Hi everyone…once again, than you for allowing me to become a member of the forum. I posted in the Ask a Local Section for the first time yesterday, about good horse riding in the three towns area. Looking forward to any local recommendations.
As I mentioned, my elderly mum and two of my aunties have recently moved to Llandudno.
As she isn’t “on the line” and refuses to use “wangfangled” computers, she has set me a task!
The three of them are game old birds (their words, not mine!) and like getting out and about. One thing they have always done regularly over here in Manchester is to buy the Big Issue magazine. The fuss over the sellers and I think treat them like surrogate children! They believe it is good to have a social conscience and do various charity work.
Having spent most of the summer visiting and staying in different N Wales towns, they noticed that there was a lot of Big Issue sellers. They got a bit confused over who was genuine and who wasn’t because there are people who sell it where they shouldn’t and people who sell it when they aren’t licensed to sell it. Mum thinks they are “on the seaside busy town gravy train”. I agreed to help them find out who are the real sellers are and made some phone calls to different offices, they all now know where the real sellers should be. Consequently, they’ve got their indignation levels up and seem determined to route out anyone who isn’t genuine.
Personally, I haven’t paid that much attention to it when I’ve been there with them, but if this is something they are going to be on some sort of crusade about, I thought I should find out if it is a real problem. I don’t want them getting into something and potentially being at risk as I have heard that there have been a lot of organised sort of syndicates involved.
So, I wondered if it is a regular summer problem?