John said:'Tom Jones, got lucky and is still ladling out musical bilge to the moronic masses.Richard Burton,on the other hand was a taffy of quality,talent and education, a Welshman and a true Brit.'
RIP,Richard.
Thanks John for your interesting and amusing assessment of those two famous Welshmen.
I guess that TJ's musical bilge is to the moronic masses what foreign teachers' faces are to their Chinese bosses.
The crooning and the faces are needed by two contrasting groups of perhaps overly eager customers,romanticising Western women approaching pensionable age, and Chinese parents,respectively.Both are happy to part with money to satisfy their perceived needs,and what they perceive to be the needs of their children.
As Chinese students are many, there's a great demand for foreign faces in Chinese classrooms,especially reasonably good-looking Taffy males like Ian!
What's more Yuncheng's present industrial development will remind Ian of the state of the Welsh hills and valleys in the days when coal-mining was at its height,when he was just a nipper.
Ah,memories,memories!Keep up the good work,Ian and TJ.Both of you are in great demand in your respective fields!