Is that heading giving New Year wishes in Gaelic? Well, only if you regard the Scots as a backward people. For those who did not register immediately, that first bit reads ‘Happy New Year’ backwards. Hopes are that this will make it go forward better than the last one did.
Below is a song which is a tradition with us at midnight on 31st December. I am descended from a Scot who is argued to have been the first English-speaking South African – Robert Hart. The song was, of course, written by Rabbie Burns in 1788. I also found a version by my favourite singer of Scots ballads, Kenneth McKellar.
May 2016 exceed your wildest dreams as the best year ever – making only one group miserable. The prophets of doom.
An Old-Year quote by 4-year-old J who saw a large cockroach a week or so back and wanted to be picked up. I assured her that the cockroach was more scared of her than she was of him. After lifting her I mimed him quaking and said, ‘He’s petrified!’
‘Petrified means he rocks!’ she responded confidently.
And the beautiful but camera-shy Red Bishops who have been visiting have now been named by her ‘the vicious birds’.
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This rocks. Thanks for the chuckles
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Glad you aren’t one of those who treated it with stony incomprehension! 🙂
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Crumbling before such
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I, who have no Welsh ancestry that I know of but now live in Wales, offer you Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, Col!
Now I know that all those double-Ds and ‘w’s and ‘y’s are a bit perturbing, but I assure you the phrase is neither an anagram nor spelt backwards, and easier to say than spell: Bloy-Thin Nay-with Tha (the ‘th’ is pronounced as in the word ‘the’).
And no, I haven’t gone completely ‘native’ — I can’t bear Welsh Male Voice Choirs, I’m afraid …
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We have holidayed there and have been among the henoed one is warned against at crossings …
Half the places we stayed at we couldn’t pronounce. Lovely area for cycling and climbing, though. I took the direct route up Moel Hebog. Much faster than my daughter and grandkids, but also harder work/
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You’re descended from a Hart…..so am I on my paternal grandmothers side!! What a small world this is, and I do love your adorable granddaughters take on life and the world! Wishing you all a happier 2016
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It would be interesting to see if we are cousins, and of which category!
Already, favourable things are starting to happen this year.
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It’s eons since I heard Kenneth McKellar. It gave me goosebumps. I love little J’s logic. She is a little cutie-pie. 🙂
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We attended a live concert with Kenneth McKellar, and he was brilliant. He did that unaccompanied piece ‘She Moved Through The Fair’ and it was just note-perfect.
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While listening to the song, I bring you Extra fresh Pawkisses for a Happy and Healthy New Year 🙂 ❤
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And the same to you expressed in loud purrs!
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Happy New Year, Col!
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Happy new year to you and yours
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Thank you, and the same wishes for you and yours.
. . . and that is a very nice version . . . I’ll be adding it to my playlist.
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You’ve certainly started 2016 well for me! Old photographs (I love them), an old song beautifully sung (haven’t heard K McK in ages), and a bonus picture of your delightful young wordsmith-in-the-making. Happy New Year to you.
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hahaha she is smart – a cockroach that rocks! Happy new year 😀
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I loved her association of ideas!
And to you!
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Happy New Year, Col.
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And to you – 2016 has duly arrived!
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