The steppies have been like that about four or five weeks now, they were supposed to be fixed before the school holidays but NCC are far too inept.
Take it you've seen the main road?
And within those trees...
Mundane pictures of the North
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The steppies have been like that about four or five weeks now, they were supposed to be fixed before the school holidays but NCC are far too inept.
Take it you've seen the main road?
And within those trees...
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
I think Miss Caphat was (lived?) in Scotland for a time if I remember rightly from the thread about the gay marriage Act in England and Wales.
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/gay-marriage-discussion.313010/#post-12411542
The League of Gentlemen is the best factual travelogue you can watch when considering whether to visit the North of England.
Coming from rude pushy posh Londoner filled Bath, I found Northern friendliness too much to cope with. When I first found I was pregnant, I was freaked out and unsure what to do but went and got some folic acid from Sainsburys. The girl at the till was 'ooh, you're pregnant! What do you want then, a boy or girl?' before I had told my immediate family. Just now had a stranger knocking at the door to say that our car tyre looks a bit low!
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
Weaver's Triangle Burnley today...
Really good pics those. Not spent much time in Burnley but want to visit it properly in the summer hols.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I agree - they're lovely, and I've only just noticed the final one has glass embedded in it.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
To be fair, we're not all friendly - just looking at the crime figures is enough to disabuse anyone of that notion!
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Yeah saw that a while back, I've not been up to the part of the world for ages though
Weaver's Triangle Burnley today...
That chimney fourth from the last looks scary, like it might fall on you if you walk past it.
It's still knackered.
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
To be fair, we're not all friendly - just looking at the crime figures is enough to disabuse anyone of that notion!
No, my anecdotes count as proof on the internet! I lived in Bath and had a motorbike stolen. Lived in London and had everything stolen. Live where we were warned not to live (the rough bit apparently) and despite being shocking at household protection (keys in outside door for a few nights etc ) have had nothing stolen. Obviously tonight, everything will be stolen and I will blame this thread.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
You'll be totally paranoid tonight, lying awake listening to every single sound!
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Will do
Question time for the foreigner (if you don't mind!): Have you been looking through this entire thread? Have you been to England before? And if so, did you go up North? If not, how you finding this thread? I can imagine it contradicts the image that most people have of England, but I don't know? I guess films like Full Monty and whatever show some stuff like this.
Anyway, was just curious
Hi Fez,
Well, I was in London briefly twice...the first time for the first couple days of a European tour, and second when I came to Edinburgh I flew into London and took the train up, so I saw some of the country that way.
I would definitely like to see more.
as farmerbarleymow mentioned I did live/stay in Edinburgh for a while (I feel like it sound pretentious to say I "lived" there but that's a better description of what I did...I was prepared to move there permanently and it wasn't like I was on vacation, I worked and just lived a normal (sort of) life w/ my boyfriend...things didn't work out so I went back to the states) anyway I was there for 9 months and also did some tours around Scotland...some of these pics remind me of there.
I think there's blight and mundanity everywhere. I used to ride my bike along the canals and saw a lot of gorgeous scenery and also good deal of industrial wasteland type places and run-down housing projects etc...I think it strikes you more somehow when it's in another country... it feels sort of heavily sad, and a shame that people sometimes don't take care of or respect their environments, especially when there's such beauty and history and other aspects to be proud of. We have plenty of that here too, though. I'm not saying that we don't by any means. But yeah when you go to another country and feel so lucky to have the opportunity to experience a unique culture that a) is beautiful and special and B) you've built up in your mind through years and years of pop (and otherwise) culture starting with childhood fairy tales...it's like "this is a legendary place, do they really need a pound shop with an ugly neon sign on every corner?"
and yet again I feel that about a lot of places/ things in my own country too.
On the other hand there's a certain beauty in the decay and mundanity and whatever, so...I don't know, sorry for the rambling.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
You'd be welcome to come back and we'd give you a guided tour of the Northern cities we live in.
And get you hammered.
