Aght Twitter noa

Beggan er dy henney, ren mee aahaishbyney aght dy lhaih strooghyn Twitter as Weibo liorish RSS.

Wahll, ta Twitter er marroo yn aght shen beggan er dy henney. My t'ou er nyannoo ymmyd jeh hannah, bee ny kianglaghyn ayd foast geddyn naight, agh cha nod oo croo stroo RSS noa 'syn aght shen. Twitter mollaghtagh. Er lhiam nagh mie lhiat dy nod sleih lhaih strooghyn Twitter gyn listal ayn nyn hene...

Aghterbee, ta Falsinsoft er soilshaghey magh aght noa as ny sassey shen y yannoo. GMA!

1. Fow coontey Twitter yn ymmydeyr t'ou stolkey
2. Cur stiagh yn ennym coontey 'sy raa shoh:
   http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=ENNYM COONTEY
3. Cur y kiangley heose stiagh 'sy jeeagheyder RSS ayd

Myr sampleyr, ta'n Ghreinneyder ry-lhaih myr RSS liorish

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=greinneyder

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A while ago, I shared a way to read Twitter and Weibo feeds with RSS.

Since then, Twitter's broken that technique. You can still get feeds you've set up already, but you can't create new ones. Weird! Maybe they didn't like people being able to read Twitter without signing up for it, I dunno.

Anyway, Falsinsoft have found another way to work it. Cheers!

1. Find the Twitter account you want to follow
2. Add the account name (lowercase, it seems) to the following link:
   http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=ACCOUNT NAME
3. Stick the link into your RSS reader

For example, the Greinneyder can be followed on RSS via:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=greinneyder

Tostid 'sy lioarlann!

She shiaghtin skeeagh elley v'ayn. Ta shin tarroogh dy liooar. Shen ny haghyrys my t'ou jannoo un lioarlann ass daa, as freayll skimmee fer jeu dys tendeil ymmydeyryn y jees oc ta çheet da'n un voayl nish. Va daa wheesh ny h-ymmydeyryn jannoo famman dys cur erash daa wheesh ny lioaryn da lieh ny sleih dobbree lieh ny buird do nagh dod ny smoo jin cur shirveish eer dy row traa ain. Va barraghyn scudleelioaryn myr nah voalley rish ny boallaghyn, as dagh shirveishagh roie mygeayrt my fer keoie.

Ec y traa cheddin, ta ard-eiyr ayn. Hoshiaght, dy chredjagh oo rieau dy vel lioarlann ny voayl shee, jean aasmooinaghtyn. Ta'n boayl lane dy yeshaghtyn sheeanagh: co-earrooderyn, taishbyneryn boalley foawragh beilloo, jeshaghtyn coip-hollys, dagh fer jeu sheer-chronnaney eer tra nagh vel peiagh erbee bentyn roo. Ta çhellvaneyn oik, intercom as tree(!) coryssyn arree screeaghey er fud y laa, as mannagh vel, ta çhellvaneyn as radioyn laue ny dorysseyryn ry-chlashtyn dy baghtal trooid dorryssyn foshlit failtagh ny lioarlann. S'doillee eh feddyn magh my ta bun sheean ennagh mastey'n tharmane, ny loayrt rish sleih harrish yllagh y giat "sauçhys" ta shassoo noi peiagh neuloghtagh ennagh, as yllagh yn ourallagh boght tra ta'n giat dooney er e lurgaghyn. Ta'n giat jouyllagh shen screebey er ard lesh dagh peiagh goll ny hrooid, as eisht erash lesh cling; myr noi-chastey skeeys, ny keayrtyn t'eh aaghooishtey ass cadley boiragh, builley ry-cheilley myr ribbey roddan as cur magh sheean ny s'cooie da clag raauee çhennar fovooirane na da jeshaght stiuree entreilys ta currit ass nagh ren oo cur jee y kaartey ayd kiart er yn aght oardit. Gow padjer nagh jagh y larym arree lioaryn hene er bioyraghey! Ta'n gullyrnee shen dy liooar dy chur er fakideryn roie er çhea er son fastee, er deiney lajer giallaghey, as er shenn ard-scoillaryn baneaghey as tuittym dy trome noi boalley ennagh fo aggle. Foddee oo credjal dy vel peiagh ennagh fo drogh-ouyrys eab kynney-ghunverys, cha nel jus er n'eeassaghey lioar ennagh nagh ren ny lioarlannee aarlaghey dy kiart. Shen gyn çheet er beepyn as çherryn gyn scuirr lesh lioaryn goll er eeassaghey, glionnagyn goll er dooishtey as y corys intercom goll er brishey er lesh çhellvane creeney ennagh gyn coodagh fondagh, as frappal myr aile lane fuygh glass. Ta shligganys beayn lectraneagh ayn nagh lhiggagh dhyt ny sheeanyn y aarheynn; t'ad covestey myr sheer-tarmane ta soodraght harrish keeallyn castit myr mooir leoaie seiy.

'Sy choirrey çherragh cronnaneagh shoh, ta sheean beayn tarrarey boallaghyn, cur sheese caabylyn, bwoalley dorryssyn, builley coshey as obbraghey oardyn faggys as foddey jeed neuvaghtal, bunnys, da cleayshyn skee. Da peiagh erbee elley - noanee neuchreoit ta ventreil stiagh son y chied cheayrt 'sy çhiamble ynsee shoh - t'eh clashtyn dy vel ard-eailley electronica annymoil er lheh ayns Akihabara er ny crosh-skedjal marish taishbynys çhaghnoalleeaght lhieggey bleinoil yn teihll. Aigh vie nagh vel peiagh erbee geabbey dy obbraghey ayns shoh, eh?

As shen jerrey shayll 10-oor Jeheiney ec jerrey'n çhiaghtin. As ta mee gobbraghey mairagh myrgeddin. As kiart erash da'n fer oast aym cur stiagh - fy-yerrey, er dy shiaght shiaghteeyn! - jeshaght deayrtee noa (dgms, fer ta cur magh ushtey gyn screeaghey as gyn ceau lieh jeh trooid ny boallaghyn as sheese da'n çhamyr aarlee!) ta'n uinniag shamyr aarlee er ngoaill toshiaght lhiggey stiagh ushtey.

"T'eh tayrn dy traa ny lhiabbagh", myr shen.

O2 broadband SMTP settings for Thunderbird 15

Due largely to some complicated housemate-changing, we've recently had utility-based turmoil. That's mostly sorted out now, and we've ended up on O2 broadband. Hey ho. I've nothing to complain about yet, at least in terms of the service, but I did have to spend a while digging up server settings for Thunderbird from all across the web. So I'll repost them here in case they help anyone.

As of today, the settings that work on Thunderbird 15 for Tools > Account Settings > Outgoing Server (SMTP) are:

• server name: smtp.o2.co.uk
• port: 25 (587 did not work, regardless of some comments elsewhere)
• security: none (seriously, O2? not impressed)
• authentication method: password, transmitted insecurely
• user name: YOURUSERNAME@o2.co.uk

Despite what some comments and the O2 website seem to suggest, you do not need an O2 email address to set this up. I was using a straightforward username to log into the O2 website; it currently invites you to use an email address instead, but I told it to skip that. Simply take whatever username you use to log into O2, which you set up while ordering the service, and which you can retrieve via a link in their emails. Use that username with @o2.co.uk as the user name. The password is the one for that login.

Car ny h-Oie

Snaue driaght ailey fritlagagh trooid y cheyll, sooillyn lostee leaystey noon as noal 'sy chonghorraghys. Va'n thalloo tash fo chosh kyndagh rish tree laghyn fliugh, as chrott eh er yn eaddagh ain. Cha daink agh meir ghoaney ny h-eayst trooid duillagys souree. Hooill shin dy moal agh dy jeean, as scrutaghey yn thalloo mygeayrt-y-mooin. Nish as reesht, haink yllagh ass scoarnyn skee, gyn freggyrt. Ren shin troagyraght roin, brishey slattagyn as broo renniee. Lheim rannagyn ass y raad, as vrish ushagyn magh ass ny crouwyn tra heiy shin nyn drooid, as accan orrin dy fergagh. Cha dug shin geill daue.

Rish oor er oor, ronsee shin mastey biljyn kiuney ny keylley, er son dooinney aeg as lurgey brisht echey, foddee. Cha dooar shin veg agh reddyn feie. She oie chraidagh v’ayn, chroo far-hannishyn kiart ayns eaishtaght as hug orrin rouail dy kinjagh lorgey orroo. Haink moghrey er y driaght boght, shiaght sleih broghe as feed, er troggloo, bunnys. Snaue shin erash da’n thie mooar as insh da’n venainshter nagh row y mac ry-gheddyn er chor erbee. S’taittin lhiam gra nagh cheayll mee ny dreggyr ee eisht, as mish my lieh-chadley liorish oie er choshey gyn aash. S’cosoyolagh eh nagh row eh cair da possan cheau yn oie er-e-son. Cha gooin lhiam shooyl dy croobagh dys y lhiabbee rish irree magh ny greiney as tuittym ayn, agh begin dou er nyannoo shen.

Va’n balley er-aile er coontey’n vac er shaghryn. Cha dooyrt mee veg, as cha ren mee boirey monney er-e-hon. Rish ymmyrkey thie bart connee rish keeiragh ny hoie, va mee er vakin y chaillin waagh fuirree er çheu ny loghey heear, as bundeil er yn assyl eck. Va mee er moaldey as mongey urree; as ny s’anmey, raad ta imman yiass y thie mooar roshtyn y bayr, va mee er vakin cummey ainjyssagh dorraghey sleetçhal cooyl billey, as er vockley magh er ard bannaght er creeghyn as graih ayndaue. As eisht va mee er ngoll thie jeant booise, as er chur sheese y brat aym as er nee, as er vuirraghtyn er y symney neuhaghnagh. Shimmey sannish foddey cheayll my chleayshyn yn oie shid ‘sy çhiar, as shimmey lorg neuvaghtal honnick mee, as shimmey oor derrey hyndaa driaght aile cour y logh rish dromm ny hoie as cur neuhastey da cowraghyn crubbey shenn assyl ennagh.

As rish Oie ny Bleeaney Noa, haink kishtey fuyghee gyn cowrey voish balley foddey ennagh, lane rosagyn çhirmit as moggaid vane nyn mast’oc; as urreeish va laue ennagh er ngrainney bannaght er creeghyn as graih ayndaue.

Jalloo er bun caslys Fir0002 ec Flagstaffotos, lesh kied CC-BY-NC Wikimedia Commons.

Yn Lioar, liorish Lovecraft

Yn Lioar

Ta’n cooinaghtyn aym lane fud-y-cheilley. Cha nel mee shickyr eer er cre’n toshiaght oc; ny keayrtyn ta mee gennaghtyn reayrt atçhimagh dy vleeantyn skeaylley magh my yei, agh ny keayrtyn elley ta’n smooinaght orrym dy vel y tullagh t’ayn ny phoynt lomarcan mastey neuchreaghnys lheeah gyn cummey. Cha nel mee shickyr eer cre’n aght ta mee cur yn çhaghteraght shoh. Ta fys aym dy vel mee loayrt, agh ta’n eie neuloaghtagh orrym dy bee feme er sheealtaght whaagh ennagh, as agglagh, foddee, dys ymmyrkey ny ta mee dy ghra da’n eaishtaght chiarit aym. Erskyn shen, ta’n enney hene aym kayeeagh shaghrynagh. Er lhiam dy vel mee er surranse greain vooar — liorish aase eajee ennagh ny çhymshallyn dy haghyrtyn neuchredjallagh as gyn cosoylaght t’aym, foddee.

