Blackpool Carpark Overnighting?

barryd said:
"Right" fisted Yorkshire man? :LOL:

I'm not a Yorkshire man of course. Born in Darlington. You are only accepted as a Yorkshire man (And this especially applies in Yorkshire) if you can trace your pure Yorkshire bloodline back to the doomsday book. Anyone who can't is a funny foreigner.
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Darlington that’s even worse, I mean I like Yorkshire folk, but Darlington :ROFLMAO:
 
barryd said:
Yorkshire folk are horrible. They hate you (unless you are from Yorkshire and even then they probably don't like you very much), don't be fooled! Darlo is much friendlier.
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Actually, I am going to have to defend Yorkshire here .... My Sister was born in Leeds.
Come to think of it, I am going to have to defend Blackpool now ... My Brother was born in Blackpool.

Going to have to defend the whole of the UK I think.... For the first 9 years of their marriage, my parents lived in Germany, Kenya, Hampshire, Newcastle, Blackpool, Leeds, Coventry, Leeds (again) and Berkshire*. (I am convinced they were on a Witness Protection program and kept getting outed!).


*and that list is just the ones I know about! As the youngest, most were before I was born. I remember my eldest brother saying he was really fed up with moving as by the time he made friends at school, he was off again!
 
wildebus said:
Actually, I am going to have to defend Yorkshire here .... My Sister was born in Leeds.
Come to think of it, I am going to have to defend Blackpool now ... My Brother was born in Blackpool.

Going to have to defend the whole of the UK I think.... For the first 9 years of their marriage, my parents lived in Germany, Kenya, Hampshire, Newcastle, Blackpool, Leeds, Coventry, Leeds (again) and Berkshire*. (I am convinced they were on a Witness Protection program and kept getting outed!).


*and that list is just the ones I know about! As the youngest, most were before I was born. I remember my eldest brother saying he was really fed up with moving as by the time he made friends at school, he was off again!
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wildebus said:
........... For the first 9 years of their marriage, my parents lived in .... Kenya, ......
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Jambo Bwana. Years ago I lived in Basingstoke. I got redundanted and was offered a job in Leicester. I didn't want to go so far north but it was the only job I was offered. As I travelled north, I passed the Watford Gap sign. My spine tingled a bit . . . .ooh err
 
gasgas said:
Jambo Bwana. Years ago I lived in Basingstoke. I got redundanted and was offered a job in Leicester. I didn't want to go so far north but it was the only job I was offered. As I travelled north, I passed the Watford Gap sign. My spine tingled a bit . . . .ooh err
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The Watford Gap (nowhere near Watford (Eltons Watford that is, no southerner knows of any other Watford)) is where "The North" starts for Londoners and anyone from Berkshire and Hampshire :)
 
wildebus said:
The Watford Gap (nowhere near Watford (Eltons Watford that is, no southerner knows of any other Watford)) is where "The North" starts for Londoners and anyone from Berkshire and Hampshire :)
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I was offered a job in Watford in the 70s.

I turned it down because the house prices were so much higher than where I was living (Up North).
£8,000 for a 3 bed semi! There was no way those prices were doing anything other than collapse.

I know a bad investment when I see one.
 
r4dent said:
I was offered a job in Watford in the 70s.

I turned it down because the house prices were so much higher than where I was living (Up North).
£8,000 for a 3 bed semi! There was no way those prices were doing anything other than collapse.

I know a bad investment when I see one.
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Bad investment: how about this for a bad financial decision.
I lived in Basingstoke and went for a job in Manchester, as the Project Manager of Midland Bank rolling out the installation nationwide of the first cash dispensers. It was a contract job and I had difficulty coming to terms with the pay that was on offer. Walking back to the station from the interview to get a train home I did some mental calculations. I stopped at an estate agent's window and wondered aghast at the price of a three bed semi with front and back gardens and garage. I calculated that I could afford to buy one for cash with three month's surplus pay (in excess of my living expenses) from this contract.
Then came a series of unfortunate events which meant I didn't do the job. They wanted me, I wanted them but the agent didn't tell me. That is probably the worst financial opportunity I have ever missed. I should have chased it vigorously rather than accept that the person dealing with it in the recruitment agency was off sick and the opportunity slipped past me. Lousy agency, someone else should have picked up the job. I could have made a very good job of that, I knew all the technicalities inside out.
 
I just remembered. In 1972 we paid £4,800 for a two bed semi in Thornton Heath.
In about 1979 an article in the paper said that a Ferrari which had cost £4800 in 1972 had just sold for £10,000.
Never did investing in a house seem such a bad idea. My house was probably worth £6k by then.
Mind you in 2024 there are some people paying over £100,000 for a panel van converted to a campervan. . . .
 
gasgas said:
I just remembered. In 1972 we paid £4,800 for a two bed semi in Thornton Heath.
In about 1979 an article in the paper said that a Ferrari which had cost £4800 in 1972 had just sold for £10,000.
Never did investing in a house seem such a bad idea. My house was probably worth £6k by then.
Mind you in 2024 there are some people paying over £100,000 for a panel van converted to a campervan. . . .
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Ye will no get as good a kip in a Ferrari tho !
 
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