I think you're right - Britain has a reputation globally due to history, and inevitably this is informed through various means, not all true, so the reality is perhaps a bit surprising compared to what image is projected abroad. But as you said, the same mundanity and decay exists everywhere.
But if you want to see real castles instead of the ones presented in fairy tales, you have to go to Northumberland. Everyone lives in a castle there.
This is where Firky lives, for example:
While further south in Manchester, this is the typical country cottage that people usually own. This is my humble country cottage. A bit poky, but it'll have to do.
And get you hammered.
I think you're right - Britain has a reputation globally due to history, and inevitably this is informed through various means, not all true, so the reality is perhaps a bit surprising compared to what image is projected abroad. But as you said, the same mundanity and decay exists everywhere.
But if you want to see real castles instead of the ones presented in fairy tales, you have to go to Northumberland. Everyone lives in a castle there.
This is where Firky lives, for example:
While further south in Manchester, this is the typical country cottage that people usually own. This is my humble country cottage. A bit poky, but it'll have to do.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
gotta go for now but I'll respond to that later
Castles? There's millions here.
There are considered to be over 70 castle sites in Northumberland and while we have many of the finest in England others are ruins and some no longer exist. A few are in private hands and not open to the public so it may be that only with the owners permission will I be able to do them justice. Others are in the care of English Heritage or The National Trust and one way or another I will try to show them here. I offer the pictures in this website as a taste of the rich legacy of the history of our county.
http://www.northofthetyne.co.uk/castles.html
There are considered to be over 70 castle sites in Northumberland and while we have many of the finest in England others are ruins and some no longer exist. A few are in private hands and not open to the public so it may be that only with the owners permission will I be able to do them justice. Others are in the care of English Heritage or The National Trust and one way or another I will try to show them here. I offer the pictures in this website as a taste of the rich legacy of the history of our county.
http://www.northofthetyne.co.uk/castles.html
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Castles? There's millions here.
There are considered to be over 70 castle sites in Northumberland and while we have many of the finest in England others are ruins and some no longer exist. A few are in private hands and not open to the public so it may be that only with the owners permission will I be able to do them justice. Others are in the care of English Heritage or The National Trust and one way or another I will try to show them here. I offer the pictures in this website as a taste of the rich legacy of the history of our county.
http://www.northofthetyne.co.uk/castles.html
But the picture above is Durham Cathedral and Castle, in erm, County Durham, not Northumberland.
I'm a County Durham lad so know Durham Cathedral well.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
And this just underscores it - the lunar calendar discovered in Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23286928
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
You'd be welcome to come back and we'd give you a guided tour of the Northern cities we live in.
And get you hammered.
I think you're right - Britain has a reputation globally due to history, and inevitably this is informed through various means, not all true, so the reality is perhaps a bit surprising compared to what image is projected abroad. But as you said, the same mundanity and decay exists everywhere.
But if you want to see real castles instead of the ones presented in fairy tales, you have to go to Northumberland. Everyone lives in a castle there.
This is where Firky lives, for example:
While further south in Manchester, this is the typical country cottage that people usually own. This is my humble country cottage. A bit poky, but it'll have to do.
why, thank you farmerbarleymow
I would love to come to the north and get shown around by you lovely people any time, castles and country homes or otherwise.
Britain seems like a place one could tour for years and not get bored with.
Fez909
toilet expert
Thanks for the detailed answer, Miss Caphat. It's ironic that you've lived further North than most people posting here and I'm asking for your views as a foreigner 
I've been on a mundane Monday mooch this evening, and got some nice pics of Leeds city centre. I wanted to take more but the light was dropping and I don't have bike lights at the minute so had to call it a night.
I've been on a mundane Monday mooch this evening, and got some nice pics of Leeds city centre. I wanted to take more but the light was dropping and I don't have bike lights at the minute so had to call it a night.
It's nice inside ... but I have reason to loathe it, since I was taken to see a performance of King Lear there years ago, with Warren Mitchell playing the lead. It was very good, but during the storm scene the characters did all strip naked. That sight still comes to me whenever I pass the place; the memory of a naked Warren Mitchell bouncing about the stage with everything flapping about... *shudder*
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