It's a very popular spectator sport up that way. Several pounds are gambled weekly on it. (p.s. don't tell anyone, they don't want it getting popular and them influencers do it for a laff)
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I know. I am a Mackem in exile in Liverpool. Wulf Helm and some of the others in the chat are Mags!
aug 29, 2025, 7:29 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m a Mackem twice exiled; firstly to North Yorkshire and now the People’s Republic of Glasguensis. Still no place like the north east coast though.
aug 30, 2025, 10:31 am • 3 0 • view
We moved around a lot when I was a child but my grandmother's house in Sunderland was always the "Mother Ship." She died just before our elder son was born. I still have a few relatives there though.
aug 31, 2025, 2:34 am • 2 0 • view
I love it! Childhood spent on the beach! The Industrial Coast!
aug 30, 2025, 10:34 am • 2 0 • view
Me mam’s side were all colliery, so Blackhall to Easington. Mam’s Aunty Nan would pack a picnic and walk the family down to Crimdon beach. She packed corned beef, bread loaf, tinned peaches, vappy, crocks, cutlery the lot! Tiny woman; strength of an ox 😄
aug 30, 2025, 10:42 am • 4 0 • view
😠...... Roll on the derby! 😂 I have to tread carefully on this matter! I'm a Mackem currently residing back in the historical country of Durham!
aug 29, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view
My wife would never leave Liverpool. She likes Durham city though. The first time she went to the NE was in May and she found it too cold. 🤗
aug 29, 2025, 8:06 pm • 3 0 • view
🙄 bloody Southerners.... The countryside... the countryside..... we have masses of it, shed loads of, very different, coastline, history, art, culture, music... Put her on the line.... 😂😂😂
aug 29, 2025, 8:35 pm • 3 0 • view
She is a townie!
aug 29, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 0 • view
The coastline is magnificent! Used to live 5 minutes walk from Seaburn, summer days me mam always had us down the beach by 8.30 then away before the mist rolled in. Afternoon it was off to Finchale Priory or Durham.
aug 30, 2025, 10:34 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, I Iove the countryside further North too, near Bamburgh and Alnwick.
aug 30, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Oi oi I'm technically a soft southerner bastard. But actually pure celt. Dinnae fash with southern sissies
aug 30, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
"Unless you are fed up with having birthdays!"
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 am • 1 0 • view
This is why people go there. There is a castle and a ruined monastery on the island. There was a brutal raid on the monastery by the Vikings ("Danes") in 793 A. D. Wulf Helm has never forgiven them for this and it is basically why he still hates the Danes! fotospot.co.uk/uk-locations...
aug 30, 2025, 10:06 am • 1 0 • view
Richmond Twickenham and various other tidal parts of the Thames are good for that Putney especially
aug 30, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view