BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 03:43 PM

"Rough bands of sinewy men roaming the countryside, terrifying people with their close harmony singing."

---from Blackadder.

Also, from the same:

"You need a half-pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place-names. Never ask for directions in Wales... You'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight!"


;)

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: Bert
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:16 PM

Thanks Sian.

...a folk song about the evacuee's... Now that would be one SAD song Gareth.

Perhaps a parody of The John B - "I wanna go ho-ome!"

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: Gareth
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:50 PM

Oh I don't know Bert, we still get aged Londoners, and Kentish People wandering in to see, and remind themselves where they spent part of their childhood.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 04:44 AM

Heard on Radio 2 yesterday (whether jokingly or not) BBC are planning a spin-off from the soap 'Eastenders' showing 'Dot Cotton' as a wartime evacuee to the Welsh valleys.

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:59 AM

I see we mentioned Shirley Bassey, but not Iris Williams.

We also provided the scenery for a number of films, including Inn of the Sixth Happiness.

Didn't we provide the practice reservoirs for the Dambusters mission?

Re: Dafydd Iwan, I can't think which American singer he might parallel. He started out doing Welsh versions of Guthry, and a lot of the Burl Ives repetoir. I don't like comparing anyone with Seeger, but DI's songs have developed along the sames lines: some highly political, some on global issues, some just 'comfortable', some trad. etc. And, yes, his songs are very much sung by the Welsh-speaking 'folk' of Wales.

sian

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:04 AM

Portmeirion! Clough Williams Ellis's joyous, crazy fantasy village (home to The Prisoner TV series). If you haven't been -- go!

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: What have the Welsh ever done for us ?
From: breezy
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:07 AM

organised th snorbens folk club