North/South Divide in Pictures

[GetCarter]

sleep envy said:

I heard summer arrived early up north this year, on a Wednesday. Last year it was Thursday IIRC.

You've obviously never lived here have you! FYI - 2012.... one of the driest and sunniest on record for the West Highlands & Hebrides. By the looks of the news, you seem to have had a bit of rain down south.

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 29th December 08:00

[Spitfire2]

GetCarter said:

You've obviously never lived here have you! FYI - 2012.... one of the driest and sunniest on record for the West Highlands & Hebrides. By the looks of the news, you seem to have had a bit of rain down south.

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 29th December 08:00

had 2 trips to the NE this summer with tent and car. June in and around Gairloch and August stayed in Applecross for couple of nights. Proper lovely weather both times.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

GetCarter said:

North: (It was 28C when I took this by the way)

...with this view:

Edited by GetCarter on Friday 28th December 17:41

GetCarter please stop posting that picture. I've seen it a few times now and I'm experiencing some view-envy.

[CommanderJameson]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

GetCarter said:

North: (It was 28C when I took this by the way)

...with this view:

Edited by GetCarter on Friday 28th December 17:41

GetCarter please stop posting that picture. I've seen it a few times now and I'm experiencing some view-envy.

Quite agree. I'm thinking of driving up there and surreptitiously replacing his current cameras with a Kodak disc camera from 1988. That'll learn 'im.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

CommanderJameson said:

Quite agree. I'm thinking of driving up there and surreptitiously replacing his current cameras with a Kodak disc camera from 1988. That'll learn 'im.

I'm thinking of applying for planning permission for an enormous windfarm up on that hill.

That'll really learn 'im.

Edited by CharlesdeGaulle on Saturday 29th December 14:42

[turbobloke]

Kermit power said:

I don't think it's particularly cherry-picked, is it? It looks like it's basically the Severn/Trent line adjusted for the closest constituency borderlines?



ETA - Maybe it could've gone a bit straighter between Grimsby & Lincoln, but being a rural area, I'd imagine the constituencies are pretty big up there?

Agreed.

TheHeretic said:

turbobloke said:

TheHeretic said:

Seems a bit of a cherry picking line as well.

Yes indeed. That was the point of the carefully chosen line, dividing the country as it does.

So a bit of pointless number peddling? I thought you would be wary of such things?

but you miss the point I think.

Identifying where the north-south divide is, will vary depending on what is being divided. There may well be a different line for income, life expectancy, average house price, or whatever.

Each might be described as cherry picking or pointless but that misses the purpose, and there is a point to it.

[mat777]

Based on my experiences....

North:







South(west):

[Studio117]

north:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58

south:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60nEMZeHim8

[Blib]

North.

[yooffullchav]

mat777 said:

Based on my experiences....

North:







South(west):

You may have missed your point about the north, as the Anderson Boat Lift is one seriously cool bit of engineering.

[Black can man]

My personal favourite

[smifffymoto]

Seeing as you are sticking up for the North,we will let you off with a warning.
It is the Anderton boat lift,funnily enough in Anderton near Northwich.

[yooffullchav]

smifffymoto said:

Seeing as you are sticking up for the North,we will let you off with a warning.
It is the Anderton boat lift,funnily enough in Anderton near Northwich.

Ahh, i knew it was something like that

[WorAl]

smifffymoto said:

Seeing as you are sticking up for the North,we will let you off with a warning.
It is the Anderton boat lift,funnily enough in Anderton near Northwich.

So down south then?

[mat777]

smifffymoto said:

Seeing as you are sticking up for the North,we will let you off with a warning.
It is the Anderton boat lift,funnily enough in Anderton near Northwich.

Oh, I didnt realise this was a thread for saying the north was worse than the south, I thought it was just for contrasting them in photos.

[ArsE92]

Studio117 said:

north:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58

south:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60nEMZeHim8

Is there a point in there somewhere?!

[GetCarter]

swerni said:

2012 saw four whole days without rain and two of them were consecutive.

It's gone down in the record books

You have to understand that the Highlands is a BIG place! It can be pissing down in one part of the highlands and dry in another. Scalewise, a bit like London/Manchester. We had 17 consecutive days in May alone here - A further 9 in June.

FYI

Islanders urged to save water 12/7/12

Islanders are being offered free devices for their toilet cisterns in a desperate drive to save water as an unprecedented drought continues in the Hebrides.

In stark contrast to the torrential washout elsewhere in the country (Meaning Scotland... ED) the Hebrides are experiencing an extended dry spell with no real rain for months.

From: http://www.hebrides-news.com/western-isles-water-s...

Edited by GetCarter on Monday 31st December 11:36

[Urban Sports]

North



South

[Kermit power]

Urban Sports said:

North



South

So the North is Belgian fizzy pisswater, and the South is Northern bitter shandy?

[CommanderJameson]

Burton-on-Trent is not in The North.