General Chat

Out do Muffys dog }}}}}}}}}}

I have a Welsh doll and a Welsh ornament,,,
bought on Welsh soil........,,,,,,,,,

I bet you will Sue,:}}}}}

I was going to call her Myfanwy..but i didn't fancy calling it out in the park when we went for walks :0)

My Dad was born in Wales ( as was my Nanna ) but he moved when he was one to London.........does this make me a quarter Welsh ?

Lynda, I am Welsh from both sides I can't even find mine let alone yours...lol

lol Muffy...chicken!!!

x

When I was 6 weeks old, we moved from Sussex to Wales - my sister (4 years older than me) went to a primary school where they taught in Welsh - even I can still count to 5 in Welsh!!!
When I was coming up to 5 - we moved from Malta to Scotland. My sister (I do feel for her) was told by a teacher that 'The English only spoke the way they did to put the Scottish down'
..I went to school with a perfect Scottish accent for the area - a good survival tactic!

The general thought was that we were English 'interlopers'.
We were just a family whose father was in the Fleet Air Arm, and whose mother refused to live in married quarters, Not only were we 'branded' interlopers, we were also 'branded' as gypsies as we lived in a lot of caravans!!
Okay so there wasn't a major war on at the time, but had there been, my dad (and the family by proxy) would have been much more welcome!

I (born in Sussex) now live in Hampshire. My sister (born in Hampshire) now lives in Sussex. My elder brothers (born in Malta - branded illegal immigrants by Thatcher) now live in London/Somerset and Hampshire.
Genetically we're all 100% English (okay I'm not sure about my dad's dad) - going back to 14th century.
.....Yet I have been racially abused - told to 'Go back to where you came from'; called a 'N*gger (I had a very olive skin as a young woman - result of illness - the 'afro' perm didn't help! LOL)
Sister suffered 'nationalistic' abuse and brothers decreed by a government as illegal immigrants because they were born abroad because their father was working for the government!!

So who is an immigrant - what makes them one? Are they 'permanent'?
What am I? Who is Sylvia etc etc??

..........Can you always tell?........