Posted by Peter Hyland on April 11, 2007 at 18:49:14 from 86.147.153.115 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: An alternative view posted by Alan Hakim on April 11, 2007 at 17:43:53:
Swallows and Amazons wouldn't have lasted five minutes in Jarrow
It reminds me of that old Monty Python sketch where a group of working class northerners were reminiscing:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank . . etc etc