My mate has just come back from visiting a friend in the capital and had a right boozy weekend. He says that if he had drunk the same amount up here as he did in London he would have at best still been talking in tongues or at worst comatose. As it was he merely got tipsy!!
" It all depends on where you live I guess. We get our fair share of wierdness out here cos its nice and remote. There's a lot of dog fighting in Manchester and Liverpool, and we often get dead terriers dumped in the car parks. There's an active Wicca coven in Sheffield that observes all the pagan dates. They sometimes come out here and dance around in the buff for a bit - but they don't go in for blood letting as far as I know."
None of that has ever, ever, happened in my square here in London.
Gary – the north is officially Yorkshire and some neighbouring counties. – hence the Look North programme on regional news covers Yorkshire and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
There for the North ends at about Chesterfield. Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire etc. are the Midlands.
I would say if you wanted only one line you’d draw it around Leicester Forest East Service station
it is possible to get a decent pint in London, might be twice the price as up north i admit, but i only drink bitter and real ale which is cheaper anyway (so ladylike, i know). haven't witnessed any naked wicca dancing here either though, maybe i'm missing out?!!
This was quite a good discussion before from recollection.
I would think to be fair, if you divide the north and the south, it should be 1/2 and 1/2. Therefore if we have Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Kent, etc, it should be fair go that you have Hertfordshire up. We can't have all the land in the south.
In Derbyshire people have already started to own whippets and drink bitter (preferably from pint glasses with a handle).
My father in law was very proud of being northern. (Mancunian). When we moved to Taplow in Bucks he was going on and on about it. Our new next door neighbour soon put him right however. "Well, I'm more northern than you" she said. "Where are you from then?" He asked. "Norvay" was the response. That shut him up for once! I would hate to live in London though. what suits one person doesn't suit another. Isn't it great that there is so much choice in this country?
Erratic - yeah Brakspears was nice, Henley on Thames !! Once got thoroughly pissed on it at a mates stag doo in Henley. Didn't know it had ceased though ? shame !
Not knocking Southern Ale, i love a good pint of either Fullers or Youngs.
Sam Smiths (both bitter and lager) are the devils urine.
Had it in two or three places, the only one I can remember is the Chandos near Charing Cross. There's another one around the Smithfields area, but can't remember what it was.
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I reckon anyone who doesn't live here secretly wishes they did.
From another thread:
" It all depends on where you live I guess. We get our fair share of wierdness out here cos its nice and remote. There's a lot of dog fighting in Manchester and Liverpool, and we often get dead terriers dumped in the car parks. There's an active Wicca coven in Sheffield that observes all the pagan dates. They sometimes come out here and dance around in the buff for a bit - but they don't go in for blood letting as far as I know."
None of that has ever, ever, happened in my square here in London.
As a true northerner, could you chip in the north/south divide debate and confirm the geographical boundaries between the north and the south.
I believe it is Watford'ish but the M1/M25 junction is a more definitive line.
Nothing like that in SW20.
There for the North ends at about Chesterfield. Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire etc. are the Midlands.
I would say if you wanted only one line you’d draw it around Leicester Forest East Service station
I would think to be fair, if you divide the north and the south, it should be 1/2 and 1/2. Therefore if we have Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Kent, etc, it should be fair go that you have Hertfordshire up. We can't have all the land in the south.
In Derbyshire people have already started to own whippets and drink bitter (preferably from pint glasses with a handle).
I would hate to live in London though. what suits one person doesn't suit another. Isn't it great that there is so much choice in this country?
and please chastise Mr Average for his John Smiths, creamflow praise ! strewgth Creamflow i feel sick !
Not knocking Southern Ale, i love a good pint of either Fullers or Youngs.
London Pride - that's what you want :-)
Marstons Old Empire. The nectar of the gods.
Had it in two or three places, the only one I can remember is the Chandos near Charing Cross. There's another one around the Smithfields area, but can't remember what it was.
Terrible stuff.
and... Directors... And virtually anything by Youngs