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Those or you who live in/are from the North East

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mosschops30 · 17/08/2006 12:26

Do you feel some sort of bond with where you are from? Could you ever move? and if you have do you miss home?

Just wondering because I was bought up in Newcastle, left 14 years ago but am now increasingly feeling the pull to go home, dh cant understand it. I tend to go back more regularly now to torture myself with home.

I miss it so much and want to move back but dh doesnt. Just wanted to know if anyone else felt or feels like this

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tortoiseshell · 18/08/2006 12:39

sorky - ikwym - I'm feeling all emotional about the north east now - we've got two pics of Durham on the wall and I'm looking at them all nostalgically! The north east IS special isn't it!

Did/does anyone else listen to Alan Robson's Night Owls? That was my staple listening as a teenager, used to always listen through to 2 am.

mamwhereismy · 18/08/2006 12:43

i've lived in teeside area all my life and i love it i only have to be away a day or two and i miss it like crazy i think its a really friendly place to live but maybe i'm biased

Northerner · 18/08/2006 12:44

The North East is special yes, it produces really nice people. People always think I'm a Geordie, only from Middlesbrough though so not quite a Geordie. Like my accent though, even ds has atarted saying 'Are you shoe -er?' instead of sure, much to dh's annoyance!

Northerner · 18/08/2006 12:45

My Mam is a mam also, would never call her mum.

mamwhereismy · 18/08/2006 12:46

i'm originally from boro now live in stockton my accent is sooo broad but i like it !

mamwhereismy · 18/08/2006 12:47

have you tried buying a mam birthday card? its a nightmare

Ulysees · 18/08/2006 12:49

yes mam is mam.

I like my accent too. Teessiders have a differnt accent to georgies though I think?

Ulysees · 18/08/2006 12:49

mamwhereismy, maybe there's a market there? Should we start a business?

mamwhereismy · 18/08/2006 12:52

i think teesiders have a very different accent to geordies but seems we always get grouped together maybe we do sound similar i just dont hear it meself!

mamwhereismy · 18/08/2006 12:53

maybe there is a market there i used to do sad things like change the mum to mam with gold pen!!! sad but true

themoon66 · 18/08/2006 12:54

PATSYJ - I live in Lincoln too. Moved here with DH's work. Both kids were born here. I used to go home (Yorkshire) every two weeks, but now only manage about every 2 months. I love Lincoln now i've got used to it and have made loads of lovely friends here.

suzywong · 18/08/2006 12:57

I like your accents too, I 'm trying to imagine how lovely you all sound on this post (in the cab of my lorry parked by the M25). I 'm not a weirdo, honest

Ulysees · 18/08/2006 12:59

I visited Lincoln last year for the first time and it is lovely

Right, did a search on google and no mam cards. I can make my own cards so maybe I should start making these?

Ulysees · 18/08/2006 12:59

Oooo suzy, are you all hairy too

mamwhereismy · 18/08/2006 13:03

good idea i am too unmotivated to do my own cards but would gladly buy your mam cards it would be nice to put my gold pen to rest... i just joined this site and its nice to talk to other northern mams however ds1&2 have noticed i'm having fun and have increased their need for me to be velcroed to them!nice:0

aelita · 18/08/2006 13:49

For those who have Sky you can watch the local news from wherever you are & wallow in your regionality! Mind you, the first and last time I did that my home town came on (Saltburn) I started crying, much to DH's amazement. Very sad I know,

CarolinaMao · 18/08/2006 13:59

dp and I grew up there - he was born there whereas my family moved there when I was 6yo. He would love to move back there, but his work is really tied to London.

I'm not that keen to be honest - I feel like I fit in better down here.

lol @ Alan Robson, Tortoiseshell - ya flashin' blade - remember him sending taxis out to rescue distressed Nightowls? and all those people who'd ring in especially to tell him they'd just got back from the pub with a poke of chips...

mygirllolipop · 18/08/2006 13:59

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PatsyJ · 18/08/2006 14:07

Sorky your post made me cry (in a nice way though!). God I miss it so much. themoon66 - sorry to say this (and didn't originally say it as didn't want to offend) but I don't like Lincoln - prob because my 'mam' isn't round the corner (although I am afraid I call her mum now to others but still 'mam' to her face - found it caused loads of embarrassment etc which is awful and I should not have given in to it etc!!). I think Lincoln is a trying too hard to be a 'town' just my opinion - has improved massively with the Uni though. Lovely place to visit don't get me wrong but not to live! Sorry any Lincolners reading this!

I couldn't watch the news as I'd cry every time.

Re the card thing. My stepdad and mum search high and low every year for a Mam card for his mother - they always manage to get one somewhere but it's hard work!!!! I kid you not.

Every time I drive up the A19 and see Penshaw Monument I get goosebumps and know I am 'home'. We too have photos of the NE all over our house here - the bridge, Tynemouth, and our house in Ncle (its on a marina - not bragging - but it makes nice photos with all the boats etc (i.e not just a semi on our wall) that's why we have them in the house if you see what I mean!!).

I still have an accent but not huge - people round here call me a 'posh' geordie which I find a bit of an insult - as if geordies can't be posh! My DH has no accent at all but he's been away years and no-one would understand him in his job if he was broad.

God I could go on for hours so will end it there and pay some attention to my poor DD who is glued to Cbeebies (oops - she is a bit of an addict!). I digress.....

riab · 18/08/2006 14:16

Miss it loads, not my actual home village but just the northeast as a whole. HOwever Dh wouldn't move there.

riab · 18/08/2006 14:20

okay now i read the whole thread, I cry sometimes still when I come into Durham on the train. The other one that gets me is if we're up with my parents for a few days and we go out over towards weardale.

Oh and there's a back road off the A177 in between Coxhoe and Sedgefield that makes me well up if i drive along it too.

TheLadyVanishes · 18/08/2006 14:47

alan robson nighowls, now that is a blast from the past, I remember me and my best friend having sleepovers and listening to this and pissing ourselves laughing aye fond memories (see my geordie accent coming out now)

and sorkycake i know what you mean when coming into newcastle on the train, I also used to think of that song 'Coming home Newcastle??' aaaahhhhhhh

MagicGenie · 18/08/2006 15:07

Ulysees, I think it's shocking what they're doing to Darlo town centre.

Can understand them wanting to pedestrianise it but don't get why the steps on High Row have to go. They are such an integral part to the look and feel of the town.

MagicGenie · 18/08/2006 15:18

PS, can I bagsie the 'Nanna' card copyright?!

You can always get 'Nan' or 'Nannie' but rarely 'Nanna'!!!

onlinemum · 18/08/2006 15:22

I was born in Durham, grew up in Yorkshire, went back to Durham for uni, and finally moved down to south yorkshire for work 8 years ago. Went back for a (cousin's) funeral last weekend, and it really brought home to me how much I miss it - it's home, it will always be home.

I want to go home.

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