Today I'm happy about......

[Bruce Rioja]

It was full of chavs and single teenage mums hanging outside Asda

Haha. Well deduced. Brilliant. That's how to define an entire town.

I refer the forum to my description of you given earlier in the week.

[bwfcdan94]

Well I could relist everything I said about Hartlepool if you like just slightly tweaked to show my experiences of Darlo.

[Bruce Rioja]

Well I could relist everything I said about Hartlepool if you like just slightly tweaked to show my experiences of Darlo.

No, you couldn't. Well, you could but you'd be talking complete and utter bollocks as usual. Still, your choice.

[thebish]

i used to live in what might more adequately called slums in Hume, Manchester in the early 70s, i also used to live in a squat in what might be described as a slum in vauxhall, London. in comparison - Hartlepool is a fine place to live.

of course - the experience of living anywhere is massively dependent on your own circumstances. To live in Hartlepool without a job is very different to living in hartlepool with a job- i had a job - but, then, that is the case anywhere. Hume flats in the 60s

Harumph - That would be Hulme!

none of us could spell on the estate! apologies!

my dad used to be minister at the Zion Institute congregational church (now the Zion Arts Centre) Stretford Rd, Hulme... I was very old but i can remember it was fecking grim... the church was MASSIVE, though - the story goes that they could have the Halle orchestra and the choral society both hiring the building at the same time and neither really be aware of the other's presence...

http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester ... /zion.html

[thebish]

The Piggeries were initially the high-rises in Woolton/Allerton Liverpool Bish. They were very unpopular and were eventually demolished. Later, the name was used for the High Rises in Everton. Truly awful places. Interestingly these were refurbished, students put in them and they miraculously became highly popular. Makes you wonder about Building v People doesn't it ?

Middlesbrough and Billingham is a toilet, but around it can be quite superb. I defy anyone to visit Yarm and not be impressed, Darlington is very pleasant and is barely 15 minutes from Richmond, North Yorks the Gateway to the Dales.

ahhh - that makes sense - maybe the locals took on the name because they were as bad...

[jimbo]

One of the best days of my life today. It's not often you get to experience what professional sportsmen do - you don't play at Wembley infront of a packed house, you don't open the batting at Lords, you don't run the 100m at the Olympic Stadium etc.

Today I got to ride 100 miles around London and Surrey - a route pretty similar to the Olympic road race route from last year. It was all on closed roads, and every place we rode through the whole town had come out in force to cheer us on, with some having live music blaring as rolled past. The last kilometers were stunning - following the river from Putney, past the Houses of Parliament, then up Whitehall and then Swinging left under Admiralty Arch for a sprint up the Mall with the palace in full view ahead. Never before been cheered on by so many, and had a tear in my eye as I crossed the finish line. Unbelievable experience.

[Annoyed Grunt]

One of the best days of my life today. It's not often you get to experience what professional sportsmen do - you don't play at Wembley infront of a packed house, you don't open the batting at Lords, you don't run the 100m at the Olympic Stadium etc.

Today I got to ride 100 miles around London and Surrey - a route pretty similar to the Olympic road race route from last year. It was all on closed roads, and every place we rode through the whole town had come out in force to cheer us on, with some having live music blaring as rolled past. The last kilometers were stunning - following the river from Putney, past the Houses of Parliament, then up Whitehall and then Swinging left under Admiralty Arch for a sprint up the Mall with the palace in full view ahead. Never before been cheered on by so many, and had a tear in my eye as I crossed the finish line. Unbelievable experience.

Well done on completing it.

[bwfcdan94]

One of the best days of my life today. It's not often you get to experience what professional sportsmen do - you don't play at Wembley infront of a packed house, you don't open the batting at Lords, you don't run the 100m at the Olympic Stadium etc.

Today I got to ride 100 miles around London and Surrey - a route pretty similar to the Olympic road race route from last year. It was all on closed roads, and every place we rode through the whole town had come out in force to cheer us on, with some having live music blaring as rolled past. The last kilometers were stunning - following the river from Putney, past the Houses of Parliament, then up Whitehall and then Swinging left under Admiralty Arch for a sprint up the Mall with the palace in full view ahead. Never before been cheered on by so many, and had a tear in my eye as I crossed the finish line. Unbelievable experience.

Well done Jimbo.

[Lord Kangana]

i used to live in what might more adequately called slums in Hume, Manchester in the early 70s, i also used to live in a squat in what might be described as a slum in vauxhall, London. in comparison - Hartlepool is a fine place to live.

of course - the experience of living anywhere is massively dependent on your own circumstances. To live in Hartlepool without a job is very different to living in hartlepool with a job- i had a job - but, then, that is the case anywhere. Hume flats in the 60s

Harumph - That would be Hulme!

none of us could spell on the estate! apologies!

my dad used to be minister at the Zion Institute congregational church (now the Zion Arts Centre) Stretford Rd, Hulme... I was very old but i can remember it was fecking grim... the church was MASSIVE, though - the story goes that they could have the Halle orchestra and the choral society both hiring the building at the same time and neither really be aware of the other's presence...

http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester ... /zion.html

Are you like Benjamin Button?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

emotionally I prefer places with hills - probably growing up in the shadow of Winter Hill - so I feel most "at home" in places with proper hills - Devon has them - so did the North East - so did Bolton... Essex didn't, neither did the midlands to the same extent... nor did central London!

There are parts of the Midlands which are very hilly.
This is practically the view I get from my bedroom window. Them's hills.

[mrkint]

Matlock Bath?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Matlock Bath?

Aye, I'm the other side of that hill.

[mrkint]

ah reet. Seems to be where that big hotel which appears to be stuck in the hill is? Gorgeous place. Have you been on the cable car yet?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

ah reet. Seems to be where that big hotel which appears to be stuck in the hill is? Gorgeous place. Have you been on the cable car yet?

Big Hotel stuck in the hill? Do you mean Riber Castle - the Victorian folly that looks like a medieval castle above Matlock, that was for a time a zoo? Or the Pav - that pink building in the photo which has been rescued from oblivion and nightclubdom and is currently hosting the Wildlife Photography of the Year exhibition.
And no, I haven't, nor ever will be going on the cable car. I walk up hills, I don't dangle from them *shudder*.

[mrkint]

aye it'll be that - my friend said it was a hotel though for some reason. Not the pav, walked past their t'other week and saw the exhibit you mention was on.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

aye it'll be that - my friend said it was a hotel though for some reason. Not the pav, walked past their t'other week and saw the exhibit you mention was on.

Ah. Was this at the wedding in Chesterfield?
You probably walked by me at a mere distance of feet, I'm quite often drinking in the Fishpond directly over the road from the Pav. In fact, if you were in there, I might have been the nutter shouting at you...

[bobo the clown]

Call that a hill Spotty ? I call hills like that bumps.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Call that a hill Spotty ? I call hills like that bumps.

I had no idea that Welsh for massivefeckingmountain was bumps! Arafwch nawr, bumps!

[bobo the clown]

Mynnydd Ffecking Fawr yr Bumpii I'd guess.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Mynnydd Ffecking Fawr yr Bumpii I'd guess.