It was a really nice afternoon the rain stayed away we marched down to the Cenotaph from St Martins Church the service at the Cenotaph was very nice we observed the two minute silence it is a hundred years since the end of the First World War I simply couldn't stay away.
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I think 2118 will be ok. Brexit don’t help. But the Brexit generation will have gone. As will I! The big prob always seems to be nationalism! Be proud of you are. Accept others for who tney are! Like the lovely Polish girls in my class! @senghenydd
I really have no idea what is best. Yes I do. Nationalism leads to wars. We are a small continent with loads of languages. We live together or we die together! Three boys were sitting in the seat in front of me on the bus yesterday talking Polish. But my Dad grew up in a Wales where kids were tearing up English roadsigns. Because English was the language of the British Empire but not our language. Hello! This is Europe! Europe is not like America. Language and culture changes every 10 km! @Blodyn
@Blodyn I'm surprised that the immigrants have now reached your neck of the woods maybe your going into Swansea, Cardiff and Newport is very cosmopolitan foreign people are now the majority they're flooding into this country they're leaving their countries where they were far worst off I was talking to a chap from Africa he lived in a tin hut there but was able to watch Satellite Television he realized living in Great Britain he would be far better off (he really had nothing to lose) he immigrated to this country and has never looked back I watch television myself and can see there's a better standard of living in the United States which is similar to what the chap from Africa thought about moving to Britain, nobody immigrates to these odd countries where all these immigrants come from have you ever heard of a British family immigrating to Poland or Africa to name just two, people have always up stakes over the centuries but never on this scale maybe leaving the European Union will make it more difficult for foreign people to come to this country I am really on the fence over this issue but feel our people must have jobs first before foreign workers who are taking their jobs by working for less it's a difficult issue I must leave it there and finally say as there's a shortage of jobs/work we must stop or slow down the number of people immigrating into this country.
PS I've been collecting old Railway Stations lately this one wasn't a million miles from where I live Golden Days of the Railways.
Typical. White Hart Halt. Like Raven Crossing with us. Named after a pub! Like you, I am totally confused. Perhsps we never should have been in EU! Just Welsh, English, Scottish and Irish! @senghenydd
@Blodyn The picture captures something it's a time capsule in my opinion there wasn't enough people using the line therefore the line closed (Pontypridd to Machen)
Nobody can predict what will happen to the EU in the next decade they are busy making laws and allowing more and more countries into the EU we were in the position where for every pound we put into the EU we would get 50 pence back in other words we were simply subsidizing the poorer countries there was/is no control on immigration and no control of Chinese Steel flooding into into this country (we should of had Tariffs) since we joined the EU we have lost our Steel Industry our Ship Building Industry our Textile Industry we were losing our sovereignty Theresa May has this evening convinced the Cabinet that her deal to leave is satisfactory she now hopes to get it through the Commons I have admired Theresa May for stepping in when David Cameron resigned I hope she manages to pull this off in the Commons and we finally leave the EU and take back control of our country if the new deal doesn't get through the Commons the Prime Minister could resign lets hope this deals passes the Commons.
It is so compicated. Actually I love Theresa. She was there when Cameron jumped ship. She has done what she could. And more than anyone else could have! Sometimes I think let’s do it! Let’s be our own country. Ok. In a year or so we maybe! @senghenydd
@Blodyn Complicated is right fingers crossed this nasty business will be sorted out not everyone will get the deal they want if only Britain used their veto in the beginning and stopped the EU becoming the EU we have today there are too many countries in it mistakes were made which now can't be reversed.
Anyway here's another Railway Station from my collection of Welsh Railways Stations which now don't exist. (A way of life gone with the wind).
