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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    Anna, I am a suburbanite and that could be considered even worse, innit? saly

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    • Anna

      saly, as a suburbanite you are infinitely superior and far more cosmopolitan than me! I expect I would be classified as a peasant or a yokel living where I do!!

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      • salymap
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5969

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        saly, as a suburbanite you are infinitely superior and far more cosmopolitan than me! I expect I would be classified as a peasant or a yokel living where I do!!
        I'd rather be a yokel in Wales than where I do now but it's important to live near family when over 80.

        I nearly moved to Chulmleigh in Devon, a lovely village I knew years ago. One village shop and no public transport, not for me now thanks.

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        • Curalach

          Originally posted by salymap View Post
          Cor,what a kerfuffle.
          I'm with you Saly!

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          • Mary Chambers
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1963

            I don't understand why people who live outside London get so defensive. I've lived in the north-west for most of my life, but have also lived in London and Edinburgh. I live within easy reach of concerts, theatre, museums and galleries in Manchester, Salford and Liverpool, and while these places are far from being cultural deserts I am quite ready to admit that London is much, much better. I'd go back there like a shot if only I could afford the sort of house I live in now (ordinary enough) in a decent part of London. Unfortunately I'm not a multi-millionaire

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            • Flosshilde
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              • Nov 2010
              • 7988

              Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
              I am quite ready to admit that London is much, much better.
              I think what you really mean, Mary, is that there is more in London - which is quite true. It's also more difficult to get to, & more expensive. I think that the quality of experience of concert going is better in Glasgow than in London, & I've done both.

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              • Anna

                Off-topic I'm afraid, but an example of townies v countryside. A tourist to Ilfracombe has lodged an official complaint about some crates of fish and crabs lined up in Ilfracombe Harbour. Evidently the smell and sight of fish distressed his children!!
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                • mangerton
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3346

                  Anna, thanks! That has brightened up my lunch hour.

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                  • MrGongGong
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 18357

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                    • salymap
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5969

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      Off-topic I'm afraid, but an example of townies v countryside. A tourist to Ilfracombe has lodged an official complaint about some crates of fish and crabs lined up in Ilfracombe Harbour. Evidently the smell and sight of fish distressed his children!!
                      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...n-harbour.html
                      Well too much for the children I expect as the crabs weren't even dressed.

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                      • Serial_Apologist
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                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37614

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        saly, I know it's a wind-up, and it's worked!! Perhaps us Provincials should don our smocks and clogs, be ever so 'umble and know our place in the grand order of things?
                        How about a picture of you in Welsh national dress, Anna?

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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          How about a picture of you in Welsh national dress, Anna?
                          Well, you asked for it!

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                          • Alain Maréchal
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                            • Dec 2010
                            • 1286

                            "So the award winning natural history unit at Bristol working with David Attenborough isn’t worth a second glance, nor is Dr. Who (oh, I thought Dr. Who was international viewing now?) or Torchwood, or Sherlock (winner of 5 BAFTAs), Being Human, the new Upstairs Downstairs, to name but a few, produced in Cardiff and filmed a lot in Wales . How strange then that the BBC are expanding and constructing a bigger drama production centre in Cardiff as part of the BBC's commitment to double TV network production from Wales by 2016?"

                            As it happens, I've only seen one of the programmes you mention. That was Sherlock - and I seem to recall all the external scenes were of London.

                            The fact that the BBC is expanding its drama centre in Cardiff does not in itself appear to contradict my point, unless one considers the BBC infallible, but it appears clear, Anna, that we are not going to reach agreement, so perhaps we should cease and desist.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
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                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37614

                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              Thank you Anna!

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20570

                                Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
                                I live within easy reach of concerts, theatre, museums and galleries in Manchester, Salford and Liverpool, and while these places are far from being cultural deserts I am quite ready to admit that London is much, much better.
                                In many ways, yes, but we are still talking about a capital city without a really good concert hall.

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