Now I have to say...lol

[Bobbisox]

Not everyone like Robson Green is a true Geordie...or indeed Heather Mills (Thank God)
Catherine Cookson wasn't a Geordie...we are a proud race y'know
LOL

Bobbi ♥

[Jan1957]

I'm sorry Joy for casting aspersions. I have apologised on your other thread. I'm really sorry. :(

But not really. x

[Bobbisox]

yer daft bat jan,
he's drop dead gorgeous tho in he ?

Holy Island is Northumberland,,,ohhhhhh!!!!!

[craft1948]

Well Catherine Cookson's books sound geordie....

[Jan1957]

I thought anyone who lives north of the Watford Gap was a Geordie.

[Bobbisox]

CC is fro Jarrow craft which is Tyneside but the people there are not Geordies as such you have to be born withinin so many miles of Newcastle to constitute being a Geordie...or so they reckon, a lot of people from Jarrow and Hebburn align themselves with Sunderland but there are a lot who say they are a Geordie

[joggerjayne]

Sounds a reasonable criteria, Jan ... !

=0)

How is life in Hastings? Not grim, like it is "up north" I trust.

x

[Bobbisox]

You wouldn't understand me then jan and I'm a posh Geordie..lol

[Bobbisox]

It might be grim JJ...but it's cheaper..lol

[craft1948]

a posh geordie......pmsl....the dog is now looking concerned as I keep hiccuping and laughing together......

[Bobbisox]

there is such a thing craft..humph!!!!
LOL

[joggerjayne]

You're probably right, mopsy.

x

[Bobbisox]

it's not really grim JJ, no pits now, no heavy industry
loads of chavs...but that's everywhere..lol

[joggerjayne]

I have Geordie clothing.

I have Barbour things, which come from South Shields, I think.

Whay aye man !

=0)

[Mr Veritas]

Catherine Cookson's is an odd life story.
She fled from her place of birth when quite young,and eventually settled in Hastings (near here) and lived there till about 5years before her death(at quite an age).
Although she always said how much she hated the place she came from,she chose at the end of her life to go back there,even though really she had become a citizen of Hastings.
Old people are strange! LOL

[joggerjayne]

Yes ... old people are strange !

[Jan1957]

I shouldn't wind Joy up. My grandparents were from South Shields. xx