Well lookie here...

ClaireVeeDub · Post by **ClaireVeeDub** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:50 pm

erm yeh.. lol

Just wondered if any of you guys are from cumbria or anywhere close, it seems a lot of you are either a lot south, or a lot north

so... anybody??

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:45 pm

north wales

havent a clue where cumbria is

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:21 pm

Esse...*ahem* Just south of cambridge

ClaireVeeDub · Post by **ClaireVeeDub** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:17 pm

easiest way to describe cumbria is ...where the lake district is lol. Lots of big hills and puddles!

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:45 pm

ClaireVeeDub wrote:easiest way to describe cumbria is ...where the lake district is lol. Lots of big hills and puddles!

sounds like where groveycarrot lives!! middle of nowhere

that drive killed me and to do it all again the next day going to york and only for the golf to spring an oil leak from the filter housing

still none the wiser as to where cumbria is though

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:57 am

go to liverpool on m6

go northwards to blackpool, preston

keep going

veer left / west when you see a sign for "A66"

after 10 miles or so, stop

voila, cumbria.

or approximately here:

from the m6 across to workington and whitehaven... thats sort of the area.

very nice. my paternal grandparents and extended family live there. grim towns and weather but fantastic countriside.

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:54 am

Tahrey1043 wrote:go to liverpool on m6

or approximately here:

Looking at that map reminds me of the time I woke up in carlisle after supposingly heading home from a weekend in blackpool. apparently, my mate turned on to the motorway the wrong way, and just kept on driving after the other idiot mate of mine told him that he saw a sign for birmingham.

I woke up and asked why the fecking motorway junction numbers were going UP, made them pull over and realised we were in Carlisle!
ARG! Still made it back to the pub for last orders though...

chubbster · Post by **chubbster** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:19 am

theres ghosts in blackpool! i once went for a drinking weekend there and on the way back to the hotel i decided to have a little nap in a doorway to refresh myself and woke to find my shoes had mysteriously vanished, weird hey?

CBurns · Post by **CBurns** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:24 pm

I have been to Barrow a few times through work. As you say Cumbria's very hilly and wet. Not unlike here!!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:08 pm

hehe deadcat, look at where carlisle is eh.... for the comedy value you should have kept schtum 15 more minutes and waited for their faces to drop as the M6 became the A76 (?) and that big sign saying WELCOME TO SCOTLAND get yer passports oot ya english bastaads went by...

and i thought *I* was bad at navigating - usually only takes 1 junction to realise the mistake

ClaireVeeDub · Post by **ClaireVeeDub** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:16 pm

wow Carlisle is on that map, thats where i am

Squib · Post by **Squib** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:19 pm

Yep... im from cumbria... caldbeck to be exact... inbetween carlisle and penrith... I drive a blue polo 16v mk4 (used to have an AX!) Infact you brought your wheels where I work I think!