When you're looking at some lame excuse for a pasty in some rank bakery in the middle of Bedfordshire your thoughts automatically go to what you know you could have if you got in your car and drove 175 miles up the road to Lancashire.

I pitched up at Livejournal about half an hour ago to try and snatch some time to write.  But I was not in the right ( Read more... )

There are moves afoot to try and do something even more impossible than herd cats, although herding cats is possibly a very good analogy for what a small bunch of people are going to try and do.

They are going to try and organise a school reunion and not just any school reunion... oh no!  The Albany High School Class of 1986.  So that would be my ( Read more... )

We wake up this morning to the news that the England Cricket Team have retained the Ashes, or is it regained the Ashes? Who knows and who cares?  I suspect, judging by last night's Facebook feed, than many of my friends do know and do care; those at least who have a clue about Cricket... Which is not me.  But I'm very happy to applaud England ( Read more... )

Now, I'm not going to be completely insensitive to those who haven't seen it yet and witter on about the absolutely gob-smackingly AMAZING piece of television that was last night's finale of Ashes to Ashes, but I just wanted to point out one small, tiny thing.

I'm sure half of Ampthill must have heard me squeeing at the television when we got the ( Read more... )

I'm just over at the BBC News website, reading some articles. I'm reading one now about the increasing number of people ditching their landlines and just using their mobiles. One comment made me chuckle - and not for what they'd actually commented on as far as the discussion went, but where they said they were...

"There are many places in England ( Read more... )

I don't know what just made me type in Runshaw College (the College where I did my A Levels), into YouTube just now, but oh my goodness, look what happened there on Thursday...

Our particular College bus was a bit of a joke - always breaking down, a frequent smell of burning or turning up with the destination of 'Wymott Prison' on the front of it ( Read more... )

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I've just sat down after clearing up more presents from Killer Kaiser and Sicky Mats. I was flicking through last month's 'Country Walking' magazine and happened on this quote from Radio 2 DJ Mark Radcliffe about his childhood in Bolton ( Read more... )

No, they have not released Colin Firth reading Pride and Prejudice, but they have released the next best thing.  'Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North' as an audiobook, read by its author Stuart Maconie.

Squeee!!!

And it's on iTunes too  ::faints::

I make no apologies for being a fully paid up member of the Stuart Maconie fan club.  Nor will I ( Read more... )

First of all Happy Thanksgiving to the American contingent.  I hope you have a lovely relaxing weekend.

It has been a while since I updated you on things going on Up North, so I will update you with a couple of things.

You may remember that several weeks ago my sister Claire had several very frightening bouts of anaphylaxis over the course of a week ( Read more... )