Gyn ourys, she shenn lioar lane beishteigyn va bun ooilley ny çhymshallyn ennee shen. S’cooin lhiam tra hooar mee ee, ayns boayl lieh-hoilshit faggys da’n awin ghoo ooillagh as beayn-chay cassey er-ny-skyn. She boayl feer shenn v’ayn, as va skellooyn lane dy lioaryn loauey roshtyn dys mullagh y thie; heeyn ad ersooyl gyn jerrey trooid shamyryn sthie as cuilleigyn gyn uinniag erbee. Nyn mast’oc va carnaneyn mooarey dy lioaryn neureajagh er y laare ny ayns coir awey; as by ayndaue hooar mee ish. Cha dynsee mee rieau yn ennym urree, va ny duillagyn leah caillt; agh doshil ee faggys da’n jerrey as cur dou falleays jeh red ennagh hug my cheeallyn er shaghryn.

Va formley ayn — rolley reddyn ry-yannoo as ry-ghra — as va enney aym er myr nhee doo as neulhiggit da deiney. Dy jarroo, nhee ennagh va mee er lhaih ersyn hannah ayns screeuyn keillt lane dy ghrayn as dy ghrualtys mestit, screeuit ec shenn reuyreyder quaagh ennagh ayns folliaghtyn arrit ny cruinney. Bynney lhiam ronsaghey teksyn ooiragh lheid ny deiney. She ogher v’ayn, ogher ny kaart-çheerey da giatyn as cassanyn va oaylyssee dreamal as sonsheraght my-nyn-gione rish aegid chloan gheiney. Giatyn da seyrsnys as toiggalys erskyn ny tree towshanyn, as ny rheamyssyn bea as stoo, ta shin oayllagh roo. Rish keeadyn cha by gooin lesh dooiney erbee cooid vreeoil ny lioar, ny boayll erbee v’ee foast ry-gheddyn aynsyn; agh by henn jeer ee y lioar shen. Cha nee clou ren ee; va laue vonnagh lieh-cheoie ennagh er dayrn ny raaghyn Ladjynagh baggyrtagh, ayns unshee shenndeeaght atçhimagh.

S’cooin lhiam smooirey yn çhenn dooinney, as y cowrey laue quaagh ren eh as mish cur lhiam ee ersooyl. Dobb eh argid erbee, as by foddey eh derrey hoig mee yn oyr. As mish kirtagh thie fo chay trooid straiddyn keylley lhoobagh çheu ny marrey, heill mee dy agglagh dy row spaagyn kiuney geiyrt orrym dy folliaghtagh. Er lhiam dy row olkys noa as foudagh cur bree bio da ny shenn thieyn tuittymagh mygeayrt-y-moom — myr dy row dorrys tastaght olk ennagh, dooint derrey nish, er vosley dy geyre. Er lhiam dy row ny h-uinniagyn sooillagh, ass kerrinyn diamanagh yeeastagh, blakey orrym — as va ny boallaghyn as gaabyllyn ass breek millchayit as fuygh fungyssagh jeean dy immeeaght as mish y vroojey. As mish gyn lhaih agh sleig sloo y roon ard-vollaghtagh roish my ghooin mee y lioar as cur lhiam ee ersooyl! S’cooin lhiam yn aght lhaih mee ee, ’sy jerrey — fo ghlass ’sy gharrad va mee foddey er ny ’lane chur da ronsaghey quaagh, as daah yn vaaish orrym. Va’n thie mooar feer chiune; cha row mee er ngoll seose derrey mean oie. Er lhiam dy row lught-thie aym ec y traa shid — agh ta enmyn as eddinyn caillt aym nish — as s’leayr dou dy row ymmodee sharvaantyn ayn. Cha s’aym cre’n vlein ynrican v’ayn; shimmey eash as towshan ta mee oayllagh rish neayr’s shen, as ta dagh eie v’aym er traa er ny lheie as aachroo. Lhaih mee fo hoilshey cainleyn, dy shickr — s’cooin lhiam sheer-drigey ny kerey — as nish as reesht haink clingyn ass shamyr chluig ennagh foddey jeem. Er lhiam dy dug mee tastey jeean quaagh da ny clingyn shid, as aggle orrym dy gluinnin toan gynoaltagh foddey foast nyn mast’oc.

Eisht haink y chied screebey as clabberey moandagh ec yn uinniag chlea hug reayrt ard erskyn mullee elley ny caayrey. Cheayll mee eh tra chronnee mee er ard nuyoo rane y chaayn bun-eashagh, as hoig mee er-creau y cheeall v’echey. Eshyn hedys shaghey ny grinnaghyn, chosnys eh scaa, as cha dod eh ve arragh reesht ny lomarcan. Va mee er dayrn magh — as va’n lioar dy jarroo ooilley shen va mee er gredjal jee. Yn oie shid hie mee shaghey ny grinney dys eeirey traa as reayrtys cassit, as erash ’sy gharrad rish y voghrey, yeeagh mee er boallaghyn as skellooyn as cooid, as fakin reddyn ayndaue nagh vaik mee rieau roish shid.

Chamoo dod mee arragh fakin y seihll ’sy chummey b’oayllagh dou. Gyn scansh da’n reayrt laaragh honnick mee, va blass y traa chaie dy kinjagh er as beggan y traa ry-heet dy kinjagh mestit aynsyn. ’Syn aght keilley noa stow shilley s’lhea orrym, va dagh nhee b’oayllagh dou ayns cummey joarree. Er dyn yn oie shid, hooill mee ayns ashlish ard-yindyssagh ass cummaghyn lieh-ainjyssagh as gyn enney; as ny smoo grinnaghyn hie mee nyn drooid, ny sloo leayr yn enney v’aym er nheeghyn ny cruinney choon v’er my chiangley rish tammylt liauyr. Ny honnick mee mygeayrt-y-moom, cha vaik fer erbee elley eh; as haink mee dy ve daa wheesh cho fastagh as neuheshaghtagh er aggle dy derragh ad briwnys baanrid orrym. Ghow moddee aggle roym, er y fa dy dennee ad y scaa joarree nagh daag mee rieau. Ny yei shen as ooilley lhaih mee ny smoo — ayns lioaryn as scrollaghyn follit as jarroodit dashlee my hilley noa dou — as seiy roym trooid grinnaghyn oorey spoar, as ve, as dooghys vea, cour cree hene y dowan gyn enney.

S’cooin lhiam yn oie ren mee ny queig kiarkil cho-chiarklagh ailey er y laare, as shassoo ’sy vean oc canteyraght y litane eajee hug çhaghter Tartaragh dou. Ren ny boallaghyn lheie ersooyl, as geay doo mish y skeabey trooid çharvaalyn lheeah do-huntal as ard-vullee snaidagh sleityn gyn enney meeillaghyn foym. Rish tammylt haink lane dorraghys, as eisht soilshey jeih-thousane rollage ayns co-hollyssyn quaagh as joarree. Fy-yerrey honnick mee strah foddey foym fo hoilshey geayney, as cronnaghey urree tooryn cassit caayrey v’er ny troggal rere kiaddey nagh row mee rieau er vakin, ny lhaih ny dreamal er. As mish snaue ny s’faggys jee, honnick mee troggal foawragh kerrinagh cloaie ayns boayl follym, as haink scoagh owanagh orrym. Ren mee screeaghey as streppey, as erreish da merriuid ennagh va mee ’sy gharrad reesht, my surlley harrish ny queig kiarkil lossanagh er y laare. Ayns wandreilys ny h-oie shid, cha row ny smoo quaaghys na v’ec ymmodee oieyn elley; agh va ny smoo scoagh ayn, er fys dy row mee ny s’faggys da ny feaynidyn as seihill wooie na va mee rieau. Ny yei ghow mee ny smoo kiarail lesh pishagys, son cha row mian erbee aym dy gholl er giarrey jeh corp as thalloo ayns çharvaalyn gyn enney nagh dod mee rieau çheet erash voue.

Notey: Ta'n skeeal shoh ry-gheddyn myr skeeal clashtynagh lhaiht aym pene: recortys MP3

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The Book

My memories are very confused. There is even much doubt as to where they begin; for at times I feel appalling vistas of years stretching behind me, while at other times it seems as if the present moment were an isolated point in a grey, formless infinity. I am not even certain how I am communicating this message. While I know I am speaking, I have a vague impression that some strange and perhaps terrible mediation will be needed to bear what I say to the points where I wish to be heard. My identity, too, is bewilderingly cloudy. I seem to have suffered a great shock — perhaps from some utterly monstrous outgrowth of my cycles of unique, incredible experience.

These cycles of experience, of course, all stem from that worm-riddled book. I remember when I found it — in a dimly lighted place near the black, oily river where the mists always swirl. That place was very old, and the ceiling-high shelves full of rotting volumes reached back endlessly through windowless inner rooms and alcoves. There were, besides, great formless heaps of books on the floor and in crude bins; and it was in one of these heaps that I found the thing. I never learned its title, for the early pages were missing; but it fell open toward the end and gave me a glimpse of something which sent my senses reeling.

There was a formula — a sort of list of things to say and do — which I recognised as something black and forbidden; something which I had read of before in furtive paragraphs of mixed abhorrence and fascination penned by those strange ancient delvers into the universe’s guarded secrets whose decaying texts I loved to absorb. It was a key — a guide — to certain gateways and transitions of which mystics have dreamed and whispered since the race was young, and which lead to freedoms and discoveries beyond the three dimensions and realms of life and matter that we know. Not for centuries had any man recalled its vital substance or known where to find it, but this book was very old indeed. No printing-press, but the hand of some half-crazed monk, had traced these ominous Latin phrases in uncials of awesome antiquity.

I remember how the old man leered and tittered, and made a curious sign with his hand when I bore it away. He had refused to take pay for it, and only long afterward did I guess why. As I hurried home through those narrow, winding, mist-choked waterfront streets I had a frightful impression of being stealthily followed by softly padding feet. The centuried, tottering houses on both sides seemed alive with a fresh and morbid malignity — as if some hitherto closed channel of evil understanding had abruptly been opened. I felt that those walls and overhanging gables of mildewed brick and fungous plaster and timber — with fishy, eye-like, diamond-paned windows that leered — could hardly desist from advancing and crushing me . . . yet I had read only the least fragment of that blasphemous rune before closing the book and bringing it away.

I remember how I read the book at last — white-faced, and locked in the attic room that I had long devoted to strange searchings. The great house was very still, for I had not gone up till after midnight. I think I had a family then — though the details are very uncertain — and I know there were many servants. Just what the year was, I cannot say; for since then I have known many ages and dimensions, and have had all my notions of time dissolved and refashioned. It was by the light of candles that I read — I recall the relentless dripping of the wax — and there were chimes that came every now and then from distant belfries. I seemed to keep track of those chimes with a peculiar intentness, as if I feared to hear some very remote, intruding note among them.

Then came the first scratching and fumbling at the dormer window that looked out high above the other roofs of the city. It came as I droned aloud the ninth verse of that primal lay, and I knew amidst my shudders what it meant. For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone. I had evoked — and the book was indeed all I had suspected. That night I passed the gateway to a vortex of twisted time and vision, and when morning found me in the attic room I saw in the walls and shelves and fittings that which I had never seen before.

Nor could I ever after see the world as I had known it. Mixed with the present scene was always a little of the past and a little of the future, and every once-familiar object loomed alien in the new perspective brought by my widened sight. From then on I walked in a fantastic dream of unknown and half-known shapes; and with each new gateway crossed, the less plainly could I recognise the things of the narrow sphere to which I had so long been bound. What I saw about me none else saw; and I grew doubly silent and aloof lest I be thought mad. Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side. But still I read more — in hidden, forgotten books and scrolls to which my new vision led me — and pushed through fresh gateways of space and being and life-patterns toward the core of the unknown cosmos.

I remember the night I made the five concentric circles of fire on the floor, and stood in the innermost one chanting that monstrous litany the messenger from Tartary had brought. The walls melted away, and I was swept by a black wind through gulfs of fathomless grey with the needle-like pinnacles of unknown mountains miles below me. After a while there was utter blackness, and then the light of myriad stars forming strange, alien constellations. Finally I saw a green-litten plain far below me, and discerned on it the twisted towers of a city built in no fashion I had ever known or read of or dreamed of. As I floated closer to that city I saw a great square building of stone in an open space, and felt a hideous fear clutching at me. I screamed and struggled, and after a blankness was again in my attic room, sprawled flat over the five phosphorescent circles on the floor. In that night’s wandering there was no more of strangeness than in many a former night’s wandering; but there was more of terror because I knew I was closer to those outside gulfs and worlds than I had ever been before. Thereafter I was more cautious with my incantations, for I had no wish to be cut off from my body and from the earth in unknown abysses whence I could never return.

