Oh what lovely inventions there have been since i was young!
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Just caught up! That did make me snigger!!!
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Not really a spoiler (12/10/2017), but
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ā¦after Dani, I think Iolo is the biggest spoilt child in the series.
Agreed! I hadnāt realised it until this last goings on! I hadnāt really taken much interest in him or what he did, but I can see he is adept at getting his own way. I donāt even fancy him. I think itās his eyes, they are too big somehow, for a chap! I didnāt comment yesterday becauseā¦
a. my iPad or its internet connection are on the blink
b. nothing grabbed me in the episode!
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not really a spoilerā¦
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I thought tonightās episode was somewhere between pantomime and farce (and in the case of Iolo, Cathryn and Vince, almost bedroom farceā¦). Enjoyable though. 
I hadnāt realised how nasty I really am! I have been finding these episodes lacking - and what they lack is real danger, characters at risk of worse than being evicted or told off! I do really want Mr. Ll to get his money and his house and a nice lady, and I didnāt want David killed, but I suppose I got used to the vah-vah-voomā¦neu fa-fa-fwm!!
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"Dear Private Eye,
I wonder if anyone has noticed the resemblance between John Walter of Radio Cymru (left) and Arthur, of Rownd a Rownd (right). Do you think they could be related? Has anyone ever seen them in the same room? I for one certainly havenāt! I think we should be told!
Yours,
Ena B. Stilgar, Porthaethwy, Ynys MĆ“n"
[If youāve ever read the letters pages in āPrivate Eyeā, youāll know what thatās all about]
Anyway, I was amused that John Walter, in his RC programme on Wednesday, said that his favourite programme (or one of them) was āRownd a Rowndā! 
Would anyone be as stupid as certain folk in R&R are portrayed as being?
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Coo, look what I found! āMeicalā yn canu:
I was trying to find out where Emyr Gibson came from. Didnāt find out but found this instead.
Iād found in a Daily Post article that the actor who plays John comes from Ynys MĆ“n (so we can assume his accent is fairly authentic to the area).
Rhys is from near Bala, and Arthur from near Blaenau Ffestiniog.
ā¦oh, just found that Emyr Gibson was brought up in Deiniolen, which is apparently not all that far from Ynys MĆ“n (about 7 miles by the shortest route, according to Google maps). So another local accent, I guess we can assume.
Edit: Oh, āDaniā is from Felinheli, which is very near Ynys MĆ“n (as the crow flies).
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When I stayed with my āAuntieā in Bethel, Deiniolen was not far, but we never had reason to go thereā¦ I got the idea it was tiny, but I think itās actually quite a big village!
āErinā is from Llan Ffestiniog, as I heard in a clip once.
(I think the setup was her and her ātwinā, to see how much the actors know about each other given that in the film they are twins.)
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More cast info: Dewi Rhys, who plays Wyn Humphries, was born in England but was adopted as a baby, and brought up in Caernarfon. He apparently made a documentary about it for S4C (which I havenāt seen), but there are various articles about it online.
Heās written a book called āHiwmor Y Cofiā. āCofiā is apparently the dialect spoken around Caernarfon.
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Thereās a snippet of a chap talking about Cofi on this pageā¦
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Whatās up with Owain? Heās getting all surly (not saying thank you to Glenda for making cupcakes for him, for example)ā¦ and why is he taking the fall for things Robbie put him up to?
Iām terrible. Iāve never taken notice of the younger kids. Maybe Robbie is bullying him? Is Owain the less sporty plump one who gets picked last for teams?
I would have dobbed Robbie in straight away for the cake throwing thing! Perhaps heās not saying anything because he doesnāt want to snitch, but is pouting because itās so unfair to take the blame.
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That was my reading of it - itās simply not done to grass, but itās all sooo unfaiiir!
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And itās proper unfair too - Iāve never been entirely clear on the no snitching rule, but Robbie didnāt trip over and lob a cake by mistake did he?
Mind you, I think Llio was daft not to look further than Owainā¦
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My thoughts too! No snitching is just wrong sometimes. Works brilliantly for aspiring or actual Mafiosi, but is bad for everyone else!
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And Llio assumed that Owain had thrown the cake that hit her head, even though she had her back turned and couldnāt see. If Owain had been mature and confident enough, he should have asked her (in front of Jim āGymā), āwhat makes you think it was me who threw that cake?ā [ i.e. what evidence do you have]. And there were plenty of witnesses [ who might not want to grass up Robbie, but could verify that Owain didnāt do it].
Another question about Robbie (who seems to be turning into a right little soā¦and-soā¦):
Who actually are his parents? I used to think it was Lowri and Kelvin, but then I noticed that Robbie calls Kelvin āKelvinā, not āT/Dadā. And then I thought Robbie said āDiolch Taidā when Ken gave him a fiver (but I suppose it could have been āDiolch Tadā).
But: if Ken and Kay are his parents, why doesnāt he have a name beginning āKā? (Remember the fuss they made over Lowriās babyās name? Kay was trying to insist it had to start with a āKā. She didnāt get her way (but does she have a middle name starting āKā, as a compromise?)).
Maybe Robbie isnāt anyoneās! (Iād disown himā¦). A cuckoo in the nestā¦?
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