To disown DD or move to Hampshire immediately?

[Lovecat]

She came home from first day in Y1 at (Greater London) school yesterday and said "Teacher arksed me"...

My inner pedant is appalled.

DH's reaction is to want us to move "back" to his neck of the woods so she grows up speaking proper, like. Is he over-reacting?

nipper

See ya down The Tom Tackle then we'll hit the Top Rank.

Ace!

Dinlow

love it - tt used to be my local and tr was a lot of fun too.

Short walk from Shirley. It's called something else now after that girl was murdered there - what is it?

There used to be that big white church as well on the High Street with all the steps leading up to it. It was knocked down years ago - strangely I remember the Echo newspaper vendor who kept his dog in a pram had his stall outside it.

Random thoughts!

My (Surrey) brother also says 'is it?' in a completely grammatically inappropriate sense e.g. 'I'm going into town today' 'Is it?' WTF???

I have just been informed by DD that the girl character in Toy Story isn't Molly 'it's Marrrlly'

several name changes was buds in the 80s then rat and parrot now prob something else - still same landlord as tt days tho i think

can't recall church in high street but yh to the odd echo sellers

do you remember subways records too

i lived in shirley when first married and am an ex millbrook pupil

Ah. DH's sis is 41 (nearly 42) and she's a G.

She and her younger brother moved away when their mum died when she was 8 and went to live on the IoW with their nan for a year til her dad got things sorted out (DH was left behind with him, for reasons best known to themselves...)

I live in Shirley now

Subway records rings a bell where was it?

When I first left home I lived in Foundry Lane - but I grew up near Winchester.

Did you ever go to Riverside night club, the floating bridge at Woolston?

i loved it there all the shops sal and so handy for town.we had a lovely off licence just across the road - v useful for all sorts of evening snacks.now i am over a mile from my nearest shop and its only a horrible co op.

i remember walking home from work after many a drunken xmas party - it was one straight road from town to our house

yh lamp went to riverside and barbarellas and fridays etc etc

subways was by the old hants and dorset bus station - where the new shop centre is now

i am near winchester now - had a friend from work who lived in foundry la.i lived in romsey rd.

Bumper

Which end of Surrey does your brother live in??, because I am willing to bet it is not the leafy end.

And if it is, I shall invite the neighbours around for G&T's this evening and when they are all well oiled, I shall organise a lynch party.

Did you go to Johnny's, the vintage clothing store just off London Road? - I thought I was the mutt's nuts but looking back I looked like a mad bag lady.

you think you've got problems? I live in Birmingham!

Never mind babby....

lamp no don't rem johnnys you are prob younger than me - in my day the clothes shop to go to was bondage in general.

And Snob?

hahah...

back in the early days of the Iraq conflict, a town under attack was described as being like Southampton, quoth one squaddy -

'It's a not that much like Southampton - we're being shot at! It's more like Portsmouth.'

yh snob loved that

i used to buy stuff to wear from 2nd hand shops in st marys - i was seriously weird/trendy in my youth - the ones that back onto the railway line eeeeek

haircuts at zefedees?power in the park?(miss that)
went to a festival once in that park by debenhams
also kids from school used to bunk off and hang around gaumont (mayflower) to see groups who came to town do soundchecks - i also did this at pompey guildhall

My brother and his mates used to call St Annes (big Catholic girls school in Southampton)'The Virgin Megastore'

ironically of course no doubt

ooooooops joking of course (to any old st annes girls on here)

I remember as a small child seeing the old West Indian tramp in his bus shelter near the cenotaph. I went back when I was 29 and he was still there!!

yh we had our fair share of tramps