well filled baps The Sheep Chronicles. The adventures of a Sheep, the Works Forecat and the Works Apprentice, George.

[gwrrob]

4 hr 45 for me, or if I use bus & train - 7 hours or 11 hours.

How long if you walk instead....

[C.A.T.Ford]

Is it because my hand is big or my T9's are far away?
Them bits is tiny!

 

Tiny they maybe but the result when the originals went was huge! I've had to do three T9s so far out of five and I expect to do the rest. I hope you ordered the rear mounting plate as well as in all of mine the rear plate crumbled to dust in my hands. As Hornby are now into me for serious money in T9 repairs I make a point of giving them their broken bits back in a plastic bag when I see them at shows along with a reminder how much Peter's replacements cost.

 

CAT

[Captain Kernow]

I look forward to you dropping in Spams, Old Can. I am really looking forward to it.

I regret that we may be rather overestimating the leniency of the Naughty Step Parole Board there, old chap.

[Stubby47]

Not to mention the "I've got broken ribs,dear, so can hardly move to help around the house & garden, but I am off to a model railway show to stand all day and wander round" situation...

[Mallard60022]

Rugely does not contain enough Whippets so it is not 'oop North' dear heart. The Power Station does not count (if there is still one there?)

You should not need a flat cap but a bobble hat may be compulsory. 

Oh yes, don't go via Hereford as it will take you as long to negotiate that nice City as it will do for the rest of the journey.

Ar$£

[Stubby47]

The Lizard is down south, Lands End down west.

Everywhere else is oop north.

 

Apart from Oz.

[The Johnster]

Which locates you fairly precisely; Penzance area.  Not far from you this weekend, a jolly concerned with one of my non-railway lives taking a group of us to Treyarnon on the north coast.  From my perspective, 'oop north' starts at Crewe, but gogland (North Wales) starts at Machynlleth.  Wales would be bigger than England if it was ironed out flat...

[Tim Dubya]

The Lizard is down south, Lands End down west.

Everywhere else is oop north.

 

Apart from Oz.

Lizard or 'The' Lizard ?

 

I drove into the 'square' (it's more of a triangle but hey) in St Just the wrong way once and infuriated the village for nearly a year... I bet some of them still want me dead.

 

#PastyTalk

Edited February 3, 2018 by Tim Dubya

[gwrrob]

Not to mention the "I've got broken ribs,dear, so can hardly move to help around the house & garden, but I am off to a model railway show to stand all day and wander round" situation...

 

Unfortunately he has failed the fitness test for appearing at the Stafford show this coming weekend.

[Captain Kernow]

Rugely does not contain enough Whippets so it is not 'oop North' dear heart.

Let's make this simple.

 

Is it north of Tiverton?

[Stubby47]

Penzance is close, but I'm slightly further east, nearer Truro.

 

Enjoy your trip, but bring wellies and a warm coat, the forecast is not good.

[NHY 581]

I have ordered a flat cap so as to fit in......oop north......thar nose.

Edited February 2, 2018 by nhy581

[Porcy Mane]

No wonder there's so many fatherless children in the Northern provinces. They are for inserting down south! Not to be worn on the nose. 

 

Tutt tutt old chap.  (Literally)

 

N. O Babbis

[New Haven Neil]

There seems to be some awful geographical assumptions being made here, about what is North and South.  South, when heading downhill, surely starts at Middlesbrough.  Since moving to Fraggle Rock, South for us now begins at Laxey.  We sometimes go all the way (32 miles) to Port Erin - but its a big day out.

[St Enodoc]

There seems to be some awful geographical assumptions being made here, about what is North and South.  South, when heading downhill, surely starts at Middlesbrough.  Since moving to Fraggle Rock, South for us now begins at Laxey.  We sometimes go all the way (32 miles) to Port Erin - but its a big day out.

Having grown up in London and become familiar with signs such as "Hatfield and the North" (also the name of a rather good pub band incidentally), when we moved to Scotland it took a long time to get used to signs pointing to "Penrith and the South".

[Tim Dubya]

anything north of the M4 is north and anything south of the M4 suits my OCD...

[colin penfold]

As a South Londoner by birth I can confirm that the North refers to everything North of the Thames. This is why black cab drivers will not cross the border.

[mullie]

Everything is north from where I live in including England!

Edited February 3, 2018 by mullie

[Captain Kernow]

The 'North'is defined by its full name, ie.'The Grim Industrial North' (including Weston-super-Mare).

[2ManySpams]

Many moons ago when I was at university, I ended up flat sharing with a diverse bunch if folk from all over the UK.

 

The north/south argument cropped up many times, generally whilst studying hard in a pub.

 

The conclusion we eventually came to was based on chip shops. More specifically whether or not you could get curry sauce, gravy or both.

 

Curry sauce denoted you were in the south, gravy in the north and both in the Midlands.

 

25yrs on it doesn't work as well as more and more chippies now so curry sauce and few do gravy.

[Porcy Mane]

The Grim Industrial North. Taken as read.

 

https://flic.kr/p/Hp9gyi

 

Surely the important fact is East is East and West is West. Bob Hope said it, Roy Rodgers along with Jane Russell and those bl**dy Thompson Twins did the same. Rudyard Kipling (Does he still make Bakewell Tarts?) even wrote a poem about it.

 

Talk about stating the obvious!

 

P 

Just waiting for someone to come along and say, "It's dependant on what part of the great circle you're standing on".

 

Was Beckton Gas works N, S, E or W?

[bgman]

 

"NO ! We don't want any of your Southern ways up here, so take your Cafe culture back to where it belongs !. We'll stick to chip butties ta "

 

 

L.Owry

[Stubby47]

Walked into a chippy in St Austell and asked for a chip bap - just got blank looks in return...

 

But at least there is one chippy in Truro that also serves gravy.

[Tim Dubya]

Walked into a chippy in St Austell...

 

Poor fellow!

 

Why were you in Snozzel, it's the Cornish Radstock

[Stubby47]

I worked for ECC when we first moved down here, 30 years ago. I was working late; SWMBO was also working a late shift at the hospital, so I thought I'd buy myself some food.

Never tried again.