This post is dedicated to the frankly really rather marvellous couple - Dom & Trudes - they live in the Wales, see?
Anyhow - Dom stumbled across my blog (via Facebook - I think a dropped a link to it) - and has politely asked if he could be in it.
Well here we go - in honor of Dom and Trudes (my ‘other’ Mum & Dad) here are ten things I loves about the Wales:
- We wear trainers, they wear daps
- When you go for a curry, they offer you ‘half and half’ - it means half a portion of rice and half a portion of chips
- In some pubs you can buy a ploughmans in a bag - it consists of crackers - some kind of ‘cheese’ which despite not being refrigerated won’t kill you and a couple of pickled onions
- Barry Island Ice Tea - a ‘cocktail’ served in a pint glass which includes a shot of every white spirit they have behind the bar and a drop of coca cola (just for colour)
- ‘Now, then’ is said a lot
- They *love* a nickname - my particular favourite is ‘the racing snake’ - I’d explain, but the ‘taffia’ might get me
- Everyone knows everyone… Catherine Zeta Jones is known by the far less exotic moniker of ‘Katie’; and Bonnie ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ Tyler is just good old Gaynor.
- Merlin the Magician was born there - way cooler than Paul Daniels or that fool David Blaine
- Julien MacDonald - (mmm lovely clothes) he’s worked for Givenchy and Chanel - not bad for a lad who started out knitting eh?
- Dom and Trudes live there!
Image credit David Reece via flickr
- Souvenir of Barry Island
on May 4th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
i love the “crabs” keyring. i was going to buy a tshirt about getting crabs at a restaurant in camden (vintage) but i didn’t have enough money. perhaps you could express your feelings about how it’s stupid vintage stuff costs more in camden than it did when it was new?
xxxx
on May 6th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Meh - vintage annoys the hell out of me. It’s tiny, it’s smelly, it sometimes has sweat stains (and other dubious stains), you’re never sure if it’s ok to chuck it in the washing machine (or whether you really ought to hand wash it) and as you say it often costs more than it would have done when new.
Plus I have a feeling that only models look good in vintage - I think might just look like a bag lady.
There could well be a rant coming
xxx