we can still cwtch phil doherty - Couverture souple

Doherty, Phil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1549881345 ISBN 13 : 9781549881343

Editeur : Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

the original brexit The top half of the sign that greeted drivers on their way into the village of Aberglas read, "Os Gallwch Ddarellen Croeso Hon" which translates as: “If you can read this, ‘Welcome’”. The bottom half of the sign - written in English - read: “If not, bugger off. We're not a tourist town”. This was not the original sign put up by the council. That was taken down by the villagers a while back. But if you did “Siarad Cymraeg” [speak Welsh] or were brave or stupid enough to enter without being able to speak the language then after a quarter of a mile you would reach Upper High Street with its selection of shops either side. One of these was a woollen business run by Gwyneth Owens - always known by her full name - as another Gwyneth ran the café. The locals decided to call both Gwyneths by their full names in order to avoid confusion. This made perfect sense to them but would baffle the hell out of any visitor as Gwyneth Owens was a petite size eight whilst Gwyneth Thomas, the café owner, was a hefty size twenty - attributable to her personal sampling of all new recipes before serving them up to the public. These ladies were the only two residents of Upper High Street not named after their occupation. The Post Office was run by ‘Paula the Post’; the Newsagents by husband and wife Daffydd and Mair Jones - or ‘Mair and Daffydd paper shop’. If you turned left at the end of Upper High Street you entered Lower High Street and two miles later would end up on the road to Brynlog, taking you out of the village. Yet if you turned right instead, 50 yards up on the left opposite the village green was the Dragon and Daffodil public house - run by ‘Megan and Dai the Pub’. Now the main reason for the change of the welcome sign was what had happened two years previously: it was the middle of August, a typical summer’s day in Wales with heavy rain and fog. All of a sudden a coach pulled up outside Dai's pub. On board were 55 American tourists on a ten-day tour of the castles of England and Wales.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1549881345
• ISBN 13: 9781549881343
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
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