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???

Yes, but you see I didn't move to Scotland until I was over 30, so it hasn't actually changed my genes that much

I can't see that he'd have got away with anything other than the language issue- as a policeman he would have been accountable to a higher authority- if hockeymum felt discriminated against she should have complained adn if it was anything else other than the language thing then he'd have lost his job and would have known that so that is why I deduced that. He wouldn't have been able to tell she was English just from speaking to her unless he tried to converse with her in Welsh. I certainly don't have a Welsh accent when I speak English- I'm more Lancs/Yorks as I lived there for a few years.

tamum, but remember phenotype =genotype + environment, so it is only a matter of time until you start swigging Iron-Bru and eating deep fried mards bars

have you forgiven me for standing you up again ???

I do remember that mb, but with all due respect it still wouldn't make SL less related to me than she is at the moment Yes, of course I've forgiven you, you silly

Sorry, I don't speak Welsh or Science

SS thanks for the link. It looks very interesting and, did I read correctly? free! That is worth something with our 4 kids. Dd went there to study old houses and I think she said she went into an old school room so I thought it was probably interesting, but your link has shown me there is even more there than I imagined.

When is the best time to visit do you think? Not yet I suppose if it is open air, but summer would be too popular I should think. Any advice?

Can't think of an apologetic way to get back to Laugharne

but Sea View is the crumply one next to the bakery car park, it was where I think Richard Hughes wrote High Wind in Jamaica and we had some hippie friends (me and my little brother) in the early seventies..had a delicious meal cooked on a fire on the floor of one of the upstairs rooms

Is the one you like backing on to the Strand the one where they used to run an Antiques business?

Funny. I just made some Welsh Cakes and just sat down to read this. Im in S wales so nice to know who is in my area.Fab tip though before adding dried fruit soak in tea for a couple of hours then drain (so the fruit becomes nice and plump and moist).Makes such a difference.

I wonder how you define museums if you say they are all free? We definitely paid to get into one place in Caerleon I think it was - some Roman baths.

Anyway, you sound very enthusiastic about it (as was dd) and I think I will usggest it to dh, maybe for the Easter holiday, although of course it will be packed then.

We are just the other side of the old Severn Bridge although dh works in Cwmbran. It can't be too far away if dd went there with school.

SS our visit to Caerleon was only a few months ago. We have only lived here a year. Come to think of it, we have paid for other things too like castles, so I guess they don't count as museums.

Uh oh, do I want to go somewhere I might see CC?
(Just kidding).

At least he recognised her. Not sure my dh would.

The lovely Ioan Gruffudd comes from your neck of the woods I believe? Now if there was any chance of bumping into him there...

I used to be absolutely obsessed with the room you could look into at St Fagans when I was a little girl- it was a kitchen with an old Welsh woman and man in it, and a dog. I'm longing to take my children there now!

Nah he has sold out and moved to Hollywood as far as I can make out. And after he said he would never go there and wanted to raise kids in Wales.