Far-skeeah rauney

Mleeaney, ta daa phossan ronsee oaylleeagh er nyannoo far-skeeah rauney. Quoi ec va fys?

Screeu mee art er y chooish er yn ynnyd-eggey.

Luanistyn

Ta fys mie aym nagh screeu mee monney ayns shen (ny ayns my Chishtey Stoo noadyr) rish tammylt. Dy jarroo, ta reddyn er ve doillee. Ta shin tarroogh agglagh 'syn obbyr lesh scughey'n lioarlan as jannoo nane ass jees oc; as er coontey reaghys lane woal va ram strooys ayn erskyn ny ta ry-yerkal. As stroos as merghinaght orrym, cha nel monney bree aym ny keayrtyn. Chammah's shen, va shaleeyn elley persoonagh ry-yannoo aym, goaill stiagh artyn gammanagh as shirrey staartey noa (shalee immeeaght foast), as feddyn co-chummaltee noa.

Ny yei shen, ta mee jus aareaghey çhyndaays Lovecraft noa. She skeealeen lomarcan t'ayn, ayrn ass bea fer ennagh honnick reddyn quaagh, agh s'mie lhiam ee ny yei shen. S'treisht lhiam dy verrym seose eh yn çhiaghtin shoh. Chammah's shen ta art oaylleeagh ny ghaa ry-screeu aym...

Jalloo 2012-08-07

Shoh y jalloo as dorraghey er. S'treisht lhiam dy bee eh mie dy liooar da'n charrey aym.

Jalloo 2012-07-24

Choud's ta baghtal, va mee ersooyl rish tammylt. Agh ren mee beggan obbyr er y jalloo reesht noght. Beggal sollys er (nee'm scaaghyn ny s'anmey). Ta mee gobbraghey rere coodee shenn Enid Blyton, as t'ad lhiggey da'n toilshey skeaylley harrish ny linnaghyn ny keayrtyn (myr shoh). Er lhiam nagh ren mee ny creeaghyn shen çhiu dy liooar, foddee?

Yn Chruinnaght, Jeheiney 20oo

Er y fa dy row mee leaghtyn ayn 'syn 'astyr, as ta reddyn soccar ayns Purt ny h-Inshey, ren mee briwnys dy cheau y laa ayns shen. V'ee foast çheh as tash ec y traa hie mee er boayrd y varroose, agh roish my rosh shin Purt ny h-Inshey v'ee ceau fliaghey dy moal. V'eh faggys da munlaa (va mee er gadley dy anmagh) as ghow mee kirbyl ayns thie oast Marine Hotel. Briwnys mie - va mellyn oc.

S'goan ad buill ta çhebbal mellyn dy jeianagh, agh she my reih choorse-toshee rieau t'ayn, as va mee jeant bwooise fakin eh er y chaart bee. T'eh jeeaghyn dy vel soddag eeast Thaiagh, ooastyryn as praneyn mooarey er ngoaill yn ymmyd v'oc keayrt dy row myr coorse-toshee ooilley-laaragh y teihill.

Va beggan fliaghey ayn foast, agh ghow mee toshiaght shooyl seose Cronk y Chaitnys er son beggan lheiltys. Dy dooghyssagh, as mish er mullagh y chronk, cheau ee ny smoo beggan er veggan derrey va mee kerroo baiht tra rosh mee fastee hie ooree Hie Manannan. Diu mee tey as clashtyn rish creeley-fynneigagh ennagh, as eisht goll mygeayrt y thie tashtee. Va mee ayns shen nurree as cha row caghlaa erbee ry-akin ayms, myr shen va mee tappee dy liooar, agh ghow mee taitnys jeh ny yei shen. Wahll smooinee mee ny row eh traa dy hirrey er ynnyd ny leaghtyn, "Guild Room, Athol Street". Baghtal dy liooar. Hooar mee caslys-balley er yn çhooylaghan, as cur geill da ynnyd Atholl Street. Dy meeaighar, erreish dou shooyl rish queig ny jeih minnid as çhyndaa jesh as toshtal as jesh, v'eh lieh-jarroodit aym as chaill mee y raad. Jannoo reddyn ny smessey, ta coonceilee Vannin nearildagh as imlagh, myr cretooryn feie, as cha mie lhieu brishey stiagh er pobble liorish cowraghyn boiragh ooilley mygeayrt as enmyn reddyn orroo. Wahll, cha nee ard-valley t'ayn, cre mysh briaght jeh peiagh ennagh? Bee fys oc, dy shickyr.

Cha row fys ec y chied tree sleih vrie mee jeu er ynnyd Athol Street, ny'n Guild Room (as cha row fys oc er c'red ta'n Guild Room noadyr). Bwooise da jee, va fys ec y treeoo er y Centenary Centre raad va cuirrey kiaullee ny h-oie, as ta shen er Atholl Street myrgeddin. Hooar mee y straid, as goll sheese. Eisht hooill mee seose. As sheese reesht. Cha nee straid liauyr t'ayn, as myr shen cha row feme aym er monney traa shen y yannoo. Va'n Centenary Centre baghtal as buigh ny hoie ayns mean ny straiddey, agh cha row lorg erbee jeh Guild Room erbee ry-akin aym. Va troor aeg nyn soie rish y Centenary Centre, goaill cowag, as vrie mee jeu. Hug ad leshtal doaieagh dou nagh dod ad mish y chooney, er y fa dy row mee er reih tree Albinee joarree ass pobble Phurt ny h-Inshey. As mish my ommidagh, by foddey ny s'anmey eh hoig mee dy nee Rua Macmillan as y possan ec v'ayn. Fy-yerrey, hoilshee peiagh ennagh 'sy Centenary Centre dou (Breeshey Maddrell, foddee?) nagh vel y Guild Room ny hroggal hene, agh çhamyr ennagh 'syn agglish Saasilee hoal noi y Centre nagh row enmyssit er y chlaare. Va peiagh kioot ennagh er chur seose cowrey "Guild Room →" er yn agglish, agh atreih! V'eh follit voish y straid ec pillyr, son y chooid smoo, faagail y cowrey elley "Peel Methodist Church" dy chur sleih er shaghryn. Ta bea lane dy cheishtyn beggey ta cur blass urree as bree aynjee. Hie mee stiagh.

Cha row monney sleih 'sy leaght, mysh queig-jeig, foddee. Dindys mee er shen, agh va ram sleih gobbraghey, s'cosoylagh, cha row adsyn er seyrey. Vrie mee jeh ben my nee ad recortys jeu myr t'ad ny keayrtyn, do noddagh sleih nagh row ayns shen eaishtagh rish, agh dooyrt ee dou nagh row shamraig hellveeish oc. Wahll, haghyr eh dy row recortysser beg aym - ta mee jannoo ymmyd jeh ny keayrtyn dy yannoo recortys jeh seshoonyn gamman as stoo myr shen, as hug lhiam eh dys Mannin. Myr shen heb mee dy yannoo recortys, as v'ad jeean dy liooar.

Va daa leaght ayn, liorish Úna Uí Lachtnáin voish Oireachtas na Gaeilge, as Christine James voish yn Eisteddfod. Loayr ad er shennaghys y daa 'eailley, doilleeidyn as caghlaaghyn, as er y chultoor as cummey t'oc nish. Va doilleeidyn dy liooar oc, goaill stiagh cohuittym tradishoon bardagh ayns Bretin rish unnaneys Vretin as Sostyn, as cummaght pholitickaght as caggey theayagh ayns Nerin. S'treisht lhiam dy bee ny leaghtyn greinnaghey sleih dy vooadaghey ynnyd as cummaght ny Cruinnaght ayns cultoor Vannin. Va'n recortys castreycair as hug mee coip da skimmee ny Cruinnaght erreish dou roshtyn thie.

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Screeu mee lane phost ayns shoh, goaill stiagh smooinaghtyn reaghee, beggan dy veg er thieyn oast, as ram er y cuirrey kiaull, obbyr lane oor, bunnys. Eisht gholl Blogger y clane gyn oyr erbee. Nee'm my chooid share ny va scanshoil y aascreeu, agh gow my leshtal my t'eh beggan cuttagh; ta fa mie ayn. Erskyn ooilley va ram screeuit aym er Strengyn as Rua Macmillan nagh gooin lhiam eh, as cha nel cree aym dy yannoo eh ass y noa.

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Dy firrinagh, ghow mee beggan yindys hoshiaght nagh row ny smoo goll er 'sy laa. T'eh jeeaghyn dy vel lhiettrimys 'cooid hoshee' (critical mass) ayn. She feailley veg t'ayn, ta mooar-chooid nyn Manninee ta goll da cuirraghyn kiaull erreish daue faagail yn obbyr, as cha nel monney sleih seyr 'sy laa; myr shen cha nel eh feeu reaghey monney 'sy laa. Er y laue elley, mannagh vel reddyn er lheh ry-yannoo 'sy laa, cha nel eh feeu goll er seyrey rish y Chruinnaght mannagh vel oo er seyrey foast; as mannagh vel oo er seyrey, t'eh ny sloo cosoylagh dy jig oo dys cuirraghyn kiaull as reddyn elley, er y fa dy bee reddyn elley shirrey ort ad y yannoo as bee oo skee lurg yn obbyr. Chammah's shen, foddee sleih çheumooie jeh Mannin jannoo briwnys nagh vel eh feeu çheet harrish jus er son cuirrey ny ghaa (haink mish, dy jarroo, agh va mee er seyrey hannah as jeean agglagh dy loayrt beggan Gaelg fy-yerrey; cha nel monney caa aym ayns Aah yn Ollee). Dy beagh eh gollrish yn Eisteddfod, as reddyn goll er car y laa, hig ad, foddee. As veagh ee ny taghyrt smoo, myr shen veagh ny smoo geill currit jee, s'cosoylagh. C'red foddee oo jannoo? Wahll, er thurrick hene: co-chosheeaghtyn, co-hurryssyn da ynnydyn cultooragh as najooragh, leaghtyn (cur studeyryn rish obbyr!), filmyn ny drama Celtiagh, lessoonyn bunneydagh ayns çhengaghyn Celtiagh, tuarastyllyn ellyn as keirdey, co-lhongaghyn foddee, aachroo shennaghyssagh ayns Cashtal Rosien... C'red by vie lhiat? Agh dy shickyr, ta feme ec reddyn er argid as traa, as t'ad goan dy liooar, as cha nel eh feeu reaghey reddyn nagh jig sleih daue.

Shoh eh ny va mee son gra heose, dy giare: Cha nel eh feeu reaghey reddyn 'sy laa mannagh vel sleih er seyrey dy heet daue, agh cha nel eh feeu goll er seyrey 'sy laa mannagh vel veg taghyrt. Shen y cheisht!

V'eh orrym ceau daa oor erreish da'n leaght, er y fa nagh ghoghe y cuirrey kiaull toshiaght derrey 8f. She oor dree t'ayn 6f, as ooilley ny thieyn-tey dooint; shen y reih voayl aym dy cheau traa ayn. Hooill mee rish yn çhooylaghan as kionnaghey tey voish bwaane tey va foshlit foast, myr bannaght veg Yee. V'ee kiart grianagh dy liooar dy gholley magh bree feayree ny geayee. Va mee er n'ee bee mea dagh ec lhongey rish shiaghtin hannah, as cha dod mee surranse moggaid 'oalley 'oawragh elley, myr shen chionnee mee arran bainney as ooyl 'sy Cho-op.

Hoshee Strengyn y cuirrey kiaull, roie trooid meshtane breck dy charryn crampey dy liooar. V'ad maylartey gitar, mandalyn as banjoe eddyr y jees oc rere ny carryn v'ayn, as cummal seose ryddim breeoil as gerjoilagh. Chloie ad shenn charryn çheerey, carryn noa, as eer asstayrn ny ghaa ass filmyn as y lheid, gyn doilleeid erbee caghlaa eddyr oc. Cha ghow ad arrane, agh va'n kiaull tayrnagh dy liooar ny yei shen. Poynt loggyr da Paayl er y fa dy loayr eh Gaelg! Reill ad ennaghtyn caarjoil er y chooish as mongey er eddinyn.

