When I got round to writing it it was going to be about a memorisation system in which you memorise items/words/whatever by linking them to specific locations in your house.
It doesn't have to be your house by the way, but it generally is.
However, it turns out there's loads of videos on youtube about it, and most of them are very boring. What a shock!
But I found one that was good and entertaining ... and this is it ...
You can use the Memory Palace very simply ... maybe just to remember noun genders!
Say you want to remember that the noun urddas ( dignity) is masculine.
You carry the word very carefully into the house, saying the word repeatedly as you go, and you put in in the place you have reserved for masculine nouns ... say, the cellar.
You carry it down to the cellar and place it carefully on the table. you keep saying the word as you go back up the cellar steps, and lock the door.
Sometimes you can mentally wander around your cellar of masculine things saying the words to yourself.
She also talked about using extreme images to help you remember stuff... I've done lots of that myself ! You might remember the post I did about hwn and hon .. to help me remember which one went with masculine things, I recalled that the W looked rather like a pair of testicles ! Well, it does if you write it rather than type it ! I've never forgotten that, and nor will you !
If you want a more involved version, do you remember how I memorised the meaning of dianc ?
I imagined someone in ankle-cuffs, like Magwitch in Oliver Twist .. he managed to get them off and escape .. he de-ankled himself ... di-anc = to escape. You won't forget it!
I remember datrys in a similar way .... in police HQ, the DA trys to solve the case.
DA trys ... to solve.
As she said, it can be great fun, and very satisfying, when you come up with ideas and images like that.
So ... what about urddas ... we know it's masculine, because it's in the cellar!
Imagine a very posh, dignified person ... his trousers fall down and he falls over and lands on his arse on the ground, getting it covered in earth .... earth-ass .
That dignified person is an earth-ass.
Yes. I know it it actually pronounced "eerth-ass" but I've done it as it's spelt ... you can have a bit of leeway with these things. As long as it does the job. Which it does. And it's a "he" so you got another way of remembering the gender. Sorted.
Also sorted is my music selection ... on the radio 2 Folk awards a few days ago, Welsh band 9bach won one of the awards ....
"Welsh band 9Bach won the album of the year prize at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in Cardiff on Wednesday night.
9Bach, who sing in Welsh, picked up the award for their album Tincian.
They are the first Welsh act to win an award in the competition's 15-year history and they capped their night with a performance at the ceremony in the Wales Millennium Centre.
There was also a Good Tradition Award for folk historian Dr Meredydd Evans, who died aged 95 in February."
So, here's one of the songs from Tincian ... Lliwiau ...