Take a look at this sign. It might not look like much, but the Welsh section actually reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.”. What happened was that Swansea council sent the English text off to get translated into Welsh due to the legal requirement to [...]

I didn’t get the job at the National Library, but the odd thing is that no one got the job. They decided that they wouldn’t hire anyone at all. Talking to the girl in the personel department I got the idea that I would have got the job if I had spoken Welsh. Teriffic! It [...]