DIDO.1 22,628 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 6 minutes ago, WILF said: In the south: Liquor on your pie & mash, NOT gravy ! Fish & Chips come WITHOUT mushy peas ! Young southerners never used to sport that barely visible tash that looks like a stiff breeze would blow it off No business close for lunch Rest of the British isles: You only get spice bags from the chinky in Ireland They put anything in a pie in Scotland ! In Sunderland it’s 1983 People are friendlier as you go further north You hunt packs of dogs on foot in the fell & hill country as opposed to mounted in the south for fox, but you hunt on foot everywhere for mink The midlands don’t exist…..it’s like a twilight zone between north and south Black Country people ain’t brummies Anything north of Watford gap is “up north” and anything below Manchester is “down south” Nobody can understand a word people from Birmingham are saying ……..got to go football now, more later ! I disagree with one of those Wilf. The one about people getting friendlier the further north you go. I've worked from the south coast to the north east and I've hunted all over the UK. I'd actually say people are more friendly down south. In Devon and Somerset I've always been made really welcome, invited into home, had drinks bought for me in hunting pubs and thanked for supporting small packs. Up north people can be much more closed and defensive. Hunting in the fells, especially the north of the fells I've had 20-30 hunting cars drive past me as I'm walking back to the meet or when hounds have gone away. If a car stops to offer me a lift it's always a southern visitor. Hunting down south if I was running after hounds I would automatically expect someone to offer me a lift quick style if I needed to get on.... I even noticed a difference between the north of the fells and the south of the fells. Working for a southern pack I'd constantly be asked if I needed anything and would have offers of help or things I might need. A certain whipper in at a fell pack was seen out hunting with a neighbouring pack by some of his hunts supporters, they actually complained to the committee that he was wearing his hunt boots bought by the supporters..... apparently he was wearing the soles away supporting another pack . You would never get that down south. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 Annoying. When you ask for a Cob and they give you a Roll. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,052 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 That north south friendly thing.... Don't know about the North West as Dido mentions....but the on all my travels the people from the North East are definitely the friendliest....in the uk 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,628 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 21 minutes ago, TOMO said: That north south friendly thing.... Don't know about the North West as Dido mentions....but the on all my travels the people from the North East are definitely the friendliest....in the uk Yeah I would give you that, the north east people are friendly. I was just generalising between the north and south from a hunting point of few visiting different areas. I live in the north west and on the whole it's a warm welcoming place Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mel b 2,230 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, WILF said: In the south: Liquor on your pie & mash, NOT gravy ! Fish & Chips come WITHOUT mushy peas ! Young southerners never used to sport that barely visible tash that looks like a stiff breeze would blow it off No business close for lunch Rest of the British isles: You only get spice bags from the chinky in Ireland They put anything in a pie in Scotland ! In Sunderland it’s 1983 People are friendlier as you go further north You hunt packs of dogs on foot in the fell & hill country as opposed to mounted in the south for fox, but you hunt on foot everywhere for mink The midlands don’t exist…..it’s like a twilight zone between north and south Black Country people ain’t brummies Anything north of Watford gap is “up north” and anything below Manchester is “down south” Nobody can understand a word people from Birmingham are saying ……..got to go football now, more later ! I greatly admire the fact that you know us black country folk aren't brummies . I take my hat off to you sir. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ditchman 2,760 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, comanche said: Getting legit hunting permission is pretty much the same over here. It's either through knowing the right people or earning trust. Fishing floats over here are a pretty varied lot. They range from the cigar sized bobbers you describe - used for sea and pike fishing- down to tiny things no bigger than a cocktail stick - for delicate biting fish. In between these extremes there are some weird and wonderful designs with equally weird names. I grabbed a handful of reels for a photo shoot .The two on the left would be known as "multiplier reels" ,though small ones as in the photo are often called "bait- casters". The bottom drum reel is known as a " centre pin ". The three reels to the right are generally known as "fixed spool " reels . Though they are sometimes called "spinning reels" , and a really outdated name for them is a "threadline". Wire leaders ,we call them "traces" are the norm for anything with teeth. Over here where most fishing is catch and release some fish are inevitably caught repeatedly . Some anglers actually come to recognise the fish and even give them names . Even more weird is that these anglers then apply antiseptic to the hook wound before releasing the fish into the water. This is quirky. One local thing round here in Sussex is calling every rubbishy, cobbled-up , run- down ,wired- up gateway a Hampshire Gate. And the people of the county of Hampshire call it a Sussex Gate . i think one of them "flick reels" is a Mitchell 350 .................... nice collection 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,258 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, TOMO said: That north south friendly thing.... Don't know about the North West as Dido mentions....but the on all my travels the people from the North East are definitely the friendliest....in the uk You can bump into a geordie or a mackem anywhere and get a conversation,I went back to sunderland a few years ago for a funeral and it was like I had never left, someone even asked was I still living near the river (I didn't have the heart to tell them I left 30'ish years ago and it's the Thames I live near now and not the Wear) very friendly people on the whole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,258 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, WILF said: Liquor on your pie & mash, NOT gravy ! Had some the other day actually. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 4,386 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 6 hours ago, mackem said: Had some the other day actually. Nice pics Mac Tubby Isaac’s at the bottom I remember his stall, at petticoat lane it was like he never went home more like a tourist attraction in the end but he was the real deal with the eels and shell fish. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 2,942 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 7 hours ago, ditchman said: i think one of them "flick reels" is a Mitchell 350 .................... nice collection Mitchell 300. Hardy Altex and the top one is a Le Omnia ,made by the same firm that made GAT guns. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,258 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 32 minutes ago, FLATTOP said: Nice pics Mac Tubby Isaac’s at the bottom I remember his stall, at petticoat lane it was like he never went home more like a tourist attraction in the end but he was the real deal with the eels and shell fish. I used to go to petticoat lane when I lived on the isle of dogs, good memories. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 4,386 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, mackem said: I used to go to petticoat lane when I lived on the isle of dogs, good memories. I think I told you a while back I was brought up on the Isle of Dogs was a good place back in the 70s/80s I haven’t been back for a long while. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,456 Posted January 29 Report Share Posted January 29 On 28/01/2024 at 09:49, paulus said: Annoying. When you ask for a Cob and they give you a Roll. It's better than getting a barm... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,046 Posted January 29 Report Share Posted January 29 (edited) Tubby Isaac's stall near Aldgate Station was a regular meeting point for enthusiastic young lads out on the thief back in the 80's,many a deal was struck over some eels and a cuppa rosey by that stall,Paul Simpson and his dad ran it at the time and try as they did to clean up the clientele it remained a magnet for the dodgy deal right up until it closed down. Regards quirks.....yes,pie & mash/jellied eel shops outside East London ! Edited January 29 by gnasher16 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aled 475 Posted January 29 Report Share Posted January 29 Back to the subject...an angling saying i've heard. "When the wind blows East the fish bite least" 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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