Allan asked: > > How are your and yours? You seem to be enjoying the > > Northern canals. > > > > What took you up there? was it the taking over of > > a different territory that prompted the move? >
And Beeky replied (spinning more than Mandelson ;-))) > Well . . . . . we were getting far too complacent down on the G&S. Plenty > of water, easy access, beautiful scenery, great tasting beer, no stress > and all that kind of thing. > > We wanted to see how the other half live - rugby league, M6, Manchester > City, congenital misery, interminable gloom, Boddingtons, industrial > wastelands, incessant rain, @rse-biting terriers. > > Now we've seen it for ourselves we do feel properly cheered up. > > If we're not careful we'll find ourselves going totally Hull Kingston > Rovers like that Millin bloke on the Bradford & Bingley Canal. > > Beeky > > PS but seriously, it's just time to explore the north, before they cancel > it completely. Translating the spin: We had to get out as the locals were beginning to rumble us. We feel, as southern intelligentsia, that the uneducated masses of the north will take longer to rumble us as they are too busy with their pigeons and their whippets, so we anticipate a longer period of causing havoc before we are forced to move on again. ;-))) Roger
