----- Original Message ----- From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 06 February 2001 13:40 Subject: Re: A caution | Hence the inverted commas, my dear Lawrence, oh once more i'll just shut up! though I'd tend to say, in | literary and other terms, despite devolution, that Wales _ was _ a country. | I have some faint hopes still for Gwynedd tho'. after saying I *used to be there all the time - 20, 30 years ago, in me yoof... I was last there about 18 months ago, wandering around Pembroke and hinterland and got a *very strong sense of its difference... give it time L