Rish y scuirr, dinsh fer ennagh "Juan?" dou as hooar magh mee dy nee Rob y Teare v'ayn, çhyndaader Jeih Skeealyn Scaanjoon. Myr haghyr eh, va mee lhaih Jeih er y turrys shen, agh cha row caa aym d'insh da wheesh va mee goaill soylley jeh. Hug eh mish da quaiyl Chris Sheard, ta cur çhyndaayssyn Coonceil ny Gaelgey dou nish as reesht er son obbyr er Wiki ny Gaelgey (agh cha row traa aym rish tammylt dy jannoo monney). Nagh mie eh cur eddinyn marish ooilley ny h-enmyn fy-yerrey!

Eisht troor Albinagh, Rua Macmillan er yn 'iddyl, Tia Fyles er y yitar as Adam Brown er y dollan. V'ad cloie carryn kiuney as jeeaney, sursmooinaghtagh as gleashagh, shenn charryn as (son y chooid smoo) nyn obbyr noa hene. Va'n kiaull ny smoo çhaghnoil na claare Strengyn, er lhiam - cheayll mee blass Egyptagh ny keayrtyn, as va ram caghlaaghyn bieauid as aght ayn - agh cha nel oalaght chiaullee aym. Chloie Adam as Tia carr ynrican y chione, as b'vaghtal eh dy nee troor feer schleioil t'ayn. Cosoylit rish seshoon coloayrtyssagh Strengyn, va clabberaght ny smoo cliaghtit ec Rua, agh reill ad yn ennaghtyn ainjyssagh ta scanshoil ec cuirrey kiaull çheerey. Cha ghow adsyn arrane noadyr, agh ren tidey dy charryn eigsoylagh cummal seose anaase as tastey eer rish jerrey ny h-oie. She oie feer vie v'ayn dy jarroo, as harrin d'akin Strengyn ny troor Rua reesht gyn ourys.

Dy meeaighar, va blass boiragh er jerrey ny h-oie ayms er coontey ny barrooseyn. Va'n barroose aym dy gholl ec 10.20f, as rish 10.15 hug shin bannaght vooar da carr s'jerree y troor as geddyn aarloo. Traa dy liooar! Eisht daahoilshee ny lampaghyn as roie ad erash er yn ardan. She aagherrym v'ayn! Wahll cha row mee tappee dy liooar dy heiy shaghey y sleih faggys dou; er oyr ennagh cha row mee jerkal aagherrym. Ghow ad toshiaght, as mish boirey ny smoo as ny smoo, jeeaghyn as aayeeaghyn er yn ooreyder aym as bleastey fo veehurransaght, bunnys. Va mee my hoie ec kione foddey straih, rish cleigh yiarn, jeih trieyn erskyn thallooin ec y chione, as ga nagh row aght erbee dy ghrappal harree smooinee mee er shen keayrt ny ghaa. She carr mie v'ayn, ta mee shickyr, agh y tree minnid sodjey hurr mee rish traa liauyr. Scuirr ad as skellal roish fy-yerrey ec 10.18, as ersooyl lhiam gollrish tendreil, lheimmey harrish glioonyn peiagh ny ghaa as aaskinney voish reddyn. Bwooise da Jee, honnick yn immanagh mish çheet as fuirraghtyn orrym, agh dooyrt eh dou myr spotçh: "Remember, you wait for the bus, the bus doesn't wait for you!"

Ny yei shen as ooilley, she oie haitnyssagh v'ayn.

Yn Chruinnaght, Jerdein 19oo

Chaddil mee anmagh, ayns ayrn er y fa dy row mee magh beggan anmagh (wahll, anmagh dooys) as ayrn er y fa dy row my chadley brisht tra hooar kishtaghyn pooar my chlag dooishtee baase lesh obbyr yerrinagh vouyragh. Yumm mee beggan traa 'sy voghrey lesh shirrey kishtaghyn pooar noa, as eisht ersooyl lhiam dys Balley Chashtal. V'eh foym geddyn kirbyl mooar as eisht jus beggan dy yinnair, myr shen hooill mee myrgeayrt rish tammylt. Va ram buill ayn chreckagh scobbey dou, praase fuinnit ny braghdan, as thie bee ny ghaa nagh hoilshee kaart bee 'syn uinniagh. Cha nel mee rieau goll stiagh ayns lheid ny thieyn bee; mannagh mie lhiat ny t'ad creck tra t'ad er chur ort soie sheese sthie, t'eh boirey ort faagail. T'eh foym cur argid diu, sleih! Jean beggan eab er-dty-hon hene! Aghterbee, hooar mee y George as ren ad pye foawragh dou, as scriog er cho mooar as my ghaa ghoarn. Cha dod mee gee ooilley'n bee v'ayn; cha nel mee cliaghtit rish monney feill as ta ram feill ry-ee ayns dagh lhongey er y gherrid.

Y red shen ta jeeaghyn gollrish eddrymagh roauyr? Shen scriog phye. V'ee gollrish Yorkshire pudding, as mooadys bwilleen arran eck. Dy beign er ny folmaghey, oddin er ny ceau myr braag.

Va'n cashtal hene anaasoil dy liooar. Cha row mee ayns shen rish 16 bleeaney, myr shen er lhimmey jeh beggan déjà vu nish as reesht, cha by gooin lhiam monney. Va'n skimmee feer chaarjoil as coonee, as loayr ad rhym ram (er y fa dy vel gob buillvollee aym, myr dooyrt y sharkagh souree). Ta ny cowraghyn beggan shenn as cha nel ad soilshaghey reddyn feer vie da'n theay ny keayrtyn, agh t'eh foue aayannoo reddyn erreish daue cooilleeney ronsaghey troggalagh scanshoil. Atreih! Cha nel shamyr tey oc, as v'eh orrym goll magh. S'baghtal eh dhyt nagh vel oo dellal rish y National Trust nish, cha lhig adsyn da caa erbee goll shaghey myr shen; honnick mee thie keayrt dy row as va shamyr tey beg çheusthie jeh'n çhamyr tey hene. Hooar mee oastan beg rish yn 'aaie voulleragh, as geddyn cappan dy hey as screeu kuse dy chaartyn post. Hug mee ad stiagh 'sy phillyr lettyragh roish my hug mee my ner dy row feme er clouag er lheh voish Mannin dys Sostyn. Myr shen, s'cosoylagh eh dy bee eh er my hennvoir as my charrey Sostnagh eeck dys geddyn ny kaartyn oc... dy aighoil, va daa chaart dys çheeraghyn elley.

Erash dys Doolish, as kionnaghey arran son tey beg. Va fys aym nagh beagh monney traa aym, er y fa dy vel ny barrooseyn doccaragh dy liooar, as va'n thie oast aym er kione hwoaie Vaie Ghoolish as yn un stad barroose dys PnI 'sy chione yiass... V'eh jus foym goll erash dys y thie oast, faagail y poagey mooar va mee er nymmyrkey mygeayrt (as cooat, lioar, ushtey, claareyn earroo as ooilley shen ayn) 'sy çhamyr, cur shilley bieau er y phost-l aym as gee dy tappee. Wahll, rosh mee y çhamyr as feddyn magh nagh row y cuirrey noght ec 8sa, agh 7.30sa; as er y fa shen veagh eh orrym geddyn barroose 6.20sa dys roshtyn PnI dy hraa (dy ghra myr shen, lieh-oor dy leah). Yeeagh mee er y chlag. Shey. Nah varroose: 7.05sa roshagh PnI ec kerroo dys hoght. Va mee çheh as skee as va accrys orrym.

Cha nee'm, as mish. Ta mee jannoo reddyn gyn tort mennick dy liooar, agh cha row mee son roish harrish Doolish reesht, gyn goaill aash erbee voish y turrys, as feme aym dy chur lhiam bee ny shaghney jinnair. Myr shen ghow rish mee dy beign anmagh, as goaill beggan aash. Eer veggan.

Lhig ad dou çheet stiagh anmagh (ta mee shickyr dy row ram sleih anmagh er oyryn cosoylagh rish shen) as va'n cuirrey fo-char organe. She cuirrey braew v'ayn, carryn organe fondagh hoshiaght as eisht Richard Trethewey goaill arraneyn Cornish as cur orrin goaill ayrn. 'Sy nah ayrn va claaseyryn aegey fo stiurey Rachel Hair ass yn Albin; shegin dou gra dy vel mee jonse gyn smooinaght tra ta mee clashtyn "possan kiaullee paitçhyn" er coontey keeall chionnit 'sy scoill, agh v'ad abyl dy liooar as va Bnr. Hair creeney dy liooar gyn reih carryn nagh dod ad ad y chloie! ommidagh, fys aym, agh ta shen taghyrt mennick dy liooar liorish ro-ooley ny ro-yeeanid. Hug reihdagh Oireachtas ny Gaeilge as Archdderwydd Vretin çhaghteraghtyn dooin, as eisht hug Caryl Parry Jones as Christian Jones jerrey er yn oie. Er lhiam dy row enney aym er yn ennym shen, agh cha by gooin lhiam eh derrey ghow ee toshiaght goaill "Hwylio drwy'r nos". Chionnee mee albym lioree ass coyr vargane ec yn Eisteddfod nurree! S'mie lhiam eh, dy feer, ga nagh row eh agh tree punt; shen Adre.

Ghow ish ayns Bretnish, as eshyn ayns Baarle, as v'ad feer vie, ga dy row ny h-arraneyn eck trimshagh dy liooar.

Ny yei shen, hie kuse jin harrish dys y Yiau (The Creek Inn) er son cuirrey elley. Hooar mee dy row y Yiau ny s'jingey foast na'n club bluckan-coshey riyr, gyn reamys erbee dy ghaunsey ayn my va'n mian er sleih (agh cha nee kiaull daunse v'ayn) as gyn monney reamys dy iu, loayrt ny ennal noadyr! Deaisht mee rish oor roish my hie mee erash da barroose elley ec 11.30. Hug Breeshey Maddrell as ben elley nagh gooin lhiam yn ennym urree (my leshtal!) joughyn dou, as s'treisht lhaim dy bee caa aym dy aayeeilley. Cha noddym gra monney mychione y chuirrey shen; cha nel thieyn oastey my reih vuill dy eaishtagh rish kiaull, ta rouyr goll er as ta rouyr sheen çhemmalagh dy gheddyn ennaghtyn baghtal jeh. Cha row eh atçhimagh, foddym gra shen, ta mee er glashtyn ram kiaull atçhimagh; agh cha noddyms gra ny smoo.

Raad ennagh ec kione elley ny shamyr, ta possan kiaullee ayn. Ta mee shickyr, bunnys.

Dy giare: laa feer anaasoil, ghow mee ram taitnys jeh ny honnick as cheayll mee jiu, as ta barrooseyn çheet dy ve feoh nieu my vea.

Yn Chruinnaght, Jecrean 18oo

Wahll, ta mee ayns Mannin reesht, fy-yerrey. Haink mee harrish voish Lerphoyll (raad va mee kelloorey laa ruggyree my ayr) er y vaatey.

Rosh mee yn Ellan riyr as soieaghey sheese ayns thie oast ayns Doolish. Cha dod mee feddyn boayl seyr ayns Purt ny h-Inshey, as er y fa nagh vel arraghey theay mie 'syn Ellan, cha row mee son treishteil dy noddin troailt eddyr PnhI as buill lheid as Purt le Moirrey. As she raad liauyr as gaueagh dy hooyl 'syn oie! Aghterbee, ren mee soieaghey sheese; ny share, soieaghey seose, foddee, as mish cummal ayns shamyr s'yrjey thie oast Rosslyn er cronk beg ayns Doolish hwoaie. She shamyr veg yesh t'ayn, as er lhimmey jeh goon-coamree caillt as moggyl seyr nagh vel roshtyn y çhamyr ayms foddey heose 'syn aer... t'ee mie dy liooar.

