What Makes Your Area Unique?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Our neighbourhood has a "Buddhist Village", complete with health food store, alternative health centre, Buddhist temple, and a couple of vegetarian restaurants. Oh, and an ethical gifts shop.

Our street has a man who always sweeps outside with no shirt on, while singing loudly. Think Pavarotti, but only in appearance, not singing skills.

What's weird about your neighbourhood.

Hmm, I've been considering ribbon.

My albatross yarn is 4-ply. From now on, I'm knitting in bulky. Or something like that.

You've seen the pictures of my favourite knitting store, though, right? Chaotic is good.

we have concrete cows, and lovely they are to .....................................

we have concrete cows, and lovely they are to .....................................

We've got a new waste incinerator opening soon, and two large motorways within 10 miles.

Mmmm, sniff those dioxins.

Sadly absolutely nothing.

sanchpanch - we must be neighbours

prunes very tasty - lasted about three days (and was rationing self to prevent what DH calls 'excessive throughput')

Deepest Oxfordshire - head west out of London via Wembley and it's on the left after about sixty miles.
Probably not worth coming all that way for a wool shop though.

Oh, I actually know Oxfordshire ok, and now I remember the town you're in. We used to live in that town, briefly. In the northern bit.

We do visit Oxfordshire pretty often, PILs are there. But normally further north than you.

Eh the amount of Junkies!

we have spaghetti junction and the bull ring.

and talk like idiots!

We have these wonderful fountains and wood carvings on the 'avenues' where I live.

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Umm. People use strange words.We have the highest rates of violence against staff in our hospitals Lovely stuff!

Oh, I like Birmingham. It was the first part of the UK that I got to know as an adult, and I still wanted to move here.

I like the canals, particularly. You can walk for miles, and there are all these beautiful abandonned industrial sites ...

ascot racecourse. does that count?

I live within the site of a battlefield.
Pretty different.

oh yes NQC- we have LOADS of derelict industrial estates.

yes, bubblerock, the same county. The cheese roll is a very wierd thing to do isn't it.

lol @ pissheads running down a hill

lots of strip clubs.

And at night our town centre is full of people pissed up because they are about to get married or they ahve just got divorced.

But we have a huge glitterball that makes up for everything else.

oh i forgot about the crack dealers and prostitutes. there are a lot fewer since they upped the numbers of community police officers...

There's a lingering smell of chocolate through all the winter months. The little alley on the side of my house is a roman road.

The biggest (and very real) fear of any major builder is to find ruins of a viking/roman/medieval settlement while digging the foundations for their buildings.

We have a park cafe that was burnt down and the council don't want to replace, a dribbly urban brook called the Shuttle, a funeral parlour whose slogan is "From your heart not your pocket" (WTF?), a lot of broken glass and a really great branch library.

Oh, we have a changing rooms/loo building that burnt down, and the council decided to just tear it down instead of rebuilding. And the cafe in the park closed. I'm trying to get another local cafe owner to take it over ...