FA: BELSTAFF BRITTON WAX JACKET. LOW START PRICE NO RESERVE

Heh. I see your point, but, having worked in Llanelli and Carmarthen,
(OK Llanelli might not be a particularly good example), don't you find
them all a bit 'nationalist', so to speak? - I mean, you'll never know
when you'll 'come home to a real fire', IYSWIM.

Last time I spoke to him, he was stuck in a traffic jam with a limo full
of screaming kids who were late for ice-skating or something.

 

Heh, well, I suppose I am.

Because it is, really.

And they're all a bit odd out there.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Ah! Good lad, he's forgiven. A bike like that should be on the road.

Or in my garage.

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SteveH emerged from their own little world to say

I lived in Herefordshire and worked in the Forest of Dean. The people of
Mid Wales seem reasonably normal to me.

I'm a country boy at heart. The mid Wales towns like Lampeter are more akin
to the market towns I grew up in, even if the cattle markets are no longer
viable.

The industrial towns like Tredegar still bear the scars of centuries of
exploitation of the landscape and population. This does not, IMV, make them
attractive places to live. The socially mobile move out leaving behind
those on lower incomes and we end up with an ever-ageing population of ex-
miners and steel workers. Gradually, as property prices in the M4 corridor
rise further these towns will become attractive to developers. At the
moment the are concentrating their efforts in your neck of the woods. I
haven't been to YM recently but I was in Blackwood. Compared to Newbridge
across the valley it seemed to be thriving.

So for me, if I settle permanently in Wales it will either be rural Mid
Wales or in the centre of Cardiff. Two extremes but both are compromises I
can live with.

 

Oh, I dunno. A pair going for ?4.99 seemed a good proposition, but
then I recalled I do have lots of gloves, including a very nice pair of
HG that I purchased a couple of months ago, therefore I do not need
another set of gloves.

So, I'm not having them. Which means you won't be getting a
user-review about them from me, either.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

I think that the subject of your garage and the blatant neglect of the
motorcycles parked therein is a matter of grave public concern. When,
for example, was the last time you sat upon all of them and went "Vroom
Vroom"?

 

One of mine used to be a "Odd job man" around town

I remember when I was a kild doing bob-a-job, getting 2/6d for sawing
the legs off a bed

... the things you remember, eh ?

 

Having worked in both places I find that rather too many customers
switch to speaking Welsh when they realise there's an English person
serving them.... that may or may not be as a result of the kind of
customer my former employers attracted, though.

Never really 'visited' Lampeter - it's just somewhere I go through to
get to the west Wales coast.

 

SP wrote

I might. I reckon they are worth a tenner and have told ebay to make it
so.

 

Oh I completely agree. It's a tragedy really when someone is reduced
to selling off their old clothes to keep body and soul together.

http://www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk/intro/statistics.cfm

Includes local area labour force survey - annual (Mar 2002 - Feb 2003)
- Nomis

I can get you some up to date ones if you'd like? If you wait until
tomorrow I'll able to get you the draft figures from current as yet
unpublished research.

Don't **** with researchers.

 

SteveH emerged from their own little world to say

As I was born on a dairy farm in Mid Wales I can pretend I know what I'm
talking about: despite never actually being a farmer myself.

As Loz H said, the rural towns are populated by a cosmopolitan bunch now.
The younger locals tend to move off to better paid jobs in the cities.
However, unlike the Valleys, this does not leave behind an ageing
population as there is an influx of people from urban areas looking for the
rural idyll.

 

26.5k in November - why do you ask ?

 

Stained ?

 

I never knew Belstaffs could be so exciting

 

Jeez, that's harsh.

 

Here you go sir.
http://kb6owt.home.mindspring.com/bigcup1.jpg

 

A twonk forced to sell his clothing. Next?

 

He's so far back in the closet he's in fucking Narnia.

 

You have a strange definition of humour.

But then you are in IT.

Phil

 

Well having read the rest of the thread about the abysmal bits of
Wales, I popped into Llanrumney on the way to Cardiff last night. What
a dive.

I went to see Feeder,who were excellent.
Supporting them were GLC who were bloody hilarious - especially so as
some of the Welsh audience didn't realise it was them they were taking
the piss out of. Some people just didn't 'get it'.

Top night out.