Sorry, I've got a writing block on at the moment. It happens from time to time.
I was tickled by a short piece in the The Times on Sunday last weekend which detailed the 'well read' towns in Britain according to Amazon.
If your knee-jerk reaction suggests a university town then you'd be right with Cambridge in second place (Huntingdon was first - probably too much time and too much money) but the real surprised was, - wait for it -, Doncaster, the only town in the charts in the north of England.
Why are us northerners so illiterate?
Because we're too busy walking our whippets and cleaning out the racing pigeons to read owt other than the Sun newspaper.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Thanks Jean.
ReplyDeleteProbably written by a jealous southerner anyway .....
ReplyDeleteMaybe those canny northerners use libraries instead of purchasing books - v.responsible & green. Or maybe they just don't buy all their books from Amazon - maybe 'gasp' they buy from REAL BOOKshops. I remember reading a piece in a national newspaper that said far more northerners went to university than Londoners (probably cos you don't need a degree to be a City wideboy). I don't think Northerners are any more illiterate than us southern softies & anyway what do Amazon mean by well read - "50 Shades of Grey"? I don't think so. BTW I am jealous - I want a whippet :(
ReplyDeleteThat's it, 50 Shades............that's how Donnies get their kicks. Have started a whippet fund tricia. It won't be long, mine are breeding.
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