Aberystwyth

Yeah, so as you mentioned, I've got a PhD in computing.

So I did my bachelor's degree in the University of Wales at Aberystwyth in computer science.

And being a student was kind of great.

So the way it works in the UK is the government will actually pay you to do a PhD.

Yeah.

Sure.

The University of Wales Aberystwyth was kind of special, at least from my perspective.

They spent more on books per student than any other university outside of Oxbridge, which was kind of meant the libraries were awesome.

It's the song of the people from Rome.

So before we go any further, Aberystwyth University, you know of it.

One of the boys from my...

Because I was accepted in it.

It's in Wales.

One of my boys from my school was accepted and has gone there.

And this will be now his maybe second year or third year at Aberystwyth.

I sent him an email saying, hope everything is okay.

In every look and action he betrayed his want, but at the same time seemed overwhelmed with that shame which modest merit feels when it is obliged to solicit the cold hand of charity.

This behavior excited the curiosity of many gentlemen, clergy, etc., to inquire into the circumstances of his misfortunes, but it was with difficulty they could engage him to relate them, it being with much seeming reluctance that he acquainted them with his having exercised for many years the sacred office of a clergyman at Aberystwyth, a parish in Wales, but that the government, changing, he had preferred quitting his benefice to take an oath contrary to his principles and conscience.

This relation he accompanied with frequent sighs, deep marks of adoration of the ways of providence, and warm expressions of his firm trust and reliance in its goodness and faithfulness with high encomiums on the inward satisfaction of a good conscience.

When he discoursed with any clergyman or other person of literature, he would now and then introduce some Latin or Greek sentences that were applicable to what they were talking about, which gave his hearers a high opinion of his learning.

Where hearing of one Captain Lott, he waited upon him with the same story, but with the addition of his name being John Lott, whereby he soon got half a crown and a good welcome.

He next set out for Carmarthen and raised a great deal of money from the Welsh gentry, pretending now to be an unfortunate sailor belonging to Ireland who had been cast away near Portland Race coming from Bilbao.

He proceeded upon the same story to Aberystwyth and Port Ealy, where he chanced to meet with a brother of the mendicant order to whom he was well known.

They inquired of each other's success and many other particulars and agreed to join company for some time.

In every look and action he betrayed his want, but at the same time seemed overwhelmed with that shame which modest merit feels when it is obliged to solicit the cold hand of charity.

This behavior excited the curiosity of many gentlemen, clergy, etc., to inquire into the circumstances of his misfortunes, but it was with difficulty they could engage him to relate them, it being with much seeming reluctance that he acquainted them with his having exercised for many years the sacred office of a clergyman at Aberystwyth, a parish in Wales, but that the government, changing, he had preferred quitting his benefice to take an oath contrary to his principles and conscience.

This relation he accompanied with frequent sighs, deep marks of adoration of the ways of providence, and warm expressions of his firm trust and reliance in its goodness and faithfulness with high encomiums on the inward satisfaction of a good conscience.

When he discoursed with any clergyman or other person of literature, he would now and then introduce some Latin or Greek sentences that were applicable to what they were talking about, which gave his hearers a high opinion of his learning.

yeah

because abundance looks like different things we've got a static caravan on a cliff on the side of Aberystwyth right we're going to today I am happy as a pig in shit right get me there I'm going to stick my trackies on I'm going to pour a glass of wine in my plastic glass I'm going to be happy I don't need necessarily to go to a five-star hotel That's not my aspiration.

You know, like, I don't like to be in one place like that, you know, where I'm not in control, etc.

There's loads of reasons why.

There's no news really going around.

So it's predominantly the game on Sunday, which obviously we beat Aberystwyth 4-0.

And then look ahead to the Cardiff game, where obviously Cardiff had a rough afternoon, shall we say, in the end against Swansea.

But in order to do that, I need some partners in crime.

OK, let's talk some football.

we did have a game we have got something to talk about we've got an actual league game to talk about um it was four nil it was convincing in the end well shecky but perhaps if we'd got an earlier goal that could have been more and we still had lots of chances but still that'll be and that'll be a nice way from to open the open the first game of the season

Yeah, I mean, Aberystwyth are a very young side.

You can see that they're still forming, although I thought Meg Bowen in goal for them was superb.

glossy.

I remember holding it in Aberystwyth at the live show and it was, yeah, slippery.

It was wet.

Okay.

Same thing, mate.

It's a plug.

At Aberystwyth Comedy Festival.

I am doing my hour melodrama.