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thesweetcheat wrote: A number of people at work commented on how amazing the countryside looked and that they should go (it's not really very far away from here). I'm not sure about the snootiness about dragon's breath. Okay, so calling it that is perhaps going to irritate some people - I'm not sure the name's intended to be anything more than tongue in cheek anyway - but it's still a brilliant natural phenomenon to watch from the hills above it. In fact I'm pretty sure examples of it have featured on TMA at various times. Personally I enjoyed watching the programme and seeing places I know so beautifully filmed, even if the script was pretty painful at times. Guess you need to appreciate the North/South issue in Wales, SC. It is pretty intense. I have South Walian family whom I love to bits. But 'tongue in cheek' is not a South Walian concept in my experience. So when South Walians - with obvious exceptions, such as the wonderful, clued up locals contributing here - claim to feel hiraeth... I'm with the people of Gwynedd. At least they speak the language. Mountain dwellers are a pragmatic sort. So having a Welshman calling temperature inversion 'dragon's breath' will wind them up. And rightly so. Perhaps the answer is for South Walians to head for their hills, document their heritage, reclaim them from outlanders such as you, I and Postie. Englishmen. Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Reply | with quote |  12th April 2015ce 21:53 In reply to: Re: Secret Britain (thesweetcheat) |
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