What's in a name ? Schizophrenia.

 What would David Lloyd George think of the Internet ? Where would I have my conversation with David Lloyd George ? Maybe at the top of Snowdon , the highest mountain in Wales . There is a café  up there  where we could escape from the mist and cold drizzle and enjoy a cup of  tea together. He would prefer something stronger I think but he would make do if we could have a plate of welshcakes as well. Much as I would have liked to speak to him in Welsh, his first language , I would  not feel confident to do so as Welsh is my second  language and there are many differences between the Welsh spoken by a North Walian like D. L .W ( I’m going to abbreviate his name from now on ) and the Welsh of South Wales where I live. So in English it would have  to  be. There would be so many things to discuss.  I share a love of Wales and its language with him. He believed in devolution of government to Wales and would be very happy to see how the welsh langu...

 Why do I continue to reread ' Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen  time after time ?  It is now more than fifty years since I first read it this novel.  Yes that's right 50 years . I read it as my set text novel for my 'A level studies at my South Wales grammar school. I remember liking it then and appreciating many of its features. I can't  recapture exactly how I felt about it then because of the infinite number of people whom I have  come across , the places I have seen and the  emotions I have enjoyed or suffered since that far off time.    I  was 18 and looking forward to life and relationships and romance and so free of prejudice or unhappiness borne of experience.  So now in 2020 I am rereading it during a pandemic when everything seems uncertain and circumstances keep changing. I think I appreciate it now for its changelessness. It is the same text now  as  it has been since 1813 , or in the prototype ,  'Fir...