housekeeping 16 March 2008
As an ex-housekeeper in a busy household I feel I should tie up a loose end on one of the recent blogs. So, if any of you would like to see the Des Bishop tv show online (he’s trying to learn Irish/Gaelic in one year) the url is http://www.rte.ie/tv/widescreen/av_20080313.html.
(Thanks to Mary in the US for that by the way).
I am reminded that when I was in Wales last year, doing an episode of their phenomenally successful sit-com HIGH HOPES, I was very struck by how many people speak Welsh as their first language. It was most noticeable out and about, like in the supermarket, where really everyone was chatting away in their native language. Sounded beautiful, I thought. And in the studio, the floor manager spoke to the control box in Welsh then in English to the actors – which was lovely to hear too and probably very handy as if you were being slagged off, for doing exactly what you’d been told not to do a hundred times, you never knew.
