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Thursday 4 September 2014

Bara means Bread


Morning Bara (that's bread in Welsh see) Don't mind if I calls you Bara does you? What a start to your stay in Wales eh. The sun is shining for ew mun. Listen, I was thinkin last night about where you should go while you is ere like. Al I can ear is that Kathryn Kenkins banging on about the Gar innit. Its called the Gowa round ere. Full of posh folk with chickens and lamas. When we was kids we used to save a sixpence each week and put it in a pot so we could get a bus to Porthcawl. The ole estate would go mun and we'd ave sanwiches on the beach and maybe ave a go on the rides. It aint coney island but you'd love it.They does lovely faggots and peas at the dirty duck they do0. Listen, ave you been to Llanelli yet? There was rumours of cruise ships comin ere see so you might meet another American. Like most towns in Wales it as ad its istory stripped and all its community places closed down. Even the Eisteddfod was called Sir Gar. I was born and bred ere like and I can tell you the people are wonderful. Theyve ad it tough too mind. No industry left now, not many jobs. The council ruined the town and sold off community assets. We wont ave a playin field left soon. I digress again innit. You must go see Charlie and Meg's ouse in Pembrokeshire. It is lush like but the council is goin to pull it down see. Anything 21st century and completely eco friendly is a breach of planning. Ave you seen some of the stuff theyve put up recently? I am sure youll be directed to Dylan's place in Laugharne. You won't be the first president mind. Jimmy Peanuts came a while back. Still ave the photo of im and me eatin cockles together. I'll get some cockles in just in case. Does you like vinegar and pepper on yours? If you get asked to meet a chief exec keep you ands in you pockets, light fingers and all that. Is that the time, I gotta go play dominoes down the social. Listen, ave a great time and opefully we'll bump into each other down the respite care centre for the elderly. Oh bugger, that's closed too, I forgot. Never mind, lets meet at Porthcawl and ave a laugh together. Tara for now Like

MORNING Mr. President


CROESO I GYMRU Mr. Barack Obama
I am not a celebrity although I once had a letter read out on live TV by Alan Taylor and I stood behind Dewi Bebb and jumped up and down during a sports report on the Wales v England ladies hockey game. I digress. I want to welcome you on behalf of the underpriveliged people of Wales who sadly cannot make it to Newport. Money is of course a major factor but the bus services ave ad terrible cuts lately they ave. Youll feel instantly at ome ere as we are ranked the lowest of the UK countries in literacy and numeracy and we are now cast adrift from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scotland as you know may just do a runner from the U.K. and elect Donald Trump as Prime Minister so the golf course will get an OK. I was opin you would come and visit us to see ow the Welsh really live. It is a sort of mix between Detroit and the Bronx in some places but I will spare them their blushes. They are good people it is just they as been shafted by the councils. Councils are the same as the American Mafia see. Padon my not speakin proper like but as you might know out of 67 countries taking part in literacy and numeracy tests, Wales was ranked 38th for reading, 40th for maths and 30th for the tests for science. We are a bit Moby Dick like. Don’t get me wrong, that is better than last innit. Perhaps you could visit some of the worse schools to see what it is like for those teachers and kids like. Not the teachers fault see, it is down to way too much interference from the people you will be sittin next to in that posh otel. I ere the food is good and there’s a pool an everything. Don't forget to ask em to give the left ovas to a food bank or something equally good for a photo opportunity. Some of the boys say they’ll ave a go at the fence when you’s gone, take it in for scrap like. Got to feed the kids someow innit. 1 in 4 children are in poverty in Wales see. I was opin you’d visit some of those kids like, but the problem is that they are too proud to admit they are in poverty like. Some of em don’t even ave a ouse. There are 9,000 plus homeless families in Wales see. Ow can you get an ouse when you avent got a job innit. Wales as the highest percentage of economically inactive people in the UK. I was opin you’d be donatin some wonga to create some employment in the worse places like but I ere you’ll be buyin arms to kill people in these rogue states. Plenty of rogue estates round ere mind. Well I opes yous enjoys you stay anyway and you must pop in to a local chippy and ave some rissole an chips or faggots. That means something else ere see. Don’t bother goin trapsin round the countryside takin the advice of that Bryn terfil and the other celebs. Get yerself into town on a Saturday and see ow we really live mun. If you can spare some time, do visit some of our hospitals before they close. I would ave asked you to come and unveil a plaque at our local library like, but that as closed too. If you do appen to be down west do come and see me and I can give you the jen on Wales proper like. You won’t need all that flash stuff and security, the people round ere are umble and friendly like. Probably like the people you knew when you was growin up innit. Tara for now.