Pretentious? Moi?

A story in today’s Western Mail about polo on Swansea beach manages to evoke elements of the Kingsley Amis classic “That Uncertain Feeling” which later became “Only Two Can Play” filmed mostly on location in the city; then town.

In the story, absolutely everybody who is anybody is a Lloyds-Richards or a Llewelyn-Pugh and some of the names dropped as entrants for Saturday’s “surf meets turf” event might give one the same impression - if one were worried about that sort of thing, of course. However, St David’s Polo Club official Geoff Lloyd offers the reassurance that “It’s an expensive sport, which means it is always going to be fairly exclusive, but there is no reason it should not get try to reach out for a bigger, different type of audience."

We can more or less imagine how the prospect of £35 a ticket for this recession-proof recreation will be greeted by the non-hyphenated of nearby Sandfields and Townhill. But it will just as interesting to see how many of Swansea’s civic finest believe it is their beholden duty to indulge in a little corporate hospitality with the nobs.

We’ll let you know.