July 4 2007 Lunch/Johnston/101
Had lunch in three languages yesterday. Met up with Rev D Ben Rees - the pre-eminent among Liverpool's Welsh community.
My Welsh was poor when I was working in Llandudno, but now its rusty poor Welsh - which is very feeble indeed.
Managed a few phrases, interspersed with English, then had to switch to some pidgin Italian as the waiter in Piccolinos started telling us about his weekend in Porthmadog.
Profitable lunch as the Welsh community is planning a fantastic programme for 2008. They are hugely proud of their contribution to Liverpool, its culture and its infrastructure.
Fantastic to wake up this morning and see the BBC's Alan Johnston a free man. Wonderful when a story has a happy ending. Journalists like Alan do difficult things in difficult places to bring the real story to their audience. They are brave people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6267928.stm
Carolyn Hughes has given me a great idea for a new blog - Blog 101. Devotees of the TV show will know the format - things we hate can be outed and consigned to oblivion.
I hate people who read the Echo in a supermarket then put it back on the shelves.
What makes your blood boil?
Post me on this blog or email paulaburnell@liverpool.com
Harry off school with hacking cough and temperature. Morgan miserable because sports day waterlogged off.
July? Don't get me started,
