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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote2008-01-04 07:01 am
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  • 14:12 leaving London and thus no longer a Londoner. And no longer a car owner either. Goodbye Peaugeot, rust in peace #
  • 14:39 amused at the tomtom. When it says 'ahead, keep right' it means don't take the junction, stay on the motorway, you're stuck on it for ag ... #
  • 16:34 entering Nottinghamshire and wondering why they've got a sign saying Robin Hood County when his grave is just outside Brighouse. #
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[identity profile] freddiefraggles.livejournal.com 2008-01-04 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
Nottinghamshire is Robin Hood County because of the city of Nottingham being in it and Sherwood Forest being mostly in it.
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[personal profile] matgb 2008-01-04 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
But a big bunch of the stories are based around Kirlees. Just down the road from here. Sherwood was huge, and Nottingham the person had responsibilities much further north from what I can tell.

It's just better marketing on Nottingham's part, they've got nothing else worth talking about after all.

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2008-01-04 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
What Mat said. Of the three real men that most academics believe that Robin was based on, Two were Yorkshiremen, and one of them is buried not half a mile from where I sit.

[identity profile] susanne-est-moi.livejournal.com 2008-01-04 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Everrry toowwwn...has it's ups and downs....sometimes ups....outnumber the downs...but not in Nottinghaaaaam.

*sings the song from the foxes and bears version of Robin Hood*

*shall now have it stuck in head all day*

*excited*

[identity profile] getawaywithit.livejournal.com 2008-01-04 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
And I thought people usually left their cars behind when they moved to London...
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[personal profile] matgb 2008-01-04 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I really should have, or sold it off once I got there, but instead I let it rot on the driveway and it's now not worth the money it'd take to fix. Ah well.

[identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com 2008-01-04 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I thought.

Mat, all the best for your new life up there!
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[identity profile] anisiriusmagus.livejournal.com 2008-01-07 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome to Yorksher. Speaking as a Southerner who moved up here almost two and a half years ago, I'm sure you'll find the attitudes of Yorksher folk infinitely better than those further South. People have more time for you up here, and a lot of stuff is generally cheaper, cf Greggs the bakers. A chesse & onion pasty costs over £1 in London, but the same is around 68p up here. What's not to like? :D I'm sure you and SB will get on famously, and I wish you both at least as much happiness as I share with SG.
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[personal profile] matgb 2008-01-08 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, the prices I'm getting used to (especially as I got a pay rise this morning and remain on a London rate (not good, but more than livable). And so far we seem to be working out fine.

Plus setting Shrub's trainset up today was great fun, seeing both faces when it was done was cool.

Danke.
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