My Grey Spirit

[Derek]

My Grey Spirit Cilt is now designated my stage/music Cilt ... One of the local radio stations put on a 'party in the park' yesterday in Barry .. we did a set, unfortunately without our kybd player, fiddle player and another backing vocalist, who were on holidays ... but we still had great fun. The park is only a few mins away from where they filmed the series 'Gavin and Stacy'.








If anyone wants some more info about the band, you can find it here ...
www.thejamesclodeband.co.uk
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Derek

[Hawk]

Thank you Derek for bringing us on stage with you.....

Hawk

[Pleater]

That is a very distinguished looking kilt - muted yet unmistakably tartan. You wear it well without upstaging anyone.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[GMan]

What a great looking tartan.

[McRoy]

Agreed, splendid tartan, though I'd wear it more formally perhaps with a grey, argyle jacket... And first time I've seem Kilt spelt "Cilt" but that's your khoice. ;-)

[Liam]

And as I have said before, I live your casual "gillies"
Thanks for for sharing the "Picts"
Slainte

[rtown]

Awesome photos. Thanks for sharing.

[Derek]

Liam .. yep .. 99% of the time I wear 'converse' gillies
McRoy ... Kilt = Cilt in Welsh ...
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Derek

[Tartan Tess]

Love your pictures (and your sneakers) Derek.
McRoy, it takes a bit to get used to the Welsh spelling but a cilt is a kilt is a cilt is a kilt.

[Derek]

Here is a bit of info about the welsh language .....
The Welsh Alphabet has some extra letters that are not used in English, and does not have some others. Although certain letters do not exist in Welsh, they are used sometimes to make sounds that could not possibly be made otherwise. A good example is the word "garej" (meaning garage). The letter "j" does not exist in the Welsh language, and is a lend-word from English. The traditional word for "garage" in Welsh is modurdy, which means, "motor house". Another lend-word is "toiled," which means "toilet" in English. There are now many lend-words in spoken Welsh. Here is the Welsh alphabet;
A¹, B, C, CH², D, DD², E¹, F², FF², G, NG², H, I¹, J, L, LL², M, N, O¹, P, PH², R, RH², S, T, TH², U¹, W^{1 2}, Y¹.
¹ These letters are vowels. The letter 'W' can be used either as a vowel (when it is said 'oo' like in the Welsh word 'cwm' (coom) meaning 'valley') or as a consonant (when it is said like it is in English, for example in the Welsh word 'gwyn' (gwin) meaning 'white'). This is the same with letter 'I' which can also be used as a consonant (when it is said like an English Y like in 'iogwrt' (yog-oort) meaning yoghurt.
² Letters that are not in the English alphabet, or have different sounds. CH sounds like the 'KH' in Ayatollah KHoumeini. DD is said like the TH in 'There'. F is said like the English 'V'. FF is said like the English 'F'. NG sounds like it would in English but it is tricky because it comes at the beginnings of words (for example 'fy ngardd' - my garden). One trick is to blend it in with the word before it. LL sounds like a cat hissing. PH sounds like the English 'F' too, but it is only used in mutations. RH sounds like an 'R' said very quickly before a 'H'. TH sounds like the 'TH' in 'THin'. W has been explained in the sentences before about vowels.

Also missed this pic of me grey spirit


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Derek