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It is a "mobile".
That particular one is powered, by clockwork when my children were that age, but I suspect that they have batteries now. A free hanging contraption that spins gently in the breeze is also called a mobile.

Indeed. The boy has done us proud. Llongyfarchiadau.
It also means that more people can pronounce my step-son's name. He is a Geraint living in England.

I got talking to a new bloke in the pub. He told me that he was a lumberjack on holiday. I thought that he seemed like a decent feller. He said that his name was Tim Burr.

I know the feeling. I had the same problem when the Boss asked me how many musical instruments I needed and I bought another mandolin.
My big worry is that if I pop my clogs before her she will sell them for what I told her I paid for them.

Did I really write, "A myth is as good as a smile"? I am quite proud of that.

I don't know whether it is because Welsh is a phonetic language and we just accept what we see, but you almost always hear it pronounced as Feb-ru-ary around here.

Why are they "urban myths" and not "town myths" or "rural myths"? According to Wikipedia, which we all know is completely infallible, "The term "urban legend," as used by folklorists, has appeared in print since at least 1968. Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, int...

I will tell you how he behaves; both in our office and outside of it.

Those options are terribly cumbersome.

On your guinea pig theme Tony, I understand that penguins are so named because they resembled a species of bird that gad become extinct in the Northern Hemisphere. Which is why birds with black heads are called "penguin" which is a corruption of the Welsh 'pen gwyn' which in turn means 'white head'....

Excellent Tony.

In Welsh we roll Rs, so those in February and library get a bit more of a pronunciation than possibly they should.

I could have sworn that I had answered this.

Thank you Erik.

A friend of a fellow school governor works in a hospital. One day she was called into see the boss because he had received a complaint about her from an Indian doctor who claimed she had acted in a racist manner on several occasions by calling him "Curry Head". The man telling us the story didn't ne...