On that subject Dave, did you pack a pair of waders when you were up Pendle the other day? I take it you were early enough not to go ugly early ?

I was there recently. (Sorry, you know what's coming but some might not have heard it.) I saw a bloke bent double over a sheep. "Are you shearing?" I innocently asked. 'Norr, find yer own bloody sheep."

What I find funny about the "humour" of this thread is that if this was visual, presumably they'd all get blacked up to deliver the punch lines..   About as prosaic as when The Black and White Minstrels did a Woody Guthrie number.