations) is now a team of 13.

It’s good fun as a challenge. Everyone has embraced it! But very strange speaking to people through face masks and visors. Normally only do that on ITU.

2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?

It was penblwydd Emma yesterday. So we had homemade pizzas, beer/gin and tonic, and a family quiz over the Internet.
Unfortunately I also took my mum to A&E because she broke her wrist. But on the bright side I saw my mum and dad and she was seen entirely by consultants and in and out in 2.5 hours. If only every week people used A&E properly :thinking:

3) When was the last time you were distracted enough to forget about it all?

When I was making the pizza dough on Thursday night. I had my wife’s cousin on facetime talking me through it. It was good fun and very messy!

4) I LOVED your limericks from last week, soooo… 'Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent…'
All their money it was spent
So they started to canu
And it was uncanny
They sounded like Jim Broadbent

5) For this sunny Easter weekend share with me a must try recipe and one feel good song.

Jambalaya by Jamie Oliver :ok_hand:

This is a very strange feel good song because my Dad says he wants it at his funeral so always makes me dewy eyed but I love it:

I’ll be on my way by The Sawdoctors

The lyrics are amazing:

Well here it is, my time has come
Won’t be long I’ll be moving on
I can’t complain, I’ve had my day
Now I’ll be on my way

And all the good times that we’ve
Had
Much more good than bad
What more can I say?
Now I’ll be on my way

Don’t be sad now when I’m gone
Take your time while you’re still
Young
In the warm sunshine make hay
Now I’ll be on my way
Where I’m going, I don’t know
But I’m heading off in sun
Rain hail or snow
In the yard I hear the children play
Now I’ll be on my way
have no fear of what’s to come
My faith in better days is strong
Somewhere warm and safe to stay
Now I’ll be on my way

You might think you need my love
But I can’t give you half enough
You deserve the warmest purest
Rays
Now I’ll be on my way
Slan leat anois mo stor
There’s no need to see me to me door
We’ll meet again I hope and pray
Now I’ll be on my way
We’ll meet again I hope and pray
Now I’ll be on my way

And because it’s a holiday weekend…

6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…

if you could live anywhere in Ireland where would you live?
Definitely Connemara - so much like North Wales in so many ways. Plus Galway is the county of the tribes and Gráinne Ni Mháille - the head of the tribe who met Elizabeth I as an equal and refused to bow to her when she met her in London. She didn’t recognise Elizabeth as the Queen of Ireland.

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1) What strange thing have you recently had to do for the first time ever?

Sign on. What a palaver. Don’t go there…

2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?

We usually buy the children one, but the only child at home is the dog, so we bought her one!

3) When was the last time you were distracted enough to forget about it all?

I’m usually being totally distracted by something. My current obsession is planning to sail to New Zealand to visit my sister.
Hey, it’s more environmentally-friendly than an aeroplane…

4) I LOVED your limericks from last week, soooo… ‘Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent…’

Two avid Welsh learners from Gwent,
Once camped on a farm in a tent.
They thought they were bold,
But awoke up really cold,
For they’d mixed up Pasg with Adfent!

5) For this sunny Easter weekend share with me a must try recipe and one feel good song.


You can have the recipe for this once I have pried it from the grasp of my niece…

Enjoy!

And because it’s a holiday weekend…

6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…

Q:- What is the origin of Bank Holidays?

A:- Don’t know, don’t care, just keep ‘em comin’!

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2) What is your lock-down Easter look like - any fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs around?

It was penblwydd Emma yesterday. So we had homemade pizzas, beer/gin and tonic, and a family quiz over the Internet.
Unfortunately I also took my mum to A&E because she broke her wrist. But on the bright side I saw my mum and dad and she was seen entirely by consultants and in and out in 2.5 hours. If only every week people used A&E properly.
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Oh dear! Was she twmpath dancing? No, hard to twmpath dance and keep social distancing at the same time. Please send her my very best wishes. Two months post surgery and three months post fracture I’ve still not seen one of your colleagues wyneb i wyneb so It’s me and youtube physio.
Cadwch yn saff Anthony.

Eeks! Not a real chocolate one, gobeithio :worried:

I guess Gary will do the same as I would - give the dog a chew and eat the egg myself (possibly giving Maureen a bit) :laughing:
Q: Do dogs realise that chocolate is poisonous? :laughing:

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That’ll be a nope, then!! Shhh, don’t say “Treat!” too loudly!!!

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They don’t know that Christmas cake isn’t good for them. Our dog didn’t know, twice over.

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