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 language has grown despite English attempts to er

 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 ,  'First Impressions, 1796. So how can a novel writ