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Hey Corm you want to go to a game next time I’m up there?
It might be a while yet though – and its ok you don’t need to worry, I’m not one of those loony supporters 
………… trust me I’m a journo. It’s all about St. Johnstone boys, come on! All this Hearts and Hibs nonsense….why not support a real team that are crap and will never get anywhere….it’s far more satisfying…x
Welcome James. It’s a nice touch when a new member introduces him/herself. Wish I had done it……maybe I wouldn’t get bullied so much if I had been properly introduced.
Only kiddin mate…nice bunch on here.
Anyways enjoy the forum.
It’s all about St. Johnstone boys, come on! All this Hearts and Hibs nonsense….why not support a real team that are crap and will never get anywhere….it’s far more satisfying…x
That’s the way! At least you always know where you stand!
Hi i’m new too so i should say hello too haha. Everyone’s dead friendly on here so you’re gonna be addicted before long haha.
Where are you from? do you go racing much?
Ey up, Smully, how ist?
Good to have another soul from my part of the world on the boards – I was born and raised in Saddleworth before the evil work pixies dragged me kicking and screaming daan saaf.
Not sure what’s impeding your avatar if it’s within the dimensions. Maybe Cormack can advise?
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
is that Saddleworth outside Oldham? tried to buy a cottage there once and the when I told the estate agent how much I could afford he said I wouldn’t even get a toilet in somebodies back garden for that amount so we went to see a little terraced house next to a tripe factory which smelt of – tripe – so we gave up and moved to Derby…happy days!…..
That’d be the same one, Moe!
Which of the Saddleworth villages was that, incidentally, and how long ago? I ask primarily because most of them have been building smaller, more affordable houses hand over fist in recent years, all as part of the nationwide drive to prevent the migration of indigenous young professionals away from the area (one of John Prescott’s better ideas, all told).
I think myself and Mrs Column could probably afford something modest in Uppermill now (which certainly wasn’t the case half a dozen years ago), were we ever minded to head back up the country. If not there, then certainly either in Mossley, or Greenfield, or even "over the border" into Marsden – all towns my old chums have found decent, cheap places in of late.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
sorry, I meant to say hello as well! I’ve been mad about racing [mainly nh] ever since I was a child,but I’m not too bothered about the betting side so it’s great to be able to tap into peoples thoughts and comments on a daily basis rather than boring people around me who arn’t interested, and they can’t switch me off. This is the best forum by far, but you will be addicted…mo
this was all before you were born I would imagine gc; we lived in Eccles and my husband was at Salford University [in the Brylcreem Factory bit] ; he got a job at a place called Doncasters Moorside on the way out of Oldham going towards the moor [just past the dry ski slope]….it was even before Manchester was blown to smithereens and rebuilt….in those days you couldn’t get a mortgage on old properties if you were a first time buyer, so when we moved to Derby we had to buy a 1960’s type house which I’m still in…Manchester was in the George Best era and the pubs had topless barmaids [does anyone remember topless barmaids?]. I hasten to add that the guys from work went to these pubs, not me…oh what a nostalgiafest…dark satanic stuff…
Sounds a bit before my time, Moe, but not by too many years… Moorside is about three miles away from home, and the dry ski slope still enjoyed a degree of usage – including famously once on Saturday Superstore – until the late 80s.
Salford Uni I have a love-hate relationship with – it always used to operate a “free house” policy whenever the German elections were on, so you could watch events unfold on ZDF / ARD and get blottoed in the process; but I did get strung along by them when I was looking for decent German-oriented postgrad courses in the locality before finally having to find something else (which turned out to be library management) at very short notice indeed.
Plus, of course, Manchester Racecourse had to die for it to flourish.
Topless barmaid work sounds a dreadful proposition. They’d have frozen to death, the poor souls!
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
It might be a while yet though – and its ok you don’t need to worry, I’m not one of those loony supporters 
………… trust me I’m a journo. 
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