Red/blue

Well I never! I've been browsing through a BBC feature on loneliness and such (not because I am feeling terribly isolated - quite the opposite! - but because this idea of going home to a meal-for-one and the corrupt influence of modern society is a bleak online trend at the moment) and my eyes were naturally drawn to an article on the North-south divide. Moving to the warmer climes and highly priced coastline for university has suddenly put who's from the North and who's from the South into a much sharper focus, particularly for those of us who suffer from an accent (see Josie's blog for what I mean). And, despite me shouting repeatedly and passionately that I am NOT a Northerner (although I have nothing against those who are), it seems according to a map by a Professor , I am indeed in the red! (And the red is bad)

So, if I count my true home as Birmingham, I am actually - wealth-wise, anyway - a Northerner. Better make some apologies.

Lucy
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