Pump am y Penwythnos / Friday Five - 16/04/21 5️⃣

Welsh Lolfa SSiW Lounge
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Bore da, I hope that you are all well this morning and have an entertaining/relaxing/enjoyable weekend ahead planned. :slight_smile:

If you could…

  1. If you could invite any artist (dead or alive) to paint a portrait of you, who would you choose and why?

  2. If you could invite any poet (dead or alive) to write a poem about you, who would you choose and why?

  3. If you could invite any musician (dead or alive) to write and perform a song you, who would you choose and why?

  4. If you could invite any author (dead or alive) to write a book about you, who would you choose and why?

  5. Roast beef smells like my grandmother’s house and chrysanthemums smell like church. What smells or sounds bring back memories from your past?

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  1. If you could invite any artist (dead or alive) to paint a portrait of you, who would you choose and why?
    Tracey Emin. I am lazy and reckon I could lie in my messy bed asleep whilst she paints me.
  2. If you could invite any poet (dead or alive) to write a poem about you, who would you choose and why?
    Polly Garter. I think she had such deep insight!
  3. If you could invite any musician (dead or alive) to write and perform a song you, who would you choose and why?
    John Lydon (Johnny Rotten). I think I need to feel ‘edgy’ at least once in my life.
  4. If you could invite any author (dead or alive) to write a book about you, who would you choose and why?
    Lee Child. I thought he already had!
  5. Roast beef smells like my grandmother’s house and chrysanthemums smell like church. What smells or sounds bring back memories from your past?
    Dry rot. When young and taking services in chapels in the valleys so many of them were already suffering and I would often smell the rot as I walked in.
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#3

  • you could invite any artist (dead or alive) to paint a portrait of you, who would you choose and why?
    I’d choose Kate Rose - a contemporary Sheffield artist. Look her up, she’s incredible!!

  • If you could invite any poet (dead or alive) to write a poem about you, who would you choose and why?
    Dylan Thomas. I’ve never come across anyone else who could make words sound so beautiful.

  • If you could invite any musician (dead or alive) to write and perform a song you, who would you choose and why?
    Marcus Mumford. I know plenty of people who can’t stand Mumford and sons, but I’ve got to say that lyrically, and for sheer joy I would love to have a song written by them.

  • If you could invite any author (dead or alive) to write a book about you, who would you choose and why?
    Manon Steffan Ros. I can’t believe that within a year of learning Welsh i came across an author that I love so much!

  • Roast beef smells like my grandmother’s house and chrysanthemums smell like church. What smells or sounds bring back memories from your past
    The music to twin peaks genuinely still scares me. The smell of calomine lotion when my kids had chicken pox took me back to being 6 again. I am going back through the Ssiw course and every time a new word is introduced I remember exactly where I was standing when I heard it the first time!!
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  1. If you could invite any artist (dead or alive) to paint a portrait of you, who would you choose and why?


    Rembrandt - a total sucker for all the Dutch Masters, but I just love the whole look of his paintings (and the fact that somewhere in the dark, there’s almost always a little scruffy dog hiding under a table in them).

  2. If you could invite any poet (dead or alive) to write a poem about you, who would you choose and why?


    Wilfred Owen - if ever there was a poet to tell it like it is…

  3. If you could invite any musician (dead or alive) to write and perform a song you, who would you choose and why?


    Toyah - memories of my youth on the fringes of punk-dom! Love her sound and her work, especially her mid-80s stuff (Space between the sounds, I’ll serve you well, America for beginners, etc)

  4. If you could invite any author (dead or alive) to write a book about you, who would you choose and why?


    Ian Fleming - I always fancied being a Bond super-villain (why Mr Bond, I expect you to die! Mwaa-haa-haa. Oh by the way, if you want to stop my evil plan for world domination, all you need to do is escape from my devilish trap while I carelessly look the other way [as directed by the plot, of course] and press that whacking great obvious red button labelled “mission abort”. Not that you’re going to, now are you? Oh, you are… curses! Foiled again! ).

  5. Roast beef smells like my grandmother’s house and chrysanthemums smell like church. What smells or sounds bring back memories from your past?


    Freshly mown grass - straight back to my school days and sitting in an exam; the moment freshly delivered pizza box is opened, the smell reminds me of a group of friends and colleagues from 30+ years ago, when we’d often socialise over a few bottles of wine and some take-away pizzas.

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