General Chat

Do you not find driving through cheese difficult :-S

I was driving a Sunbeam Rapier

used to live in Caerphilly - just up the road from here - largest uninhabited castle in the UK

That film - "The Man who went up a hill etc" - the mountain is just up the road from here alongside the A470

You used to live in the largest uninhabited castle in the UK?

Super crutch.......I live in a place starting with a LL and not far from Abergele.
I also know Bala very well and when I lived in Barmouth found it usual to to give the local tradesmen the names of their profession.

Bob the laundry...Griff the barra....Glyn the milk...Jim the garage and a funny one Johnny Fish the post.....used to be the fishmonger but changed jobs to be the postman.

With the surnames it was always ....Mrs WD Jones......Mrs H E Jones etc.
Never called you by your first name in the WI which I belonged to.

Brenda,

I had a terrible headache sorting which Jones were mine, the villages are Llangower and Llanycil, hardly difficult are they?

We drove there a couple of years ago to check the churchyards, one church was a private dwelling and the other structurally unsound and we couldn't enter it :-(

My uncle (a Geordie) married a Welsh girl and according to the marriage certificate her father was called John John.
Can anyone confirm if this name is common in Wales ? I thought it was a mistake at first.

GP

OH's Welsh side are mainly Hughes. Roberts, Williams, Wynne ................ just to be different :-)

They also mainly come from Merioneth and Denbigh .......... Corwen, Llangar, Llangwym, Llawrbettws, etc

OH's mother was born in Aberdovey, her 2 siblings were born in different places in North Wales ................ father was a Welsh Methodist minister who moved parish every 3 years.

I wonder if there is an Owen the Signwriter

John John, Owen Owen, William Williams, all common - once worked for a guy called Leyshon Leyshon

We have, Ieu Y Glo.(Ieuan the coal).(,Len Fish(fishmonger who is really Len Smith)....Arwyn Y Clonc...(.Arwyn the gossip ..a man)
And of course all farmers are known by their surname and farm name or first name and farm name here in West Wales.
Each pub landlord is known by their first name and pub name....Never hear a lot of peoples surnames really...
I am known locally by my first name and house name or as ...The Shepherds Pie girl if they cant remember my name..Its the name of a horse I used to race....Even though the old racehorse has been dead these 30 years

Cant beat it....At least we all know who is who that way... :-D

No Owen Signs......But we do have Adrian Signs.....Very good sign writer he is too...

Oh dear...Must go back over the border now...Think I have wandered a bit far.
;-) :-S

Thank you Miss Gaslight .......


very enlightening. running from the inevitable slap round my ear ' ole

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You didnt run fast enough Renes...
SLAP>>>>>>Take that.
:-P

I remember Jones the Butcher

I went in Jones the Butcher today in my local town.
Lovely just the Gammon was tonight and a very tidy portion each we had..
Hand made pork and apple burgers tomorrow.....I wanted some of their handmade faggots as well but they had run out.... :-(

But you don't have confit duck ...

nor Cromer crabs .....

over there

and that did not hurt ,,,you ole bat ...get back to ya belfry ...too a tell Gwar of you

But we get HUGE Spider crabs from Len Fish ,so there....Yummeeeee they are.
Tell tale tit Renes.. :-P

we luvs you Fans ...

you knows we do

Lordy .................

OH was almost called Ieuan

imagine trying to get Texans to spell OR say that!!!

Canadians would be a wee bit better!


We should be very glad that his parents changed their minds! :-)

Shouldn't he be called Len the Crabs?