Cha nel mee er mentyn rish Gaelgeyryn elley foast, myr shen cheau mee y moghrey lesh shilley er Thie Tashtee Vannin as y thie-bee echey. Eisht lheim mee er barroose sheese dys Balley Sallagh - shenn oayllys ny shennayraghyn aym! - dys jeeaghyn er Mannishter Rosien. Yeeagh mee urree blein er-dy-henney, agh ec y traa shen cha row agh lieh-oor faagit dou as v'eh orrym ratçhal. Y cheayrt shoh, ghow mee foddey ny smoo assjee as dennee mee dy nee ynnyd eiraghtagh feer vie t'ayn, ga nagh vel monney faagit jeh'n Vannishter hene, atreih! As va ny shirveishee feer choonee as kenjal, as va'n Vannishter follym, faggys, myr shen ren mee as hie mee ny by vie lhiam gyn boirey er turrysee elley. Yindyssagh!

T'eh jus foym foll magh er son beggan jinnair, as eisht hem harrish dys Balley Keeill Eoin er son kied chuirrey kiaull y turrys aym.

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Erash! Ghow mee spaghetti alla carbonara ard-vlasstal ayns Alessandros ayns Doolish, gyn ceau monney. Eisht hug my ner nagh row y claare aym chlou magh mee as fysseree er yn Chruinnaght er. Dy firrinagh, cha nel shen ro-scanshoil, foddee; by chooin lhiam dy row cuirrey kiaull ny h-oie ayns club spoyrt ennagh ayns Balley Keeill Eoin, as cha cosoylagh eh dy beagh monney jeu ayn... agh ta troa lhiantynagh beg orrym, as ta mee boirey mychione reddyn, as mychione goll er coayl ec mean-oie ayns thalloo joarree (reesht) raad nagh vel monney palmantyn ny stobyn leeideilagh... ta mee boirey dy jarroo. Myr shen, roie mee seose Baie Ghoolish dys y thie oast, seose nuy roieghyn greeishyn dys y çhamyr aym, as geddyn y claare. Ec y tullagh shen, ghow ee toshiaght ceau fliaghey. Yindyssagh. As daag mee y poagey beg v'orrym derrey shen, goaill greim er poagey smoo, cur stiagh shamraig, lioar-l, greie jaghtee, earroo traa barrooseyn, as ooilley shen, as roie magh. Sheese Baie Ghoolish dys y varroose myr fer keoie ratçhal y jouyll er son mainshtyrys ny cruinney. Va mee jus er soie sheese tra haink y barroose. Fondagh.

Er y varroose, honnick mee doinney as beggan aa-akin aym er, as daag eh y barroose er y stad cheddin. Va'n cuirrey kiaull shoh ayns club bluckan-coshey BKE. Wahll, erreish dou kionnaghey tiggad eintreilys, cre'n chied red honnick mee? Y dooinney shen soie sheese rish caillin nagh oddagh ve agh Nat Nic Shìm. Shen feanish dy liooar dy nee Simon Ager t'ayn, as mannagh vel oo er vakin yn ynnyd-eggey yindyssagh echey, Omniglot, immee nish. Ta enney aym er y jees oc rish bleeantyn, agh cha row mee er vakin ad 'syn 'eill derrey shen, as va mee jeant booise lesh shen. T'ad kiart cho kenjal as va mee credjal.

Cha nel y club feer voaar, as dy leah v'eh orroo cur seose cowrey as "lane thie!" screeuit er. Va'n çhamyr jingit as erreish shassoo dys daunsey, cha by chosoylagh eh dy chosney stiagh 'sy chaair aym reesht trooid creagh fendeilagh dy 'leih va nyn soie roee, myr shen hannee mee my hassoo.

Hoshiaght, va daunseyryn Morris ayn, Perree Bane. V'ad jeean dy liooar!

Va aittys mie ayn lesh daunsey as jeeaghyn er possanyn daunsey as fys oc er ny v'ad jannoo. Cha row mee ec giense rish eash, agh ren mee my chooid share.

Va possan kiaullee ass yn Chorn ayn, Pentorr, as ghow ad arrane ny ghaa as Cornish ayn. Fer ayns 5/4 nyn mast'oc hug er sleih by vie lhieu daunsey ve fud-y-cheilley rish tammylt, as v'eh er yn arraneyder goll sheese as soilshaghey daue cre'n aght share. 'Sy jerrey v'eh orrym faagail dy leah, dy ghra myr shen, mysh 10.30, dys geddyn barroose. Cha row mee son geddyn y barroose s'jerree y chied oie va mee ayns Mannin as coayl eh aght ennagh. Agh va dagh ooilley red dy mie, as va oie vraew aym roish my hie mee erash dys Doolish. Gura mie mooar ayd da cagh reagh y cuirrey ny chloie ayn. As s'treih lhiam nagh cheayll mee Nat cloie'n coardeen.

Jalloo 2012-07-12

Hooar mee jeih minnid seyr dy ghlenney y jalloo beggan, agh cha row traa aym dy yannoo monney. C'raad ta'n traa sheeley da?

Eddyr Laghyn Seyrey

Cha row monney traa aym rish tammylt dy screeu artyn ayns shoh, ny da'n Chishtey Stoo noadyr. Ta mee kiart er geau shiaghtin ayns Ard ny Loghyn marish y lught-thie, gyn eddyr-voggyl erbee ny co-earrooder noadyr as gyn traa dy yannoo red erbee dou hene. Nish ta mee gobbraghey dy jeean 'syn obbyr rish shiaghtin, as eisht Jesarn hem erash da'n Twoaie as eisht harrish y cheayn dys yn Çhenn Ellan Aalin (as 'Liugh as Gheayagh, tra bee'm aynjee, er lhiam) er son y Chruinnaght. As tra hem erash bee eh orrym obbraghey myr fer keoie er y fa dy vel shin scughey'n lioarlann ta mee gobbraghey ayn. S'treisht lhiam dy noddym screeu art ny ghaa voish yn Chruinnaght tra ta mee ayns Mannin.

Jalloo 2012-06-28

Cha row monney traa aym, agh ta mee goll er turrys rish shiaghtin mairagh, myr shen shoh y jalloo myr vees eh rish tammylt. Ren mee jeshaghey reddyn beggan, as cur daah er ny crouwyn as er y chlagh. T'eh orrym dorraghys yn towl y ghlenney voish ny paitçhyn tra vees caa aym! Cha nel mee shickyr mychione oirr y towl noadyr; baghtal ny neuvaghtal, cre'n cummey share?

Jalloo 2012-06-24

Shoh y jalloo cheddin as kied vrat dy ghaah er. Shoh daaghey faggyssagh gyn sollys ny dorraghys, jus er son fakin jeeagh ny daaghyn, as cha nel daah er claghyn ny crouwyn noadyr. Bee'm gobbraghey er shen yn çhiaghtin shoh çheet.

Jalloo 2012-06-20

Jalloo beg ta mee gobbraghey er ec y traa t'ayn.

Skeealleen Sheenish: Yeesey, Peddyr as ny shillishyn

Hooar mee dooyrtiman Sheenish noa er coontey Weibo jiu, as ren mee çhyndaays jeh er nyn son.

Va Yeesey er troailt foddey marish Peddyr. Honnick eh crou chabbil er y raad, as yeearree er Peddyr ish y hroggal. B’lhiastey lesh Peddyr croymmey, as lhig eh er nagh cheayll eh. Hrog Yeesey hene ee, as tra v’ad shooyl trooid balley chreck eh ish er son tree ping, as lesh ny tree ping chionnee eh jeih shillishyn hoght. Hie y jees oc ‘syn ‘aasagh, as haink accrys as paays er Peddyr. Dy jioinagh, lhig Yeesey da shillish tuittym sheese, as chroym Peddyr dy jeean ny yei. Ren Yeesey shooyl as tuittym as shooyl as tuittym, as beggan er veggan chroym Peddyr jeih keayrt hoght. Mannagh jinnagh oo red beg, yinnagh oo ram reddyn ‘sy jerrey.

Ny, myr ta shin gra: ta greim ayns traa cooie, sauail nuy.

新浪微博 (Weibo) & RSS, as beggan Twitter maroo

As mee gynsaghey Sheenish, ta mee cur geill da 新浪微博 (Sina Weibo) ny keayrtyn (shen shirveish raad ennagh eddyr Twitter, Facebook as Tumblr: çhaghteraghtyn beggey, jallooyn, kianglaghyn as ooilley shen). Agh son y chooid smoo ta mee croghey er shirveishyn syndicaitee (RSS) ta cur çhaghter dou tra ta cooid noa ry-gheddyn. Liorish çhaglym ad 'sy jeeagheyder post-l aym, foddym ceau shilley beg orroo as feddyn magh my ta red ennagh anaasoil ayndaue. Er y fa nagh vel mee jannoo monney ymmyd jeh Weibo, cha mie lhiam dy vel eh orrym loggal stiagh dagh keayrt as scrutaghey taghyrtyn jeianagh. Gyn çheet er reddyn elley, t'eh foddey ny sassey dou jeeaghyn er çhaghter beg teks 'sy post-l aym 'syn obbyr na laadey duillag neucheirdee 'syn oik dy yeeaghyn er. Dindys mee my row aght ennagh ayn dy gheddyn cooid coontys Weibo ennagh myr stroo RSS, 'syn aght cheddin as noddym lesh Twitter, as fy-yerrey hooar mee dy row.

Shoh kiangley dhyt: http://ishow.sinaapp.com/rss.php

T'eh cur magh kiangley myr shoh:

http://myrss.sinaapp.com/sina.php?uid=1813080181&item=20

as foddee oo cur earroo coontey Weibo ennagh stiagh ayns ynnyd yn earroo shen my share lhiat jannoo dagh ooilley red dty hene.

Shoh sannish elley: my t'ou jeeaghyn er coontey enmyssit, myr coontey Charles Xue, cha nel earroo ry-gheddyn, dy baghtal... as cha nel Sinaapp gobbraghey marish enmyn. Agh my t'ou jeeaghyn er ny kianglaghyn 粉丝 as myr shen er y çheu hoshtal, hee oo dy vel earroo 'sy chiangley shen, as shen earroo y choontey.

As my ta anaase ayd er yn aght Twitter, shoh eh (cha lhiams eh, hooar mee eh raad ennagh ta jarroodit aym nish):

1. Fow coontey Twitter yn ymmydeyr t'ou stolkey
2. Jean ymmyd jeh Idfromuser, ny shirveish gollrish, dys feddyn magh earroo coontey'n ymmydeyr
3. Cur stiagh yn earroo shen 'sy raa shoh: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/EARROO.rss
4. Cur y kiangley heose stiagh 'sy jeeagheyder RSS ayd

Myr sampleyr, ta'n Ghreinneyder ry-lhaih myr RSS liorish

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18951158.rss

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I've been making use of Sina Weibo 新浪微博 (Sina Weibo) as part of studying Chinese. It's a service somewhere between Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, if you don't know. Anyway, for most websites with updating content, I get notifications of new articles and so on via RSS feeds, and it was a bit annoying that I had to log into Weibo and manually check for interesting stuff. Apart from anything else it's easier to read a text-only RSS update in my break at work than to load up a non-work website. I wondered if there was a way to get Weibo as an RSS feed from interesting accounts, as I already do for Twitter. It turns out, yes, there is.

Paste a Weibo account number into Sinaapp: http://ishow.sinaapp.com/rss.php

You'll get a link like this to an RSS feed:

http://myrss.sinaapp.com/sina.php?uid=1813080181&item=20

You can also copy the link above and just edit the number (to the correct account number) if you prefer.

If you look at a named account, like Charles Xue, there's apparently no account number, and Sinaapp doesn't work with names. But if you check the sidebar links like 粉丝, some of them include a number in the link, and that's the account number.

