A Year of Late Cornish

  2023 Dedh Cans Deg ha Trei Ugens De Lun, nawnjegves mis Efen Monday, 19th June Ero whei ow longya dhe mires ort an eborn nos ha gweles ymagys? Po nag ero whei gweles bes ster? Ma nebes bagasow a ster henwys constellacyons. Ma'n ster en udn bagas owth hevely bos ogas an eyl dhe y gila, bes en gwrionedh anjei alja bos pel a-les. Ma henwyn pur goth dhe nedes constellacyons, rag sampel An Gevellyon.  An dew ster an moyha spladn ew gelwys Castor ha Pollux. Ens pednow dew figur gwelen - gen diwvregh ha diwarr? Gwrewgh mires lebmyn drefen bos gellys woja avorow. Do you belong to look at the night sky and see images? Or do you just see stars? There are several groups of stars called constellations.The stars in a certain group appear close to one another, but really they could be far apart. Some constellations have very old names, for example Gemini (the Twins). The two brightest stars are called Castor and Pollux. Are they the heads of two stick figures - with arms and legs? Look no...

  2023 Dedh Cans Trei Ügens ha Naw De Sül , etegves mis Efen Sunday, 18th May Pe le ma an camera? Na ellama remembra, etho theram ow kemeres ow  fôn.  Rag fra na ellama kemeres foto da gans ow  fôn? Theram ow senjy sygen rag an kei en  ü dn dorn; na ellama  ûsya  bes  ü dn dorn dhe b òsa an spott. Terweythyow nag era vy ow seweny. Hedhyw, theram ow tos tre ha na ellama trouvya be  ü dn pictour! Hemm ew goth Fowedh - r ü dh ha kigliw, emesk an reden.     Where's the camera? I can't remember, so I take my phone. Why can't I take a good photo with my phone? I'm holding a leash for the dog with one hand; I can only use one hand to press the spot. Sometimes I do not succeed. Today I come home and I can only find one picture! This is valerian (pride of Fowey) - red and pink, among the ferns.

  2023 Dedh Cans Trei Ügens hag Eth De Sadorn, seytegves mis Efen Saturday, 17th May  Fortüdnyes ew an Metêrn! Ma dhodho dew bednbloodh. Y bednbloodh gwir ew en mis Dû saw hedhyw a veu y bednbloodh “sòdhogel”. An pednbloodh a veu golys gen solempnita ha devosak – gen trei cans margh ha lies soudoryon – gen mûsek ha bandys ow keskerdhes ha bandys war geyn margh. Gwithlû Kembra a dhisqwedhas aga baner (aga “liw”). Nei a welas lies liw – rüdh, gwydn ha glas rag baner an Wlascor Ûnyes. Gwiskys o Prynses Gembra en gwer emerôd, gen brôcha shamrock, rag Gwithlû Werdhon. Na wrüga vy gweles liw veth rag Kernow. Nag eus Gwithlû Kernow. The King is lucky! He has two birthdays. His real birthday is in November but today was his “official” birthday. The birthday was celebrated with ceremony and ritual – with 300 horses and many soldiers – with music and marching bands and mounted bands. The Welsh Guards showed their flag (their “colour”). We saw many colours – red, white and blue for the U...

  2023 Dedh Cans Trei Ugens ha Seyth De Gwener, seytegves mis Efen Friday, 17th June Skith o vy arta ha nag eus dhebm tra veth dhe leverel, drefen bos en deray, a-der ornys, aneffeythus! Res ew dhebm bos gwell avorow. Ma dhebm lebmyn dew flogh wydn, dew gei, diw gath ha hogh Gyny (ha gour) dhe witha. Piw a vedn mos tre avorow? I'm tired again and I don't have anything to say, because I am in chaos, not organised, inefficient! I must be better tomorrow. I now have two grandchildren, two dogs, two cats and a guineapig (and a husband) to care for. Who will go home tomorrow?

  2023 Dedh Cans Trei  Ü gens ha Whegh De Yow, pemdhegves mis Efen Thursday, 15th June Skith o vy arta! Po martesen nag o vy bes diek. Jan Jiek! Na ellama còsca  . An jedh ew re hir ha re w ò low. An nosow ew cott. An edhyn ew  trosüs  e'n mettin a-varr; ma mola  dhû  ha r ü dhek ow cana wheg, saw ma treys poos dhe'n colomednow coos, ch ô kys ha peies war an to.  I'm tired again! Or perhaps I am just lazy. A lazy bones! I can't sleep. The day is too long and too light. The nights are short. The birds are noisy in the early morning; a blackbird and robin sing sweetly, but the wood pigeons, jackdaws and magpies have heavy feet on the roof.

  2023 Dedh Cans Trei Ugens ha Pemp De Merher, pajardegves mis Efen Wednesday, 14th June Na wra vy gweles an vorr a-dro Chi war Tonn nevra na moy! Nos Gwener hei a vedh degeys. System vorrow nowydh a vedh et hy le mettin de Lun. De Sadorn ha de Sul a vedh calish. Agan mergh a venja drei hy dew flogh dhort Truru bys en Peran Treth, saw na vedh vorr dhidro. E vedh lies divercyon. Agan chei ew ogas dhe vorr A3075. Hedna a vedh moy vesy ha moy drosus. Ma pednbloodh dhe'n gevellyon (agan flehes wydn erel). Fatel ellen nei hedhes aga hefewy en Penrynn de Sadorn?  I'll never see Chiverton roundabout ever again! On Friday night it will be closed. A new road system will be in its place on Monday morning. Saturday and Sunday will be difficult.   Our daughter would like to bring her two children from Truro to Perranzabuloe, but there will be no direct route. There will be many diversions. Our house is near the A3075. That will be busier and more noisy. The twins (our other grandchil...

  2023 Dedh Cans Trei Ügens ha Pajar  De Meurth, terdhegves mis Efen Tuesday, 13th June Ellen nei desky gen comparyansow textys? Pandr'ellen nei desky? Ma caletter gen textys coth. Pandra wher? Na ellen nei gweles  dornscrîf orijinal. Thera nei ow scodhya war dhasscrif. Pe le a dhalvia udn ger diwedhes ha'n nessa ger dallath? E'n jedh hedhyw nei alja dewis en deffrans. Ma lies scrifyans deffrans. Terweythyow mowns ow qweres dhen gen laveryans. Saw nebes treylyansow ew calish. Terweythow thew an Sowsnek y h ò nan calish dhe  ò nderstondya!  Ha calish dhe dhesevos. Can we learn from comparisons of texts? What can we learn? There's difficulty with old texts. What's the problem? We cannot see an original manuscript. We rely on a transcript. Where should one word have ended and the next word begun? Nowadays we could choose differently. There are many different spellings. Sometimes they help us with pronunciation. But some translations are difficult. Sometime the Engl...