Pump am y Penwythnos / Friday Five 27/02/2018

Welsh General / Questions
#1

Noswaith dda gyfeillion! How are you all this evening?

1) What is the last great thing you watched on screen?

2) An artist/skilled professional has been commissioned to produce an piece in honour of you/with you as it’s inspiration, is it a drawing, painting, sculpture, cake, musical composition, piece of jewellery or something entirely different?

3) What is the best thing that happened to you this week?

4) The letters SSiW have become such a familiar part of my life. What is your favourite acronym? Also, make up a new acronym.

5) What can’t you keep up with?

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

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#2

1) What is the last great thing you watched on screen?

I’m currently editing a video, so unfortunately the last thing I saw on screen was my own face.

2) An artist/skilled professional has been commissioned to produce an piece in honour of you/with you as it’s inspiration, is it a drawing, painting, sculpture, cake, musical composition, piece of jewellery or something entirely different?

Lara did an art degree and needed to use me as practice, so I think I’ve been drawn, painted and sculpted more than about 1.4 million times, so I think a musical composition would make for a nice refreshing change!

3) What is the best thing that happened to you this week?

I ran a series of performance reviews in work for the guys I manage, two of whom are first language Welsh speakers. They were incredibly happy to be able to do their reviews through their first language for the first time in their careers - this brought me great joy.

4) The letters SSiW have become such a familiar part of my life. What is your favourite acronym? Also, make up a new acronym.

I work in IT, so unfortunately my life is a series of acronyms - and I’m sure anyone else here who works in IT has heard many of them. BAU, AWS, SDD, HDD, ADFS, DFS, DFS-R, NAP, NCP, CCNA, MCSE, MCSA, CCNP, PHP, HTML, XML…

New acronym: WSMA - Why so many acronyms :smiley:

5) What can’t you keep up with?

I think I’ve now finally hit that age where I must have put a flag in the sand and decided that I only like music created before that date.
Modern chart music!

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

Who was the last celebrity you met?
Leanne Wood, Friday in Lampeter!

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#3

1) What is the last great thing you watched on screen?
Whether you would class it as “great” or not is up to you but we watched ‘the shape of water’ last week and thought it was really good and very enjoyable. Not for kids.

2) An artist/skilled professional has been commissioned to produce an piece in honour of you/with you as it’s inspiration, is it a drawing, painting, sculpture, cake, musical composition, piece of jewellery or something entirely different?
A cheesecake. (I do get to eat it, don’t I?)

3) What is the best thing that happened to you this week?
I’ve successfully arranged something for my wife’s birthday as a secret surprise. I can’t wait and I’m really hoping I can bite my lip for another 11 days.

4) The letters SSiW have become such a familiar part of my life. What is your favourite acronym? Also, make up a new acronym.
For fear of being that guy … SSiW isn’t strictly an acronym but then you didn’t really say it is, did you? :wink:
I’m thinking ‘B.O.G.O.F’

New one … ‘S.B.A.P’! Stop being a pedant! :joy:

5) What can’t you keep up with?
I can’t keep up with the amount of Welsh language books I buy. There’s just not enough time in the day. :unamused:

6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it…
Which food would you stockpile in the garage in preparation for a no deal brexit?

I can’t believe this question would ever need to be asked in the first place, what an awful situation we are facing!

When Teresa May took over we were standing on the edge of a precipice, since then we’ve taken a massive step forward!

Anyway, baked beans and porridge oats.

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#4

1) What is the last great thing you watched on screen?

I’ve been catching bits of Laurel and Hardy on Youtube lately. So much to choose from, but I like their little singing duet “On The Trail of the Lonesome Pine”.

Also their funny dancing duet to the tune of “Commence to Dancing”.

Both from the film “Way out West”, I think.

Also been catching bits of “The Crazy Gang” films, also on Youtube, mainly to listen to Flanagan and Allen singing. They met while serving in Flanders in WW1, but didn’t work together until the 1920s. I think their friendship was genuine, and not just something put on for showbiz purposes. It certainly looks genuine.

Although he may seem terribly old fashioned now, I think Flanagan (not his original name, obviously), was incredibly talented. He also had wonderful eyes, especially when younger. Once you start looking at them, you can hardly look away from them.

2) An artist/skilled professional has been commissioned to produce an piece in honour of you/with you as it’s inspiration, is it a drawing, painting, sculpture, cake, musical composition, piece of jewellery or something entirely different?

It would have to be one of those caricature cartoons.

3) What is the best thing that happened to you this week?

Noticing that my 14-month-old grandson seemed to be actually singing more or less in tune with one of the nursery rhymes in his “singing book” of nursery rhymes. Well, he’s heard it enough, and seems to love it. (And that’s in spite of my singing along with it).

4) The letters SSiW have become such a familiar part of my life. What is your favourite acronym? Also, make up a new acronym.

This was from a New Statesman competition in the 1970s or 1980s:

ACCESS - “A Credit Card Encourages Silly Spending”. (ACCESS used to be the name of the credit card put out by Nat West bank I think).

5) What can’t you keep up with?

Paperwork / decluttering / decluttering paperwork

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

What would make your life easier just now?

Just a few degrees cooler, although still mostly sunny, with some rain overnight. Not too much wind, thank you. :slight_smile:

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#6

Lovely! And when I read about his life on Wikipedia, I was amazed.

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#7

1) What is the last great thing you watched on screen?

We watched something called “Rebellion” on Netflix about the 1916 Rising. That was very good. Not sure I’d call it great. The last “great” thing I watched on screen…hmmm…Oh, I know, Stranger Things.

2) An artist/skilled professional has been commissioned to produce an piece in honour of you/with you as it’s inspiration, is it a drawing, painting, sculpture, cake, musical composition, piece of jewellery or something entirely different?

A musical because I sing all the time.

3) What is the best thing that happened to you this week?

My parents moved to Cardiff :smile:

4) The letters SSiW have become such a familiar part of my life. What is your favourite acronym? Also, make up a new acronym.

Favourite acronym…

We made one up in work. Someone made the very sweeping generalization “guys are always late”. So I came up with GUYS - Give Up Your Stereotypes

5) What can’t you keep up with?

Brexit

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

What is your next project?

Well, this i a very general and sweeping question. Quite tough really. So I’ll keep it brief:

Resettlement visits on the day of discharge for long-stay patients in hospital. This would involve a member of the ward team going with the patient on the day of their discharge to meet the community team that will continue their care. This will boost the patients’ confidence in the team that will be continuing their care.

On a lighter note…

The advanced material from SSiW

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#8

Glad you liked it. It’s a lovely little song, isn’t it? And the entire film, “Okay for Sound” is also on Youtube. It’s very silly, but quite fun, and shows off the talents of all the Crazy Gang members. There were six of them, but they were really three double acts, who continued to work as double-acts when they weren’t being the Crazy Gang. I read somewhere that Val Guest, who directed “Okay for Sound”, wrote in a book that they were just as crazy off-screen as they were on it, and the whole thing was more like a long-running party than a film set. :slight_smile:

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#9

Slight shock at their singing about what you can’t buy with LSD, it being 1971 since I last heard British currency referred to in that way!

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