Quick follow up to the phantom horse-slasher story. A few days on and clearly the BBC, Mule and co have decided to just ignore their mess-ups. The only ones to change a thing were BBC Arlein who changed their quotation of "Sais Mas" to the correct "Cai Maes Sais" - the rest of their article makes it sound like "Cai Maes Sais" is a perfectly common anti-English sentiment!The Western Mail has decided the best way out is not to make a correction but to print a few letters bringing up the translation points - one of which was extremely scathing of the Western Mail!(Oh and a warning to Cwlcymro at Maes-e, the guy who wrote the fourth letter here is taking credit for your investigation work!)
Many blogs have posted on the matter, with the Old Fart very helpfully giving examples of proper anti-English quotes to assist the next person who wants to pretend to be a Welsh nash!
One part of the story which did make me laugh a bit was the horse's owner giving the teary eyed story of how "Hope loved being around people but now I can’t get near her. She is terrified"
have a look at that picture up there, not only does the horse seem pretty comfortable around her, she's even got her hand on his bloody nose!
I really do hope the Police catch whoever did this, just so that we can have an answer to our riddle!
On a personal note, the last post was the most viewed and most commented post ever on this blog (by a country mile!) Just goes to show that however important the going ons of the Assembly and London are, all you need to really captivate some interest is a poor hurt animal and a healthy dose of scepticism and mystery! (oh, and yes, I do know the headline puns are getting worse!)
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One part of the story which did make me laugh a bit was the horse's owner giving the teary eyed story of how "Hope loved being around people but now I can’t get near her. She is terrified"
I'm sure you didn't mean that to come across as heartless as it looks on first reading. You admit yourself that you haven't got a clue who or what has damaged the horse- in which case it's still not inconceivable that someone did try deliberately to mutiliate a the horse.
have a look at that picture up there, not only does the horse seem pretty comfortable around her, she's even got her hand on his bloody nose!
That looks like snow in the picture, has it been snowing up there recently?
o'Neill - it's only funny because of the photo contradicting it.
Yes, it snowed all over Wales last weekend. Look at the photo in the previous post (showing the graffiti) and you'll see the snow there too (and the woman in the same clothes).
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