to think there's nowt wrong with Lancashire?

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Yorkshireman flees jail because it is in Lancashire

I suppose that is an assertive decision...

Holly, Darwin? It isn't in Australia you know. It's DarwEn!

I've heard that Bowland is the Queen's favourite part of the country.

Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire cheese is the best
Or Blacksticks blue... or then again Ribblesdale Goat is good. My favourite at the moment is Parlick Fell sheep's milk cheese.

You know what - I was thinking that as I typed.

I've written it load of times on cards. Then I was thinking of my cousin who says "Da "ren" in his broadest accent

You had it right earlier in the post.

Its just so wet and cold.

I'm only an imposter Darrener myself, I emigrated from Blackburn 8 years ago!

I love the Trough and would love the money to be able to afford to live nearer. Darwen is beautiful in its own right though, the walk up to the tower through Sunnyhurst Woods is spectacular on a bright Autumn day.

errol

Cut and paste
My great great Grandad helped build Darwen Tower. (out self slightly to cousins)

Its just so wet and cold.
Lancashire has the wet, but its Yorkshire that has the cold - winds straight from Siberia it feels like. You know they call them 'lazy winds' - because they CBA to go round you, go straight through instead.

I sometimes got first frost in September when I lived in Yorkshire - here its more likely to be November and this year we've hardly had any at all.

Well as a Scot can I just say you all talk funny.

I've only scraped the car twice this year and I leave for work at 7 am.

I do like Yorkshire, often go to Haworth for the day and I spend a not entirely healthy number of days a year at Skipton Castle.

In the end it all boils down to: we won the Wars of the Roses. The last York king ended up under a carpark. It is clear which side of the Pennines is superior.

Garstang Blue is pretty good too!

The Trough of Bowland is fabulous to cycle round... we had a drive up around Bleasdale t'other day and were remarking on the rides in the blistering heat of last summer; it doesn't always rain here!

This Christmas Day, we spent the morning up Nicky Nook with friends, dogs, coffee and Christmas cake... it was glorious ! The friends are originally from Yorkshire, but now live, and love it here! .

Well admittedly I do but that's because I was brought up in Essex. Which is particularly odd when I come out with bits of Yorkshire or Lancashire dialect.

Lovely cheese

there's nowt wrong with Lancashire. I love it. born n raised there n here I'll stay

Nowt wrong with it?! How about these:

It's on the wrong side of the Pennines.
It has the WRONG colour rose.
The roads out of it that lead back to the 'right side' are the only good things.

Yorkshire through and through born and bred

Errol, you are making me homesick for Yorkshire. No one down here in Herts. knows what a lazy wind is. Even when it's blowing right through them, bless their (Lancashire) cotton socks.

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six days.

Eventually, Michael the archangel found him on the seventh day resting. He enquired of god,"Where have you been?" God pointed downwards through the clouds. "Look Michael, look what I've made. Its a planet and I've put LIFE on it. I'm going to call it Earth and its going to be a great place of balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused. God explained, pointing down to different parts of the Earth, "For example, North America will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while South America is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot and Russia will be a cold spot. This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice." The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to another area of land and asked, "What's that?" "Ah," said God.

"That's Yorkshire, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful people, seven great cities, and many impressive towns, it is the home of the world's finest artists, musicians, writers, thinkers, explorers and politicians. The people from Yorkshire are going to be modest, intelligent
and humorous and they're going to be found travelling the world. They'll be extremely sociable, hard-working and high-achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as speakers of truth." Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed,"What about balance God, you said there will be BALANCE!"

God replied very wisely, "Wait till you see Lancashire."

I spent a year trying to teach Essex children about the Industrial Revolution. Not easy as it didn't really happen in Essex. They had no idea what a canal is. I had to go back home in the holidays and take pictures of one (I am old and this was pre-google images).

NoLikey - that applies each way! I'm glad I'm a crossbreed, the truth is that whatever the two sides say about each other they're the correct degree of northerliness.

'The people from Yorkshire are going to be modest' .....clearly a fictitious account then!

I walk home from school ( work ) down the canal. It would take me about 7 minutes to walk through the village, it takes about 25 ( or 40 when you stop to take photos, stroke dogs, talk to people you've met who live on the boats). It's very special time for me that I'm lucky enough to have every day.

Notice that I don't walk to school that way... That's cause I walk by the river with the dog in the morning , so I have to hurry!

Athelstane, I've seen that analogy about Scotland and England too.

Now I'm trying to work out where shockers lives - there's more than one place with both canal and river.

The only thing wrong with Lancashire is that Yorkshire is so near :P

Errol, do you also live in one of those waterway blessed places?

I look out of my window up to Bleasdale/Calder Vale, but the River Calder is not the one behind my house.

Although, if I get the house of my dreams, ( about 10/15 minutes from here) the Condor will be running through my garden .

And the cheese here is lovely!