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Closer.
I only realised my accent had changed somewhat during my farming period, when the young son of a friend, having been listening to me discussing the bovine animals that produce milk asked his dad, "Daddy, what are keows?" (that's the closest phonetic spelling I can get to how I say/said it having worked with Devonian farmers for a long time).
It's actually fun game asking if people think they've got an accent. Most middle class people will deny they've got any sort of accent.
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It takes an enormous amount of skill to sell something political that you don’t fully agree with.
You wait till that timpson’s prison guy is forced into a compromise he doesn’t agree with because of politics and then go out and try to sell it to the public as a good thing, without coming across as dishonest.
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I spent many a summer holiday as a kid/early teenager in South Devon (Kingsbridge/Slapton Sands area) so am not totally unfamiliar with the accent.
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Sadly rapidly disappearing. I've got a friend a year younger than me who's got a lovely Devon accent, but he's a rarity for his age, and his daughter hasn't got one at all. The accent will have completely gone by mid century, and it's a crying shame - really beautiful, and a great one for telling stories or recounting memories.
Can't remember if I've linked this one before, but I've spent so much time with people with accents like this...
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No I was talking being actually dishonest, like making your chums rich through government contracts, denying you did things you clearly did do, claiming tonhave done things you obviously haven't. You know, Tory stuff.
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I went to see a band a few years ago that sing in a West Country accent, you might enjoy them. Have a search of the Skimmity Hitchers, they do good p1ss take cover versions of well known songs.
Creedence Clearwater Revival eat your hearts out...
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A bit Wurzels-ish, accent wise. Must admit I can't imagine hearing singing with a broad proper Devonian accent.
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Yebbut eema Bristle kiddie. Smuch ferverr norf, see?
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Some West Country folk would consider that too far north to ever go there.
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Now you mention it, they were the support band for The Wurzels, who we decided to go see for a bit of a laugh/before they die and as a good excuse to drink a lot of cider 😊 As it turned out, the Skimmity Hitchers were way better than the main act...
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Can I do a shout out to the late and great Jethro? He did the odd very Cornish song.
There is still a sign up at the venue's car park in Lewdown (Devon) that says "Car Park - Parking Not Allowed" or something like that.
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Good to see the proper drinking vessel in that video as well.
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A West Country Stein 🙂
They get extra credit for slagging off Magners, which is cider flavoured p1ss water.
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FWIW, I spent a year trying to wholesale proper Devon Farm cider, as the good stuff (not badly-made rough scrumpy) is still under-appreciated, probably mostly because it's not that common - it tends either to be badly-made, or commercialised and ends up being bland for the mass-market.
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Fair play, what happened to that little venture in the end?
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Should have done better market research, but basically retail buyers in tourist areas of Devon didn't provide the regular demand I'd hoped for... the lure of quality doesn't really matter for the passing holiday trade, so anything with "West Country cider" on the label will do, and proper farm cider has a limited shelf-life once out of the barrel & cool cellar. In those days I was buying at about £2 a gallon.
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TBH, I think it would have worked better aiming more upmarket in smart bottles and focusing on the quality rather than quantity and price, but that would have then have had the challenge of overcoming the scrumpy image. Maybe I was ahead of my time 😉🤣
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If I'd known I would have bought a job lot off you 🙂
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Shame they are not doing delivery.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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What luck, they are quite local.
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Looks like good stuff 👌
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So this is a truly epic thread diversion.
I am not one of those peculiar people who drink warm beer that all tastes the same. I'm a G&T, ice cold microbrew pale ale and sancerre type of chap, not in that order.
But I used to drink cider.
Is the "real" stuff supposed to be cold, or warm like those flar cap wearing warm beer perverts?
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The colour of it took me by surprise.
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Yeah, easy to get to off the A30. Well worth a visit. I used to live up the road, with a view towards High Willhays and Yes Tor. Just a pity there weren't any wind turbines to complete the view there.
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I prefer cool but not fridge cold.
Proper cider made in batches can vary enormously in colour. I think there are about five or six generations of orchards around the farmhouse... each generation planted a new one, and there is quite a wide range of varieties, all of which taste absolutely disgusting... not surprising as they are definitely not eaters.
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Those bloody national park restrictions and army training chaps eh?
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They'd be good target practice for the fighter pilots, or maybe using them like weave poles for training dogs, with the added fun of the Windy Miller turbine blades.
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Abseiling. Perfect.
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