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When is mountain not a mountain.

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Anniebach Sat 18-Aug-18 22:00:00

Fan y big , a mountain in the Brecon Beacons has been down graded to a hill, a hill? Seems it is just under 2 metres short to be a mountain according to new technology .

Rubbish, it has always been a mountain, always will be . How can we have a mountain range with a hill in it .

lemongrove Sun 19-Aug-18 10:41:13

I know to read the f as a v so didn’t immediately latch on.
There is no better way to measure the mountain than the old fashioned one of climbing and measuring.

FarNorth Sun 19-Aug-18 10:42:58

Annie has made a perfectly sensible post and the majority of the responses so far have been at the level of schoolchild sniggering.
Would you do that in person?

Parsley3 Sun 19-Aug-18 10:44:30

It made me snigger too but I admit to being shallow. Hasn’t a hill in north of England recently been measured and reclassified as a mountain?

Parsley3 Sun 19-Aug-18 10:51:34

Miller Moss in the Lake District is now a mountain.

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 10:52:24

merlot, I didn’t know what you were laughing at until muffin was kind enough to to explain, it was then I explained ff and f. If I knew what you were laughing at I would have asked if I could share the joke .

, I do not use ‘f’ ‘c’ ‘t’ words , that is being a prude? I am happy to be classed a prude.

What has amused me is you consider the Yorkshire accent a native tongue, I thought it was the English language spoken incorrectly.

And one more thing, I wrote Fan y big, not fannybig, so you did not read it as it was written.

muffinthemoo Sun 19-Aug-18 10:52:34

FarNorth the joke only works in print though

oldbatty stop encouraging me, I will be sent to the headmistress again

merlotgran Sun 19-Aug-18 10:53:55

Sigh.

muffinthemoo Sun 19-Aug-18 10:55:36

Also I do want to make clear that no one is laughing at Annie or her post!! flowers

I have been stuck in hospital all weekend, ladies, let me have this silly giggle to relieve the cabin fever

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 10:57:10

I am upset because I posted and was then going to say how the locals were talking of building it up and I was going to help with carrying stones up on my scooter.

I asked if I could share the joke

Apologies that my sense of humour isn’t lavatorial

FarNorth Sun 19-Aug-18 10:58:38

muffin, with something equivalent in spoken conversation, then? Perhaps caused by a difference in accents.
Would a group of grannies go off into cackles and chatting to each other, ignoring the person who asked them something?
If so I'll continue to avoid GN meet-ups.

Sorry, Annie, for getting involved in all this rubbish on your thread.

If everyone around your mountain calls it a mountain then that is what it is, I'd say.

FarNorth Sun 19-Aug-18 10:59:54

Wow! It'll be impressive if you all do that!

merlotgran Sun 19-Aug-18 11:00:34

I've tried to explain to annie that there was no offence intended but she's determined to take it so I give up.

Get well soon, muffin In the meantime, have a giggle at a Welshman with a sense of humour.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvelddDCxNY

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 11:01:09

Parsley, very suspicious, Stonehenge was built with stone from Pembrokeshire, did Lake District folks take the top of Fan y big ?

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 11:09:50

Thank you FarNorth x I must remember when speaking in my mother tongue to add a translation ?

Fan y big - The big Summit. And yes it is still a mountain ?, the experts can get stuffed

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 11:21:09

Ooooh, just had a thought . Fan y big can now be called

Fan y bach. The small summit ?

Eglantine21 Sun 19-Aug-18 11:33:17

Does bach mean small then? I have been labouring under a delusion for years. I thought it meant something like “dear’ or”love”.

Though why that past boyfriend could have called me small I can’t imagine. Was that irony?

Another romance memory hits the dust (sigh)

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 11:46:02

Yes Eglantine, small or little , suited me when a baby but it stuck when I was a 5’7” adult

muffinthemoo Sun 19-Aug-18 11:49:39

I’m sorry, everyone. I didn’t mean to cause any trouble or offence. I was just having a daft giggle.

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 11:53:40

A daft giggle is good muffin, and you shared the joke, that was kind

oldbatty Sun 19-Aug-18 12:03:58

OMG as the young uns say. Lighten up, what with the lecturing?

Muffin, sorry you've been in hospital, thats rotton.

Annie, sorry about your mountain.

OldMeg Sun 19-Aug-18 12:06:25

and I was going to help with carrying stones up on my scooter

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 12:41:11

I can now I have finally got it out of the hall OldMeg , small stones though ? and would have to be pushed up there

lemongrove Sun 19-Aug-18 14:13:47

Think what fun it will be coming down though Annie.....
Wheeeeeeeeee
(Do not exceed 50 miles per hour though unless you want a speeding fine.) grin

Is adding stones technically cheating??

Anniebach Sun 19-Aug-18 15:28:38

lemon, my scooter’s top speed is 4mph ? . What’s a bit of cheating, Stonehenge is considered English but is built from stone from the Preselli mountains in Pembrokeshire. How the stones got there has puzzled the experts for many a year, this year they declared the stones were taken there by the Welsh, perhaps time we took em back ?

Greyduster Sun 19-Aug-18 15:57:42

We rented a cottage in West Wales called Bwthyn Bach. They weren’t wrong either grin!