Wales

We need a pic of one?

Ach y fi

Just for you Rosesarered I will confess , I wear a Dai cap when i go on building sites to do battle with a group of workmen, I look quite butch

A Dai cap is a flat cap, was once worn by the working man

roses - were you thinking of a Dutch cap?

Blimey Annie, that does sound rather brave!

Oh! I'd never heard of it called that, must tell DH.
We had a friend called Dai, he had a beautiful singing voice.

Anniebach, I think you`ve just solved something I`ve puzzled over for years! The word you used in a post yesterday, Hiraeth, is that the word in the song, We`ll Keep a Welcome? I`ve listened to my copy of Harry Secombe singing it since I was a teenager, and have never bee able to figure the word out.

Means a sense of longing I believe

Young biology master at school could never understand why we found a type of agriculture called Dutch capping hilarious

ah, what an innocent he was Galen
Now, get ready for that head shot, steady hands please! Get that Dai cap.

In England, it would be an Andy Cap.

"we'll kiss away each hour of hiraeth..."

Yes, that's it, from We'll Keep a Welcome.

Oh - kiss
Why did I always think it was 'give'?
(which doesn't make sense).

callgirl, Hiraeth is close to longing but deeper, there is no word in English which means exactly the same, a longing, homesickness, longing for Wales and yes it is in Land of My Fathers , Richard Burton often of spoke of it, sounds so sentimental but many Welsh people will tell you Wales just will not let them go .

Sorry meant We'll keep a Welcome

Ana, not brave, try telling a crowd of builders to shift their **s , and if on a hill farm less chance of it blowing away

Some people are interestingly naive. I was in a singing workshop. We were learning a song by Bowie which described someone as "well hung". There was a bit of giggling in the sopranos. After a few minutes a middle aged man standing near me said "What does well hung mean?"

Well. A really good rib of beef should be hung for 21 days.. is that what it. Means???

Or does it mean from a very tall lamp post? Or a very deserved execution?

Is there a farmer in the house? He will know.??‍?Here he is....Dai Cap!

My Dai cap is better than your Dai cap ?

Anniebach here in my Welsh valley many men still wear Dai caps....

Thank you for confirming it Anniebach.

Now, in Yorkshire they were called flat caps and my own Grandfather was never seen without one, that, and a pipe.My parents once decided to see him and wait outside the rugby ground, as they ( and us children) were passing that way shortly before the end of a game , and he always went and supported the home team come hell or high water.
Why they ever expected to spot him I do not know ( this was about 1958) and what happened when the match ended and they all,thousands of them, poured out of the ground was this: a human waterfall of men in flat caps and raincoats with a pipe stuck in the mouth washed around us.It was one of the most amazing sights of my life.He wasn't there, or he was any one of them.We then walked on to the house where he and Grandma lived, and he was there by the fire having a mug of tea, having beaten us back to the house by ten minutes.His flat cap was Harris tweed, indestructible, and smelled of wet dog after rain.

Sosrkky that is great to know, not worn in Mid Wales , oh yes on the golf course by some, I had forgotten. They really are warm .

Rosesarered, it was the same for me too, my grandpa , father and uncles all wore them , but a trilby for chapel on Sundays

My Father sported what used to be called Robin Hood hats.It was a world when all adults just about, still wore headgear.My Mother always wore a hat and had quite a few.Grandma had one for church but otherwise had a headscarf.I guess you announced your status that way......if you want to get ahead, get a hat! Etc.