Everything posted by Vic Patterson
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Mr Osgathorp married us September 5th 1962, thank you 4G for reminding me! (wor lass says it was the best day of my life!)
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I got 2 b's
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Welcome to the Bedlington forum Joe.
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I'm right and your wrong! it's never that easy, politicians lie! Union leaders mislead! NEVER.... "The Country at large†were certainly no different from the miners who believed "what their parents told them to believe†"And, demonising a PM who was doing her very best for the Country at large puts you on completely the wrong side of history.†and when Julie Andrews plays the part I believe we will all be convinced your correct!
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Blyth, Bedlington, Ashington , Newcastle and Morpeth all had very distinctive accents, I always thought it was because of their local industries, farming, mining, ship building and ports and the fact that there was a very little amount of travel in the OLD days. Travel, media and the economy has changed all that and the dialects and accents are all being diluted, is it better or worse? who knows but I see such as the u-tube videos are doing a great service preserving it for the future, I wonder if museums are archiving some of it!
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Happy birthday Alison and GGG, hope you have a great day and 2014.
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I'd suggest you get someone record you talking when your "haf cut taakin tu yu marras†then try recording the same thing talking to someone "doon the smoke or owa sea's†Even Bobby Thompson and Bobby Pattinson taaked posh to be understood.
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So right Micky! I often get asked what language I was talking in when taakin tu me brutha!
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I have to disagree with you Symptoms! Why would you move to another area that talks differently to you and not talk in a way that they can understand what you are saying! communication! All of the exiles that I know "ahll taak posh†but still have strong Geordie accents! (or accents of wherever they came from) We get a chuckle listening to such as Geordie John Herdman, Canada's ladies soccer coach. (Jump in linguist Canny Lass, I'm struggling here)
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Yes Keith I've been watching it, right now they are doing a space walk to make some repairs, at 17,500 mph! I used to like watching the shuttles getting closer and closer before linking up.We have very little or almost no light pollution here in GC. go a couple of miles out of town and there is none!This chart says you can see it again tonight. http://www.meteorwatch.org/uk-iss-passes-december-2013.html
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Merry Christmas everyone.
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Privatisation! I was just thinking about when in the 60's when it was decided to build Motorways instead of railways, what should the government be responsible for? During a war the rules will obviously change in the interest of the security of the country as in WWI and WWII, but under normal times what should be Nationalised or regulated/ controlled? the Military of course, The Health Care System? Natural resources? Utilities? the Transportation infrastructure? What should be regionally or locally controlled? Here in Alberta Utilities were heavily regulated and it worked well, until our Provincial Government decided "in our best interest†to deregulate much of the system, now our utilities (especially electricity) are very expensive, the bills are formed in two parts, consumption and transmission (and written is such a way no one can interpret them!) a case of Government control that was welcome!
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Happy birthday Keith, hope it's a good one!
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Happy birthday Eileen, hope your having a great day!
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Happy birthday Keith. Hope it was a good one!
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Building houses is easy, but developing and increasing the infrastructure is a lot more difficult!
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Welcome to the forum PCF.
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Do we know who switched the lights on? Who was it? Any pictures?
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Just what I was wondering Brian, I was driving through lots of them yesterday!
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Looking forward to your postings Chris.
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Welcome to the Bedlington forum bedlingtonbilly.
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Your efforts are greatly appreciated fourgee
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Hadaway! yi must be gaan daft! Kidding, yes she remembers him, definitely old school (pun) was liked by all the kids.
