Author: Richard Dixon
How the North (eventually) made a dog owner out of me
Only in what I choose to call ‘middle age’– with the implicit intention to live to at least 114 – did I become a dog owner.
Read the full story..Violence: is there a North-South divide?
It seems rough, tough Northern lads and lasses can still really show those Southern namby-pambies a thing or two when it comes to settling a dispute with a bit of a scrap.
Read the full story..What a Norf and Sarf: returning to Holme Moss
I’m an East London boy with strong Northern connections, proud and grateful about my maternal links to Manchester and the fine-tuning of my thought processes by a doctorate in Sheffield (fish glands, since you ask).
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