Liverpool/Manchester

[The Lone Gunman]

Baggy!!! SSSShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. They will all want to come!

Tell them about the constant rain and the cobbled motorways. Tell them about the longest running documentary on TV called Coronation Street, tell them anything, but dont tell them its good.

[someone has my name]

So where up north,, is a good place to live? commutable distance between Manchester and Liverpool? ... was looking at Haydock? anygood?
(and whats in a hot pot?)

[chef]

well..

Lancashire hotpot is a culinary dish consisting essentially of meat, onion and potatoes left to bake in the oven all day in a heavy pot and on a low heat. Originating in the days of heavy industrialisation in Lancashire in the north west of England, it requires a minimum of effort to prepare. It is sometimes served at parties in England, because it is easy to prepare for a large number of people and is relatively inexpensive..

The basic recipe consists of a mix made up of meat, vegetables (carrot, turnip, potatoes, onion or leek) then covered with sliced potato or pastry. The type of meat to be used in a true Lancashire hotpot is a matter of some controversy, with many being of the opinion that it should be lamb (with optional lamb kidneys) and some thinking it should be beef. As much food can be added as will fit in the pot.

Chef

[Bagpuss]

So where up north,, is a good place to live? commutable distance between Manchester and Liverpool? ... was looking at Haydock? anygood?
(and whats in a hot pot?)

Haydock is nothing much really, head a bit further down the a50 toward Knutsford

Baggy!!! SSSShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. They will all want to come!

Tell them about the constant rain and the cobbled motorways. Tell them about the longest running documentary on TV called Coronation Street, tell them anything, but dont tell them its good.

But coronation street is a documentary we all talk like that, ee by gum, t'hoven, happen etc. Just when yorkshire descended over the penninies I'm not sure. Perhaps it's because they don't teach geography at drama school?

[Fred Bloggs]

head a bit further down the a50 toward Knutsford

Pretty posh there.

[thunderlizard]

What's in hotpot

A difficult question to answer because the purpose of it is to make a hot filling meal out of whatever bits you've got lying around. Still, it would be an odd hotpot that didn't have mainly potatoes, carrots and onions. Meat if you've got some - bacon's popular but bits of beef would do to. Never actually heard of one with kidneys or other offal, but it would be in the spirit of hotpot.

They used to have oysters in them, back in the days when they used to wash up on Morecambe beach and were cheaper than meat.

& being a Lancashire lad, I'm ashamed to admit it, but when London restaurants make it it's always much better than the native version!

[Bagpuss]

Pretty posh there.

Good enough as a backdrop for Brideshead Revisited

[scooterscot]

its terrible up here in manchester, haven't you heard?

- nothing to see here, no need to come visit and check

in fact just stay in/around london it's far nicer and the people dont talk to you, you'll love it there.. plus,
- we have no electricity or anything up here

Electricity?! You were lucky... Back home in the north north we had to make do with candle power and then we thought we were lucky.

Aye back in those days things were though but we woz happy. Aye.

[SizeZero]

So where up north,, is a good place to live? commutable distance between Manchester and Liverpool? ... was looking at Haydock? anygood?
(and whats in a hot pot?)

Haydock is a former mining community; even mentioning Thatcher there could lead to confrontation. Standish is about 2 junctions further up the M6 and is a much nicer town,

[Spacecadet]

Electricity?! You were lucky... Back home in the north north we had to make do with candle power and then we thought we were lucky.

Aye back in those days things were though but we woz happy. Aye.

Candles?? you don't know you were born lad!

We had to make do with knocking a nail against a stone and seein' by t'flashes from sparks like.
unfortunately our kev was epileptic but we didna mind, watchin' him shakin beat any tv program