I remember our local bakers on Chillingham Road (McGees) being taken over by Greggs in the 1980s. We always used to call it Elsies before and after the sale, as a lovely woman called Elsie who worked… (View Post)

They're good at division. (View Post)

My views of Sunderland are somewhat coloured by growing up in Newcastle, and also by some friends getting quite badly beaten up there, essentially for looking and sounding a bit different from the lo… (View Post)

Really? I can imagine through the SE of England maybe feels quite complete and self contained, if you've grown up there perhaps you have no great wish to travel further afield. We have family an… (View Post)

Only 199 for me. I think I've been everywhere in Great Britain with the exception of the very far north of Scotland and that big bit in the middle of Wales. No Isles of Man or Wight, only Down i… (View Post)