For anyone interested in the Twitter method (which isn't mine, I found it but can't remember where):

1. Find the Twitter account you want
2. Use Idfromuser, or a similar site, to get the account number from it
3. Stick the number in here: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/NUMBER.rss
4. Add the link to your RSS reader of choice

For example, the Greinneyder can be delivered straight to your inbox with the following link:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18951158.rss

Contoyrtys y vaatey ammyr

Ta mee er ve çhing car yn çhiaghtin shoh chaie, skee agglagh as gyn vree, agh fy-yerrey ren mee briwnys nagh dod mee surranse laa elley gyn feer lheiltys as dy raghin roie ny yei shen. T'ou roshtyn stayd tra ta’n feme t’ayd er lheiltys as y skeeys t’ort liorish dolley lheiltys ny stroshey na skeeys ny çhingys hene. Quaagh.

Ansherbee, ersooyl lhiam er roie beg, as aght ennagh haghyr eh, roish my hug mee my ner, dy row mee er roshtyn kione elley’n choorse kiarkylagh roie queig meeiley ta mee cliaghtey jannoo. Cha row mee kiarail roie queig meeiley as mish gennaghtyn cho skee as cho faase, agh cha row eh my reih hene eisht, row? As rish jerrey’n choorse va mee gennaghtyn braew dy liooar gyn scansh da çhingys. Rosh mee y thie dy ‘akin baatey ammyr jingit dy fondagh tessen yn awin. Ah, ta mee cummal rish awin, mannagh dooyrt mee shen hannah, as ta ny baatyn moaral çheumooie.

Aigh vie v’ayn er son y chubbyl s’lhieu yn baatey, lesh shey persoon çheet magh dyn gooney. Hooar shin dy row stiur y vaatey jingit ayns cuilleig ennagh ayns boalley breek, as va’n gob jingit rish baatey elley. Ghow fer ennagh tead jeh’n vaatey jingit as dy chur mygeayrt billey myr aker boght. Va stroo as geay dy heiy dy lajer noi’n ghaa lhiettalys, as ga dy ren shin eab braew, cha b’chosoylagh eh y baatey y hayrn magh lesh tead. Fy-yerrey ren shin faagail magh, as hoig shin dy row eh orrin y baatey elley y scughey. Wahll cha nee ennaghtyn gerjoilagh v’ayn; cha row skimmee y vaatey ry-akin ny er-enney ec peiagh erbee jin, as cha mie lesh peiagh erbee bentyn rish baatey gyn kied y skimmee. Er y laue elley, va’n baatey jingit dooney’n lane awin da cagh as cha vaik shin aght erbee elley dy heyrey. Myr shen, ghow shin toshiaght dy ‘easley ny crontyn.

Ta mee gra “ghow shin toshiaght”, agh shen foalsey. Shoh ny haghyr: ghow shin toshiaght dy jannoo eab, as goaill yindys. Cha vaik mee rieau lheid ny crontyn derrey jea. Oddagh oo credjal dy row Culain hene er nyn n’obbraghey ass yiarn creoi. ‘Sy jerrey, v’eh orrin barryn yiarn y gheddyn as y chur stiagh mastey ny teaddyn er egin, as eisht prisal ad veih-my-cheilley. Obbyr creoi, creid mish! Chooilleen shin eh lurg tammylt, as scughey eh beggan, agh cha row reamys dy liooar eddyr eshyn as y nah vaatey (as y fer ny yei, as y fer ny yeis!) dy lhiggey da’n vaatey jingit geddyn seyr.

Fy-yerrey, v’eh orrin (twoaieagh ass towse!) lhiggey da’n vaatey follym snaue sheese yn awin er ny teaddyn echey, coheeynt rish y vaatey heese. Chroo shen rheamys da gob y vaatey jingit, as lesh tree fir as tree mraane tayrn er y tead, chooilleen shin tayrn y baatey stiagh rish y vroogh as moaral, as eisht tayrn erash y baatey elley. Woof!

Shen beggan musthaa dy yannoo anaasoil oie Jeheiney, as ren y skimmee boght feayslit cuirrey shin ooilley da’n thie oast er son jough orroo. Va mee laccal my vrastyr, agh cha dod mee shassoo nyn oi as haink mee er son un jough.

Lhig dou gra: my t’ou gyn vee rish shiaght ooryn, as eisht t’ou roie queig meeiley as ceau oor rish tayrn seyr baatey ammyr noi niart awin attit ec y ‘liaghey as noi geay jeean, as eisht t’ou giu pynt lhionney – t’eh ard-vlasstal, agh beggan gollrish goll er brebbal liorish cabbyl.

As shen jerrey er.

Kinectaghey

(naight as aaraaghyn ass New Scientist:“Kinect imaging lets surgeons keep their focus”, liorish MacGregor Campbell, 2012-05-17, earroo 2865)

Cha nel mee currit da çhaghnoaylleeaght er e hon hene, ny gadgetyn noadyr, agh t’eh cur bwooise dou tra ta sleih feddyn magh stoo noa as gientyn eieyn noa. Tammylt er dy henney haink rish y Nintendo Wii as y stiur gleashagh echey, as va shen anaasoil, beggan. Eisht haink rish y Microsoft Kinect, as hug eshyn orrym cur geill dy firrinagh. Cha chionnee mee nane – cha nel jeshaght-ghamman aym (she gammaneyr CP mish) as cha nel mee cliaghtey glackey er stoo noa, as aghterbee ta mee cloie gammanyn crampey as feme oc er feed crammanyn as lugh dyn stiurey – agh va ram sleih jannoo ram stoo marish dy tappee. Ta Kinect Hacks çhaglym y chooid smoo jeu (agh cha nel dagh hack ry-gheddyn ayns shen). Hoshiaght, va Microsoft shassoo noi ny h-ymmydyn gyn jerkallys shoh, agh hug ad my ner dy leah dy nee taghyrt yindyssagh v’ayn – ram sleih yannoo ymmyd jeh’n çhaghnoaylleeaght ocsyn as feddyn magh saaseyn as ymmydyn noa nagh beagh adsyn arragh er smooinaghtyn orroo. Crowdsourcing fondagh, nagh vel?

C’red ta’n sleih shen jannoo, myr t’eh?

• T’ad stiurey çhellveeishanyn
• T’ad cloie gammanyn gyn stiur agh laueyn
• T’ad stiurey robotyn liorish gleashaght kirpey. Oddagh oo stiurey robot foddey jeed; ‘sy tampleyr shoh, t’ad lhiggey er dy vel oo stiurey robot ayns thie dy voir as cooney ish ga nagh vel oo thie.
• T’ad stiurey claareyn co-earrooder liorish gleashaght kirpey (rere çhaghnoaylleeaght ayns “Minority Report”)
• T’ad cloie greieyn as jannoo ellyn
• T’ad jannoo eab dy screeu claareyn ta toiggal çhengaghyn cowrit
• T’ad gynsaghey bea-oaylleeaght, liorish taishbyney craueyn er corp studeyr
• T’ad cooney doail dy hooyl mygeayrt gyn boalley noi reddyn
• T’ad gobbraghey er saaseyn dy yannoo laue-lheeys liorish Kinect as robotyn

Ta’n laue-lheeys hene goll er ronsaghey foast, agh ta Kinect çheet stiagh ayns obbraidlanyn ny yei shen. Ta laue-lhee ayns thie lheihys Guys’ & St. Thomas’ ayns Lunnin prowal ymmyd Kinect ‘syn obbraidlan. Ta’n laue-lhee cur cowraghyn kirpey da’n çhamraig dys shirrey, reih, as stiurey jallooyn er çhellveeishan.

Ta laueyn-lhee jeeaghyn er jallooyn lheihys scanshoil dy mennick car obbraid (m.s. caslyssyn scell-X ec y traa). Ta’n menkid croghey er yn torçh dy obbraid t’ayn as stayd y surransagh, agh dagh beggan minnid ny keayrtyn, as dagh oor ny keayrtyn elley. S’feer scanshoil eh freayll dagh ooilley red ‘syn obbraidlan lane shiast, as myr shen, my ta’n laue-lhee son scrutaghey jallooyn lheihys, t’eh ersyn glenney roish bentyn rish y cho-earrooder, as eisht glenney reesht roish my ghoys eh toshiaght reesht. Ta shen jummal traa as t’eh brishey jeean-tastey y laue-lhee myrgeddin. Noi shen, ta kuse dy laueyn-lhee croghey er cooneyder ta stiurey ny jallooyn, agh ta shen ny s’doillee na jannoo eh dy hene, as baanragh ny keayrtyn mannagh vel ad toiggal dy jeeragh ny t’ou çheet er. Foddym toiggal shen dy h-aashagh; s’doillee dy liooar eh ymmyrkey cooid thie mygeayrt marish peiagh elley, ny soilshaghey magh cre’n aght t’ou roshtyn thie ennagh, gyn çheet er scrutaghey tuarastyllyn roie 3T jeh corp bio! Ta lheid y red neufondagh, as myr shen ta gaue neuymmyrçhagh ‘sy y chooish.

Wahll, marish cooid vog er lheh, ta’n Kinect towse as toiggal cowraghey laue y laue-lhee, as ta shen lhiggey da stiurey ny jallooyn dy h-aashagh gyn glenney ny shirrey er cooneyder shen y yannoo er-e-hon.

She Tom Carrell eh y laue-lhee ren y chied ymmyd jeh’n chorys. Dooyrt eh:

“Derrey nish, va mee cliaghtey yllagh harrish y çhamyr da ny cooneyderyn çhaghnoil as shirrey orroo y yalloo y stiurey, queeyllaghey troa ennagh, y troa elley, arraghey seose, as sheese, mooadaghey, scribbey...”

agh marish y Kinect

“va stiurey foddey-oaylleeagh aym.”

Chammah’s shen, v’eh ny sassey cummal seose geill car yn obbraid er yn oyr dy row eh aashagh geddyn ny jallooyn kiartey.

“T’ou jus jannoo ooilley’n stoo shoh gyn loayrt as t’eh taghyrt foddey ny s’tappee. T’ou cummal seose ryddim y chooish.”

Ren Carrell obbraid er 8 Mee ny Boaldyn dy charraghey att cuishley ayns cuishlin y chree. Cha row eh shickyr mychione y chorys hoshiaght, agh nish t’eh jeean dy yannoo ymmyd jeh reesht.

“Er lhiam dy beagh eh mertragh dy liooar ‘sy toshiaght, agh va mee jeant bwooise ec yn aght hie reddyn jiu.”

Dy dooghyssagh, cha nel y Kinect jeant er son lheid yn obbyr. Tra ren ad y jeshaght, v’ad sheiltyn çhamyr ‘sy thie raad oddagh oo lheimmey mygeayrt as skeaylley dty laueyn gyn boirey dys cloie gamman. Ta obbraid foddey jeh’n çheiltynys shen, lane dy ‘leih, jeshaghtyn, caabylyn, trensooryn, sollyssyn as reddyn elley; as cha cosoylagh eh dagh keayrt dy gheddyn daa laue seyr noadyr. Ren Gerardo Gonzales ec Microsoft Research Cambridge goaill ayrn ayns croo corys noa da’n obbyr, marish laueyn-lhee ass Guy’s & St Thomas’ and King’s College London. V’eh orroo reih straih dy chowraghyn oddagh laue-lhee cur aysn boayl cagleeit tra t’eh shassoo rish boayrd obbraidee. Ta cowraghyn cadjin jeant lesh un laue, do beagh y laue elley seyr er son yn obbraid: myr sampleyr, t’ad faagail cowrey er y jalloo liorish jeeraghey er as gra “cur cowrey”. Ny yei shen, ta feme er daa laue er son kuse dy obbraghyn ec y traa t’ayn – er lhiam dy bee ad gobbraghey er shen dy jeean.

S’mie lhiam fakin dy vel sleih jannoo wheesh ymmyd noa as ymmydoil jeh’n çhaghnoaylleeaght shoh. Cha nel mee gaccan noi ny h-eieyn elley, ny reddyn taitnyssagh ny ommidjagh t’ayn, ny smooinnee eh! Ta feme er taitnys ‘sy chruinney shoh, ta fys ec Jee, as va’n Kinect jeant myr greie cloie. Agh s’mie lhiam scheial deiney, as ny reddyn yindyssagh neuyerkallagh ta sleih croo, as erskyn ooilley tra t’ad shareaghey’n chruinney veg shoh. Bee’m cur geill da’n chooish shoh ‘sy tra ry-heet as ta ram anaase aym er feddyn magh ny haghyrys.

