Chrisrayner pid=67601 dateline=1570611154 said:
OO’maugein96 pid=67599 dateline=1570607379 said:
Chrisrayner pid=67591 dateline=1570569189 said:
Born and bred in Brum.
Which part of Brum are you moving to, and more importantly, why?
Chris,
Its quite a long story, but my wife lived in Rubery for 8 years before I met her 24 years ago, and has kept in touch with several friends she knew while she lived there with her first husband. They had moved there from Edinburgh due to his employment, but the marriage failed, and she moved back north to be nearer her family.
We have been down there many times over the years, and decided that we would like to live there after we retired. Both of us have lived in various cities, so urban life is nothing new to us. The difference in the respective property markets has been a major obstacle, but we are now in a position to move.
It will most likely be to B45 (Rubery or Rednal) or B31 (Longbridge rather than Northfield), as thats where most of my wifes friends live. Anything affluent is completely out of our reach.
The property market in this part of Scotland (Hawick, Scottish Borders), is pretty dire, due to the perpetual decline of the woollen industry, and its just a case of waiting for a buyer. Fortunately we live in one of the more desirable areas, otherwise we could be dug in for a very long time. It appears we are reasonably close to a sale at the moment, and we are ever hopeful.
Many people cannot quite work out why people of our age living in a rural area would want to retire to a city. We just tell them there are too many sheep to count here, and you end up awake all night!
Ah! I was born in the Queen Elizabeth and lived most of my childhood in Kings Norton. My mother was a GP in Kings Norton and she had many patients in Northfield, quite a few of whom worked at the Austin in Longbridge. Sadly this is no more, the site is now largely occupied by an out of town shopping centre with its associated car parks.
My dad was an engineering director with Joseph Lucas at Great King St. Another bit of British manufacturing history. For some reason my mother thought he needed a business to occupy his spare time, so while he was away for a time in the sixties she bought a laundrette in Rubery. Bloody mad.
Even so, he continued to run it as a part time business for several years.
I was back that way earlier this year when I bought my first CBA from Fairdeal Accordions in Longbridge. If you fetch up there then you should meet the chap who runs it. He’s a nice bloke, retired, but still occupied with his accordion trading business and a dance band in the style of schlager bier Keller music. He has a website which you could google.
Hi Chris,
House sold today, so well hopefully be down in paradise before Xmas. Scottish offers are binding and it is very rare that a deal falls through. Neighbours cant believe we shifted it so quick, but I suppose thats just the way it goes.
Ive spoken with Nigel before on the phone, and I almost bought a CBA from him several years ago. It had very strong Scottish tuning so I gave it a miss. I do have his address somewhere, and Ill not be very far away from him. Well be down next week viewing houses, and theyre all in Rubery.
My wife cannot remember a laundry in Rubery. She lived there between 1986-1995. The village makes a welcome change from all the hustle and bustle of the city, and we enjoy runs out into the country. Our last dog loved the Lickeys and ran his socks off there. There used to be an ice cream van on The Beacon operated by a chap with a broad Glasgow accent, and he used to mesmerise the kids when they asked for an ice cream by saying Waant a pokey hat? (Would you like an ice cream cone/cornet?)
Some Glasgow people believe everybody in the world can understand their every nuance, and steadfastly refuse to alter their diction, even although they have never lived in Glasgow for decades. That never quite worked for me, and it has been 46 years since I lived in that area.
Dont tell anybody, but Nicola Sturgeon gives us oldies with health issues £10,000 each to go and tax the English NHS system, and its a great help (only kidding!).
Dingo40 pid=67600 dateline=1570609679 said:
John, something to help you to blend in. When you get there?
Or this?
(As far as the accent goes in these clips, I quite like it!)
Personally, I find the accent quite comprehensible. It must be the effect of all the British serials I’ve watched over the years.
Dingo,
Those clips are pretty tame, but they are a decent approximation of what you would be likely to hear.
The accent is often mocked by other UK types, but look up Liverpool in You Tube.
It is a mixture of Lancashire, Irish, and Welsh, and you get such classics as this:-
Der, dey, don do da down dere dese days dough, do dey? (Er, they dont do that down there these days though do they?)
In all other parts of the world, diesel means a type of fuel. However, in Liverpool, it translates as These will. Liverpudlians are colloquially known as Scousers, and a Scouser will typically pick up some old bones at the butchers and say Diesel do de dog! If you have followed my tuition implicitly you should be able to work that one out.
The Liverpool accent shares its passion for replacing th with d along with the accent found in north Dublin.
The Glasgow accent is somewhat similar to the Irish accent from around the Belfast area.
This clip is not very PC, but it is a parody of Indian and Pakistani immigrants remarking on the fact that if no work is available in Belfast you could get the broo. The broo is slang for the old unemployment bureaux in both Belfast and Glasgow. They gave unemployed people benefits on condition that they were actively seeking work, something that would have been unthinkable in India or Pakistan.
Ipanema beach used to be served by a trolleybus route from Belfast, until they moved it further along the road to Rio, and all the trolleybuses sank!
There is accordion music in the clip, so its not far off topic (much).
