How to Get By in Geordie

thanks how's everybody have you had a good day so far yeah all good right okay um we'll just get cracking for some reason ben in his wisdom thought it would be a good idea to uh have this crackers talk about how to speak geordie um so the first thing i need to know really is is that apart from ben are there any other geordies because if you're all geordi's this is going to be completely pointless i'll assume not um so let's see if i can uh share my screen here and see if we can get going okay all right hopefully you can all see that [Music] there we go so how to get by and joy right okay well

i'm not i'm not a linguist expert as you uh as you'll find out but this is just a bit of a laugh really so we'll uh we'll crack on with it so here's some famous jordies when they were younger does anybody uh anybody know who any of these people are so you can uh you can offer think about that and then i can't hear anybody else so you're awesome to be on beauty so i'll let you uh maybe answer in the uh in the comments on slack or send your answers on a postcard but then whatever you want to do um but there's just some favorite stories there's a lot of famous john it's not

just uh not just footballers and actors and actresses but musicians and all different kinds of people but we'll let you answer some of those questions so to learn how to speak jordi there's actually only three phrases that you need to know and the first one is kawasaki so if you can say kawasaki then you're on your way the next phrase is coca-cola so if you can say coca-cola and kawasaki you're onto a good start the next one after that is chicken tikka masala so this is 18 yeah hey i think we should get people off me and i think they should start joining in because you know this should be that's fine uh

okay ben's not he's allowed to to touch anything that's probably a sensible thing to do on many counts yeah and also um i don't know

if you're on slack and you're at home i want you to be saying this out loud to your families absolutely yeah so our only person here is you sam so you take it away i'll have a go so do you want to say chicken tikka masala the way i'd normally say it or do you want me to say it with my terrible have a go at jordi accent how about have a go let's see here that's not bad what about kawasaki kawasaki caller i'm going down the shop okay so where does all this come from obviously there's lots of different dialects in the uh in the english language and most of them are actually influenced by anglo-saxon

the difference with geordie and most of the northeast dialects is not they're actually heavily influenced by um danish and uh and german and the kind of scandinavian uh languages and there's actually some words um that are very very similar so the word yen or hem which is a danish word means home and it actually means exactly the same thing in danish and these these words are still um you know they're still in use in uh in modern day danish and some parts of germany and obviously scandinavia as i mentioned now there's lots and lots of different um theories about where geordi actually comes from and these are just a couple of the uh a couple of the more common ones so

george you know jordy is a shortening of our nickname for george and george was a very common name amongst uh you know miners and people that worked on the pit so and this bit here about the uh about the the name jordy given to george so george stevenson is a famous uh north eastern inventor and uh engineer and he came up with a lamp to put these guys down in the pits at the same time as humphrey davy did um davey's lamp is what what's most commonly known as the people up here obviously use the uh the george stevenson lamp and the you know people they say are people uh refer to that as johnny johnny's lump

whether that's true or not there's a bit of um you know some people say that it's actually made up but uh but a bit about george and jordy that's definitely true and then the other kind of theory is uh based around this thing that i had this kind of um we favored in this part of the world the uh the hanoverian king um whose name was also george and um again obviously geordi there's a shortener or a nickname for that and uh the one you know the people i fought for for that king in in some of the wars and things that were going on at the time were known as jordi's boys so there you go but never mind that anyway

that's where it comes from it's interesting that the uh the actual dialect itself is um there's a northeastern dialect but then within north eastern there's jordi's and um magnums who are people that come from sunderland um smoggies who are people who come from middlesbrough and t side and then there's this strange area of the northeast called ocean and that's a completely different language again in itself and its action is actually about radical 10 miles or so to the northeast of newcastle on uh towards the coast and it's um it's if you ever have the misfortune of going there there's some very very strange language going on there and we'll touch on that in a minute but

here's some of the basics for you some basic words um we're not obviously going to go through all of them um but we have you know words like dead for example instead of saying dead we say deed and you you pronounce it as you say it so deed same thing with head and not heed so if you ever go to a place called gateshead which is in between newcastle and south shields which is where i'm from um you don't go to gateshead you go to gateshead um you've probably seen the word now that's obviously no and now what's going on here so garland there's another word that's on there so yeah you see i've used that there so you've got gun

