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Well lookie here...

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:50 pm
by ClaireVeeDub
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 :lol:

so... anybody??

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:45 pm
by dubs
north wales :?

havent a clue where cumbria is :roll:

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:21 pm
by GroovyCarrot
Esse...*ahem* Just south of cambridge :)

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:17 pm
by ClaireVeeDub
easiest way to describe cumbria is ...where the lake district is lol. Lots of big hills and puddles!

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:45 pm
by dubs
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 :lol:


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 :cry:


still none the wiser as to where cumbria is though :?

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:57 am
by Tahrey1043
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:
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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.

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:54 am
by deadcat
Tahrey1043 wrote:go to liverpool on m6


or approximately here:
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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...

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:19 am
by chubbster
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?

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:24 pm
by CBurns
I have been to Barrow a few times through work. As you say Cumbria's very hilly and wet. Not unlike here!!

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:08 pm
by Tahrey1043
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...

:lol: :lol:

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

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:16 pm
by ClaireVeeDub
wow Carlisle is on that map, thats where i am :D

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:19 pm
by Squib
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! :lol: