So... do the Welsh not share, or the English not like em???

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Welsh DH, living in Bournemouth... Every few months I might come across a supermarket selling Welsh butter - but they pretty much all sell Irish and Somerset. You can't buy Welsh cakes anywhere here, yet you can get all kind of American style cakey things. Its not like you need a little cake shop to get em in Wales - Tescos sell em, so surely they could ship a few through the rest of the UK???

Its sad, we haven't got much money right now, so his valentine's present was butter .

Soooo... why is it?? Are the Welsh just very possesive over their butter and cakes, or do shops think there is no market for it in non-Wales???

2 adults and 2 children. But don't mess with me! I am Welsh and sneaky and have the added advantage of dh having access to a £100 million aircraft. We'd whup your English ass!

Jones the Steam... my dsd and dss went to Twyn! Most of my dh family still live there, although i moved to pastures new about a year and a half ago! You cant beat the firework displays!

Sallystrawberry and Sorenlorensen! Buzz was the first club I ever went to, before progressing onto the Philly. I feel too old to compete in town now and tend to stick to old favourites like kiwis now, where you know everyone will be at least thirty!

MB

We gave your fair country a miss in the end. Not because we wanted to deprive you of our millions, or because we were afraid of you, or even because it was raining hard all day (although it was) but because ds3 unexpectedly changed his mnd and decided he wanted to go to a cave rather than a castle.

Gosh isn't Wookey Hole a hole these days?

LM - next time your DS fancies going down a cave, how about trying Dan yr Ogor Caves? I last went in about 1968, but they were amazing then.

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Thats a good idea oldimum. It's half term here this week so I'm looking for ideas. I'm going "abroad" tomorrow,Im taking the boys to @Bristol.We're going to Big Pit on Friday, thats also a good one and completely FREE now as it's part of the National Museums.

I found it a bit scary going down the mine shaft TBH

Not been. Took the kids to the Rhondda heritage park and they enjoyed that....had to pay though.

I'd rathe take them to St Fagans though.....far more to see and do and it is free.

ss, how about taking them to SF and not feeling guilty about it as I bet you a pound to a penny they'll love it and you can save the "somewhere new" bit for sometime when you have got some spare cash. How about that?

I'd do SF. After all there is too much to see there in one day?

Ooh, my old stomping ground, Brecon. I haven't been back there for years. Knowing my luck, I'd bump into the very people I've successfully avoided for the last 20 odd years! Lovely place, though.

I took mine to Dan yr Ogof last year and they quite enjoyed it. Not nearly as scary as I remembered it though! I find models of dinosaurs and reconstructions quite naff but the caves themselves were quite magical. I think you can get married in them now (there were flowers and music in one of the caves!). There are also some animals to see down by the car park.
St Fagan's is much better I think for a day out.

Dw'i efo di moondog ond dw'i ddim eisiau dweud ddim byd arall yma. Be'di gair cymraeg am 'ignorant'? Dw'i wedi anghofio eto.....

sallystrawberry,
The kids need to be at least 1 metre tall to go down big pit.My DS's are 7yo.
I went years ago when it first opened,also with stepDD when she was younger but our boys have never been.We have also been to the Rhondda Heritage and that is much better for smaller children.There is a good play area there as well.
I was also thinking of taking them on a tour of the Millenium Stadium, but perhaps I'll keep that for Easter hols, as we already seem to be doing enough. DS wanted to go because he's made a model of the MS for a St Davids Day competition at school.My other DS has made a model of a plate of Welsh cakes out of salt dough.

Sallystrawberry, isnt the Lava lounge the one Charlotte Church is supposed to like going to? I couldnt handle queueing for hours, although the idea of eighties music is quite appealing.

I've had a nose around Llancaiach Fawr... its ok and supposed to be haunted, but i wouldnt say it was a patch on St Fagans in terms of entertaining children. I think its more of a place you'd have murder mystery nights and things.

Cardiff Museum normally has things on for kids in the holidays, and thats free too. Can be a bit hit and miss with what it is, but they always have the sciencey bit and the animal bits.

Welsh Cakes - to get back on topic and maybe in one or two peoples good books again after my shameful performance last week

Marks and Spencers do "drop scones" which X-Ray (welsh topical consumer programme) discovered were actually Welsh Cakes but M & S re-branded them as drop scones to appeal to more people. After customer complaints they will be re-labelled Welsh Cakes. Apparently they do them nationwide, not just in Wales and acording to some cookery expert they have on are the real thing and yummy. They are in a grey packet at the moment called drop scones but if you are desperate to have some until they relabel them you will find them there.

They do have sugar on them though (I know someone didn't like that further down the thread) maybe you could brush it off?!

just to muddy things I thought drop scones were an English version of Scotch pancakes made with batter, why would they call Welsh cakes drop scones

Mt granmothre's prizewinning welsh cakes have suger on them

I slightly reduce the amount of sugar that I put in them....I also use vanilla sugar....there's posh

And I make them with butter and lard (unless for veggies)