Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>>> [Age: "pedwar deg chwech" - only known to Welsh speakers :-) ]
>> ... and to online dictionaries! (46)
>> My mother though would have known. She didn't know English until
>> she
>> learnt it at school as a foreign language!
>>
>> Tony
> Surprising how many QLers have told me at workshops etc they have
> Welsh relatives.
Mothers are not actually relatives, are they?
Seems to have been quite common in the last 100 years
> to escape Wales and up roots to work in England - escaping poverty and
> unemployment and seeking improved opportunities than was available in
> those days. Liverpool is still referred to as capital city of North
> Wales by some!
It wasn't that. She was an army nurse, and met my father in Africa.
They got married (in 1945) in Greece, and he lived in London.
I was actually born in the same house as my mother (in Rhydlewis).
No silly jokes please - you know quite well what I mean (8-)#
It was pure luck, as she only happened to be visiting her birthplace
after she was de-mobbed.
Tony
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