Made for over 100 years? I'm surprised they sell any, if it takes that long to make...

Hello crrbllsweetie I don't think I've welcomed you yet. I don't suppose you have a name that's easier to type? Or an abbreviation? I commonly get struck down with the myspelling vyrus so the simpler the better really...

How did you know about the building sites PSD? Sand in places it shouldn't be? ;)



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smells nice on mixing day though I've never tasted it

I used to live over the roundabout from there, and down the road, and round the corner too to think of it...

am miles away now

BTW, I don't think I mentioned where I'm from when I posted earlier...

I'm in the States (USA), more specifically in Michigan (the state on the border with Canada, that's surrounded by huge lakes and shaped like a mitten).

I was lucky enough to meet Jasper last month (as was AAC) during his US book tour, which was great fun. There are threads about it (some with pictures) further down the page (or by now more likely on one of the "older messages" pages).

Oh, and I've been a Fforde Ffan since a friend lent me The Eyre Affair to read last September. I was sufficiently impressed that once I found out the next book was already out in Britian, I ordered it by mail immediately. Worked nicely, since I was then able to lend it to the chap who had lent me TEA in the first place.



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Ahh, Michigan, the "mitten state..." Now I'm going to have to start calling my Michiganese friend Mighty Mitten Girl! Seriously, Magda, I bet the Brits here don't know the location of Mich, cuz I sure have zero idea where Yorkshire is. Then again, I'm an arrogant American.

Sarah and all y'all-
Call me whateva you want. Emma works.

- Currer Bell (whose real name is Emma)



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gee, and I thought Currer Bell's real name was Charlotte... <wink>

o gee, you blew my cover!



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Andrea: the roundabout next to the Henderson's Relish factory is a bit different now. It has a tunnel underneath for the trams to go through. Sheffield trams are cool.

Oh Boy and don't I know

I lived in the flats there when they were building it, we had diggers digging 24 hours a day 7 days a week for weeks, pictures fell off the wall, my daughters toys rattled on the windowsills.

We moved before they finally got it working, now I live near a train station and get into town almost as quick as I did from there.

Emma is good.

And I know where Michagan is! It's north of Texas!

(Yeah well, I never was all that good at geography)



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Why yes, it is north of Texas. Of course, so is 3/4 of the country....

Actually, living in Michigan is nice, since I can pick it out easily on a globe even when there are no borders. It's conveniently mostly surrounded by the Great Lakes.

Of course, one can find Britian on a map the same way. Being surrounded by water can be handy that way.



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Yup, certainly. It's harder to point out a specific county on Britain on a world map though than it is an American state. They're all so very tiny...



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Yorkshire is easy
it's bang in the middle



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

So where's Birmingham?

Right in the middle.

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Left of the middle surely... (West Midlands)

I suspect Andrea was talking about Yorkshire being the centre of the Universe - as all right minded people know !

I can spot Scotland....I can actually spot my town, cos it's an ickle sticky outy nose thing. Hah.



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'Lo folks! Thought I would join the spate of newcomers and introduce myself... clairet; live in Edinburgh; currently without management (cat); Originally from Oz (where cat still resides)...:-)

Hi Clairet, and welcome to the Fforum! Sorry about the cat. :-(



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Sarah

Yes, but Birmingham is the middle of the left of the middle. <clutches head> Correct me if I'm wrong, Ben!

Hello Clairet. Welcome to the mad house!



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Aye. I'll give you that. (Although why you think asking Ben for confirmation will lend credence to your story I'll never know !)

BTW: Hi Clairet.

Spotting Leeds is also quite easy. London (Thames estuary between Essex and Kent) and Edinburgh (Firth of Forth). Draw a straight line between the two and Leeds is exactly halfway.

Probably as informative to Brits as anyone else. The number of people who think Leeds is next to Edinburgh is incredible - although they were largely Cambridge oiks whose ignorance is amazing.

Because... Ben lives there?

Um, otherwise I'm stuck. I must have been having a moment. ;)



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