oop north ........

[Ann]

Hi all you people "oop north" - please order some nice weather for us today until Sunday, we are coming to see you! Staying in Leeds. Going to Harrogate Show Thursday so hope it doesn't rain!! Lovely here in Leicestershire at the moment, very sunny but I feel it in my bones that's all going to change as we get on the way :( .............. see you soon!

[Hopkirk]

Have they got tarmac up there yet, Ann?

[naomi24]

Ann, Leicestershire is 'oop north' isn't it? ;o)

[ummmm]

I was t'up north last weekend. It's very nice up there.

[ummmm]

If it's past the Watford gap it's North :-)

[Ann]

No anything above the Midlands is way too far North for me to travel .............:)

[Hopkirk]

That puts you in the South Ummmm, but only just.

[ummmm]

Watford Gap is ages away from me.

[Hopkirk]

Hardly, if you are still in Northampton. Just over a stones throw.

[Nibble]

So when will the world get to your watford gap then, ummmm?

[sunny-dave]

For ummmmmmmm ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnGPE_BBr9A

[thistles]

I am further oop north, in a very lovely, but cold part of Scotland, have a blanket wrapped around my legs at the moment, but soon it will be Winter, and the weather will get warmer, he.he.

[ummmm]

Hopkirk...I live in a little bubble. Anything outside that bubble is ages away. If I have to drive to it...then it's not near me.

[Dee Sa]

ummmm as a London kid growing up I was told that anything north of the Watford Gap was for carrot crunchers [ sorry folks] which truly annoyed my mum & dad as mum was Geordie and dad came from Stoke on Trent.
I was also told that all those "oop north" looked upon us Londoners as all cut throats & robbers !

[ummmm]

Lol Dave x

[Baldric]

Careful Ann, I hear it's grim up there!

[jno]

If it's past the Watford gap it's North

if it's past Watford it's North

[ummmm]

Confession time. I didn't even know where the Watford Gap was until I was driving North last weekend. It could have been south for all I knew...

Geography is not my strong point!!

[Baldric]

Great link SD,
I think,
could someone translate please?

[Nibble]

Driving to London, the 1st sign for The North is at J3 M20 (M20/M26), which is either The West (M26) and The North (M20/M25/Dartford Crossing). That's the real North :)

[McMouse]

There should be a frontier post at Luton as that's where the North starts.