Kynneigagaghey

She fastyr Doonee as ta caillin my cochummaltagh er jeet harrish (gyn raaue) dys tannaghtyn marish. Eiyrtys: shoh mish my hoie dy tost ‘sy çhamyr aym, curtan doont, as mee meeghergoilagh. Va mee maynrey dy liooar as mish coagyrey kinneigag rhubarbagh as clashtyn rish fynneigag (Close The Airlock!) tra hooill ad stiagh ‘sy çhamyr aarlee as goaill toshiaght tayrn magh stoo as jannoo bee. Hoi, ghooinney! smooinnee mee, my host. She çhamyr veg t’ayn, gyn rheamys da tree persoon roie mygeayrt lesh skynnyn. Cre mysh feysht jeem my row eh caaoil dy heet stiagh? Cha row, dy firrinagh. My t’ou jannoo kinneigagyn rieau, ta fys ayd dy fel feme ayd er rheamys – rheamys da boayrd scoltee, da meilley casseroil, da mesteyder nee kinneigyn ass flooyr as shugyr as margarine. As dy dooghyssagh, da gish rhubarb three trieyn er yrjid ta ry-scoltey ayd. Aghterbee, cha daink eh ‘sy chooish, er y fa nagh deysht ad. V’ad tarroogh lesh aarlaghey feill da fleah foalley as maylartey goan meeley. T’ad feer jesh, y ghaa nyn lomarcan oc, agh beggan ro-hugyragh dous myr jees.

Nish, as mish jannoo kinneigag vess, cha row mee son geddyn eh mestit marish y feill aw shen. Chammah’s shen, she çhamyr veg t’ayn gyn rheamys dooin ooilley, as v’ad loayrt nyn gione dy jeean. Fy-yerrey ren mee skellal roish as goll ‘sy çhamyr ayms. Ta mee shassoo noi merginaght as preays aigney ec y traa t’ayn, as cha noddym surranse lheid y red; cha nel loght oc ‘sy chooish, n’abbyr eh, agh ta feme aym er shee. Agh atreih! Ta’n çhamyr aym er y laare hallooin, corneil rish corneil da’n çhamyr aarlee, as t’ee jeeaghyn magh er y gharey. Cur çheb er c’raad ta’n boayl fleahagh? Kiart. My hug mee my chione magh ass y dorrys, honnick mee adsyn nyn nyees roie mygeart y çhamyr aarlee as feill oc, as clashtyn roo flideraghey. My yeeagh mee trooid yn uinniag, honnick mee adsyn nyn nyees meader ny ghaa foddey jeem, jeeaghyn erash orrym as ad cophaaghey. As er y fa nagh vel y çhamyr agh ny kistey 10’ x 10’ (myr dooyrt mee hannah), cha cosoylagh eh dy hoie aynjeed gyn jeeaghyn trooid yn uinniag... as shen y fa dy vel y curtan doont. Cha mie lhiam jeeaghyn magh er sleih nyn gophaaghey; cha nel eh cooyrtooil ny cooie da dooinney doaieagh.

T’eh tost nish, as er lhiam, foddee, dy vel raad follym aym rish tammylt. Sauçhey, foddee, dy sleetçhal magh as jannoo bee. Vaikym uss...

Mooadys lioaryn

Ta mee er ve lhaih straih fansee "Shennaghys Siala" (‘Siala Chronicles’) liorish Alexey Pehov, er ny hyndaa ass y Rooshish. T’eh feer vie, as va mee fieau dy jeean er y lioar s’jerree, nagh row er ny chlou foast tra lhaih mee ny fir elley. As mish boirit as fo stroos ec y traa shoh erskyn cliaghtey liorish toshiaght yn imbagh noa, ren mee briwnys yinnin eh y chionnaghey roish yn obbyr do noddin eh y lhaih ‘sy traa kirbyl aym myr saase boggee. Chammah’s shen, va eearlys lioaragh £10 aym, as myr shen, oddin eh y chionnaghey gyn ceau feer argid erbee as jannoo ymmyd mie jeh’n eearlys ec y traa cheddin.

Wahll, rosh mee y shapp lioaryn as roie seose ny greeishyn da’n rheynn Fansee-as-Far-skeealaght-Sheanse (s’doillee eh goll dys shapp ta fosley ec 9yc as roshtyn yn obbyr roish 9.15) dys shirrey er. Shoh ny fir elley, cre’n lioar noa. Ah. Hmm. Shen eh roo, agh... t’eh mooar. As cha nel mee gra roayr, agh mooar.

Eddyr y nah as treeoo lioar ‘sy treeskeealag, ren ommidjagh ennagh ec y toilsheyder (Simon & Schuster) briwnys dy chur magh y treeoo lioar ayns cummey smoo na ny fir elley. Shen ‘trade paperback’ rere shirveishee yn çhapp. T’eh oarlagh ny ghaa ny s’yrdjey, as ny s’lhea. Cre’n fa? smooinnee mee. Foddee dy screeu Pehov lioar foddey ny smoo myr jerrey da’n treeskeealag, as er lhieu dy row eh ny share cur magh lioar mooar na lioar roayr? Shen eie ommidjagh, agh oddin er ny hoiggal aght ennagh. Agh cha nel eh kiart. Yeeagh mee stiagh ‘sy lioar, as hug my ner dy row y teks clouit ny smoo ayn. Myr shen, cha ren ad agh jannoo y lane lioar ny smoo. Cha noddym toiggal dy vel oyr erbee ayn er son shen agh argid; er y fa nagh vel y lioar ny smoo ynrican, agh ny s’deyrey, faggys daa wheesh cho deyr as ny kied lioaryn.

Ta mee er vakin caghlaa cummey ayns mean straih roish shoh, agh choud’s ta fys aym, va shen bentyn rish caghlaa soilsheyder, cha row eh gyn oyr (v’eh ommidjagh gyn scansh da shen). Nish yeeagh mee mygeayrt ayms as fakin y red cheddin ayns skeeal elley er y skelloo sniessey. Nagh vel ad toiggal cre wheesh boiraneys ta shen cur er sleih? Cha nel rheamys dy liooar da’n lioar smoo ‘syn un skelloo as ny fir elley (agh my t’ou cur adsyn er skelloo cooie da lioaryn mooarey, t’ou jummal y rheamys shen). S’cosoylagh eh dy jig magh eh myr coodagh pabyr cadjin rish blein ny ghaa, foddee. Yindyssagh, ghooinney. Cha noddym credjal agh dy vel ad jerkal geddyn ram argid ass sleih nagh mie lhieau fieau er y lhieggan neugheyr shen, as dy nee saase foshlit dy hoo argid assjeed t'ayn. Mannagh vel, cre’n fa nagh hug magh ad lhieggan casley rish ny kied ghaa ym-lioar?

Myr shen, cha nee’m kionnaghey eh ny yei shen as ooilley. Nee’m fieau derrey vees eh ‘sy lioarlann as eeassaghey eh, nagh nee boirey erbee er ny skellooyn lioar aym, as spaarail y £15 aym dy chionnaghey daa lioar elley. As goym kiarail roish my kionneeym straih elley voish Simon & Schuster – s’cosoylagh eh dy nee ad y chrout ghraney cheddin reesht. Mollaght orroo, ny mitçhooryn.

Robot robaigagh rere thollag ‘aiyr Etruscagh

Ta oayllee ec Seyrlann Robot-oaylleeaght Bristol er nyannoo robot robaigagh rere thollag ‘aiyr Etruscagh ta feddyn raad as cragh liorish bentyn ynrican.

Ta’n robot shoh, ‘Shrewbot’ (‘robot thollag ‘aiyr’) ayrn jeh co-halee BIOTACT, ny shalee ronsee kiare bleeantyn. Ta’n çhalee geddyn argid jeh 7oo Chlaare Ronsee yn Unnaneys Oarpagh, as t’eh goaill stiagh nuy possanyn ronsee ayns shiaght ashoonyn. Ta Shrewbot ny cho-hroar SRB (‘Bristol Robotics Laboratory’, liorish UWE Bristol as Ollooscoill Bristol) as Seyrlann Bentynagh Jantagh Sheffield (‘Active Touch Laboratory’, liorish Ollooscoill Sheffield as Ollooscoill Sheffield Hallam) . Ta’n çhalee fo stiurey yn Olloo Tony Pipe (UWEB) as yn Olloo Tony Prescott (OS).

Ta’n thollag ‘aiyr Etruscagh ny baagh yindyssagh. She sheeintagh sloo t’er fys ain t’ayn, 4cm er lhiurid as ny sloo na 2g er trimmid. T’ee gee shey-chassee cho mooar as ish, as greimmey orroo ‘sy dorraghys liorish bree ny robaigyn eck. Foddee ee bentyn rish, cur enney er as greimmey er cragh ayns 60 millihullagh, rere Prescott. T’ee er ngreinney oayllee dy hirrey aght dy aachroo y schlei shen do noddagh robotyn stiurey gyn fakin.

Ta’n thollag skeabey ny robaigyn eck noon as noal dy tappee, as ta ny craaghyn cur fys jee er ynnyd, cummey as loaghtid nheeghyn myrgeayrt-y-mooee. Dooyrt Prescott: “Traa ta ny robaigyn bentyn rish nhee, t’ad craa, as ta killagyn mioyrey ‘syn ‘ollicle fuilt ec bun ny robaig towse ryddim ny craaghyn as cur çhaghteraght lectragh da’n inçhyn. Liorish shen, ta’n sheeintagh jannoo briwnys çhelleeragh mychione y çhymbyllaght ta lhiggey jee shooyl mygeayrt as greimmey cragh. Ta vondeish elley ec robaigyn cosoylit rish saaseyn bentynagh elley. S’aashagh eh ad y aanoaghey, er y fa dy vel ny killagyn ennee ec bun ny robaig, cha nel ec y vaare. Cha nel ad gollrish mair deiney, myr sampleyr, as ad yn-jeeylley dy aashagh as do-aanoagh.” (Shrew whiskers inspire ground-breaking robot design, 20 Jerrey Geuree 2012, Ollooscoill Bristol)

T’ad er groo robotyn robaigyn roish shoh, agh cha row ad corrym rish. Cha dod ad geddyn robaigyn dy liooar bentyn rish nhee ec yn un traa, as dynsee ny h-oayllee dy vel reaghys ny robaigyn scanshoil chammah dys mooadaghey y fys t’ad geddyn assdaue. Ta’n Shrewbot foddey dy smoo na’n thollag hene, mysh mooadys kishan pabyr, agh ta ny robaigyn eck reaghit rere robaigyn ny thollag dy cruinn. T’ad birragh as cruillagh, as ta gleaysheyder e hene ec dagh robaig do noddagh ee arraghey dy neuchrogheydagh. Tra t’ad bentyn rish nhee erbee, ta ryddim ny craaghyn lhiggey da’n robot feddyn magh ynnyd y nhee, as troa ghleashee y nhee cosoylish rish y robot hene. Liorish covestey fys veih ymmodee robaigyn, t’ad feddyn magh cummey y nhee myrgeddin. (New Scientist, 21 Averil 2012, dg. 26: Touchy-feely robot takes on the darkness.)

Dys prowal y Shrewbot, t’ad er groo robot elley, ‘Cricketbot’ (‘robot griaran’) ta shaghney reddyn ta çheet faggys da. T’ad er çhee goaill toshiaght dy yannoo eabyn eddyr y daa robot. Chammah’s shen, t’ad er ngoaill toshiaght dy ronsaghey raunteeyn as sheeintee ushtee elley, er y fa dy vel ny robaigyn oc eer ny s’mioyrey. “Foddee ad ennaghtyn luirg ushtey-ghleashagh ny h-eeastyn ‘syn ushtey,” dooyr Prescott (New Scientist, ibid.).

