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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Dan Snow😍 wouldn’t kick him out of bed.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Ruby12Ruby12 Posts: 2,193
    The Yorkshire accents are many and varied . I live near Leeds .My OH lived six miles away before we married.When I visited his family and met some of the older neighbours,I had to listen very carefully ,their accents were so strong .My fathers family came from a village 
    In North York’s and I had to listen very carefully to understand them . The central Leeds accent is completely different to a lot of areas surrounding Leeds. But there is a recognisable element to all the Yorkshire variations.
     Occasional flights into reality. B) 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited July 2018
    Lyn said:
    Dan Snow😍 wouldn’t kick him out of bed.
    Nor I, nor indeed the daughter of the Duke of Westminster ( or is her brother the new Duke? ) to whom he is married. 
    Everyone thinks they can do a wonderful Scottish accent, but to us Scots, they're as convincing as Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent , and just as grating.
    Update,
    https://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/new-duke-westminster-fine-says-12733725 
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    LauraRoslin said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    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......

    Does he know more than Jon Snow?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    MrsGlaze said:
    Ok I'm having a moan, why is it that the youths in our local schools sound as though they are from the hood Bruv!!!
    they watch too much american trash on telly? or Eastenders?
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2018
    MrsGlaze said:
    Ok I'm having a moan, why is it that the youths in our local schools sound as though they are from the hood Bruv!!!
    For the same reason that we (young teenagers in rural Suffolk) all spoke with Liverpudlian accents in the early 60s oops

    We thought we were so cool. lol

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2018
    Yes, we all wanted to be the Beatles or Cilla Black  B)

    And then in the 80s my son and all his friends suddenly acquired Australian accents ... they wanted to be Kylie and Jason on Neighbours  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I am scunnerred, scunnerred, scunnerred with watering the garden!! This is Scotland after all. I'm sure I just had to water all my pots ONCE last summer. Now I am out, not only watering my pots every night but have to water the borders a couple of times a week. It's taking me forever!!
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
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