gunning and gunner which is go going and going there so lots of different words that's a popular one i haven't gotten out means i don't have anything but i've put this word at the bottom here on the bottom left hand side you'll see that there the word settle now that's a strange word because it has two completely different meanings so fatal is a word that we use to describe our health or our state of mind so you say how are you i mean fine foul but fatal also means to tinker with or to fix something so and again it comes from the pits so the uh you know the the blacksmith who who worked with a pit he would be known

as a fetler and he would actually be the person that you would take stuff to to fix um so you would fatlit so there you go a bit of a strange word but it's actually probably my favorite uh my favorite word in the uh in the vernacular so there we go so now we need to actually learn how to uh to talk proper and you can see that i've got geordi's macro smoggies and persons from washington um absolutely completely different dialect and to the untrained ear it probably all sends us in but it's um you know when you when you're kind of from these parts it's uh it's it's very very distinct differences between the uh the different

dialects and people get really really really offended if you uh if you're from middlesbrough for example and you happen to be taught him and somebody says to you oh you were jordy that's not a good thing and jordy's you know i've had it done to me especially when i lived in london where you where you're from i'm from uh from newcastle oh you're like i'm no i'm not i'm definitely definitely a journey now just interestingly enough there's a bit of a boundary uh geography thing going on here so as i mentioned there before i'm from a place called south shields which is just a coastal town um just a bit south of uh newcastle and

in south shields it's not a very big place about 75 80 000 people live here but it's it's split pretty much half and half between macrams and jordi's so you've got jordies who tend to support newcastle united obviously or the tune as you might have heard them called and then you put your macros who are sunderland supporters and they play at the stadium of shite there you go right so now we'll get on to uh some useful phrases like you all need to learn so i'm just going to open this here and hopefully

sorry there we go and you don't want that document you want policies for this i should have prepared better for this where are we right i want my little document for a moment there we go can you all still see that yeah hopefully okay so again i'm not going to go through all of these and what i'll do is i'll send them all i'll send all of this to ben if anybody actually wants a copy of this um i can still see just that slide is there something that's supposed to have opened yeah a word document can you not see that it's not i know okay sorry right just bear with me then i'll stop sharing

i'll stop sharing that and i'll start trying again with me all right here we go right is that better that's wonderful there we go all right so as i said i'm not going to go through all of these because there's quite a few of them but it's just some of the more kind of popular ones so the first one is our reit or our eight which obviously means all right um and it's a greeting so are we pet way he got it so that means it actually means hello where are you going um then that's another word that's actually still used in uh derived from the danish word for fought for for a child which is actually

born um so ben is a child so the ben's having a proper radgie and that means the bends you know the kids going crackers over something excuse me that's another popular one that's just any kind of food any food at all so um interestingly enough another thing that we're trying to do differently up here it says here in this in the usage roll on dinner time and proper climbing from ebay so that means rolling on lunchtime i'm really hungry and i need some food but interestingly in this part of the world dinner time is actually lunch time and dinner time is tea time so you have your breakfast in the morning your dinner at lunchtime

and your tea and dinner thing there you go um i'll scroll down some of these so we can skip through them

green that's a good one that's uh obviously the color brown but it's also the famous north eastern uh famous newcastle brew newcastle bronille which i'm sure you you may have well heard of and that's bruno i'm sure you've all heard the word charva yeah which is uh which is used to uh describe uh what does it say here describes as a younger a young lower class person that's uh terrible wasn't it with brush brush and loudest behavior clement very hungry

now there's a there's a there's a good word doing that's a that's a a very distinct word that you only ever hear up here and uh actually i will ever hear it from newcastle and arsene in that type of area and it just basically means that someone is an idiot um what else have we got hardaway that's a good one not to be confused with the the trinidadian german musician who had a big hit in the 90s with what is love hardaway has you know used to convey a sense of disbelief and it's commonly paired with the word shite so halloween shite means corn on your bike you've got to be kidding us [Music] um

that's a good word a nice term of endearment usually usually reserved for your wife or your girlfriend uh or else we've got cats now some people say cats or underwear but they're not it's definitely sweet

uh mara that's a term for friend so fancy a point mara more means very drunk almost problem or less need also you can use you know for drinking things you can should we go out tonight and uh have a few beverages and get really drunk might be uh translated into something like uh holly a lot gonna lush and get proper more

