Software Engineer's Lifestyle...

[Francko]

I like Wales.

[planetit]

Excellent Francko. Though maybe a little repetitive.

[Francko]

I'm off to Wales for the weekend. How does that rate in the lifestyle stakes?

Welsh Landscape


To live in Wales is to be conscious
At dusk of the spilled blood
That went into the making of the wild sky,
Dyeing the immaculate rivers
In all their courses.
It is to be aware,
Above the noisy tractor
And hum of the machine
Of strife in the strung woods,
Vibrant with sped arrows.
You cannot live in the present,
At least not in Wales.
There is the language for instance,
The soft consonants
Strange to the ear.
There are cries in the dark at night
As owls answer the moon,
And thick ambush of shadows,
Hushed at the fields' corners.
There is no present in Wales,
And no future;
There is only the past,
Brittle with relics,
Wind-bitten towers and castles
With sham ghosts;
Mouldering quarries and mines;
And an impotent people,
Sick with inbreeding,
Worrying the carcase of an old song. To live in Wales is to be conscious
At dusk of the spilled blood
That went into the making of the wild sky,
Dyeing the immaculate rivers
In all their courses.
It is to be aware,
Above the noisy tractor
And hum of the machine
Of strife in the strung woods,
Vibrant with sped arrows.
You cannot live in the present,
At least not in Wales.
There is the language for instance,
The soft consonants
Strange to the ear.
There are cries in the dark at night
As owls answer the moon,
And thick ambush of shadows,
Hushed at the fields' corners.
There is no present in Wales,
And no future;
There is only the past,
Brittle with relics,
Wind-bitten towers and castles
With sham ghosts;
Mouldering quarries and mines;
And an impotent people,
Sick with inbreeding,
Worrying the carcase of an old song.

R.S. Thomas

[WageSlave]

I'm off to Wales for the weekend. How does that rate in the lifestyle stakes?

I'm collecting the mother-in-law from the airport.

Wage in 'Nigel' mode.

[SupremeSpod]

I'm off to Wales for the weekend. How does that rate in the lifestyle stakes?

My parents are moving to Anglesey over the weekend.

Spod - In "fecking Druids" mode!

[Lucifer Box]

I'm off to Wales for the weekend. How does that rate in the lifestyle stakes?

[SupremeSpod]

...Well, Spod is off to San Francisco next week.

Spod - In "Which is nice" mode!