Drink and the devil had done for the rest

I am back down in Cardiff today for Jimmy's funeral (Icons passim) which is not really a suitable topic for these spin-drift pages.

Instead you shall have another entry in an occasional series of ludicrously parochial Welsh chest-beating posts.

Was Long John Silver a peg-legged Welshman? The real pirate could have born near Rhyl.

... according to the Daily Mail.