1st august

[mnko]

what is happening on the 1st august?

[tictactoe]

Naz, you left one out:

2006 : Whiffey becomes a Mod!!!

[noxlumos]

If whiffey becomes a mod I will seriously leave :(

[jno]

just look on it as a dom seen in the mirror, noxlumos

[spk]

Im flying from Vietnam to Cambodia on the 1st August for a week then Bangkok and home to see me mammy after 9 months away on the 11th August. Very exciting - roast chicken dinner mmmmmmmmmm !

[naz_nomad]

tictactoe ... That's what I was referring to

[mycats]

I'm going to a ball with Whiffey (or something, I'm a bit hazy on the details lol)

[tictactoe]

Yes naz, I know

I wasna picking holes..

I just meant you had left it out in your long list - which incidentally was very informative and interesting !!

☺ ☺ ☺

[naz_nomad]

that was the ''2006 - we all get banned'' ...

didn't want to mention THAT name, for fear of a B.S. retort from them.

[atoach]

August 1st is Yorkshire Day, though I've never been entirely sure what it involves. Anyway this year the celebrations are centred on Penistone, so have fun if you're going.

[atoach]

Just been on the festival website. Penistone is described as the "Gateway to Barnsley", which might be ironic.

[shammydodger]

Atoach

Penistone is a lovely area of Yorkshire. I live about 20 minutes away. Barnsley, despite the connortations of flat caps and miners' lamps, is one of the most warm-hearted towns in the whole of the UK.

[atoach]

I know (my mother's from Barnsley). I still think that describing Penistone as the 'gateway to Barnsley ' must be a bit tongue-in-cheek.

[shammydodger]

Happy Yorkshire day to everybody! Even our Lancastrian foe!

[atoach]

Altogether now:

I being a resident of the West Riding of Yorkshire declare;
that Yorkshire is three Ridings and the City of York, with these Boundaries of 1124 years standing;
that the address of all places in these Ridings is Yorkshire;
that all persons born therein or resident therein and loyal to the Ridings are Yorkshire-men and women;
that any person or corporate body which deliberately ignores or denies the aforementioned shall forfeit all claim to Yorkshire status.
These declarations made this Yorkshire Day. God Save the Queen.

[dot.hawkes]

i was born at cragg vale in the borough of mytholmroyd, does that make me ok? lol

[shammydodger]

Atoach

Amen!

[atoach]

Dot - Cragg Vale - very nice, I know that pub down the lane by the bridge (Hinchcliffe Arms ?) - you are indeed entitled to recite the Yorkshire Declaration of Integrity.

[dot.hawkes]

we had Hinchcliffes in the family as i recall, married into the Lumbs I think. Or the Normantons.