In Aberystwyth last week, someone left a note on a house, telling the occupants to ‘go back to ‘brummyland’. In case you’re not from the UK, they mean Birmingham. The note rants about vehicles, calls them lowlife and yaw-yaws — showing they don’t actually know what they’re talking about cause it’s yam-yams not yaw-yaws. Quite a few of us were confused about that in the office, English and Welsh people.

I was born in Coventry, right next door to Brummyland, so I knew what they meant…