When is mountain not a mountain.

Aw, little cottage, sorry but it has made me laugh Greyduster ?

greyduster was it near St David’s? My parents rented a cottage called Bwthyn Bach in 1956. To say it did not quite meet expectations would be something of an understatement.
My sister and I had to climb up a ladder to get to a sort of half-loft where our bed was.
And climb down again in the middle of the night if we needed the loo which was outside.
My parents went on about it for years

No Jane, it was in Newport, further up the coast. ‘Snug’ was stretching it a bit! It was smaller downstairs than it was upstairs - it only had one bedroom - and we spent a week trying to work out why and came to no useful conclusion, but it was pretty and we enjoyed our stay there.

Always wise to use a phrase book when holidaying in a country and you don’t speak the language ?

Anniebach I certainly don't wish to upset you but if you intend to avoid offensive language please don't use the expression 'get stuffed'. It's very vulgar.

Trying to stop being a prude , can’t win can I ?

My dear old grandad used that phrase a few times, it always amused him (as he thought it was the taxidermy kind of thing.) He was very innocent.

The Oxford Dictionary defines a prude as “A person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.”
It doesn’t follow that if you’re not a prude, you have to use vulgar language or coarse expressions to prove your lack of prudishness.

I stand corrected Again

I am a prude and a prune. A prudish prunish.

Pearl clutching in spades! Annie, I truly hope your mountain retains its status, a hill just isn't the same thing. Lovely image of you on your scooter laden down with stones heading for the big summit.

For me get stuffed is no different to sod off, cushions are stuffed, poultry are stuffed , Shirley Conron once said - life is too short to stuff a mushroom, I never thought that was vulgar.

Mines, you will never know how much your post means to me today, thank you. X

Wish I had never started this thread , yet I have learned much in two days .

Anyway my husband and I climbed the six mountains , future generations will climb five mountains and a hill ?

Out of puff, am struggling along on my bike pulling a trailer loaded with Welsh bluestones to lug up Fan Y Big to turn it back into a mountain.
Any volunteers to help please, it's quite a long way up this mountain/hill?

anniebach - together we can do it!!

Good grief, I climbed that, now I just look at it.

Can we do it Jalima? Yes we can.

On a personal note, we got engaged on New Years Eve, after the celebrations my husband spent the rest of the night up there, the scouts were camping there and he joined them, I didn’t ? the scouts had an old farm building up there.

Annie, you seem to be a sensitive soul, I hope you get your mountain sorted out soon.

Perhaps I am Billy, but admit the way this thread went did distress me, I only wanted to join in the joke, thought after several years on this forum I was accepted. Never mind . I need to toughen up I suppose . Thank you x

I'm sorry, Annie but you blew it up out of all proportion.

In your opinion merlot, but it was your joke so naturally you would think that. The joker always blames the recipient of their joke, in fairness you were not responsible for those who joined in. . It’s over, I have learned much , now it’s forgotten

this year they declared the stones were taken there by the Welsh, perhaps time we took em back
Annie; Perhaps you already have! I've always wondered who pinched the slabs that are obviously missing. They probably had very big scooters; more than 1HP I'd say!

Perhaps we have Rufus ?, but the wrong stone to build up Fan y big

I thought the bluestone would make a nice decorative topping!
(I know they came from the Preseli mountains)

Nah, the ‘experts’ wouldn’t believe they were the original rocks and they had made a mistake.

The one hill in a mountain range is called big , I see SKY is calling it Fan y not so big

I have been cogitating (nasty little habit!) over this whole Welsh mountain thing. Why are Caerphilly Mountain and Mynyddislwyn Mountain so designated when they are under three hundred meters. I have been up the former and it didn’t feel like a mountain. We have hills in the Peak District that are higher. If they are truly deserving of the name, then so is yours, Annie.