Fish n Chips 56

Thanks for watching Rodney, I hope you liked it, Top Gear is a car show with a twist, Ive been watching it for years, this episode was my favorite.

Easterndawn

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Good for your son, and it will be good for you when you get over here with him here. You are correct there are jobs over here somethimes you may not find the right one right away, but they are here.

GagainPEI

Lucky you. I loved wandering around the cathedral.

I left in 1966 but my family are all still there or living in Little & Great Sutton, Parkgate & Elton. It changed a lot when Vauxhalls moved in. My childhood was spent living on the edge of open countryside but, I still like to see Stanlow lit up at night. I felt the same about Ince power station but that`s gone now.

Thanks Rodney. I've never explored further south in Wales but, based on TV programmes, Pembrokeshire appears to be very beautiful.

Cheers Valerie

cheers

We used to take occasional trips to Parkgate, when I was a child and lived in Liverpool, and we sometimes bought those little paper cups of shrimp that they sold at a stand there. The last time I was there as an adult and had money I indulged in the shrimp and made myself sick. I think it was too rich for my stomach.

We as a family use to take the bus to the Pier Head and take the ferry to Birkenhead and then take the bus to Chester every Sunday. That was a treat. It must have cost my dad a lot of money but he probably enjoyed being with his children. There was four of us. Maybe there were only two because two had already moved to America. (so they lost out) This would be about 1953.

You are right about Vauxhalls having a bad effect on the area and that is why whenever I read in the media with headlines "this will bring 10,000 jobs" a red flag goes up for me. Even the people who get the jobs end up with a life of drudgery with monotonous repetitious work.

Beedubya

Oh I loved Parkgate, went there once with my sister and my mum about 5 years ago, and I loved the whole "strangeness" of it, walking along the tiddly om pom prom, where there is no sea only marshland, quite surreal!! This was when my sister lived in West Kirby, oh I did like it there and am thinking maybe that is somewhere I could be happy living next year, somewhere in the Wirral.

Beedubya

Yes get up North! And of course just in case you missed me going on about it, that's where the beautiful Lake District is!

islandwoman120

Rodney - I am right with you about the moving thing - I was in such a state of nerves just before leaving the USA - I could not believe I was that way, me who could help everyone else with their problems and moving! Yes, me. Nerves galore. Was I doing the right thing, could I manage on my own. Would I miss my 'stuff', how could I share with others when I had lived alone for so many years and lots of other doubts. Yes, I miss my little cottage, no I do not miss MN winter, yes I love the trains and buses, yes I miss my car. Am I homesick - yes, at times, no at times. Hopefully life will settle down soon. Especially as I was able to apply for my Freedom Pass yesterday! So free travel on the horizon at last. That has been my single biggest expenditure to date. Now, using Easterndawn as my mentor, I am off on the next stage - someplace to live, and a job. I decided to stay in the London region, as there are so many jobs available. At least for now. So those who were jealous of me for going to Chester, no need to feel that way. My host in Chester is not available until the new year, and hopefully I wil have a job by that time, so a visit will not work out.

Rosie

Fish n Chips 56

Oh Believe me Barb Im sold on the Lake District now, I Love that Lakeland Cam that I think Sally gave us the link for, I look at it a lot... it looks so peaceful, I love the old stone homes and towns, its like yesteryear and I like that feeling. I Doubt I could afford to live there but still its wonderful, Im a Dreamer...

Ahhhhhhhh there is so much I want to see...

Beedubya

Well you don't have to actually LIVE there, but anybody who goes back to "Broken Britain" and doesn't even visit is truly missing out on one of the most beautiful places on God's Earth. I cannot wait to get up there again next year!! Just 8 months away from getting home but who's counting!!

Fish n Chips 56

Barb, you sound so much happier these days.

GagainPEI

Don't eat shrimps but my treat was the reverse of yours. Bus to Birkenhead & the ferry to Liverpool. My Dad was demobbed from the navy in May 1946 and I'm told, when he walked through the door, he said "I'm never leaving this house again". No holidays, no trips with him either. He did take us fishing with him to Backford ONCE. We were too noisy & never went again.

Yes. Vauxhalls completely altered the town. The countryside near my home was taken for a new road to all the new housing estates, the ants moved to nest near us and it took years to get rid of them. It did bring more jobs but also a lot of new people and changed the accent forever.

When I took my Mum & aunties out for a meal earlier this year, the waitress asked them where had they come from. They have lived there all their lives & speak with a Cheshire accent.

Valerie

GagainPEI

Hi Barb

Since I posted that this morning I talked to my Mum. Roger had just visited her to let her know he was moving out of Parkgate to West Kirby next month.

Life moves fast!. Oh & she's going to be a great-great grandmother next year, which means my brother is going to be a gg-grandfather at 63 (shakes head).

Valerie

cheers

So Rosie lets study London as I have in the recent past. I tried St Johns Wood which looks like a nice area and I decided for me a studio would be alright because I don't plan on entertaining. In your case you would want to consider being close to your place of work and it would be nice if you could walk to work. As for the car, have you check into the car share system? There are a lot of places were they are parked in London. I'm sure you don't want the expense of owning one.

Thanks for the update! I don't think you have posted any pictures lately?

Have you picked up a London accent yet? Put another way, if you wanted to cover up your US accent for a brief conversation, could you do it? Sometimes it pays to avoid your accent when you ask someone something because the other person is distracted by the accent and is not listening to the question you are asking.

I can see how you can save 'mucho' money with the pass for the bus and thats why I would consider London and also as you said the availability of jobs thing. And I see lots of room on the buses that pass the Abbey Road Webcam.

Cheers

Beedubya

I do feel better just lately, could it be because I have decided to go HOME?

Beedubya

WOW!!! That is some greats!!