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Sadly we are at that age where 'it's not dark yet but it's getting there' Vic Sounds dodgy but once you accept that fact nothing matters. I have a Geordie friend in the South with a famous step son who was given weeks and months to live nearly two years ago. When people ask me how she is, I say she was given a new lease of life proving the doctors wrong! That I feel is a mind set, that is easily understood in Bedlington and the North. The other Geordie trait I admire is the ability to give and not expect something, anything in return. In other places people can be suspicious when you are kind and wonder what your after. In coal mining you gave freely because if you had spare veg or anything else you enjoyed being kind. Why let things go to waste. Your life depended on your Marra.