With just a few days to go until the opening of the Ryder Cup at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, the economic effects are already being felt through out South East Wales and beyond.
In Splott, Cardiff, Mr Billy Bob Redneck Jr III stopped of at the Quickie Mart Cost Cutters are Us 7/7 store to ask directions to the St David’s Hotel in Cardiff Bay and felt obliged to purchase a packet of chewing gum.
In Chepstow a Japanese couple who declined to be named purchased a Peters Pie in Ye Olde Chippy out of curiosity and in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Canadian Greg Miller-Light had to pay the £50 clean-up fee after vomiting in an unlicensed mini-cab after drinking a pint of Brains Dark.
Sir Bernard Matthews said told us:
“the sales of my turkey-ham-fish-steaks have increased by over 25% in the last week alone. I’m sure it has something to do with the foreign visitors to the Ryder Cup who like pre-packaged tasteless mechanically reclaimed pseudo-meat products”.
In Newport city itself the economic effects seems to be in reverse with pharmacists reporting a decrease in contraceptive sales as it would appear that every teenage girl wants to put a little Tiger in her tank.
BBC Wales have also reported that their staff club at BBC Wales Llandaff has also seen an increase in takings due to the overtime that their hard working staff are undertaking at this time of year.
Spokesman Derek Brockway told us:
“It is not unusual for it to drizzle in South East Wales at this time of year and this is a great opportunity for us to showcase the best of Wales at its greyest”.
