Sounds wonderful.
I used to live with my nan on top of a hill overlooking Blackburn and I would spend hours staring out the top floor window at the view over the town.


I was a tad emo in those days.
( girlinthehole, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:34, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

over the town of whining northeners, unemployed miners, derelict cotton mills, Jeremy Kyle show participants walking wippets, pigeon shit and general misery.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:37, Reply)

^this
Couldn't wait to leave.

And where did I end up?................Coventry for six years.
( girlinthehole, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:38, Reply)

Ouch. When Betjeman wrote Come Happy Bombs And Drop On Slough he had yet to visit Cov.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:41, Reply)

^ this is why you are so fucking ace.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:56, Reply)

at least
learn to spell your abuse correctly. It is spelled as "Whippet".
That's all.oh. and "Northerners"...
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 14:15, Reply)

This is how it looked from the garden 10 minutes ago

(not my best photographic work, but it'll do to show off)
also, imagine that's only a little bit of it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:41, Reply)

Lovely!
I'll try and get a similar one done.
( girlinthehole, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:42, Reply)

Looks shit.
I can smell the poor people from here.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:44, Reply)

to the left is poor people
just in front to the right are aspirational cunts (the new houses are called Ipads - bleugh)

Further to the left are call centres and more hills
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:46, Reply)

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:47, Reply)

haha
although I don't think that's one of his welsh ones
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:48, Reply)

*guffaws heartily*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:49, Reply)

+ around a cigar and glass of brandy

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:52, Reply)

You know me so well.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:55, Reply)

eurgh. Blackburn. I feel your pain
I still have to go back there every Monday night.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 14:01, Reply)