Parade's End

[vinteuil]

South Walians live and die rugby.

... well, my mother's father was from South Wales - and little rugby was to be found in his interests.

Mind you, they was church not chapel, and being from Kidwelly and Narberth were practically Little-England-Beyond-Wales* already ...

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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...d_beyond_Wales

[Northender]

Hello? Excuse me? Scarlets (my team) we lost v Ospreys - some village idiot competiton you think? How very dare you! You live in Wales, is not rugby in your blood?

I don't think Derek Bevan had the best of evenings.

[Richard Tarleton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_England_beyond_Wales[/url]

We even have our own "beyond Wales" rock sea lavender round here

[Anna]

We even have our own "beyond Wales" rock sea lavender round here

Basically Richard, you are for us or against us. A poncey lavender don't cut the mustard down by here amongst those no-good Boyos!!
And, now, offline.

[Richard Tarleton]

They showed the last episode on BBC2 Wales last night - I turned the box on expecting to catch "The Thick of It", also starring Roger Allam. Tough on anyone who might have missed the announcement of when they planned to show it after bumping it in favour of....bites tongue, note to self, stop trying to wind Anna up.

Seriously, typical of the cavalier attitude of BBC Wales where sport is concerned. Before I had satellite I used to phone up the duty officer to complain about this sort of thing.

[Northender]

Reminiscent of the BBC2 decision to delay the start of Richard II because of overrunning tennis.

[mercia]

will Parade's End win a BAFTA ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10047416/Baftas-2013-the-contenders.html