that's a good one very very tired or exhausted um please pudding uh these puddings are something that you're getting at greg's study and you have a proper ham and peas pudding sandwich fantastic i'll just scroll through some of these kind of the problem there's a good friend shy burns getting out popping on all the same as it says there if you don't ask you don't get uh what else we've got there you go the lush that's what i was seeing there before he got new on the last of the neat tune as we uh spoke about before that's that just that's the newcastle so where you got it to talk to steel pinch and then probably the most famous uh

scene why i might so an expression of agreement which which just means yes of course are we going to the bonnie lord why are we where are mine and there's the m at the bottom which is also sometimes friends with the nature in front of it here so i'm going in the m i'll prop up so lots of useful phrases there which as i said i'll send all these to ben and you can uh on them all out here if you want if you really really really want them uh right back to the uh the slides right i think we're one early at the end yes okay so if you want to explore this a bit further

there's some youtube links here um which are some good examples so if anybody watched game of thrones which lots of people did there's a character in there played by a great artist called liam cunningham and his current has double seaworth so if you click on this youtube link you'll you'll be able to see a really really good example of somebody who's not from the area doing a really really good journey accent and then of course the classic alveolar pet which i'm sure many of you seen um that's just a little link to a funny scene in that and then the final one if you really really want to check this out and get a bit of the oceans so

they yeah i thought about ashes and being completely different to uh doesn't resemble even geordi sometimes there's a we've talked about miners and and the uh the term geordi coming from the mains as you you may well be aware there's absolutely loads on the wasp lords of um of coal mining in this part of the world and ashen is actually uh probably one of the biggest um villagers so it grew out of the town itself grew out of being a pit village and there's a dialect about the the spork in the pits called pit matic which is uh a really really strange thing if you if you if you search for pipmatic and youtube it will come over

the video and it's it's basically two old boys talking about pipmatic there's a language of dying dying dialect actually um and i think i think it was on the one show or something like that they're talking about it on the on the tv and the two old boys who are obviously x minors and the sitting uh holding a chat and talking hypmonic and if you listen to it and even me i couldn't understand a bloody word that was saying it's really really really uh completely different and a lot of the ushers and dialect comes from uh comes from directly from that pipmatic language and it's really hard to understand there's people there's lots of lots of people in the northeast

if you say to them do you know anybody from washington d you know we speak to anybody from russian you know it's just corner less than what they're talking about half the time so probably the most famous uh person to come out of ashland and he just died recently sadly was uh was jack chall and his brother bobby of course um two famous footballers from washington um and if you ever heard them speak or especially jack bobby bobby toned his language his accent down a bit but jack in particular was very very you can hear that very very slight different um tonality of his accent and it's um we'll say weird words so things like a simple word like dog

somebody from washington will call a dog a dirk spelled d-u-r-g um so i'm taking the durg for a walk it's it's a it's a very very strange language but you can you can check that out yourself and then so finally the last uh piece of reference material i've got for you here and i i must put a disclaimer in front of this um this guy is quite famous on on youtube around these parts but if you check this out please don't watch it if you're offended by uh by particularly bad language um and i'm not just talking about the f word i'm talking about um you know what not not just what i call male swirlers like shite

which i said before um i'm talking like a quite bad language uh so if you don't like body language don't watch that video but it is very very funny and it gives you a really good um a good idea of what that kind of charmer action type accents like so that's about it folks a quick pot in history of jordy and some useful phrases steve i don't know about everybody else but i feel fluent thank you that was very awesome um i'm not gonna do any more of it right now but a few drinks in i'm right there just just remember kawasaki

now our age is there we have a problem quite a lot of times on this already yeah we'll make your big list available and we're going to pop it on the website actually because okay no problem very well

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which is a shame really because as i said it grew up out of a pit village and obviously we're not shut down the whole town basically shut down and uh yeah it hasn't really recovered no we can't talk about maggie you know there we go and there's also a lot of kremlin or indeed blithe um my dad's from blythe which is why i can do a really half-assed attempt to this oh well there you go slight advantage there yeah bit cheating going on alrighty um steve thank you big size

thanks how's everybody have you had a good day so far yeah all good right okay um we'll just get cracking for some reason ben in his wisdom thought it would be a good idea to uh have this crackers talk about how to speak geordie um so the first thing i need to know really is is that apart from ben are there any other geordies because if the if you're all geordi's this is going to be completely pointless i'll assume not um so let's see if i can share my screen here and see if we can get going okay all right hopefully you can all see that um i'll put it in the slideshow there we go

