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[Doobryfirkin]

can someone please tell me what a web-footed-cockle-women is i saw a advert on tv it was for a car(can not remember what the car was ) and it showed a person driving around a city at night with someone reading a poem and the last line is:the web-footed-cockle-women and tidy wives .HELP :blink:

Tony

 

[Trish]

i would say its a woman that picks cockles and as webbed feet :b :thumbsup:

 

[dawn]

can someone please tell me what a web-footed-cockle-women  is i saw a advert on tv it was for a car(can not remember what the car was ) and it showed a person driving around a city at night with someone reading a poem and the last line is:the web-footed-cockle-women and tidy wives .HELP :blink:
Tony

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[SIZE=14pt]Try Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas [/SIZE]

volkswagen?

COCKLE GATHERERS: From Crofty, cockle-gatherers have been heading out for centuries with their donkeys along a spit of land to the biggest cockle beds in Britain. Dylan Thomas called them web-footed and Wynford Vaughan Thomas described them as looking like an Old Testament tribe marching out over the desert sands. Originally a female occupation, the women were a familiar sight in Swansea market wearing a dress of red and black stripes with black and white aprons, grey shawls and flat straw hats on which they would balance a pail of cockles and two large baskets under each arm. They would have walked barefoot, to save on leather, the 7 miles to Swansea, pausing at Olchfa (which means 'washing place') to wash their feet and put on their boots. Cockles were (and still are) gathered with a short rake and then sieved to ensure the smaller ones fall back into the sand. Cockle-gathering is now mostly male and aided by 4-wheel drive vehicles.

 

 

[Doobryfirkin]

thank you for that dawn it had my wife worrying for a bit that there might be a hy-bred human race somewhere its not its just the welsh :- " ) :- " she did not notice the ad just the bit about web footed cockle women

Tony