Archive for the 'General Stuff' Category
Monday, December 31st, 2007
A big ‘Happy New Year’ from all at ForumWales!
Have a great night and good luck in 2008.
Let us know what New Year resolutions you make and then let us know in a few months (or weeks) time if you’ve stuck to them. We know that we’ll be making, and breaking, a few resolutions.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
When this was sent to me I thought “How exciting could this possibly be?”. But it is absolutely fascinating! I’d like to know how they do it too.
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
The National Library of Wales has put Dylan Thomas’ passport online for anyone interested in the man and his travels. You may view it here. I took a quick look through it and it’s pretty neat to be able to see all the places he visited during his lifetime.
The Evening Post […]
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
He’s on his way to the UK. Of late seen over China.
You can track him with Norad’s Santa Tracker.
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.htm
They’ve even got a Santa cam!
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
If you’ve got a bit of free time on your hands over Christmas, give Wheelhouse Creative’s game site a go. It’s great fun and sadly addictive. One of my all time favorite Flash games is Toaster (about halfway down the page). You’d think the music would get annoying after a bit but […]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Wales has its fair share of strangely named towns and cities, the famous Llanfair PG to Cardiff’s Splot. Now you can find out all about these and more with the newly published The Dictionary Of Place-Names Of Walesfrom Gomer Press.
For example, the story behind Maenclochog, meaning “rocks sounding like a bell”, is thanks to […]
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
… and I’ll have a ‘Flawless’, please.
The cost of the round may be a little high. After you get the two pints of Fosters, a Guinness and a Coke for the designated driver, the bar bill will be in excess of £35,000!!! Umm, that might be because of my Flawless.
According to The Guardian, […]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Well, I’ve never seen this film before but I sat here tonight engrossed in it. It really puts things into perspective.
An excellent film.
Via: Treehugger
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I can’t figure this out. I spent the afternoon listening to the Ospreys vs. London Irish on S4C. A fairly good game for a slaughter and the commentary was all in Welsh. Mind you, I don’t understand a whole lot of Welsh yet, but I did manage to get a bit of […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Here’s some fun from the Evening Post for Halloween. And you can be a part of it. Know any weird websites? If so, drop them a note and they may add it to their own list. And they’ve found some really fun stuff.
Like animations? Remember the 60’s? Check out […]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Yahooo!! We not only got Cardiff on the Monopoly map but Cardiff Airport as well. You can see the results here.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
A hearty ‘good luck’ to ForumWales moderator Arwen! Today she flies to Heathrow from California to then travel onwards to Wales. Arwen is making the move to study Welsh at Swansea.
FW wishes her the best of luck in her new Welsh adventure and hopes that she enjoys her course and her time in […]
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