That Place In Wales - Mcclyneth?

[Dubversion]

(tee hee)

 

[editor]

we'll be ok, i'll sing to you

Or, more likely, wolf down endless cans of lager while poor old Ms Eye has to do all the driving.


((((Pie Eye))))

 

[Pieface]

Indeed!

 

[Gromit]

In my office we just call it Mach.
We have another office there in case you wonder why I'd be refering to it at all.

Nice area.

 

[editor]

Indeed!

Just in case you don't fancy the drive (or four hours of Dub's drunken singing) it's a 4hr train journey from Euston (cheapest single £12).

Some of it's well pretty too,.

 

[Pieface]

yeah - we're thinking taht may be the way to go.

 

[editor]

yeah - we're thinking taht may be the way to go.

Get in quick on the Trainlines website cos there's a few cheapo tickets still showing.

 

[Dubversion]

Get in quick on the Trainlines website cos there's a few cheapo tickets still showing.

not for november there's not - not even on sale yet

 

[Pieface]

it's november - I don;t think they're up yet are they?

 

[Callie]

Just in case you don't fancy the drive (or four hours of Dub's drunken singing) it's a 4hr train journey from Euston (cheapest single £12).

Some of it's well pretty too,.

seriously??? thats not direct is it?

 

[dirtyfruit]

Pain in the arse to get to. Best to drive as the train is unreliable and infrequent but then you've got the devilish bends on those mountain roads to deal with!

 

[Callie]

I never had that many problems with the train going back and forth to Aber, always found it quite reliable (this was 3/4 years ago) - the scenery is amazing, which i guess youd miss out on if youre driving? but its a long journey, pretty long drive for someone too though

 

[editor]

seriously??? thats not direct is it?

One change at Brum.

 

[foamy]

In my office we just call it Mach.

We call it Ma-Clunk-Click

are you going to a wedding at CAT?

 

[Dubversion]

nah, the wedding's in a tea shop on a railway line

but people from CAT will be there

 

[foamy]

i wonder if you know the people from CAT i know....

 

[davesgcr]

Sounds like the old station at Dinas Mawddwy .......thats got a tea shop

Mach - by the way - has a silent "H" = makk

 

[Dubversion]

i wonder if you know the people from CAT i know....

Nicole for starters?

 

[Callie]

nah, the wedding's in a tea shop on a railway line

but people from CAT will be there

doesnt the tea shop get hit by the trains?

 

[davesgcr]

If its the one I think it is - the trains stopped in 1947 ....

Pretty safe then - unless its a ghost train !

 

[lewislewis]

An unrelated point and not trolling but are the 'people at CAT' likely to be Welsh people, or incomers?

 

[llantwit]

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[ddraig]

You've got to learn how to pronounce Machynlleth as well to fit in.

Fortunately - and Dub will value this - at least some of the nearby folks seem to pronounce the place with an emphasis that sounds more than a little bit like Mac-cunt-leth.

Better Welsh speakers should be around to correct my pronunciation sometime shortly.

hehe

my attempt at phonicating it to ya is
mach (as in mach 5) uhn ll (that one u prob can't do) eth (ie seth, beth)
have a nice trip

 

[pembrokestephen]

Stock up well with petrol near there mind. When I first lived in Aber we went for a late night drive to an (aborted) free party, only to find that every petrol station near Machynlleth shut very early indeed on a Sunday.

We got stranded in the middle of nowhere until the next morning. Four of us packed into a particularly uncomfortable VW Polo.

To be fair, that was some time ago, but don't go getting presumptuous with your fancy London ways.

No, that's pretty much still the way it is in Rural Wales.

I was driving back to Pembroke from Newcastle Emlyn the other day, having decided foolishly to try and get there (NE) by cross-graining the countryside, and got very low on fuel as a result.

I must have passed four or five petrol stations, at 2030, on the way to Carmarthen, all of them closed. By the time I got to Carmarthen's Tesco (blech), I was running on fumes - the tank's capacity is nominally 50l, and I got 52 in there.

Definitely fill up at every opportunity. You'll also save money - some of those backsunded middle-of-nowhere petrol stations charge 5 or 6p/litre more than the cheaper places.

 

[pembrokestephen]

You've got to learn how to pronounce Machynlleth as well to fit in.

Fortunately - and Dub will value this - at least some of the nearby folks seem to pronounce the place with an emphasis that sounds more than a little bit like Mac-cunt-leth.

Better Welsh speakers should be around to correct my pronunciation sometime shortly.

Makh-HUN-thleth normally gets understood

 

[niclas]

All the locals call it Mach. (we only give places long names to confuse the tourists)

Even the "bagiau chwain" can manage that...

 

[tarannau]

Spoilsport. Dub really would be really good at the second syllable too!

I miss aspects of West Wales: phrases like 'hellish good,' those old ladies who seem unable to stop suddenly pausing at the busiest stretches of pavement for a gossip, the coach parties of Brummies who used to descend on summer weekends... even the more mature types who reckoned that Carmarthen, with its M&S store, represented the height of local shopping civilisation....

 

[pembrokestephen]

Spoilsport. Dub really would be really good at the second syllable too!

I miss aspects of West Wales: phrases like 'hellish good,' those old ladies who seem unable to stop suddenly pausing at the busiest stretches of pavement for a gossip, the coach parties of Brummies who used to descend on summer weekends... even the more mature types who reckoned that Carmarthen, with its M&S store, represented the height of local shopping civilisation....

WTF do you mean??? Carmarthen does represent the height of local shopping civilisation!!

I am clearly speaking to someone who's never tried to find a pair of trousers in Haverfordwest, far less experienced the delights of Haverfordwest's "department store" (extra-sized scarequotes intentional), the *cough* lavish and *choke* impressive Ocky White's...

If I want to do any remotely practical (ie no fucking crimplene) shopping, it's Carmarthen at a push, or up to the MacArthur Glen operation at Bridgend, 90 minutes' drive (speed cameras permitting, fuck off you pontificators) away...

Nope, Carmarthen's the Big City round these parts. And I am only too well aware what a joke it is to say that!

ETA: well, there is Swansea, but I can't understand the bleddy accent...

 

[tarannau]

Rubbish. You could dress like an international class sportsman in the fine establishment that is Peacock's anytime.

...well, they sell lots of those weirdly shiny pique tops favoured by Darts players anyway...

 

[pembrokestephen]

Rubbish. You could dress like an international class sportsman in the fine establishment that is Peacock's anytime.

...well, they sell lots of those weirdly shiny pique tops favoured by Darts players anyway...

I have looked in Peacock's.

I am a very, very worried man.

Though I did pick up a couple of black v-necked T-shirts for £3 a pop.

Seconds Ahead is slightly less frightening, but barely less chavvy (or "townie", as they call them here).