The General Chat Room

[Oakapple]

But as Noel Coward wrote about the London of 1911:

London is a place where you can call right
Round and have a cosy cup of tea;
If you're fed right up and got your tail right down
Then London town is a wonderful place to be.

[BBMmk2]

Always lived in small towns or in the countryside. Not much of a city person really, unless it’s for a very good reason, especially nowadays.

[LMcD]

Always lived in small towns or in the countryside. Not much of a city person really, unless it’s for a very good reason, especially nowadays.

I've lived in London and in much smaller places. One great advantage of the latter is that any new friends or acquaintances you make are less likely to live 20 or 30 bus or tube stops away. When I returned to Suffolk in the mid-1980s, I found it much less introverted and introspective than when I left in the early 1960s, owing in no small part to the influx of many people from elsewhere who came to work for BT and the Dock Company. More recently, we've welcomed quite a few Eastern Europeans, although I'm not sure how likely they are to stay given the continuing uncertainty over their citizenship rights and improvements in the economies of their home countries.
Thanks to 'Music in Felixstowe', there are lots of live concerts (many more than there are in the county town) - mainly but not exclusively classical - so we don't feel culturally deprived. This Sunday it's the Elgar Piano Quintet, a Haydn Opus 33 string quartet and what appears to be chamber version of a Mozart piano concerto.

[Constantbee]

Cruel!

People here MUCH friendlier than where I used to live.
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I haven’t found York to be a friendly place at all. Some of the social attitudes I’ve come across in this area have come out of the ark. I was speechless when I started talking to local people and listening to what they actually thought about the big issues of today, most of which doesn’t bear repeating. Unsurprisingly it’s also got some of the worst problems with social isolation, some of the least considerate farmers, landowners and developers of anywhere I’ve ever lived. Glad you’re having a good time, though.

[antongould]

I haven’t found York to be a friendly place at all. Some of the social attitudes I’ve come across in this area have come out of the ark. I was speechless when I started talking to local people and listening to what they actually thought about the big issues of today, most of which doesn’t bear repeating. Unsurprisingly it’s also got some of the worst problems with social isolation, some of the least considerate farmers, landowners and developers of anywhere I’ve ever lived. Glad you’re having a good time, though.

Forget the Midlands try the North ....

[gradus]

Per R4, 30 pages of today's national newspapers devoted to 2 blokes having an argument in a restaurant and one emerging with a scratch on his face. Pulitzer here we come.

[cloughie]

Forget the Midlands try the North ....

Now don’t start that rubbish again about the north starting with you lot nearly in Scotland or I’ll have to stop saying nice things about the Hangers!

[antongould]

Now don’t start that rubbish again about the north starting with you lot nearly in Scotland or I’ll have to stop saying nice things about the Hangers!

My lips are sealed .....

[cloughie]

My lips are sealed .....

[MrGongGong]

Forget the Midlands try the North ....

I heard a government chap on R4 this morning saying that they did care about the "remote" parts of the country ..... meaning Doncaster

(the flooded village of Fishlake has a clue in it's name ...... I blame the Dutch, once we are free of the shackles we can return to how things were before that meddling Cornelius Vermuyden was allowed to mess with our country)

[eighthobstruction]

I heard a government chap on R4 this morning saying that they did care about the "remote" parts of the country ..... meaning Doncaster

(the flooded village of Fishlake has a clue in it's name ...... I blame the Dutch, once we are free of the shackles we can return to how things were before that meddling Cornelius Vermuyden was allowed to mess with our country)

....punting around marshes might be a new holiday delight....Ultima Thule Water Sports....

[MrGongGong]

....punting around marshes might be a new holiday delight....Ultima Thule Water Sports....

I would be very wary of searching for that on the internet

[eighthobstruction]

I would be very wary of searching for that on the internet

[oddoneout]

I heard a government chap on R4 this morning saying that they did care about the "remote" parts of the country ..... meaning Doncaster

(the flooded village of Fishlake has a clue in it's name ...... I blame the Dutch, once we are free of the shackles we can return to how things were before that meddling Cornelius Vermuyden was allowed to mess with our country)

Ely could become an island state...

[Bryn]

I would be very wary of searching for that on the internet

Throwing caution to the winds, I see the error. It should have read "Arrokoth Water Sports".