Rownd a Rownd

[gruntius]

... you get the occasional English word, but it's not that excessive ...

When we went on a tour of the set a few years ago while on bootcamp we were told that there's a guy on set that has something to do with scripts, I can't remember what his main job was now, but he was very strict with language and would pull people up for using wrong words, i.e. English. That's why i started watching it in the first place to be honest. If you watch PyC you will hear a lot more English and Wenglish being used (by Kelly mainly (now Dol has left) but others now and then). Maybe it's more realistic in that respect, I don't know.

[Richmountart]

(by Kelly mainly (now Dol has left)

But I think the Kelly has become much more Welsh speaking in recent months. I liked the inclusion of Dol, I think that PwC is one of the first ports of call for the learner when they get to S4C and it's god to hear a learner using and developing their language. (or maybe the first programmes I watched were Tomas a Tanc, Sam Tan, Ty Cyw etc, can't quite remember now!)

Well i've watched it now....

Welcome to the dark side........
Actually it was watching Rownd a Rownd and hearing the self-same stuff I was learning helped me to connect much more with a language that was actually used by real people! There can so often be a bit of a disconnect when you just hear through headphones and it helped me alot to touch base with spoken gog twice a week!

[Pete2]

Welcome to the dark side..

Luke.....dy dad ydw i

[henddraig]

To @mikeellwood I hadn't thought about milk bottles. No deliveries here and all milk is in plastic bottles. When I was on Gower..well back when the farm with a milk herd delivered. really back when from a churn & jug! Then bottles. But pasteurisation became mandatory and off went the milk to Town and came back in cartons! I would love to know if glass bottles are really used in the north! Let's see.. @aran @Pete2 anyone else north of Builth?
Edit tried web site 'find me a milkman' - sob none in Menai Bridge.

[mikeellwood]

When I was on Gower..well back when the farm with a milk herd delivered. really back when from a churn & jug!

My granddad used to deliver milk from a churn & jug, via horse-drawn cart. This was right up to and including the war. He sold the farm soon after the war I think. The farm was just up the road from where my Mum's family lived, and that's how she met my Dad. I don't know when bottled milk came in in that area (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire at the time, Cumbria now).

Pasteurisation: Well, there were 3 fatal cases of TB in that little community that I am aware of among young teenage girls. Was it because of the unpasteurised milk? Who can say for sure? But then other people were drinking the milk and didn't get it. It was a cruel time for diseases then (before the war) (diphtheria being the other feared killer).

[henddraig]

I found out when I was about 16 that I'd had diphtheria, presumably very mildly, as a young child. My feet are oddly twisted - nothing that bad, nobody had noticed until then, but the specialist said it was only caused by diphtheria, nothing else! The only problem ever with the milk in our village was that it was much richer than most city children were used to, so some were sick!
ps I have a feeling milk came in the churn even in towns during the war because bottles broke easily if bombing shook the house or the dairy! I have faint memory of my gran going out with the jug! Definitely horse and cart, motors and floats were post war! In the 70s, in the village, farmer's wife came with baban and milk in the Land Rover!

[mikeellwood]

In the 70s, in the village, farmer's wife came with baban and milk in the Land Rover!

Land Rover? There's posh!

[henddraig]

Mike bach , you haven't seen the Land Rover! Mostly it had a couple of sheep in the back and dogs in front! Never been cleaned in living memory and suspension? What suspension?

[mikeellwood]

Not a Chelsea Tractor then.

[henddraig]

Dim o gwbl! Aren't those Range Rovers anyway?

[henddraig]

Oh dear! Are there any genuinely kind ladies in the world of TV drama? And poor David is getting trapped by his good nature! Of course, if he came out, said, "Look, fach, I'm gay, but I'll stay and look after you 'til you're better" Dani would have a fit at the very idea!

[mikeellwood]

Of course, if he came out, said, "Look, fach, I'm gay, but I'll stay and look after you 'til you're better" Dani would have a fit at the very idea!

Initially yes....but I think she might come round to the idea of David as her gay male best friend.
All the smart girls in New York have to have a gay male best friend ... or they did in Sex And The City, anyway. It's a bit radical for North Wales, but pam lai?

[henddraig]

Oh, that would be great! I'd love to see that in Gogledd Cymru!!

[mikeellwood]

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Well, "Megan" is really showing her true colours now, isn't she?
Oh Edwin bach!

Why didn't he just phone Rhys straight away? Rhys is such a gwd boi he would probably have come over straight away, and it might be something trivial.

[henddraig]

Yes but the scriptwriters want to milk the situation they have set up! I loved the expression of panic on Megan's face when she thought he might actually be too poor to afford a new car! I wish the writers had left that hanging for a while, not let her see his bank statement instantly!

[mikeellwood]

I wish the writers had left that hanging for a while, not let her see his bank statement instantly!

I agree.....or at least not let us see his bank statement.

[henddraig]

Mind, he really shouldn't have all that in his current account! I didn't look at anything but the total, but presume it was his current account! If he put it in an ISA, would it be harder steal? Well, she couldn't just cash a cheque, so... David needs to have a word with Mr. Lloyd about his savings!

[mikeellwood]

David needs to have a word with Mr. Lloyd about his savings!

That's right. When David and Rhys become an official couple, they can be his one stop shop for motoring and financial affairs....that's only if Megan hasn't bled him dry by then....!

[philipnewton]

My first episode tonight!

You may find this page with the cast of characters useful, then:

http://www.s4c.cymru/rowndarownd/e_/cymeriadau/

(Welsh version here)

It's a bit out of date and shows some characters who are no longer in the show and doesn't have all the newest relationships, but may still be helpful to see who's related to whom how.

(Or see the English Wikipedia page on the series, which also has a list of characters but seems even more out of date.)

[mikeellwood]

Not sure if it's upthread here, or in another thread, but I did find (more or less by chance), links to summaries of each week, which were linked to previous weeks, and so on, so if you were patient, you could find out what had been going on for ever such a long way back.

Unfortunately, on the current pages, they don't seem to present this as well as they used to, but with a bit of fiddly searching, one can still find the old summaries. If I can remember how I found them, I will post links again.