Hi Guys. It's was nice to be offline in a way, curbed wasteful lingering. I felt like a fly by night though, regarding the FCF forum online community though.
Where does the North begin? I really want to be fair in answer, I'll try: It's definitely north of African Med, it could be Brittany, if not Bristol or Northolt, Middx - the unofficial county. North is marked with a post, but it's moveable, I noticed. For me, whilst Lancashire and Yorkshire are not South, they are not strictly North either...just 'going north', or Northward and Southward at the same time. Northumberland and Lake District are definitely North, where things are always what they seem too be.
I was brought up in a game-keeping family on the North Tyne for a good part of my life. But listen to a Kentish drawl, and you realise we all had those yokel accents that protect oneself from the worst corruption. I don't speak with a northern accent. I guess north is in the heart, then. Recently, while I was offline, I survived but noticed that I turned inward, as if I was dealing with stuff...like a breezy lie down on a couch, my whole being turned to life in Simonburn, Northumberland, and I felt I was quickly growing strong becoming myself - integral again, apart from all doubt and crap. When I was a teenager I used to do that all the time, but this time it came out of the blue. I knew It's not just memories of bygone times, it's eternal spirit.
Seems that I am going to be in Liverpool, but I still need the final confirmation. My mother went to a college there, and I have visited and the people are very friendly, of course. Like they belong together, more than say in London, where men ( I shouldn't speak for women) are more like people of the world meeting each other in a common struggle. Or so I fancy right now. Liverpool is a big city, but it strikes me as having a lively ethos of its own. London no longer has that. It's gone international, global.
@CitroJim.
That's a nice offer, and perhaps I ought to take it up for the good of the Citroen. I have about two weeks (until the 7th before I must be ready to leave, I believe at this time). I'm only about 50 miles away, so if you wish to suggest a date and time, I'll confirm and go shopping for biscuits.
John.
