After meeting with Chas in southport we took our Grandkids to Liverpool as I had a treat in store for my 10 year old grandson .You see through no fault of his own poor lad his favorite football team is LIVERPOOL .Now if you have been reading the aricals on this site you will know I have been working down here all week .I would have liked to get him a momento of there match in Athens on Wednesday but dont carry money at work so I thought take him on Sunday and get something anyway the stuff will be cheaper now that they LOST .Now my 6 year old darling of a grand daughter to placate Grandad tells all and sundry her favorite team is BLACKBURN ROVERS so as our Cailen was presented with his new ATHENS 2007 shirt and window sticker she says as usual its not fair on me I always get nuffin .CAN I HAVE A PINK LIVERPOOL SCARF   so just to shut her up and as they were cheap I caved in (as usual) .At the pay desk I said to the darling little lass "tell the lady who your favorite team is then ----Quick as a flash ----LIVERPOOL she replyed Children really do say the funniest things ---

PS my grandson slept in his new shirt last night  

  As promised I received an e-mail from John Large in Canada telling of his visit back to the U.K and the places and people he met including his buddy KEN AUSTIN (pictured here with John) .It was loverly to meet John and his family and great that on his return to his home he has taken the trouble to send this in .

2007 Trip to the UK .

Our flight left Halifax International Airport at 20.15 on Tuesday the 8th of May . My wife Anna and I were taking my son Tom and his girl Christine to meet my folks and to tour around the UK a bit. We landed at the ridiculous hour of 6am and took the Gatwick express into London Victoria. A taxi took us to Bloomsbury where we found out we could not check in until 12.30 pm.We did store our suitcases and belongings at the hotel and soon we found ourselves out on the streets of London. I took a short stroll to Euston Station and collected all my Train tickets. We had some coffee and a bite to eat and then wandered off to Marylebone St and onto Madame Tussauds. By the time that was over it was time to walk back and check into the hotel.The day lasted forever and we had an early night. The next day we were off early and walked all the way to Leicester Square were I purchased tickets for Les Miserables. , We. did a bus tour and went to the Aquarium also. Great time in London and then on Friday we were off to Blackpool. 

I am off to Southport today to meet up with our member from the town CHAS of course with camera in tow  .This will be the second time I have met up with someone through this website John Large being the first and we look forward to his photographs and an artical soon as he flew back to Canada yesterday  .I would sincerley like to meet up with as many members as possible in the comming months and years and have said whilst on the CHATROOM on Saturday I will next be meeting REDROSE31 aka JACK LONG in about 5 weeks in OLDHAM so maybe in the near future I could meet the WIGAN , BLACKPOOL,PRESTON  & BARROW members but if I meet up with the Legend that is SNOWMAN1100 will I make it back to LANCASHIRE or will the pies and the pints get the better of me. Watch this space. As my wife and darling little daughter are workin on Bank Holiday Monday I will be going to take some more snaps in CRAWSHAWBOOTH ,BURNLEY & BLACKBUNRN  as well as hopefully adding John Larges dairy of his home visit and more snaps from Liverpool and my visit to see Chas so from your ever busy webmaster see thee in a bit .

PS----Try and listen to STU ROGERS on 107 THE BEE through our weblinks today between 4-8 pm  and e-mail a request and tell him you came through LANCASHIRE RE-UNITED   .    

Whilst transeving the motoway network of our fair county with my buddy and our new member Andy Duffy we were chatting about this site and andy asked me if we did a cookbook at the reply of yes we have Duffybags said have you heard of a Lancashire Stackers No I replyed so here it is a tasty snack for BLACK PUDDING lovers where ever you are to remind you of HOME 

TAKE A CRUMMPET AND SLICE IN HALF (horisntaly)-AND GRILL

GRILL A SLICE OF BLACK PUDDING  

WHEN COOKED PLACE ON ONE HALF OF  CUMPET AND CRUMBLE ON LANCASHIRE CHESSE

PLACE OTHER HALF OF CRUMPET ONTOP

PLACE IN OVEN GAS MK 4/ 180 ELECTRIC FOR 10 MINUTES AND REMOVE

All week I have listened to the sounds of folks from Liverpool chattering away .Which got me thinking where did this accent come from and isnt it strange how we all live in a county and all talk diferently .So I have this week resarched and after a few hours have come up with this the longest artical I have done for this site so I am off for a lie down whilst you hopefully enjoy this peice 

Scouse

Scouse is the accent and dialect of English found in the north-western English city of Liverpool and in some adjoining urban areas of Merseyside. The Scouse accent is highly distinctive and sounds wholly different from the accents used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and rural Lancashire. Inhabitants of Liverpool are called Liverpudlians, but are more often described by the slang term Scousers. The word Scouse was originally a variation of lobscouse (probably from the north German sailor's dish Labskaus), the name of a traditional dish of Scouse made with lamb stew mixed with hardtack eaten by sailors. Alternate recipes have included beef and thickened with the gelatin source found in cowheel or pig trotter in addition to various root vegetables. Other sources suggest that "labskaus" is a Norwegian term, and considering the number of Merseyside place-names ending in "-by" (Formby, Kirkby, Greasby, Pensby, Roby), a Viking rather than German source must be considered. Various spellings can still be traced, including "lobscows" from Wales, and some families refer to this stew as "lobby" rather than scouse. The dish was traditionally the fare of the poor people, using the cheapest cuts of meat available, and indeed when no meat at all was available scouse was still made, but this "vegetarian" version was known as "blind scouse". The roots of the accent can be traced back to the large numbers of immigrants into the Liverpool area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including those from the Isle of Man, Scotland and, most importantly, Ireland. The influence of these different speech patterns became apparent in Liverpool, distinguishing the accent of its people from those of the surrounding Lancashire and Cheshire areas. It is only recently that Scouse has been treated as a cohesive accent/dialect; for many years, Liverpool was simply seen as a melting pot of different accents with no one to call its own. The Survey of English Dialects ignored Liverpool completely, and the dialect researcher Ellis said that Liverpool [and Birkenhead] had "no dialect proper". 

  I posted a photo sent to me by BOLTONLOCO (aka Syd ) of himself and brother Jack and sister Barbara and have now received another one from another member wonder if you can guess who it is .Its loverly to receive stuff like this as I sure the times we are talking about when they were taken was a time of innocence in our childhoods when we made our own entertainment in our Play ,like how many lads mad wooden racing carts trying to be your favorite racing driver or sticking lolly pop sitcks in your wheels to make it sound like a motor bike ,What did you girls play ? Aye there were the days .So what did you play ? 

P.s To the lady who sent this in I cant upload the picture of your dear pet as it is in the wriong file could you send it again .

UPDATED  23/05/07  

Here is the same member as she looks now