please empty your brain below
Sounds all rather good fun.
Like Crouch End folk that refer to the area as 'Highgate Borders', the affectation of Jaywick being 'South Clacton' is hilarious!

Frank F | 30.07.23 - 7:33 a.m. | #

Lots of those affectations on names - out to the east the sprawl that is Hainault is "Chigwell"

Rob Gullen | 30.07.23 - 8:25 a.m. | #

In a reverse of that, I've heard Greenwich being referred to as Upper Deptford.

paul robert draper | 30.07.23 - 9:06 a.m. | #

You’ve captured drinking outdoors this time of year - "I order a hot chocolate with marshmallows and try not to share it with a succession of wasps." I had a lovely cider last weekend that I tried not to share with a succession of wasps as well.

Greg | 30.07.23 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Presumably the new phone mast is also in preparation for BT switching off the reliable, resilient, hard-wired landline phone network in favour of something that only works as long as there’s a wi-fi signal and not at all if there’s a power cut (which, of course, we never have).

dg writes: no.

A fair few other wi-fi blackspots across the UK still in need of masts too.

Labourer | 30.07.23 - 11:32 a.m. | #

For many years I lived a mile or so outside an air force base. For the most part it was daily military manoeuvres but every few years they put on a big display display for which we had a prime, uninterrupted view of the approach from our back garden.
Not hearing the approach of the stealth bomber and suddenly seeing it right in front of us outlined against the cloudless sky was a real wow moment!

Cornish Cockney | 30.07.23 - 11:36 a.m. | #

"I've heard Greenwich being referred to as Upper Deptford."

I've lived in the area for 50 years next month and I've never heard of "Upper Deptford".

And Greenwich is downstream of Deptford so it would be Lower Deptford, if anything. But it's not

AlanBG | 30.07.23 - 3:13 p.m. | #

I can now confirm that a 'car boot sale' in this part of the world involves no car boots, just a lot of front gardens across the village. It's a bit like orienteering but the checkpoints are clusters of tables attempting to sell old toys and the contents of sheds.

We bought some CDs, a notebook and two bacon baps. Nobody bought Dad's lawnmower.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.07.23 - 6:25 p.m. | #

AlanBG, I don't think the person who made the remark was thinking in geographical terms.

paul robert draper | 31.07.23 - 7:39 a.m. | #

I heard a cab driver poshing up his south London area as St. Reatham.

James Webber | 31.07.23 - 6:58 p.m. | #











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