Liorish ronsaghey rere greieyn aafillit najoor, t’ad gobbraghey er saaseyn as prowaltys ayn dy vel bree oc. Foddee ad jannoo ymmyd jeh’n robot shoh ayns çhymbyllaghtyn gaueagh as dorraghey, ny raad ta stayd yn ynnyd neulhiggey da robotyn cadjin fakin veg. T’ad coloayrt rish Brigaidyn Aile er yn obbyr, as credjal dy beagh robot bentynagh feer ymmydoil ayns aileyn mooarey raad ta jaagh çhiu jannoo doillee eh da moogheyderyn feddyn nyn raad hene, gyn çheet er feddyn sleih ny reddyn elley. Foddee ny robotyn stiurey moogheyderyn deiney ny ronsaghey troggalyn gyn deiney erbee (A robot inspired by the Etruscan shrew called Shrewbot, feeshan YouTube heose).

Dooinney ny Fainnaghyn-Cleayshey Airhey

Dooinney ny Fainnaghyn-Cleayshey Airhey

She ashlish v’ayn, foddee. Shoh ny ta fondagh—hyndaa mee laa dy row ass jingey caayrey, as roshtyn ny cabbagyn as fakin keiyghyn shliawin goll sheese ‘syn ushtey dy eaynagh as geayney, as fakin yn awin lheeah ‘oawragh snaue my haghey as ny reddyn cailltey aynjee sheer-chassey, as smooinee mee er ashoonyn as Traa neuerreeishagh, as fakin as goaill yindys jeh ny lhongyn reinoil noa er jeet veih’n cheayn.

By eisht eh, mannagh vel marranys orrym, honnick mee fer lieh-lhie er boalley as jeeaghyn rish ny lhongyn, dooinney as fainnaghyn cleayshey airhey echey. Va blass dorraghey fir ny jiass er: va renaigyn deyll-ghoo e farveeal er ngiallaghey beggan ec sollan; v’eh ceau jaggad gorrym dorraghey myr ta marrinee ceau, as bootsyn lhiennoo shiaulteyr; agh va’n tooill echey jeeaghyn ny sodjey na ny lhongyn, myr dy chronnee eh ny reddyn sodjey hene.

Eer tra loayr mee rish cha hayrn erash eh y jeeaghyn shen, agh dreggyr eh mish fo’n vlakey soit cheddin myr dy row e smooinaght freayney er faarkaghyn foddey lomarcan. Denee mee jeh cre’n lhong haink eh er; shimmey lhong v’ayns shen. Va ny lhongyn shiauill ayn, as ny shiauill oc fillit as ny cruin oc jeeragh as kiune, myr keyll yeuree ; va ny gaaltanyn ayn, as laineyryn mooarey heid jaagh liastey seose ‘syn aer conghorraghey. Dreggyr eh nagh daink eh er fer erbee jeu. Denee mee jeh cre’n colught v’eh gobbraghey ayn, as eh ny hiaulteyr dy baghtal; dimraa mee enmyn mie er enney, agh cha row enney echeysyn orroo. Eisht denee mee jeh c’raad v’eh gobbraghey as cre’n obbyr v’echey. As dooyrt eh: “Ta mee gobbragh’ ayns Mooir yn Amlee, as she mish fer s’jerree ny roosteyryn marrey, y fer s’jerree ta faagit bio.” As chrie mee e laue reesht as reeshtagh. Dooyrt mee: “Va aggle orrin dy row shiu marroo. Va aggle orrin dy row shiu marroo.” As dreggyr eh dy trimshagh: “Cha nel. Cha nel. Ren mee peccaghyn ro-hrome er y wooir Spaainagh: cha nel eh lhiggit dou baase y gheddyn.”

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The Man With The Golden Ear-Rings

It may be that I dreamed this. So much at least is certain—that I turned one day from the traffic of a city, and came to its docks and saw its slimy wharves going down green and steep into the water, and saw the huge grey river slipping by and the lost things that went with it turning over and over, and I thought of the nations and unpitying Time, and saw and marvelled at the queenly ships come newly from the sea.

It was then, if I mistake not, that I saw leaning against a wall, with his face to the ships, a man with golden ear-rings. His skin had the dark tint of the southern men: the deep black hairs of his moustache were whitened a little with salt; he wore a dark blue jacket such as sailors wear, and the long boots of seafarers, but the look in his eyes was further afield than the ships, he seemed to be beholding the farthest things.

Even when I spoke to him he did not call home that look, but answered me dreamily with that same fixed stare as though his thoughts were heaving on far and lonely seas. I asked him what ship he had come by, for there were many there. The sailing ships were there with their sails all furled and their masts straight and still like a wintry forest; the steamers were there, and great liners, puffing up idle smoke into the twilight. He answered he had come by none of them. I asked him what line he worked on, for he was clearly a sailor; I mentioned well-known lines, but he did not know them. Then I asked him where he worked and what he was. And he said: “I work in the Sargasso Sea, and I am the last of the pirates, the last left alive.” And I shook him by the hand I do not know how many times. I said: “We feared you were dead. We feared you were dead.” And he answered sadly: “No. No. I have sinned too deeply on the Spanish seas: I am not allowed to die.”

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Ta'n skeealeen shoh çhyndaait ass The Man With The Golden Ear-Rings liorish yn Çhiarn Dunsany. Ta'n lioar vunneydagh ry-lhaih er Project Gutenberg.

Orc jingit

Ta rouyr stoo aym. Cha noddym shassoo noi ny sodjey.

Er dy daag mee thie ny kynney, ta mee er gummal ayns daa chummal-rea, as nish ayns thie. ‘Sy ghaa chummal-rea, v’eh orrym cur lhiam my chooid thie hene, chammah’s stoo aarlee. Agh lesh arraghey dys Aah yn Ollee, v’eh orrym co-chummal ayns thie. Ta Aah yn Ollee deyr atçhimagh, as cha nel ad geeck monney faill da cooneyderyn-lioarlann boayl erbee, gyn çheet er Aah yn Ollee; boayl myr shoh, as ymmodee sleih by vie lhieu cummal ayn (ny tannaghtyn ayn erreish daue faagail yn olloosoill), ta yeearreyderyn dy lioar ayn nagh vel eh orroo eeck faill vie. As ta mee ayns shoh er y fa dy nee y staartey ynrickan çhebb ad dou! Fy-yerrey, hooar mee oayll ayns thie t’ec agglish Christadelphian Aah yn Ollee, liorish co-obbree aym ta ny oltey jeh’n agglish shen. She thie beg ardaneagh t’ayn, caghlaait (dy moal) veih thie mooinjer dys thie cooie da tree sleih lomarcan.

Aghterbee, ren mee geddyn rey rish y chooid smoo jeh’n stoo thie v’aym, agh cha nel eh dy liooar. Shoh my vea: ta mee cummal ayns shamyr 10’x10’ myr orc ta freayll arrey er coyr. Ta brat phlastagh ghuaragh er y laare, er y fa dy vel mee cummal rish yn awin, as er lhieu nagh vel eh feeu cur sheese brat gheyr ayns caa dy jed ee er baih laa ennagh. Um... choud’s ta fys aym, cha jagh yn ard er baih ayns cooinaghtyn deiney bio, agh quoi mish dy yannoo argane? ‘Sy çhamyr shoh ta mee jingey y vea aym. Ta’n lhiabbee staillin ‘eddanagh; va lhiabbee stooalt ‘sy çhamyr tra rosh mee. Cre’n ommidjys? Shamyr veg dy liooar gyn reamys erbee fo’n lhiabbee dy chur stoo fo. Fy-yerrey dooyrt mee dy gionneein lhiabbee noa my lhiggagh ad dou, as ren mee. Hug lhiam ee, peesh er pheesh, veih’n steat çhynskylagh heose y raad, er barrey ren mee geeassaghey veih shapp beiyn thie. Ta kishtaghyn pabyr creoi foee, lane dy lioaryn son y chooid smoo, agh ta bee ayns shen foast. Ta stainnaghyn elley fo’n choir chishteigagh aym as buill erbee elley ta mee feddyn, er y fa nagh vel reamys aym ad y hashtey ‘sy çhamyr aarlee veg, raad ta un skelloo ‘sy choyr rioee, fer elley ‘sy rioder, as cubbyrt beg. Ta messyn lhie harrish leac yn uinniag, as carnane dy arran as poppadumyn creaghit er kione lioaraghan. Ta kishtaghyn dy phabyr sheeidey, clag, radio, poagaghyn, kishtey greieyn, as reddyn quaagh elley gyn boayl cooie jingit ayns scolt erbee.

Ta’n lhiabbee lhieeney mysh kerroo ny shamyr. Ta boayrd as caair lhieeney kerroo elley. Ta co-earrooder boayrd aym, cha nel mee coontey monney jeh glioontagyn, as t’eh cur dou ream dy hashtey straih dy JABEyn er skelloo erskyn y taishbyner. She co-earrooder mooar yiarn t’aym, ayns shenn chishtey trome meain, as shen reih jioinagh aym ren lhiettal sleih veih goaill eh tra vrish ad stiagh ‘sy çhamyr aym ‘syn olloosoill. Agh t’eh jeant ass y noa tree keayrt neayr’s shen as ta co-earrooder niartal ‘sy çhenn chrackan. Ta lettyryn as notyn as cappanyn as kishtaghyn-speckleyryn as skeabanyn foltey as dagh ooilley red skeaylt harrish y voayrd gollrish duillagyn fouyir. Ny keayrtyn, ta mee glenney eh, agh dy firrinagh, cha nel boayl erbee elley aym dy chur ooilley’n stoo shen er, as myr shen t’eh gaase coodagh noa rish laa ny ghaa. Ta’n doilleeid cheddin ayn bentyn rish y çhamyr hene.

Erskyn ooilley, she lioaryn ta jingey’n çhamyr. Ta mee lhaih dy jeean, as ta sleih cur lioaryn dou dy mennick. Tammylt erash, hug mee my ner nagh row eer fys aym er ny lioaryn v’aym, as ghow mee toshiaght jannoo ymmyd jeh LibraryThing. T’eh ny t’eh clashtyn dy ve, ynnyd-eggey ta lhiggey dhyt jannoo catalog jeh ny lioaryn t’ayd liorish fysseree veih lioarlannyn, Amazon as buill elley. She obbyr liauyr v’ayn, agh fy-yerrey ta recortys aym er dagh ooilley lioar ‘sy thie. As myr shen, foddym insh dhyt dy vel, ec y traa t’ayn nish, 431 lioar aym, as 128 jeu, cha nel mee er nyn lhaih. 431 lioar, cha nel y lane haglym aym (ta ny smoo ayns thie my ayr as moir, atreih) agh gee reamys ‘sy çhamyr veg jingit 10’x10’ shoh ayns Aah yn Ollee. Rouyr dy jarroo.

Ta mee jannoo feer eab y çhaglym y hangaghey, my ‘ockle er, agh she obbyr doillee t’ayn. Ta fir jeu nyn lioaryn fysseree nagh vel ry-lhaih, agh ry-chur er skelloo as geddyn fysseree assdaue nish as reesht; cha nel eh cho aashagh geddyn red roo. Ymmodee fir elley, t’ad nyn lioaryn ynsee çhengaghyn. Wahll, oddin kuse jeu y cheau magh, foddee, mannagh bee ny smoo ymmyd ry-gheddyn assdaue aym; agh t’eh gennaghtyn feer sonnaasagh shen y ghra, nagh vel? As shimmey lioar nagh by aashagh eh coip noa y feddyn dy row mee son lhaih ee reesht: t’ad shenn lioaryn far-skeeal sheanse ass clou, t’ad ayns çhengey elley as cheau mee fuill ad y gheddyn ‘sy toshiaght. As ta lioaryn elley ayns straih as nagh by vie lhiam geddyn rey rish y clane job-lot. As, as, as... ta leshtal da dagh ooilley lioar, faggys.

Nagh aashagh eh lioaryn noa y gheddyn, nagh doccaragh eh ad y cheau magh!

Shirrey glioonag

Cha dod mee shassoo noi ny s'odjey. My leshtal...