Walking and Climbing

I hate that so-called Wainwright voice-over. Its a sort of generic Northern accent/drawl or possibly somewhere in Yorkshire near Cleckhuddersfax and nothing like Blackburn at all. ....   and he hopes to encourage people to visit the Lake District .. yet even more people....    gasp....    (sorry - had a bit of a rant there...)

Aye , why is it a mild yorkshire accent , its nowt like a blackburn  accent . Do thy not know we can tell wur yu from wi  it roun ere.

Get up them thur sturs.

The whole idea of a Podcast rubbish. There's enough problems with people setting off up the Fells unprepared. This can only add to them.

Dave from Dave & Edith Browns walking diary

It does say 1100 feet of ascent.....not the height

Dave 

I like to walk in the lakes, I dont really know what a podcast is, nor do I have much knowledge of Wainwright. But I just listened on line to that fella - sounds OK to me, in fact it has sparked an interest in Wainwright that I never had before - so it must be doing something worthwhile.

WRT accent being Yorkshire / Blackburn etc etc, Anything north of, say Bristol, sounds pretty much the same to me so it wouldn't really matter. Although if there was, for example, a Somerset accent being used to read Dartmoor related stuff I would probably be fairly irritated so I can sympathise with your views there.

It does sound good, but I still dont know what a podcast is or does - and I have sneaky feeling that if I did I wouldn't use it anyway. 

 Edit: of course if some 'Somerset person' was reading something related to the area that brought new interest and people to visit I should only be too glad - supporting local economy, widening area knowledge, sharing information, bringing literature to those who wouldn't ordinarily have access to it.

Just thought I'd make that clear before I get the somerset mafia coming down here to set my barn alight and steal my smock and floppy hat....

Two horror stories in the local paper last night

1) Wainwrights voice over. His ashes must be turning in circles

2) Charity walk in Kielder forest for the B H F (I wonder how many will finish up with heart trouble after walking in winter in Kielder)

Cush

Perhaps not so much now FB but in my youth and before ( my father was 50 when I was born and there was no telly and few had cars , tin baths once a week , outside loos and shoebox for a bed) it was easy to tell where you were from even if only from another valley just a few miles away  . The local accents were very strong and very unique to themselves . i.e. in no way could a bacup accent be confused with a Tod accent  yet go to littleborough and it changes again to a sharper nearer to rochdale "city" twang. The other way to blackburn the vowels become fuller(like yorks accent) but  unlike yorkshire the speech is faster .(perhaps not compared to southerners ). My Susan from blackburn thinks that west yorkshire folk speak so slowly that they sound like extras from a zombie movie .

See how I brought a zombie reference in on Halloween.

That was very clever jonno....

Similarly in the South West  - Plymouthian is entirely different to Torbay as is Exeter. But we live in a more exceptable sort of society these days where somebody from Tavistock should be treated as an equally as - hmmmmmmmmm - No your right it does matter!

re: tin baths and shoe boxes - YOU WERE LUCKY