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DEDICATION

This book

is dedicated to:

All Short and Medium Tellers of Tall Tales

& also to:

Paul Battenbough

1: The Münchausen of Porthcawl

The Welsh have a reputation for constantly telling fibs, but in fact they only tell fibs when they speak, never at any other time. So it can be honestly averred that the aforementioned reputation is exaggerated. And if you believe that you’ll believe anything. Nonetheless it’s true. The worst kind of fib is the true one, especially if it’s true only because the teller is unaware of its truth; the second worst kind is the one where both fibber and believer are in collusion. That kind has a name. Fiction.