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Usually I run with a Stryd footpod, with my watch telling me when my power level is too high or too low. Today I switched off alerts and tried to run by feel, mindfully; paying attention to my breath, my body, my senses and my surroundings. It was a nice change, and something I will try to do more of.
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Dw i wedi bod yn dysgu Cymraeg.
I have been learning Welsh for around two years now, and as I approach the end of the Say Something in Welsh course I thought I’d take the time to think about my Welsh learning journey so far, what I’m going to do next, and to write here about what has or hasn’t worked, and share some advice and tips on learning Welsh that may be useful to anyone reading.
When I first watched the movie Withnail and I… I don’t remember when that was exactly, but several years ago… it was with great anticipation. I’d heard it quoted many times and people had mentioned it as a great film, but when I saw it for the first time I was a little underwhelmed. It was OK, but I didn’t really understand the fuss about it. The next time I watched it I enjoyed it more, and the third time I began to understand why people liked it. But then something strange happened the next time I watched it; I couldn’t make it all the way through and ended up switching it off. Perhaps I just wasn’t in the mood that time, but I started to think that maybe I actually don’t like it and I’d been trying too hard to enjoy it previously? Anyway, I didn’t watch it again for a few years, but the next time I did… wow! I finally “got” it. I’ve watched it several times since and it just keeps getting better.
So when I booked an AirBnB apartment for a long weekend in the Lake District and included in the information was that the phone box right at the end of the access road had appeared in a scene in the movie, I started looking at where else they may have filmed locally and found that most of the Lake District scenes were within a few miles of where I was staying, so I began planning to visit as many as possible.