You know you're up North when.....

Bikedevil

In the middle of July....highs of 14 degrees C

You walk into a house when the sun's out and the heating's on full blast

supersonic

I thought it were quite hooooooomid today

Mc Smiley

If you're from the south you don't understand anyone and they don't understand you

By the way before the pie eating north comes along, my family live there and i like it, lots of cycling

Note of reference: Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie

supersonic

Bristol is a bit west though, cider and combine harvesters etc. Not that we have stereotypes ;-)

Bikedevil

supersonic wrote:

I thought it were quite hooooooomid today

I had noticed that, after riding my Stinky up Long Line then to the top of Houndkirk, had to frop down thought because I ran out of water. Good blast Devil's elbow tho on Blackamoor, until I pushed back up.....

Mc Smiley

supersonic wrote:

Bristol is a bit west though, cider and combine harvesters etc. Not that we have stereotypes ;-)

Pear cider is paticularly good, if not leathal however and apparently there is some you can only legal drink in half pints :?

I support newcastle so when I went to see them play they all found my accent interesting.

Yorkshire however brings me pictures of cottages, hills and sunshine.

nicklouse

Mc Smiley wrote:

Yorkshire however brings me pictures of cottages, hills and sunshine.

you have only visited.

supersonic

Do like my pear cider, but not that foreign crap!

Have to admit, most if the stereotypes of Yorkshire are quite true! The flat cap and whippet people are still thriving!

Bikedevil

I believe this gets it spot on

This the link

nicklouse

Bikedevil


I feel this is more Yorkshire

Green And Grey

The time I think most clearly
The time I drift away
Is on the busride that meanders
Up these valleys of green and grey
I get to think about what might have been
And what may yet come true
And I get to pass a rainy mile
Thinking of you

And all the while, all the while
I still hear that call
To the land of gold and poison
That beckons to us all

Nothing changes here very much
I guess you'd say it never will
The pubs are all full on Friday nights
And things get started stillWe spent hours last week with Billy boy
Bleeding, yeah queueing in consualtyStaring at those posters we used to laugh
at
Never never land, palm trees by the sea

Well there was no need for those guys
To hurt him so bad
When all they had to do
Was knock him down
But no one asks to many questions like that anymore
Since you left this town

CHORUS:
And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave steals away
But you're the one I remember
From these valleys of green and the grey

You used to talk about winners and losers
All the time - as if that was all there wasAs if we were not of the same blood
family
As if we live by different laws
Do you owe so much less to these
Rain swept hills
Than you owe to your good self
Is it true that the world has always got
To be something that always seems
To happen - somewhere else
For God's sake don't you realise
That I still hear that call
Do you think you're so brave
Just to go running
To that wicked beckons to us all

CHORUS:And tomorrow brings another train
Another young brave ...

No, not for one secondDid you look behind you
As you were walking away
Never once did you wish any of us well
Those who had chosen to stay
And if that's what it takes to make it
In the place that you live today
Then I guess you'll never read these
Letters that I send From the valleys of the green and the grey

supersonic

Bikedevils video sums uo Barnsley to a T!

Bikedevil

Awesome pork pies in Barnsley though , splash of hendo and bob's thy uncle!

Mc Smiley

nicklouse wrote:

you have only visited.

An empty campsite due to a huge storm? Everyone else leaves or huddles in the showers due to tents being blown down.
No that is my idyllic setting of the north.
My Mum (bristolian) always tells my step Dad (Hartlepool)
'It's grim up north, it always rains'

passout

I just came back from a week in Cambridgeshire and Nolfolk. I really missed hills or indeed any natural features of any interest whatsoever (Broads excluded). I'm totatlly biased but isn't the North just more, well, interesting? Don't get me wrong the people were fine and some of the villages were pretty but it's all very 'samey' or 'monotone'. The North is in many ways much more a land of extremes and just more....interesting.

nicklouse

passout wrote:

The North is in many ways much more a land of extremes

correct. Yorkshire and lancashire.

Nick Dastardly

I miss my Yorkshire..........

Got my Yorkshire Tea Teatowel up on the wall in my room to remind me of the place!

nicklouse

Nick Dastardly wrote:

I miss my Yorkshire..........

Got my Yorkshire Tea Teatowel up on the wall in my room to remind me of the place!

i have my Yorkshire tea here.

Nick Dastardly

Do you have to get it specially imported? Work were going to send me to Austria for a few months and the tea supply was one of the first things I worried about!

nicklouse

I bring it back myself, but you can get just about anything anywhere. there are Net shops that will ship stuff at a cost.

eg http://www.xpatshop.co.uk/Contents.asp?

FCE2007

Green And Grey <snip>

NMA rule

passout

I used to live in Japan and was able to buy yorkshire tea in a couple of (specialist & expensive) shops. None of that green muck! I reckon that you'll be able to get it.

Have you seen the new 'Lancashire Tea'? It's alright but no taylors of harrogate I'm afraid. Unpatriotic I know but...

Nick Dastardly

Beware of cheap imitations!

passout

Nice. You didn't do that yourself did you?

Mind you, we've got better cheese,blackpudding and (without question) potted shrimps! Personally I even think our cakes are better but I realise that this is political dynamite.

cee

I'm really sorry, but Yorkshire is most definately South, not North......of here anyway.

It is true that you miss the landscape when going EVEN FURTHER south than yorkshire........ Edinburgh even has a coupla moontins (OK, I'll admit it, they are hills) right in the middle of it!

Oh.....yer teas not bad.

Nick Dastardly

passout wrote:

Nice. You didn't do that yourself did you?

Not quite, borrowed (stole) it from the "I Love Yorkshire Tea" Facebook group. Which you should all join, if you haven't already.

supersonic

Yorkshire is in the north of England therefore in the North. Who cares about Scotland?! If it weren't for a couple of hills and an extinct volcano with a castle no bugger would visit ;-)

passout

Unless you are on one of the Magnetic Poles isn't North/South entirely relative?

...and besides whatever you say about the Scots, they do have good shortbread!

Bikedevil

What d'ya call a flat Yorkshire pudding??? A Lancashire pudding!!

passout

Ha Ha :roll: :? :!:

passout

Bikedevil, it's not your fault your jokes are rubbish you are a Yorkshireman (for abit).

In his book on Lancashire, Where Women Die Of Love, author Charles Nevin wrote that on one side of the Pennines "lives a warm and whimsical race, ever ready to chuckle, even laugh, in the face of the sheer ridiculousness of life; on the other, a sad and surly people, unable to understand why they haven't been let in on the joke." Not my words but, clearly, you live on the wrong side of the Pennines.

And why is it the most Northern Comedians are from Lancashire? See - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2007/03/ ... remen.html

You have my sympathy.

passout

When you do feel the need to leave Yorkshire (urgently) you could use this tour operator
http://shacksjokepad.blogspot.com/2008/ ... lines.html