I’ve only been to north wales once and really liked it. There’s also a terrific Kevin Barry short story called Beer Train to Llandudno that I want to reprise

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Oh go, it’s weird. And has great views. And is near a bunch of other lovely places

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Well it has reminded me that I’ve still never been to Portmeirion despite been *obsessed* with the Prisoner as a teenager. If you’d told 15 year old me I’d live in the UK for two decades and not visit I’d have been massively unimpressed (I guess a bit like the Wales Online journalist)

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Jesus. I also think it’s not a great look (commercially as much as anything) for Wales Online to publish a first person article that essentially says “turns out North Wales exists, wow guys have you heard about it”

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The thing is that there is a real issue with patients in care, especially those with dementia, who do not like seeing non-white staff. But this is not a problem for the patients, it is a problem for the staff, because they're the ones having to deal with racists.

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