A niece who's just started Uni, competed a few times at eisteddfods.

Weird bloody things aren't they !!!???

On the one hand it's positive to encourage children's active participation in performing arts;
on the other - the competion aspect is bloody weird !!!

Once a year we had to tune into Welsh TV, fingers poised over the record button,
just in case her spot was broadcast.

As one child, or group of children, parade one after another,
performing exactly the same piece, in exactly the same rigid identical duplicated manner....

Then her beaming proud Aunty would become transfixed on the screen for a minute or 2.

"oooh look, she's on the telly !!!!"

How can folk culture have become reduced to a such regimented clone manufacturing process..???