"Yes you have. You were born and brought up in Pinner, the epitome of Betjeman's Metroland, then you worked at a central London hospital, or so you've told us all often enough. More recently you have trekked around a succession of faded Victorian English seaside towns. A million miles away from the harsh realities of rural life for real people."


Pinner, for your information, Diane...was known as Pinner Village....and I can remember when it was covered with more fields than houses. It was not 'urban culture'.

I worked in Harley St, then er...I went home to Pinner. I never lived in London, nor partied there.

I have lived in a tiny village in Somerset, with only one shop, in which I worked...and a slightly larger village on Dartmoor....where I watched the few shops closing down, year by year, spoke to the farmers, watched the sheep being driven over the bridge of an evening...so I can assure you that I too know all about village life, and country life, which is why I used to rant on about Show of Hands 'Country Life' so much....a song which you used to moan about and put down, as I recall, and yet, here you are now moaning about shops closing down....well well well...

The faded Victorian seaside towns have poverty running through them in many cases. Again, look up your Show of Hands CDs and you'll find songs about them. No jobs, no good transport links...stuck in the middle of the countryside, albeit on the coast side...life is hard.   

Was Sidmouth filled with 'erban kultcha' then? Did I miss something?
Did you know something about Carina's that I didn't?

Yeesh!