This sounds really wrong
But as a child I enjoyed the strike and the anti-Thatcher years.
Don't get me wrong. It's just one of those best of times/worst of times things.
I know families suffered and I understood that at the time, but from my point of view it involved visiting a Welsh mining town in a mini-bus, meeting lots of really interesting people, learning about politics, going to rallies, shouting "OUT OUT OUT!" and getting time off school.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 20:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Are you saying these were school trips? Cool school.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 20:29, Reply)

Nah
My mum and dad took me out of school occasionally and took me with them.
My mum just informed my teachers that is was part of my education.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 20:50, Reply)

Your parents rock.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 20:55, Reply)

You live in the middle of nowhere, you sodding pest.

( thealternativefact, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 20:56, Reply)

No I don't.
We have all mod cons in our little town.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:06, Reply)

Yes, it's a regular mine of convenience
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT OF NORTHERN ENGLAND.
( thealternativefact, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:09, Reply)

WE HAVE CUNTRYSIDE.
And it's a stones throw from Manchester. It's hardly Guatamala.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:11, Reply)

*packs Kendal mintcake*
*begins trek*
( thealternativefact, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:17, Reply)

The mine of convenience
is the only one still operating in the north, you heartless bastard.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:17, Reply)

I'M CORNISH!
Don't talk to me about closed mines, you English scumbag.
( thealternativefact, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:19, Reply)

I actually have no English blood whatsoever
My father's family are Scots border gentry and my mother's parents were both Scots too.

So 'ner'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:22, Reply)

Forrin

( thealternativefact, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:53, Reply)

'Scots border gentry' - oxymoron, shurely?

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 4 Mar 2010, 9:44, Reply)

Get your name down for the bash and live dangerously you big shirter.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:21, Reply)

I'm barred from Yorkshire by order of the Crown

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:24, Reply)

Technically were Lancastrians as we have an Oldham postcode.
*blows raspberry*
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:25, Reply)

I'm English
SCREW YOU ALL!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:26, Reply)

Technically
'we're' Lancastrians, or technically you 'were' Lancastrians but now you're having a 'bash held at my house in Todmorden, West Yorkshire'?

*moons*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:30, Reply)

Pfft!
Stay in that cess pit you call London. I hope your new girlfriend is a pre-op tranny.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:32, Reply)

Me too

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:34, Reply)

Just because you're handsome you think your too good for the likes of us : (

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:38, Reply)

I'm hardly handsome and even less catch of the fucking year
I only get one visit a week with my daughter and your bash is logistically impossible, that's all, mate.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:44, Reply)

Desert of Northern England
Nahh That'd be Mytholmroyd

However, if Yorkshire had piles Todmorden would be where you'd apply suppositories
(CheatingRabbit, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 22:06, Reply)

They're boss

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:08, Reply)

That's probably why your boss too.
It's genetic.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:13, Reply)

Shucks kid!
My parents are so small. I love visiting them and feeling tall.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:15, Reply)

My parents are ace too but in a completely annoying way.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:16, Reply)

Oh mine annoy
But I still know they're ace
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 21:21, Reply)