Taffs Well
04 August 2005
Basically, a very long high street, pubs at both ends and a Co-Op in the middle, situated between the economic crapspots of Pontypridd and Cardiff.
The town seems to be populated entirely with be-cariganed old ladies and some of the surliest adolescents outside Merseyside. The lack of architectural beauty and cultural life obviously goes without saying, despite the bizarre appearance of both a Harp Shop and a Mongolian Restaurant.
Unsurprisingly, the joke “Do you know Taffs Well – I didn’t even know he was ill” loses its appeal after repeated telling.
David Strong
"An idle mind is a questioning, sceptical mind. Hence it is a mind not too bound up with ephemeral things, as the minds of workers are. The idler, then, is somebody who separates himself from his occupation: there are many people scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation."