Thank you so much everyone! This is wonderful! I know 2007 will be good for me! Things have been difficult for me for quite a while, but I'm getting it back together now, and I so remembered how wonderful it was here, and how at home I felt. This has always been a very warm and welcoming place for me. I don't think anyone who loves and lives with Gord's music can be anything but warm and supportive. How can you live with and love those lyrics and be anything but? Believe me, I've visited and read so many forums for musicians/bands (for research purposes) and this place is such a unique exception! There is nothing like it! And I'm only here by the skin of my teeth really - a Lightfoot fan this side of the Atlantic?!? When we're lucky to hear IYCRMM once in a year on any radio station? But that's never held me back - even though the most up to date CD you can buy here is - you guessed it ... (but there are ways ...!) My earliest memories of listening to Gord are in my best friend of the time's bedroom, when we were fourteen or so years old. If you want to know what happened to me after that, it's all down here somewhere ...! As I said, things have been improving for me - I had some time off work, but now I'm back, and I'm picking up so many things again - and last night I did something I've been thinking of doing for so long, but was so nervous about doing - posting here again. I'm so glad I did it now! Thank you so much everyone!
Yes, John, Welsh Wales! (and I remember reading something similar from you before!) Well, Swansea, where I live, isn't that Welsh (as in language) really, but I am! I grew up with Welsh and English as joint first languages. I'm a (part time) novelist (day job is teaching - which I also love). I write novels in Welsh, some for people who are learning Welsh as a second language (sorry - haven't quite mastered triple Welsh yet ... !!!) We are having a few problems with the ISP at the moment, as far as the web site's concerned, but are hoping to have it back up there soon (it's all fully bilingual - English and Welsh - by the way!!!) - the MP3 of the novel is not on the website, but you get the entire novel on a CD in MP3 format if you buy the book - read by a professional actress and one of my personal friends - Gwyneth Glyn - who's also a musician and writes and sings wonderful folk/country songs!
And John - do you know why the Welsh is S Tathan and the English is St Athan? It's all perfectly correct!
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