We've done our best to combat Breconshire's depredations. Of course they've won the big prizes - like convincing the world that the Royal Welsh Show is held in Builth, but we've had some small victories. We've reclaimed Caesar Jenkyns for the county of his birth and shown that the first Welsh novelist wasn't a Breconian. There are more, here for example, it's thankless work but someone has to do it.
Yet still the thefts continue, aided and abetted by the likes of the Welsh Books Council. Here they describe the painter Thomas Jones as a Breconshire landowner. Maybe he was, but do a couple of fields count for more than his Radnorshire birthplace or his Radnorshire home? And while we're at it, why do none of these people use paypal? Don't they want to sell books? It's not as if I'm willing to hand over my card details to every Tom, Dick and Cardi!
So the Welsh Books Council thinks Breconshire landowner has greater impact than Radnorshire born. Methinks for once the WBC are right. Bait the hook and reel them in.
ReplyDeleteCome off it Lionel, we know you're more at home with a gaff.
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