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oh the Grand!
I think (and hope) it has been refurbished and on a Thursday night not noisy.
oh I just looked on the web - looks nice. it was seedy in the extreme for decades. One of the few buildings of that age that escaped the blitz and hadn't been done up since.
So seedy that i never went to any event there.
Police used to drink there I think... Near their HQ. ALong with a pub around the corner called Adam and Eve.
When I was working in the health service a Sikh GP in his 60s dropped dead at a disco there. We all thought he had gone out in style.
Time to make tea. Hope your evening in swansea is ok and that they look after you properly.

That's wales no I'm doing it all in one long day. I told you I was raving didn't I.

blood and sand. all the way from Avon to Abertawe. Won't get very far though on the amount of tax I pay. Run out of fuel round about Afan Nedd.
I hope they, sorry, we, are putting you up in the Marriot or somewhere else civilised.
Last time I stayed it was in a perfectly adequate and clean hotel just before you get to town. One the left in the bit that used to be the docks. I went down to the desk to try to get an extra pillow or something and witnessed the interesting spectacle of the receptionist trying to deal tactfully with a couple of young lesbians that were obviously planning a weekend together but who did not have an acceptable credit card or other means of payment. I felt sorry for him. He was struggling on in the face of resistance.

I sometimes go to Newport for the tribunal, also caerdydd!which my tomtom says is Cardiff. No consistency. Iwill be in the high street by the station.

I'm not. You are paying for a taxi to take me to a tribunal and back tomorrow morning. It's cheaper than them having to reschedule the tribunal!

Yes that's the bit. Weird. YOu aren't posting while driving on the M4 Jeni are you?
I once saw a man reading a book on the end bit, past Swansea.
Where are you staying in Swansea?

Turn left just after Celtic manor for Newport?

yes someone from the storm troopers has sabotaged the software code I'm afraid Jeni. Watch out for Caerdydd instead of Cardiff on the way back along with Pen y bont instead of Bridgend. It is pretty confusing for foreign (ie English) drivers. Say hello to Wales for me [homesick whimpers, can you hear them]
I am always mystified by the M4 as you come over the bridge. There you are, crossing the estuary and arriving in Wales just above sea level. A few minutes later you are descending rapidly down towards the Usk (with the Celtic Manor looming above it) There never seems enough Up before all that Down.

My tomtom calls it Abertawe. It is an English tomtom! Have the Cymru brigade sabotaged my software? Will I be sent to Cydwhelli instead of Kidwelly ?
And as for TNT Pwyll place?
HELP!!!

yes it is, but nobody calls it abertawe unless they are welsh language fundamentalists storm trooper.
Not sure if it was ever called it, until someone set their mind to making one up.
"the mouth of the river tawe"
Swansea is nothing to do with swans but is "Sweyne's Eyot" - a viking popped by (maybe on his way to conquer Ireland?) and called a small islet at the mouth of the river after himself, (or his dad or his brother or whoever) So it has been sweynesey for over a thousand years

There's only one place :- Stonehenge of course!
By the way, I was trying to put this address into my tomtom for Swansea. It kept coming up as abertawe! I rang Cardiff to complain they had given me the wrong postcode!
Roars of laughter! Apparently Abertawe is Swansea!

Butter - not in this weather.

Oooh, that sounds good Butternut. I like the idea of dancing in the woods. What about somewhere just outside Midsomer Norton? We might come across some forbidden coven and a few bodies......da da daaaaaaaahhhh! (dramatic music!)

Please, please not any where near any more royal property ...not after the last time!!

Will give the old broomstick a test run tonight...as it had to go in for maintenance after that last get together

Pagan rights for the newbies - dancing in the wild daffodil woods - painted bodies. No cops around. Bonfires...... ??
When?

supernana if you're splashing out on these exotic items, maybe we should gatecrash an exotic party. They can be delivered by tardis. It's a virtual party so we can choose which one we want. We could go to the Vanity Fair Oscars party, Elton John's, Hugh Heffner's, or maybe we could go to one in the UK. Any ideas, anyone? Need to book my place on a broomstick or the tardis!

so confused. Is this real hospital or virtual party you are getting togged up for super ?
Has someone set a time and date?

Well now, I've been searching for nightwear [suitable for the posh hospital] and I have to tell you [in confidence] that I'm in deep . I've seen some cute, sheer wotsits - with various bits cut out [far too expensive, considering what fabric remains is so scant] and satin thongs with diamante studs! Either would do for our party. Sadly, there isn't a carrier available to deliver at such short notice.

Dont know where should we venture this time

I've just been shopping and I've got a few bottles of Wkd - it's luminous neon blue, so is bound to be the finest quality (well I don't know, do I?). Are we on, and do we have a venue yet?

OOh excited already!! Pink fun wig at the bottom of the wardrobe I think...

Jeni why don't you stay in Swansea for the weekend... Verdi's icecream parlour beckons?

I thought we were never going to talk about those things again..................

Carol you were your own worst enemy I seem to recall that there was an awful lot of unruly laughter and high jinx on the doorstep of number 10...then there was the time that baggy singed her hat when she passed out in the hearth of that nice inn...and....

Policeman... someone say Policeman