There's a cope northerners adopt when they move down south which is to shit talk their old home counties to make their present hell more tolerable, so a lot of southerners picture the north as one huge ex-mining town full of illiterate dole-bums.
Don't make the mistake of thinking cowboys are a uniquely British thing. I've encountered plenty of electricals abroad, installed entirely by the natives, that would make your toes curl. Literally. I've also seen bodge jobs in every trade, even in places where they adopt that smugly superior attitude toward Britishers. I mean yes, I've had to endure the "expertise" of more than a few of the daft cunts, back when I was still in the trades, but the chief problem you're identifying is that they're what we used to call Russians. Not because they were foreign, but because they were greedy bastards who had overbooked and were always rushing to get to the next job. That is a problem in every country you might care to mention.
Aye, it's daft. We've also got ex mill towns full of illiterate dole bums. And then there's whatever Leeds is these days.
Nobody gave a shit about that sort of thing when I was young. Even in the 90s, when everyone was complaining about how coddled and safety-conscious society had become, kids were out all hours and it was normal for them to have a knife of some sort. I know I harp on Blair a lot, but there was an absolute sea-change in the way people behaved from before to after he was elected, and in the quality and intent of the laws enacted. He was demonic. I don't even believe in that shit, but I believe it when it comes to him. He rode in on the back of legitimate anger at the tories and exploited his majority to the absolute hilt.
Reminds me of the rage of an actual black electrician looking at the insanity that is the wiring in my house and noticing double-lugged breakers and other shit. "The FUCK was this crazy nigger thinking doing this shit?" A white guy had actually perpetrated it, though.
That's easy. Ormskirk is the coach stop between the Preston Bank Company (subsequently bought out by Midland and then HSBC) and the Skipton building society. Handy if you're fishing for a mortgage.
Never mind that. How would they react to Maid Marian and her Merry Men? Would it face accusations of being woke and grrlbossing? I still wheel it out for pancake day every year.
Grey and white has been in fashion for a long time, to try and emulate a classical white stone and marble look that is associated with wealth and elegance, but also to make the house a more attractive sale. It is minimalist, neutral, and unopinionated, and a symptom of the middle class obsession with flipping properties; these people don't design their home interiors to be lived in, but to look good in the estate agent's photographs.
On the off-chance you ever find yourself there again, 'The' Fish & Chip shop in Filey is Dicky Bees on Mitford Street. There are others, but that's the one the locals go to and, despite me having last been there when I was a kid in the 80s, it's still going strong 35 years later. Limited opening times though, and it looks like it was sold a couple of years back when the owners retired.
I can hear the big German roof dog barking from here.
That response is usually reserved for places like Liverpool or Birmingham
My sincerest condolences.
No use making a nice kitchen when they know all that's going to done in there is heating up frozen shite from a factory interspersed with Jamie Oliver's cracking 30-minute meals or an occasional Sunday Roast.
Mild addition for two things. You mentioned a spin off show rather the original Fingerbobs but much more egregiously is you did not include an image of the Rasputin-looking puppeteer.
It was born out of the idea of accent colours. That walls and fixtures should be a neutral colour then you add a colour accent through the room by purchasing and displaying vivdly coloured cheap chink tat. in the kitchen mainly microwaves/kettles/toasters/bread bins/containers/stools/etc
Only ever watched finger mouse or at least that’s all I remember of it. I vaguely remember some nightmare-fuel scenes from it but then most kids programming from that time was surreal weirdness that did nothing to ground kids in any kind of sane reality.
