La Angostura

I was sixteen when the Imperialist Machine of Maggie's Task Force went into action in the South Atlantic. A teacher marched into the Public School Classroom and with fist in the air shouted "We've got one of them". An Argentine jet had been shot down and I remember thinking at the time what do you mean 'we' paleface. I was surprised because this teacher was a Welsh Speaker from Caernarfon and was one of the few teachers who abstained from singing 'God Save the Queen' at the assemblies when Elizabeth Vagina was being saluted. I had a gut feeling that Britain's actions were immoral and wrong.We had seized the Malvinas in 1833, for its oil reserves, and now Argentina wanted them back.

Wales has a connection with Argentina that goes back to the settlement of Y Wladfa in 1865 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Wladfa



Followers to SharkFishing in Wales will know that I have an aversion to the oval shaped ball. A completely irrational and emotional response to a game that the Welsh have enthusiastically embraced from its origins in a Public School in Rugby, England. Perhaps not completely irrational because I was forced to play the game from U15 level and didn't stop playing until my early thirties.
A complete waste of Saturday afternoons.
I have a completely rational yet emotional view on Public schools. As a Welsh speaker I was educated in an enclave, in a bastion of the English Class system in North Wales. A recurring nightmare that I have is that I am still a pupil at this school, as an adult. I have been kept down from progressing to every subsequent year because of my woeful progress academically.  I witnessed the ravages of this  class system, in the guise of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatism, being unleashed on the communities of the United Kingdom. I do not wish to use the term 'English' in a pejorative way. It is the Imperialist British Class System that I rail against. The system that has caused so much oppression and so much misery and death around the world. Who could blame those early settlers for looking for a 'man gwyn man draw' (Grass is always Greener type of thing) away from all this? 

Tomorrow in the plastic capital of Wales a game will occur between the Prince of Wales Feathers Brigade and Argentina. From my cave in Ceredigion I will be hoping that the descendents of the orginal settlers beat the Red Shirts again purely because of our subservient, forlock tugging nature as a people!