Earnings from tourism are a big part of most countries earnings along with invisible earnings from crime...but we won't go there! Just from looking at the banners on this site the image that Wales displays world wide is of great importance. Wales is showcased by Ceri Shaws work with the Eisteddfods which helps to raise the profile of Wales our language and culture. Another member of our merry band on this site Gustavo Letelier is a film maker from Chile who is very seriously interested in making a joint Chilean Welsh film production. Talking to Gustavo made me wonder about these questions below.

Could I ask anyone interested to give their opinions. I'll be starting off with my two penneth worth and am speaking as someone who comes from Canton in Cardiff, who went to Cathays High and because of Dad had Welsh as my first language. I am someone who still misses Clark's Pie and a potato fritter in batter from Yans in Whitchurch Road, almost opposite St Joe's Club in Cardiff and being able to go to Dorothy (down the side of the Brain's Brewery) for Chicken Curry on the bone and chips after going clubbing. I also remember the Brown Bear who stood in the door way of the tobacconist on the corner by the Prince of Wales by the bus station. That bear had it's knee rubbed by so many children that it had no fur left on its knee. Watching the tidal bore going up the Seven Estuary near Seven Tunnel Junction. Those are my memories and are a part of Wales that make Wales unique. For those who are not born in Wales, it would be interesting to see your answers as you will see Wales differently that Ceri Shaw, Dr Conker of Sicknote and we other natives do.

So in any film that shows Wales and the Welsh without the daft stereo-types, what does everyone think it should show not so it looks like a tourism film but shows the heart of the people and what is important to the Welsh as a culture? Our quirks, our idiosyncrasies, our humour, our soul.

It happens to us all. Our first Blog.

It's like our first day at school, looking through those gates as they clank closed and we realise there is no way back, we are TRAPPED. As we get older it is our first day at work, 40 years of grind ahead of us to pay the rent and feed ourselves...everyone feeling really depressed yet? Except if you are in Entertainment, then the hurdle in life that will make most grown Suits, Crew and Talent cringe, cry and hide in a corner screaming, "No, don't make me do it!!! I can't cope" it is being told to write your first blog. The line used to encourage you is Itll increase your profile of course it will it will prove that you are a grammatical Neanderthal whose most grammatically correct line you are capable of writing is This is the last bit wot I wrote, bleedin good innit finished if with either bucko as a threat to someone you dont like or boyo if you wish to be more pleasant or if you want them to buy you a pint of Brains SA aka Skull Attack. PR and Publicists take great delight in this day like sending a child they have created into the grown up world. We must stand on our own two feet fly the protective nest that the PR and Publicists create for us. Oh yeh, great fun!

PR and Publicists are a much maligned group in Entertainment they have to deal with tantrums or behaviour by those they represent that would make an 186 BC celebration by the cult of Dionysus look like a party that just got a bit out of hand and threats or blackmail from the media that would have most of us wishing the plagues of Egypt on all the houses of the journalists or paparazzi. The Blog idea is their revenge on all of us. The more we foul up on the blog the more we have to pay them to extract us from this mess of our own making and listen to the inevitable lecture of, You said what in your blog!!!!!!.....Youre not safe to be let out alone, Ill deal with this problem now you understand why you need me so much.

I have girded my loins and am ready for the forthcoming tongue lashing, humiliation and to being reminded of how much PR and Publicists are needed.

So here goes, my first blog or second if you wish to be really pedantic but Im not, as the above is my disclaimer, this whole escapade into creative writing was not my idea. I am doing this under duress and only because I need the work!