any northern mummies living down south?

[Becca81]

Hi I'd love to hear, possibly meet up, with any northern mummies who have moved down here. My two sons are 2yrs and 6 months I am feeling particulary home sick, and would love someone to talk to. (I know that sounds desperate, its not that bad, but you know what I mean hopefully.)
Cheers for reading, Becca.x

anyone out there a real purist though? My Yorkshire mum cites master as the exception to the long/short a thing. She insists there is no such thing as a master and that even a Yorkshire girl should say "marster"

At home (Lincoln) we used to have breakfast dinner and tea. Down south we have breakfast lunch and dinner (or is that more of a class thing ?).

podkin, my dh is from Leeds, I am a London girl and we live down south. We have been together for 20 years and we STILL argue about this

He says breakfast dinner and tea
I say breakfast lunch and dinner

Then we get into the dinner ladies, lunch break arguments. It can go on for hours

I'm from Warrington and living in Norfolk which qualifies as southern as far as I'm concerned!

Breakfast dinner and tea, but 'lunch' if I go out!

The local chippy also sells mushy peas and curry sauce so I can't complain really, and since Morrisons took over Safeway I've been able to get my hands on parkin and potato cakes!

I use too many exclamation marks ...

I'm from Stoke-on-Trent - there, I said it!!! and I live in Exeter now. And you CANNOT get chips and gravy for love nor money down here. If you ask for gravy in a chippy they stare at you as though you've got Trevor MacDonald growing out of your ear. Weird lot. And they eat far too many scones.

you are proving my point. I have become a southerner. Used to be breakfast dinner and tea, now it's breakfast lunch and tea (if served before 6) and dinner if after 8. Whenachildisbored (love your name btw) - are they scones or scons?

SCOOOOWWWWWWNES!!!!!!!!!! Anyone caught saying "scon" within ten feet of me gets an ear lopped off. I don't know which is northern/southern, but "scon" is just damned annoying. My kids say breakfast, lunch and dinner..... I am a traitor to my roots! Which stands to reason - having moved as far away from Stoke as possible without actually crossing water, I'm not about to preserve all the finer points of Stokie culture out of loyalty!!