General Chat

"I'm a lassie from Lancashire".....and in fine voice this morning ;O)........
.... but raised in the North East where three generations, from my maternal side, have lived and worked on the banks of the Tyne.

Can there never be a discussion on the *state of the country* these days without "PC" being written or spoken? I think anyone who uses that phrase should be forced to buy a dictionary or rent an imagination.

Annina, you're quite entitled to your view without me telling you so but my life isn't being smothered by the PC parade, so it's not a fact of my life. As far as I see, there are plenty of people who sponge of the taxpayer and don't think the whole burden of things can be blamed on single mothers. Apart from anything else, it generally takes a man to make someone a mother....

Uggers-the voice of reason,thank you.

Women become single parents for a variety of reasons & where you live makes no difference nor does colour or creed.

Approved American Import lol

Hey,wait a minute,this thread was about "where I come from" not how we would like things to be. The fact is,this is life in the neck of the woods were I live at the moment

I forgot to mention the idle loafers who spend their days wandering between the bookies on one corner,and the pub on the other,mostly,but not all, men.

The land where I come from originally is a world away. Babbling brooks,lush green fields, woods full of the calming sound of birdsong,and the noisiest sounds are tractors and cocks crowing. Where neighbours all pull together and help out in adversity,and you can leave your door unlocked without fear.

Does that make you all feel better,I refuse to apologise for being a plain-speaking northern bred person,either like it or lump it.

Out and out pit yacker!

That's me.....

Half Irish, Half Scottish and live in Bucks

Well I come from the..............

Haplogroup K :))

Two small Sussex villages standing side by side
In my forefather’s steps I tread, I have dug the earth they turned ... walked down the same lanes & stood looking at the same view across into Kent
As I look at my tree I see that my Maternal Great Granddad would have known my Paternal Great Grandmother, both living in the same small village.
I went to the school that my maternal Grandmother & my Father attended
My children went to the same school that their Maternal Grandmother attended
Ancestors lie side by side in the churchyards ... never knowing how over the next 300years marriage would connect them... when I breathe my last I will join them