so how to get by and jolly right okay well i'm not i'm not a linguist expert as you uh as you'll find out but this is just a bit of a laugh really so we'll crack on with it so here's some famous jordies when they were younger does anybody uh anybody know who any of these people are so you can uh you can have a think about that and then i can't hear anybody else so you're awesome to be on youtube so i'll let you uh maybe answer in the uh in the comments or slack or send your answers on a postcard but then whatever you want to do um but there's just some favorite stories joined

there's a lot of famous journeys not just uh not just footballers and uh actors and actresses but musicians and all different kinds of people but we'll let you answer some of those questions so to learn how to speak jordi there's actually only three phrases that you need to know and the first one is kawasaki so if you can say kawasaki then you're on your way the next phrase is coca-cola so if you can see a coca-cola and kawasaki you're on to a good start the next one after that is chicken tikka masala so if you didn't do it yeah hey i think we should get people off me and i think they should start joining in

because you know this should be that's fine have i got anyone new to everybody uh no we seem to yell at them all right okay when i can on me i could only meet them because i've got like the reverse powers okay but ben's not allowed to play he's not allowed to touch anything that's probably a sensible thing to do yeah on many counts yeah and also um [Laughter] if you're on slack and you're at home i want you to be saying this out loud to your families absolutely yeah so our only person here is use some so you take it away i'll have a go so do you want to say chicken tikka masala the way i'd

normally say it or do you want me to say it with my terrible i have a go at jordi accent how about have a go let's see here

okay so where does all this come from obviously there's lots of different dialects in the uh in the english language and most of them are actually influenced by anglo-saxon the difference with geordie and most of the northeast dialects is that they're actually heavily influenced by um danish and uh and german and the kind of scandinavian uh languages and there's actually some words um that are very very similar so the word yen or which is a danish word and johnny means home and it actually means exactly the same thing in danish and these these words are still um you know they're still in use in uh in modern day danish and some parts of germany and

obviously scandinavia as i've mentioned now there's lots and lots of different um theories about where geordi actually comes from and these are just a couple of the uh a couple of the more common ones so george you know jordy is a shortening of our nickname for george and george was a very common name amongst uh you know miners and people that worked on the pit so and this bit here about the uh about the the name geordi given to george so george stevenson is a famous uh northeastern inventor and uh engineer and he came up with a lamp to put these guys down in the pits at the same time as uh as humphrey davey did um davey's lamp

is what it's most commonly known as the people up here obviously use the uh the george stevenson lamp and the you know people they say and people uh refer to that as jordy johny's lump whether that's true or not there's a bit of um you know but some people say that it's actually made up but uh but a bit about george and jordy that's definitely true and then the other kind of theory is uh based around this thing that i had this kind of um we favored in this part of the world the uh the hannoverian king um whose name was also george and um again obviously jordy there's a shortening or a nickname for

that and uh the one you know the people i fought for for that king in in some of the wars and things that were going on at the time were known so there you go but never mind that anyway that's where it comes from it's interesting that the uh the actual dialect itself is um there's a northeastern dialect but then within north eastern there's geordies and um magnums who are people that come from sunderland um smoggies who are people who come from middlesbrough and tea side and then there's this strange area of the northeast called ocean and that's a completely different language again in itself and its action is actually about i don't know 10 miles or so to the

northeast of newcastle on uh towards the coast and it's um it's if you ever have the misfortune of going there there's some very very strange language going on up there we'll touch on that in a minute but here's some of the basics for you some basic words um we're not obviously going to go through all of them um but we have you know words like dead for example instead of saying dead we say deed and you you pronounce it as you say it so deed same thing with head and not heed so if you ever go to a place called gateshead which is in between newcastle and south shields which is where i'm from you don't go to gateshead you go to

gateshead you've probably seen the word now that's obviously no and now what's going on here so garnet there's another word that's on there so yeah you see i've used that there so you've got gun gunning and gunner which is go going and going now so lots of different words note that's a popular one i haven't gotten out means i don't have anything but i've put this word at the bottom here on the bottom left hand side you'll see that there the word fettle now that's a strange word because it has two completely different meanings so fettel is a word that we use to describe our health or our state of mind so you'd say how are you i mean fine foul

