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jez71

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Saw this book while aimlessly looking through Play! I've done the opposite of this book moving from down south t'up North! Thought it looked alright? Babs you're Northerner come Southerner?



Review



'My name is Stuart Maconie, and I am from the North Of England. Some time ago, I was standing in my kitchen, rustling up a Sunday brunch for some very hungover, very Northern mates who were 'down' for the weekend. One of them was helping me out and, recipe book in hand, asked "where are the sun-dried tomatoes?" "They're behind the cappuccino maker," I replied. Silence fell. We slowly met each other's gaze. We did not say anything. We did not need to. Each read the other's unspoken thought: we had become those kinds of people, the kind of people who had sun-dried tomatoes and cappuccino makers, the kind of people who did Sunday brunch. In other words: southerners.' A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, Stuart goes in search of The North. Delving into his own past, it is a riotously funny journey in search of where the cliches end and the truth begins.He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower, the Bigg Market in Newcastle to the daffodil-laden Lake District in search of his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of Scousers, Scallies, pie-eating Woolly-backs, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.
 
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:lol: PMSL, that sounds like a great read, thanks for the recommendation :D

Southerners (like Tom and my friends) still think of me as a toerag northern monkey but my friends who are still up north think I'm a fancy Southerner with fancy ways now - maybe I should opt for the middle ground and move to Birmingham :lol:
 
we had become those kinds of people, the kind of people who had sun-dried tomatoes and cappuccino makers, the kind of people who did Sunday brunch.


:lol: :lol:
There's no need to be a northener who moves to the south.
Just a guy moving with a girl, wait few months and invite his friends at home and see :lol: :lol:
 
He is a good DJ and author (i believe) heard him on the radio on R2 occasionally but never read anything by him. I know his cousin and can vouch they are good working class stock! I remember him particulalrly when he was looking after the 'drive time' slot on r2, came on and said 'enough of that nonsence' (after Steve wright i think?) and went straight into how soon is now by the smiths, which won my un dying love and respect (yes easily pleased!)
 
:lol: PMSL, that sounds like a great read, thanks for the recommendation :D

Southerners (like Tom and my friends) still think of me as a toerag northern monkey but my friends who are still up north think I'm a fancy Southerner with fancy ways now - maybe I should opt for the middle ground and move to Birmingham :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm real mish-mash now too long up North I'm outcast in the south now :lol: ... I'm yet to call anyone 'duck' or 'pet' though in my defence!:lol:
 
I'm yet to call anyone 'duck' or 'pet' though in my defence!:lol:

LOL arghhh I used to live in Stoke, it was always 'Duck' this, 'Duck' that, drove me insane.

Now over here on fraggle rock I drive everyone insane whenever I dig up the stokie in me and say 'Duck' :twisted: :lol: :lol:
 
LOL arghhh I used to live in Stoke, it was always 'Duck' this, 'Duck' that, drove me insane.

Now over here on fraggle rock I drive everyone insane whenever I dig up the stokie in me and say 'Duck' :twisted: :lol: :lol:

I live about half an hour from Stoke so hear it quite often drives me:evil:
 
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