Or perhaps not so strange. Although rural areas have been populated by immigrants from some metropolitan areas they remain largely parochial with indigenous residents who might have been there for several generations. Towns tend to be “multicultural” in the literal sense and so local speech patterns will tend to be suffused into a “townspeak”.

Spot on but credit given was also credit taken. No one forced anyone to borrow more than they could afford, so there is no one else to blame but themselves.

Oops – I forgot about your MA and Phd.;)

Someone who never visited London!:D But Johnson did say it applied if the man was at all intellectual. So that rules us lot out….:diablo:

I remember Carey when reading about Walpole a long time ago. But he was a Londoner and a satirist amongst other things so perhaps he had his tongue in his cheek when he wrote those words.:)

:cool::cool:I’ll look forward to seeing the pictures………..;) Where’s Harry? We haven’t seen him for a while…:)

I’m sure you could wangle your way into a two-seater…….:D

I saw it earlier and my first reaction was – she’s landed in a field! Excellent story though and you never know in our rapidly depleting air force there might be more female pilots than males in a few more years!;) Bet you wish that’d been you, don’t you?:D