Oop North

Spent most of this week in a delightful little northern town near Oldham,
called Chadderton.

What a dump.

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

My ex-out-laws live not far from there.

Grim, it is.

 

<snip>

Well I like it up here and it's not compulsary to drink shandy, like it is
for southerners.

 

It could have been a lot worse - Todmorden for example.

 

Never been there (or anywhere else up north either), but it sounds grim.

The whole experience has depressed me.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Depends where you go. I took the bike to work yesterday and was in a
great mood all day after riding in through green hilly countryside, and
looking forward to the same on the way back.

The only thing that slightly spoiled the whole experience was an
incident in a section of double white lines. I was making progress
along this nice wide road, peeled into a gentle left and set up for the
approaching tighter right. Got round the bend to find a Vectra on my
side of the road overtaking. Managed to swerve round him and carry on,
thinking "jesus, that could've hurt". Pondered whether to take it easy
for a bit, but decided to make use of the extra adrenaline and carried
on. Made up for that by doing a kd lap of a new but muddy roundabout.
That felt odd, but nicely silly.

All that in mind, don't go through Darwen. The only reason for it
being there appears to be to play host to "Pip's Pantry", although I've
not dared stop long enough to find out what's available.

 

I did. He was rubbish.

Well, pants, obviously.

 

There are some nice roads around Todmorden. Pretty, too.

 

It is.

Shoulda let us northerners know you were coming up, we could've had a
coupla beers.
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
96 Tiger.
FRJACK AT GMAIL DOT COM

 

Ah the Staff of Life. Top pub.

 

<snip>

Why don't we just do that anyway?
I'm up for a few beers.

 

"The North"

 

Heh, I would have done, 'cept I was working until late and the MD would have
tagged along.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

The only thing I know about Darwen is there is a paint factory there.

Says it all I guess.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

I have friends who live there. It's a lively place on a pub crawl on
friday nights. Ditto Blacknburn. Lots of biker rock night type venues,
good real ale and plenty of lether and lace to gawp at

 

Oldbloke says...

My BiL works there.

 

eww, Crown Paint.

They were a competitor when I worked for Sigma Paints in Buckingham.


--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)