What do you see when you picture the Midlands?

[colditz]

To all Mumsnetters who don't live in the Midlands...what do you think it is like there? And how do you picture the people?

so would you be going to Southam? If so we could arrange a meet up in Warwick

that would be GREAT!! I've got to arrange a date with my brother, but can let you know as soon as I do. Hoping it will be about the middle of September.

you are confusing me now ! September or December?

[grin[ Well, September if it is to be near Southam, and December if it is to be near Telford! (Can't keep away from the Midlands obviously)

even...

sobernow, I thought you meant a random weir (like a shallow waterfall), I didn't think bath had one of those...

beety, CV working her weird magic again, like with ff?

The Black Country is Gods country, a mixture of post industrial developments bordered by wonderful green countryside. It contains the engine room of the industrial revolution, but is always let down by the fact that if you drive through it, or go through on the train you go through a corridor of shittiness. Everybody from outside thinks the whole place is like that.

Yes, Wilde's is still there. Haven't been there for years though as I don't work in Leamington any more.

myturn - we could definately do a Warwick meetup. When are you here?

Colditz-you can come & walk around our fields if you like.I promise I won't shout 'get orfff my laaand!' at you

hello fellow Rugbians, I used to live there too, know Southam well tho sadly not any wine bars in Leamington used to party at at 'Sara's Head' in Rubgy followed by a really nasty disco place called ?the Dilke? near Stretton
When I hear 'the Midlands' I think of empty shopping centres, pound shops, the boos station and fields of dejected Friesians.
PS What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

you can wash your hands in a bison......

DP's friend throws that joke at me when he comes up to brum to visit- everytime , side splittingly funny-not!

midlands---- canals, spaghetti junction, the bull ring, shakespeare, people who talk slow...... i could go on all day.

i love being a midlander, we are very warm, friendly peeps.

The horrendous bit of the M6 going through central Brum (which I now avoid with the toll road! Hurrah!)

Full of beautiful articulate people, lovely countryside lots of sheep/cows/horses.

(lives in derby...)

I think it's funny, sorry!
but I didn't like living there much, have to say. Like it a lot more nowadays