Whenofficials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thoughtthe reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately,the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in theoffice at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.
Sothat was what went up under the English version which barred lorriesfrom a road near a supermarket.
And just 10 days later, we’re under 15cm of snow here in Ottawa, and it feels like February!
Just one week later, it was peak Autumn weather, and we were in the country with the kids.
The change in weather over the past few weeks has been just bizarre. On October 11, just three weeks ago, we were picking apples with the kids near Toronto.
Back in the day, you needed to know something about HTML to set up a decent web page. Next you could use Frontpage or some kind of simple template. Later still, you could sign up for online services where you could set up pages pretty easily. But now you can set up a very nice, very functional page by sending an email to Posterous?! Wow — it doesn’t get much simpler than that.