but fell also means to tinker with or to fix something so and again it comes from the pits so the uh you know the the blacksmith who who worked with a pit he would be known as a fettler and he would actually be the person that you would take stuff to to fix um so you would fat lit so there you go a bit of strange words but it's actually probably my favorite uh my favorite words in the uh in the vernacular so there we go so now we need to actually learn how to uh to talk proper and you can see that i've got geordi's macro smoggies and persons from washington um absolutely completely different

dialect dialects and to the untrained ear it probably all sounds the same but it's um you know when you when you're kind of from these parts it's uh it's it's very very distinct differences between the uh the different dialects and people get really really really offended if you uh if you're from middlesbrough for example and you happen to be torturing and somebody says to you oh you were jordy that's not a good thing and jordy's you know i've had it done to me especially when i lived in london where you where you're from i'm from uh from newcastle oh you're markham no i'm not a marker i'm definitely definitely a jewelry now just interestingly enough there's a bit

of a boundary uh geography thing going on here so as i mentioned there before i'm from a place called sow shields which is just a coastal town um just a bit south of uh newcastle and in south shields it's not a very big place but 75 80 000 people live here but it's it's split pretty much half and half between macrams and geordies so you've got geordies who tend to support newcastle united obviously or the tune as you might have heard them called and then you put your magnums who are sunderland supporters and they play at the stadium of shite there you go right so now we'll get on to uh some useful phrases like you all need to

learn so i'm just going to open this here and hopefully if i can i may have to switch here we go which one do i want here i don't want that one sorry there we go and you don't want that document you want apologies for this i should have prepared that off on this where are we right i want my liver document for there we go right can you all still see that yeah hopefully okay so again i'm not going to go through all of these and what i'll do is i'll send them all i'll send all of this to ben if anybody actually wants a copy of this more than welcome um i can still see

just that slide is there something that's supposed to have opened yeah a word document can you not see that it's not i know okay sorry right just bear with me then i'll stop sharing i'll stop sharing that and i'll start trying again with me right uh here we go right is that better that's wonderful there we go all right so as i said i'm not going to go through all of these because there's quite a few of them but it's just some of the more kind of popular ones so the first one is already or our eat which obviously means all right um and it's a greeting so i'll eat peppery gum so that means it actually means

hello where are you going um then that's another word that's actually still used in in derived from the danish word for the fought for for a child which is actually born um so ben is a child so the ben's having a proper radgie and that means the bends you know the kids going crackers over something excuse me paid that's another popular one that's just any kind of food any food at all so um interestingly enough another thing that we're trying to do differently up here it says here in this in the usage roll on dinner time and proper climbing from ebay so that means roll on lunchtime i'm really hungry and i need some food but interestingly

in this part of the world dinner time is actually lunch time and dinner time is tea time so you know if you have breakfast in the morning your dinner at lunch time and your tea and dinner thing there you go um i'll scroll down some of these so we can skip through them

green that's a good one that's uh obviously the color brown but it's also the famous north eastern uh the famous newcastle brew newcastle bronille which i'm sure you you may have well heard of and that's bruno i'm sure you've heard all heard the word charva yeah which is a chav which is used to uh describe uh what does it say here as a younger a young lower class person that's terrible isn't it with brush brush and loudish behavior clement very hungry now there's a there's a there's a good word doing that's a that's a a very distinct word that you only ever hear up here and uh actually i will ever hear it from uh newcastle and austin and that

type of area and it just basically means that someone is an idiot um what else have we got hardaway that's a good one not to be confused with the uh the trinidadian german musician who got a big hit in the 90s with waters love hardaway has uh you know used to convey a sense of disbelief and it's commonly uh paired with uh the word shite so halloween shite means uh corn on your bike you're gonna be kidding us hinny that's a good word a nice term of endearment usually usually reserved for your wife or your girlfriend or else we've got cats now some people say cats or underwear but they're not it's definitely sweet

uh mara that's a term for friend so fancy a pint mara mall means very drunk i was probably more last need also you can use you know for drinking things you can uh should we go out tonight and have a few beverages and get really drunk might be uh translated into something like uh holly lot going on in a lush and get proper mall

that's a good one very very tired or exhausted um please pudding these puddings are something that you're getting at greg's study and you have a proper ham and peas pudding sandwich fantastic we'll just scroll through some of these kind of fun there's a good friend shy burns getting out popular local same as it says there if you don't ask you don't get

