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Evening Alan, i suppose i'm showing my ignorance but, who is the man on your Avatar?

I have been wondering ,that, Alan. He looks very distinguished - is he Welsh?

I hope i'm not speaking out of turn but, i was wondering if he might be Alans Grandson.

oldherbaceous wrote:Evening Alan, i suppose i'm showing my ignorance but, who is the man on your Avatar?

Only the most famous politician of the earliest 20th century. Y Dewin Cymraeg - the Welsh Wizard - brought up in a cottage down the road, ended up in Number 10.

Not much else has happened here since then.

I hope i'm not speaking out of turn but, i was wondering if he might be Alans Grandson

According to local stories he was many local people's grandfather. Fond of the ladies he was

Maybe just related then.

Hi Alan, wasn't he the one who started the selling of peerages,that all other parties were quick to copy.

Shallot Man wrote:Hi Alan, wasn't he the one who started the selling of peerages,that all other parties were quick to copy.

Yes - and he introduced the old age pension

Touche.

As i've always said, you can always find some good, in even the most horrid of people.

Lloyd George is still a local hero round here.

He's going for a rest now, to be replaced with another Welsh hero

Something i have noticed this year so far is, the amount of ladybirds, bees and butterflies. Maybe the harder the Winters are, the better it is for them. It did seem when we had some very mild Winters, there was a shortage of them about in the Spring, just a thought.

Very true Old H'...an amazing amount of Ladybirds about, Bumblebees too.
There have been loads of Bumbles on the Bergenias..which seem to have flowered extra specially well too.
Brimstone and Peacock butterflies about....and my colleague reports seeing a Comma a couple of days ago.

Some Bumblebees seem to be covered in mites.??...are these nest mites moving house with the Bee.??

Clive.

Good evening alan refail,

Ok I give up ....is your new Avatar still Lloyd George

donedigging wrote:Good evening alan refail,

Ok I give up ....is your new Avatar still Lloyd George

Morning OH

It does look uncannily like him, doesn't it? But it's a rather fanciful portrayal of the last Prince of Wales - before Edward I's army killed him and Edward invented the fake "Prince of Wales" we still have today

He was Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and is still a Welsh hero usually called Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf (our last leader).

Morning Alan, i think you have done the right thing, by giving me the answer to Donediggings question, it would just be to early for her to process such a history lesson.