(pen) Maybe Welsh not the best idea, then, though the gutturals are splendid. Try chwech ( = six). Vowel is "ä." The Welsh "r" and the breathy unvoiced "rh" are rolled but too short and front-of mouth for Dutch, if my hearing is correct. Isn't the Dutch "v" often pronounced "f"? In Welsh the "f" is always pronounced "v". Not much help there, then.
Couldn't hear any double-L in Sister Wendy's speech. It's a non-plosive hiss from the sides of the tongue about halfway back ("voiceless lateral fricative" apparently). Don't spoil it by following it with an ordinary "L". Dead easy. :-)

This old place still exists. Horrah!

[Boolbar] Horrah! You're back!
...as you once said yourself!

I'm sailing over to the UK on Sunday night - hurrah! I love sleeping on ships.

Rotterdam-Harwich? Hope its not rough ;o)

[Softers] Rotterdam-Hull. Some parts of Hull are very rough indeed, but I shall keep the car doors locked when I disembark ;o)

I know it was a terrible joke, but three days of silent protest is enough. I'm sorry, OK?

Not your fault I sure, pen ;o)

*waves from England, for a change*
Had a surprisingly calm North Sea crossing last night, despite driving to the port in gales and lashing rain. The geordies complaining this morning that 'the curtains were moving' made me giggle though.

[Knobbly] I know the feeling!
[pen] Welcome back! Hope we've managed to keep it much as you left it.

[pen] Shurely an oxymoron?

(Softers) Can happen, like a dry day in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

[Rab] Good, bad or indifferent?

Aren't all the electronics made in the same place now anyway?

[rab] What's the secret of good comedy?

[CdM] Is this a reverse chat game now?
I was wondering earlier what a game of Reverse Reverse MC would look like. Any thoughts?

Anybody got any new game ideas? Tuj?

[Raak] Good to see you back. i was just thinking today that you hadn't posted for a while (whether that "while" is a few days or longer I didn't check, but I was aware that you were missing...).

[CdM] That's odd, I haven't been away much, although by chance I might not have posted on mc5 for a few days.

[CdM] Nearly as good as your waiting for T comment on the MCiOS chat =D

Not that anyone will will notice... but there will be a brief outage on Thursday night when the Powers That Be perform a memory upgrade ('bout 9ish or thereabouts).

[Raak] Ah well. I guess your contributions are just always so good that even a few days absence is noteworthy!

I'd always wanted to try Cheddar Gorge Haiku... perhaps too similar to what we've got going now. I also thought it'd be good fun to write a play one line / stage direction / light cue at a time.

[Knobbly] If you do 'view source', however that works on your particular browser, nested in amongst all the HTML muck you'll see a hidden line 4 and line 5 that occurred to me. Why I didn't use the HIDE tags is beyond me. I must have thought we were temporarily back in 1998 or something.

Back. Ferry apparently headed back towards the English coast in the middle of the night so some poor chap with fits could be helicoptered orf. After all the fuss was over, I got up at 6am and went out on deck with a huge cup of tea and a piece of my mum's neighbour's best fruitcake for breakfast expecting to see the lights on Rotterdam and we were still in the middle of the black North Sea. Quelle disappointment. However, all was well. The customs people didn't object to the vintage stationary engine I had stashed in the boot, and the trousers I bought for the windy miller fit like a charm.

[penelope] You bribed the customs officers with trousers?

we're leaving the mill on Saturday lunchtime and heading back to Blighty via Dover for a wedding near Bath on Sunday. And then dashing back to NL. This time, the windy miller is coming with me - hurrah!

Dat is groot. Veilige reis!

Hi! crEgCiaE

Great, now we've got Klingons as well as Dutchmen.

I believe Klingon is actually a 70-30 mix of Polish and 133t-sp33k

(SM) Can't figure out what 133t-sp33k is. Something to do with teaspoons, 133 of them?