uh what else we've got there you go the lush that's what i was saying there before he got me on the last of the neat tune as we uh referred to uh spoke about before that's not just that that's the newcastle so where you got it to talk to steal pinch and then probably the most famous uh scene why i might so an expression of agreement which which just means yes of course are we going to the bonnie lard why are we where are mine and there's the m at the bottom which is also sometimes friends with a nature in front of it here so i'm going to yen i'm proper so lots of useful phrases there which as

i said i'll send all these to ben and you can find them all out here if you want if you really really really want them uh right back to the uh the

right i think we're nearly at the end yes okay so if you want to explore this a bit further there's some youtube links here um which are some good examples so if anybody watched game of thrones which lots of people did there's a character in there played by a great actor called uh liam cunningham and his card has double seaworth so if you click on this youtube link you'll you'll be able to see a really really good example of somebody who's not from the area doing a really really good journey accent and then of course the classic alveolar pet which i'm sure many of you seen um that's just a little link to a funny

scene in that and then the final one if you really really want to check this out and uh get a bit of the ocean so yeah i thought about ashes and being completely different to uh doesn't resemble even geordi sometimes there's a we've talked about miners and and the uh the term geordi coming from the mains as you you may well be aware there's absolutely loads on the wasp lords of um of coal mining in this part of the world and ocean is actually uh probably one of the biggest um pit villages so it grew out of um the town itself grew out of being a pit village um and there's a dialect that the the spoke in the pits

called pit matic which is uh a really really strange thing if you if you if you search for pipmatic in youtube it will come over the video and it's it's basically two old boys talking about pipmatic there's a language of dying dying dialect actually um and i think i think it was on the one show or something like that they're talking about it on the on the tv and the two old boys who are obviously x minors and they're sitting uh having a chat and talking pipmanic and if you listen to it and even me couldn't understand a bloody word that was seen it's really really really uh completely different and a lot of the usher's dialect comes

from uh comes from directly from that pipmanic language and it's really hard to understand there's people there's lots and lots of people in the northeast if you say to them do you know anybody from washington d you know you speak to anybody from russian you know you just call it less than what they're talking about half the time so probably the most famous uh person to come out of ashes and he just died recently sadly was uh was jack chol and his brother bobby of course um two famous footballers from washington um and if you ever heard them speak or especially jack bobby bobby's tone his line with his accent down a bit but uh jack

in particular was very very you can hear the very very slight different um tonality of his accent and it's um we'll say weird words so things like a simple word like dog somebody from washington will call a dog a dirk spelled d-u-r-g um so i'm taking the dig for a walk it's a it's a very very strange language but you can you can check that out yourself and then so finally the last uh piece of reference material i've got for you here and i i must put a disclaimer in front of this this guy is quite famous on on youtube around these parts but if you check this out please don't watch it if you're offended by

uh by particularly bad language um and i'm not just talking about the f word i'm talking about um you know what not not just uh what i call male swirlers like shite which i said before um i'm talking like a quite bad language uh so if you don't like bad language don't watch that video but it is very very funny and it gives you a really good um a good idea of what that kind of java action type accents like so that's about it folks a quick pot in history of jordy and some useful phrases steve i don't know about everybody else but i feel fluent thank you very good that was very awesome um

i'm not gonna do any more of it right now but a few drinks in i'm right there just just remember kawasaki coca-cola chicken tikka masala and you'll be fine danny vagata on a paper was the one that we used to set at school exactly yeah exactly carrie bagger tudor you still get tuna crisps no oh i'm going home this is wasted why do you not sadly not they were lovely um crinkle cut crisps yes from the olden times apparently because they're gone um and my life is alive are we sure now our age is there yeah we're probably only i've shown quite a lot of times on this already yeah we'll make your big list available

um we're going to pop it on the website actually because okay no problem i'll email it to i'll email it to uh can i email it the pen i don't know can i put it in the slack thing is that the question make it go okay i'll pop it in there for you the slack has been absolutely buzzing during your talk um there seems to be no love for ashington that's um it's fair to say it's fair to say it's a really really awful place um which is a shame really because as i said it grew up out of a pit village and obviously we're not shut down the whole town basically shut down and

uh yeah it hasn't really recovered no we can't talk about maggie you know there we go and there's also a lot of kremlin or indeed um my dad's from blythe which is why i can do a really hard fast attempt to this oh well there you go slight advantage there yeah a bit cheating going on alrighty um steve thank you big size