Highway to Hay

Ifan Tonderai looked at his Mum and Dad and was sick of the pair of them. Dysfunctional love. How and why they came together in the first place? Mum working at the amusements on the front at Rhyl, 'Webbers', in the summer holiday and Dad visiting from the Wirral. Dad, the academic from whom he had inherited his brains. His mother was as thick as two short planks, that’s why Dad had gone after her. He knew that she would be no threat to him. He needed someone to cook him food, darn his socks and provide him with plentiful sex. He had inherited this sexist, patriarchal attitude from his own father. Grandpops Penbedw. Grandfather Birkenhead who had done well and ended up in a Bungalow in Kirkby.  Mum needed to be closer to her parents in Prestatyn and it was in easy visiting distance to the Wirral so the pair settled in Dyserth. Ifan was born, went to nursery, primary and secondary school and then off to Aberystwyth where he had discovered the Welsh Language and like so many who had encountered it late, became zealots and converts. His late teen angst found him refusing to speak English with his parents much to the chagrin of his father but to the amusement of his mother.