A very interesting meeting, the afternoon session consisted of our annual competition judging and critique, we were delighted to welcome Hoss Mahdavi back as our judge this year. The evening session comprised two mini seminars by Hoss on Marketing and Posing & Lighting. MTA albums provided a trade exhibition showcasing their range of albums including the recently launched Floricolor range.
Tag Archives: Welsh
Coginio Nadolig
Our Welsh Class went out for a Christmas meal at the Miskin Arms this evening, it was excellent. Here are a few snapshots.
Blog Fixed!
Something must have gone wrong with the last upgrade to my blog software as I haven’t been able to write any posts since the upgrade last month! I finally had some free time this morning to re-download the upgrade files, FTP them to my server and repeat the upgrade process. Everything seems to be working and I can once again write posts. 🙂
It’s been a busy month with lots of work on album designs, making up albums and print orders. This is a really busy time for album manufacturers and often low stocks and long delivery times reflect this.
I’m enjoying the new Welsh class, the pace is fairly brisk and it can be quite a struggle to keep up, there’s quite a lot of spoken work and homework twice a week so it’s quite intensive.
Claire and Lee stayed with us last weekend it was really nice to see them again.
A different Welsh class
I had a visit to the dentist this morning. I attended the Welsh class at Ty Illtud in the village this afternoon, a great bunch of people, the pace is a little intense and very little English is spoken but it was quite enjoyable, the next session is on Monday so I’ll need to finish the homework over the weekend.
A cool Wednesday
Pobol y Cwm fans may be interested to know that Lisa Victoria who plays Sheryl in the popular Welsh TV series now has her own web site. It’s also nice to see some familiar faces returning to the series including Debbie Moon who plays Rhian Haf, Rhys ap William who plays Cai and Catrin Arwel who plays Emma.
Now that the peak of the wedding season is over I’m currently working on a number of wedding album designs and I spent the afternoon working on my accounts.
David and Hannah called in this evening. 🙂
Dosbarth Cymraeg
Es i Dosbarth Cymraeg bore yma.
Welsh classes started again this morning, once again struggling a little on numbers attending, we’ll have to wait and see what happens next week, hopefully a few more people will be there. A lot of changes this year now that the University of Glamorgan have taken over the administration of the courses, a new syllabus complete with new books. Only two more years to go to complete the course!
A bright sunny Tuesday but a wet and windy night
I’m suffering from a streaming cold at the moment so didn’t get to my Welsh class this morning. Stacy wasn’t well this evening so I gave her and Paul a lift to the hospital this evening, she’s having some further tests tomorrow.
A very cold Tuesday
Welsh class again this morning, continuing to work on the current assessments, firing questions at each other and making notes of the answers. No rain today which makes a welcome change but the weather has become much colder with quite a frost last night.
A new release of the blog software today, quite a few changes to options and plugins, I’ve completed the upgrade and it seems to be working as planned.
The problems with email on my webhost appear to have been resolved, they’ve been undertaking a server upgrade and for several days recently email access has been dreadful. Apparently no emails sent to me have been lost but they have been taking a significant time to arrive, the backlog has now been cleared so fingers crossed!
I’ve also upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2007 on my notebook computer, a tortuous upgrade that probably needs a complete uninstall and reinstall which may sort out the problems. In typical Norton / Symantec style the uninstallation fails, I’ve raised a support query but as my last one went unanswered I’m not holding my breath. I have two months left with my current subscription so the jury’s still out on whether I’ll continue using the product or revert to my previous security products.
A cold Tuesday
I had intended going to my Welsh class this morning, I’ve missed a number of weeks following my recent surgery, unfortunately Julie rang this morning to say that she’s unable to run the class today as she’s not feeling very well. 🙁
I spent the morning applying 3M repositionable pressure mount to a large number of photographs ready to mount them in the albums I’m currently working on. Perhaps one day someone will devise a mounting product that is easy to use, so far this time I’ve avoided cutting my fingers with the scalpel. 🙂
Jason called in this evening to collect the print order from his and Jennie’s wedding. Their Jorgensen wedding album is being delivered this week so their album should be ready at the end of the week. With a bit of luck I should have completed all the current album orders this week.
A wet and dreary Wednesday
An overcast and wet day. The roof and window blinds have been fitted in the conservatory and it makes a big difference to the light and temperature, just need a bright sunny day now to be able to properly judge the improvement.
Welsh class this evening, it’s proving difficult once again to get back into the swing of it following the long summer break but Julie is giving us plenty of practice speaking in various tenses and using all those tricky mutations that are a feature of the language.
Andrew dropped in their selection of images for their Jorgensen wedding album last night and I’ve been working on the initial album design, it’s taking shape very nicely.