Anyone In The UK

[ivanrocks321]

Hi guys just started work here in the UK and moved from New York, was posted to Barrow In Furness its located in the Lake District was wondering if there are any members around the area perhaps a set up a meet? I got one of Kerry new designed estate amps if anyone wants a listen?   

[Kerry]

Good luck with everything Ivan  

[Craig Sawyers]

Ah - the Lake District. Perfect and Idyllic area. I've been up about 80 of the fells there (there are over 200 of them all told), and pre-covid we'd holiday there twice a year, and hire a cottage as a walking base.

It is about 5-6 hours drive from where we are.

If you plan to do some walking there, be careful. I'm a trained walk leader, and even I can get caught out!

 

[HiWire]

I'd like to visit there some day. It lives in my imagination thanks to Swallows and Amazons!

[ivanrocks321]

Im also down to maybe setup a regional meet elsewhere as well im not to familiar with the UK only been around Manchester, London and Newcastle Upon Thyme. Perfect way to see the country as long as people are interested  

Edited September 11, 2021 by ivanrocks321

[Craig Sawyers]

Newcastle - that is where I'm from. How did you get on with understanding the Geordie dialect?

[ivanrocks321]

On 9/12/2021 at 8:05 AM, Craig Sawyers said:

Newcastle - that is where I'm from. How did you get on with understanding the Geordie dialect?

Very well I studied at Newcastle for a few years actually on the Northumbria university campus 

[Craig Sawyers]

My accent has got a lot softer after several decades away from the North East.

Geordie actually has a lot of words and phrases from the dark ages invaders from Denmark, Sweden and Norway (5% of my DNA is Norwegian). I'm gannin hyem for going home is exactly the same phonetically in Danish, as is bairn for child. Fell for hill or mountain is from the Norwegian fjell, and a splinter of wood in your finger in Geordie is a spelk, from Swedish spel to chop wood. It even lives on in science as the word spallation, in which a proton beam is smashed into a tunsten target to produce a neutron beam - the proton chops the neutron out.

[ivanrocks321]

1 hour ago, Craig Sawyers said:

My accent has got a lot softer after several decades away from the North East.

Geordie actually has a lot of words and phrases from the dark ages invaders from Denmark, Sweden and Norway (5% of my DNA is Norwegian). I'm gannin hyem for going home is exactly the same phonetically in Danish, as is bairn for child. Fell for hill or mountain is from the Norwegian fjell, and a splinter of wood in your finger in Geordie is a spelk, from Swedish spel to chop wood. It even lives on in science as the word spallation, in which a proton beam is smashed into a tunsten target to produce a neutron beam - the proton chops the neutron out.

No wonder it definitely was very unique from a lot of places in the UK