Oh. Senghenydd railway station! It all fits! Your name! My great uncle, who has died, lived in Trehafod. He often walked over the mountain to Senghenydd! This is an old photo of Brynaman station where my Dadcu was stationmaster. We think but are not quite sure because the pic is fuzzy that it is my Dadcu on the platform seeing the train off! [image deleted] @senghenydd
@Blodyn Hello Blodyn, Nice to hear from you again thanks for the photo of Brynaman Station is the railway line still operating does Brynaman Station still exist it's a shame if it doesn't the Steam Engine in the picture is a Pannier they weren't fast trains top speed about 55 to 60 MPH and they could pull seven carriages ideal for passenger services throughout the South Wales Valleys I expect the figure in the picture is the Station Master who would of been your Dadcu another picture of bygone days Thank you for sharing it.
@Blodyn Last year, no the year before last, November 2019, the bell in college rang at 11.00 and again at 11.01 so we could stand in silence at out studio spaces. I will always remember as long as I live and now we must remember the nearly 100,000 who have died from Covid. We will remember them.
@Blodyn It would be a good idea if we were all to buy a something similar to a poppy to wear on our coats on a special day of the year each year to remember all who have died of Covid-19 profits could go to the World Health Organisation. I lost a dear old friend last year to Covid-19 he was a Widower he finally wasn't able to walk and ended up in a Care Home he was 96 years old I visited him twice before Christmas 2019 meant to visit him then in the January never did and then early February I caught Covid-19 which was very early on then came the first Lockdown March 22nd 2020 sadly old Ron passed away on the 16th November 2020 he died alone even his family couldn't visit him I'll wear a poppy for Ron.
@senghenydd And I will too. We have lots of Irish girls in my college because we are near Ireland and my best friend is from Ireland. She was so surprised to see me standing with my head bowed on the 11th of November 2019 at 11 o'clock. Last year was totally messed up. My friend has had to postpone her Third Year. But if Covid doesn't get me (and I am Type 1 diabetic!) we will remember them. Including Gethin who died but caught it doing his work as a paramedic in Pontarddulais.
@Blodyn Southern Ireland weren't in World War Two they became a separate country in 1922, they fought along side us in World War One though however there was a lot of hostility against main land Britain, some Irish like the British some don't.
@senghenydd I live in West Wales. I live closer to Rosslare than I do to London. Half our teachers and technicians live in Ireland! The people in the south of Ireland have almost the same accent we do!
@Blodyn I never knew there were so many Irish people studying working and Teaching in West Wales never gave it a thought I must be thick do you/we require a passport to enter Southern Ireland I remember the London train terminated at Fishguard from there you could catch a ferry to Ireland nowadays the ferries are much larger no doubt too large to dock at Fishguard and leave from Swansea only a few trains a day terminate at Fishguard.
@senghenydd The ferry goes at 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. The trains just go to Swansea. Not like the Irish Mail which went thundering past my bedroom when I was little.
@Blodyn They have a racing circuit there I wonder if you took advantage of going to see any of the races whilst you lived at Pembrey, [b][u]do you know whether or not I would be required to have a passport to travel over to Southern Ireland[/u][/b] (suppose I could find out on-line somewhere never know things might have changed since we left the EU).
@senghenydd I could hear the races growing up as a young girl. I have no idea about passports but I would have one with me anyway. One day English may need one to visit Cardiff!
@Blodyn I have a passport, with Britain leaving the European Union the legislation will be stricter if it isn't necessary to produce a passport at the moment I expect it will be required shortly I know there's tighter regulations for Hauliers travelling back and fore. Racing at Pembrey was popular years ago it was often mentioned in the news not so much nowadays LLandow is another place that has a racing circuit that's nearer where I live I remember an old friend of mine would race his go-cart there I was invited down there to spectate but never took advantage of his invitation.
@senghenydd Senghenydd. How are you? I was just reading through what we wrote to each other since 2018 and wondering what the world would be like. It was pretty cool in 2018. I loved the photos you sent me as I was growing up. Photos of stations like the one my Dadcu worked in. I was just wondering how you are. As a person. I think we think alike in many ways. November 11th is so important to me.
