North V South

[Buenchico]

[Buenchico]

[FatticusInch]

Lol.

[Gromit]

Perhaps it is London’s size that is the problem. 9 million people is a lot to get to know. So they don’t bother trying.
I had friends who lived in London, and I would look after their dog when they went on holiday. I would dog walk every morning and say hello to everyone I met. Hardly anyone replied, most ignored me. The same in shops, no one chatted.

[Buenchico]

Around here, in Suffolk, Gromit, you have to live in your house for a minimum of 10 years before your neighbours start to accept you. However everyone says hello to strangers in the street in the first half of the morning but nobody does it after that! It seems that, by not long after breakfast-time, everyone has exhausted their supply of conviviality for the day ;-)

[wolf63]

Meanwhile in Scotland - I speak to dogs and birds that I pass in the street. The gulls and pigeons sometimes walk down the pavement, making sure that they don't miss any goodies.

Why are the birds so noisy? They roost in the are at the rear of our building. Since its the city centre it is take-away central and lots of discarded food for them

[Buenchico]

The birds here seem to be at their noisiest when, after being up most of the night, I decide that it's finally time to go to bed. A blackbird's song is beautiful but it's still a pain in the posterior when the singing blackbird is immediately outside my bedroom window!

[wolf63]

I live on the top two floors, the attic conversion has skylights and part of it is a metal roof. They seem to wear huge boots when stomping on the roof.

The flat next door to me was recently sold for eighty thousand, they did it up and resold it for £142k. All that money in a couple of months! Its a scary world.

I start work at nine-ish so I had better get some sleep. I'm wide awake now but come time to get up I will not be in the mood to work.

[Buenchico]

Sleep well, Susan, perhaps while dreaming of fitting those noisy birds with carpet slippers ;-)

[roopower]

I come from Suffolk but live in the West Mids and I'll talk to anyone. In fact, when my son was small, he turned to me and said "Mum, do you know that man. You shouldn't talk to strangers"

[roopower]

I have starlings that nest just under the roof above my bedroom. They don't just weat boots, they Morris dance every morning

[gness]

Those are great, Chris, thanks. :-)

[sunny-dave]

The local greeting here is "How are ye" - under no circumstances should you then start to actually tell the person greeting you how you are.

After three years in residence, I now greet everyone I pass in this fashion - confuses the [redacted] out of the Japanese tourists :-)

[gness]

Dave still has to perfect the Irish art of saying...How are ye....and carrying on walking.

The times I've had to wait patiently as a Dave greeted tourist tells him in great detail how they are..... :-(

[Arksided]

I love that Jason Manford clip, seen the full set many times still funny.

[Gromit]

Howdo? From me :-)

[Gromit]

Don’t agree with all of this, but it’s close :-)

[douglas9401]

I'd love to know how Ellie Taylor is.

[Arksided]

It's a bit like Sheldon Coopers 'Fun with Flags', So what happened to Comma, did the Goose make it and make a full recovery.... darn cliffhangers.

[Buenchico]

Thanks for the posts, folks.

Dave:
When I lived in Sheffield, the standard greeting was "Reet?, which was short for "Are you all right?". As in your case, one wasn't expected to reply with a detailed answer but simply with "Reet!"

[Arksided]

That’s great.

Now did the goose make it? I can’t find it on Netflix etc… ;-)

Further north in West Yorkshire, ‘Are you alright’ comes out in one word ‘(yo)ureet