They use northern (they sound Geordie-ish to my untrained ear) accents in adverts to convince us southerners that the person trying to get their hand into our pocket is honest, caring, no-nonsense and down-to-earth. There was one particularly irritating one where she urged me to not set fire to my house or get a smoke detector or something. It made me want to rip mine off the ceiling
No, it's Queens Park, Craig Y Don, a village which was engulfed by the Victorian expansion of Llandudno, north Wales. It has retained its neighbourly village atmosphere, despite a great many English blow-ins like me. It's a great place to live.
The park is not named after a British Queen, but after a 19th C queen of Roumania, who came here to convalesce after a major illness, and loved the place. Its seems the place loved her, because there are several streets named in her honour.
Hosgtafan I have been watching the world cup games then turn off the sound as four has beens talk about a match I never saw, experts i would export them all. Middlesbrough is not Geordie land and has its own Dialect having risen from a small village on a marsh to the modern period all in just on 200 years importing people from all parts of the UK Mother was North Yorks, Dad was Tyneside and me Durham, three accents in one house and between us and the Tyne five different accents. Experts talk down to us plebs, so having a fresh voice on something is a nice change, they see the picture we see not the one we are too common to tell it too, we even know the difference between a Peony and a Buttercup as long as they are not both yellow. Frank.
I find accents fascinating. With only one or two notable exceptions, I don't mind what accent a presenter or newsreader has so long as they don't mumble. There used to be a difference in accents between north, east and south London when I first moved here, but what with TV and less stable populations, that's gone now. And, unfortunately to my mind, accents throughout the country are becoming homogenised, particularly due to the influence of TV.
It's not Jo I object to, she's lovely, but she knows sod all about gardening and admits as much. Imagine someone on a sports/science/history programme with the same , relative, lack of subject knowledge?
Dan Snow? Although he thinks he knows about history......
I wish I was a glow worm A glow worm's never glum Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
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There was one particularly irritating one where she urged me to not set fire to my house or get a smoke detector or something. It made me want to rip mine off the ceiling
No, it's Queens Park, Craig Y Don, a village which was engulfed by the Victorian expansion of Llandudno, north Wales. It has retained its neighbourly village atmosphere, despite a great many English blow-ins like me. It's a great place to live.
The park is not named after a British Queen, but after a 19th C queen of Roumania, who came here to convalesce after a major illness, and loved the place. Its seems the place loved her, because there are several streets named in her honour.
Middlesbrough is not Geordie land and has its own Dialect having risen from a small village on a marsh to the modern period all in just on 200 years importing people from all parts of the UK
Mother was North Yorks, Dad was Tyneside and me Durham, three accents in one house and between us and the Tyne five different accents.
Experts talk down to us plebs, so having a fresh voice on something is a nice change, they see the picture we see not the one we are too common to tell it too, we even know the difference between a Peony and a Buttercup as long as they are not both yellow.
Frank.
Dan Snow? Although he thinks he knows about history......
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!