Welsh grans only

I was born in Wales in a tiny hamlet in the Preselis (Rosebush), went to Cardiff Uni, then moved to London for many years. Back in Wales now, in Pembrokeshire. Beautiful place, wonderful landscapes - driving through mid-Wales can take your breath away.

I’m not Welsh - I think there’s some Welsh ancestry though, but I love Wales - what I’ve seen of it - and the Welsh language. I often wish I’d been born Welsh, just so that I’d grown up with it.
Still tempted to try learning it….

To be Welsh isn't a nationality it's a spirit deep within. The sense of belonging to a nation is unrivalled. I'm from South West Wales and teach in a Welsh medium school. The pride I feel when a child from an English home speaks Welsh is immesurable. I know that people say it's a dead language, but it's certainly alive and thriving around here. I have 6 grandchildren who have all been brought up through the medium of Welsh, yet they all speak English perfectly.

The musical language, the west facing beaches. The down-to-earth practical resilient people who also have time and inclination to write, sing and dream.
The myths and legends.
Memories.
Family.

I lived in Wales for 35 years but yearn for Yorkshire.

My mother was a rather prim lady not given to speak about such matters but one day she was complaining about the stupid names so called celebrities were giving their children (such as Paris, Brooklyn etc.) I explained these were the places the children had been conceived. Shaking her head she walked away saying "It's just as well that wasn't fashionable when you were born or you would have been called Llandudno."
I reckon that gives me a claim to being a tiny bit Welsh.

I live in my daughters house in north Wal.I love it here. Scenery hills beaches. I walk to the nature reserve every day.

Watched swans signets ducks ducklings moor hens and sa

So funny Espee ??

Esspee, ?.
Goodness knows what mine would have been - I suspect an un-fashionable part of S London!

Saw a heron too

Espee so funny, I am now thinking would Welshpool have been more suitable than Catherine and my grandfather not
Owen but Trewalchmi

I would have been Senghenydd !!!!!

I am Welsh. Born and brought up in South Wales. I think what makes Wales special, is the people who are very friendly. My grandmother mcould get your whole lifestory out of you in about 5 minutes flat! She was a lovely lady and when my mother died, she brought me up. I love being Welsh!

She had a phrase that she used to ask every boy I took hom e. It was "do I know your people?" Still makes me laugh now. She was such a star#1

Oh - I feel a bit teary reading all these lovely thoughts about Wales. I would so love to go there again but it is such a long way for us, I couldn’t face the journey again.

nanna8

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Hmmmmm… I am not a Welsh Gran but my mother was Welsh so hopefully You will accept my contribution to this thread. My mother was from Abercynon in South Wales. I have just come back from a holiday in North Wales, a coach trip in fact and I absolutely loved it.Wales is so beautiful and I love Tenby, a couple of years ago my daughter and I and my grandchildren went to somewhere called Barafundal Bay Pembrokeshire and that was absolutely stunning.I live in North Devon and we have some beautiful scenery but for me Wales is outstanding…

I moved back to Wales after my husband died to be near our children. I am now back home in every sense. Everyday I wake to the spirit of the country. It nurtured my very soul in the very dark days of being a widow, it has given me comfort in my grief. I can run on the beach with my dog and cry into the wind and walk in the forest and talk to him. I have made so many friends in the time I have lived here plus the bonus of my family. I would not live anywhere else.

Thanks Anniebach, that is lovely. I often listen to Welsh choirs, there is nothing like them.