September 1

Mix

Posted at 2:36 PM

  • I just upgraded Movable Type. Them kind Six Apart lads and lasses have given me a free developer’s support licence – aren’t they nice? It means I don’t pay a thing but I can occasionally pester them via email to ask how their pet rabbit’s doing and such like.
  • My church’s holiday club finished today, but is it really finished?1 There’s a service on Sunday morning to come, followed by a(nother) barbecue.
  • Saturday evening I’m off to a party in some small town up north2 in which I may be taught to play the harp if I’m lucky.
  • Sunday finds me, after the barbecue, on another trip to London. A St Helen’s service, then staying the night with the guy who ran the last camp I went on. Japan debrief in the morning, followed by an afternoon with a Penguin. I return home to a very long sleep.
  • Talking of penguins…
  1. Apologies for the Mighty Boosh in-joke.
  2. By up north, I mean north of Oxford. About twenty miles or so.

Currently listening to The Guillemots – Made-Up Lovesong #43

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Comments

  1. You wanna All Soul’s it up Sunday Evening don’t you. I maybe there!

    Mark on

  2. Much as I would love to, I have many people to see at St Helen’s (such as my hosts for the evening, without whom I’m bedless). Definitely some other Sunday though. (Life would be so much simpler if I was going to uni in London…)

    Matthew on

  3. You have to go much further for it to be classed as ‘up north’, try north of Birmingham…..and even then it’s debatable.

    David on

  4. Obviously, I jest. According to a random friend of my brother’s who I was talking to when I received notification of your comment, north is anywhere beyond Leeds. (I have temporarily forgotten where Leeds is, so I may or may not agree with this statement.)

    Matthew on

  5. The line North / Midlands (not North / South) runs somewhere from between Manchester and Chester to between Sheffield and Nottingham. So Manchester and Sheffield are only just in the North. That makes sense to me.

    Mark on

  6. The North is anywhere in counties Antrim, Down, Armagh, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry. The other 26 counties are Down South.

    Everyone knows that!

    John on

  7. Of course, the northernmost point of Northern Ireland is actually south of the northernmost point of the Republic of Ireland. Everyone knows that little factoid.

    Another way of determining the North/South divide is by using linguistic isoglosses, such as the “foot/strut” split and the “Sam/psalm” merger. But of course, everyone knows that too.

    Rory on

  8. Quite.

    Matthew on

  9. And the northern most point of England is actually further north than the northern most point of Wales.

    The North isn’t about geography. It’s about “us” and “them”… It’s about sheep and goats… It’s about crispy pancakes and fillet mignon!

    John on