If things get tougher?

katieowl_2

kittie wrote: »

HDUH and Katie we lived in n wales for 8 years. If you are serious about living and being accepted in n and w wales then you could do with being pretty fluent at speaking Welsh. That is if you want to have trade other than tourists and if you want to get on with the locals. I love where I live in s wales, my surroundings are beautiful and the people are lovely and so naturally friendly. Everyone talks to each other everywhere

Prynhawn da Kittie, Sut dych chi?

I'm trying my best not an easy language to master. I was doing classes until easter. Gave up cos' I hoped I'd be busy moving! I was going to start again when we moved.

Where we were looking to move there seemed to be a huge English population, (around Newcastle Emlyn/Cardigan) most of the people we met were from England somewhere - think only one of the house sellers we met were actually Welsh!

I'm so depressed that I'm not moving now. I threw away loads of estate agents blurb, and various brochures/fliers that I picked up on our last two visits yesterday, as they'll all be out of date by the time we can move again, I think of all the hours I spent on the internet, collecting estate agents, checking stuff out, researching schools for DS and arranging visits to the 6th forms :mad: I've sunk a good bit of money into two trips to check out areas, maps and stuff too.

Regards

Kate

katieowl_2

suki1964 wrote: »

Its never those ones whom the extra taxes are supposed to hit who feel the brunt Im afraid. Its the joe blogs like you and I - middle/low earners who keep the country afloat with the jobs that we do that pay so little - public service workers usually or those of us in the service industry

I've just read Nickled and Dimed *(which I got for 50p in the charity shop LOL) and that is exactly the point that she makes at the end of it - that "the 'working poor' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.....To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a namless benefactor to everyone else'

*Barbara Ehrenreich - Granta books 2002

Vive la revolution I say!

Kate

sammy_kaye18

Katie - da iawn, diolch a chi?

katieowl_2

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

Katie - da iawn, diolch a chi?

Wedi blino!!! Es i i banc....Mae hi'n rhy dwym....

And there you have probably exhausted my command (or lack of) of Welsh!

Regards

Kate

winniepooh

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

On the subject of teeth, I lost a bridge of 3 teeth last year the NHS will only offer full dentures & I'm not keen on having all my teeth out, privately the cost will be between £15,000 & £28000, so I have remained gappy & I hate it.

OMG:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

HOW MUCH:eek:

patchwork_cat

How things have changed. My dad's family were from Ffestiniog and Mold and only learnt Welsh after they retired. I have noted doing genealogy that the family were bilingual in the 1870's , some were sole welsh speakers. On Big Brother last year they had a welsh lad from Ffestiniog and he said he thinks in Welsh! I think that it is lovely to revive heritage, but as Wales is a small country they must be careful not to go back to the mid 1800 and isolate themselves. I only know a few choice Welsh words! cau dy geg!

Hardup_Hester

Hi Toothsmith, I have a couple of crowns & another bridge that I have no problems with, but I was given the usual line of 'well at your age' & told that they all need to come out as there are better ways of doing them now, which translates into 'they want to make money out of me!

Toothsmith

How old are you? (If you don't mind me asking!)

If gum problems have set in as well, then taking stuff out is probably justified, but if the teeth are firm, then I'd look for another opinion.

I'm just about to do a 6 unit bridge for an 80+ yr old. Implants would be totally inappropriate for her, as there isn't much bone where her teeth used to be. But her own teeth are fine, and the two that are going to be the supports are perfect as supports. It will replace a plastic denture that her previous dentist did for her, and she's never been happy with. (The denture is OK - it's just she doesn't like having the plastic down there).

The cost of that will be just a little shy of 2k.

mardatha

Owl, pet, probably if you had gone just now things wouldnt have worked out. It just wasnt meant, which means that when the time is right then you will go and it will be great ! xxx

Hardup_Hester

I'm 57 & as I'm not in a well paid job it isn't the sort of treatment I can afford