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Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.
Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
Yorkshire word and means spoiled and
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!
I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.
Hapmshire" typo,
The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
London is yours. If you want it.
Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
The countryside they
This souls'prison we call England.
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
couldn't be more Scottish if it was painted blue and smelled of burning peat and your ginger sister.
Think of England as a very large book. The Cotswolds would be an unfussy chapter in the middle somewhere where there is lots of limestone and even more sheep.
Derby born and bred, mate.
The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul ...
I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.
It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.
Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.
I'm from Southampton.
ah've been on t'dole all mi life in fucking Leeds!
My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.
been used to look in Hertfordshire - paid his
Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come!
I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
Moorcroft with a small pasture
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.
We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
I could probably live in London if you had better surf.
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.
England, a happy land we know,
Where follies naturally grow,
Where without culture they arise,
And tow'r above the common size.
I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.
When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.
It made no sense to live in Cumbria and fail to make full use of the opportunities it provided.
I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.
I'm as Scottish as they come.
we'll be going up to London
Home will always be London. There's something unique about the British. It's about cheekiness.
I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!
I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
The thing about Manchester is ... it all comes from here
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.'
'The lost corner of England,' I said.
I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.
I absolutely love Scotland. I'm always happy there.
I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going to my mum's house in Ayrshire and being able to sit on a cliff by the sea.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
I love living in London.
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.
Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.
You can't go to East Anglia and not visit Sutton Hoo. Well, you can, obviously, but you shouldn't.
It's what I imagined England would look like.
I love London and British women.
I like English parks.
London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration,
I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.
Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.
In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven
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London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.
My life is really so much based in England.
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there.
I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.
I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.
Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.
The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.
our cabin in the woods in Clare.
Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater for you. We are not proud.
When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well, those being the Southside, Marchmont in particular, where I lived as a student, and the New Town/Stockbridge area where I live now and have done for the past 30 years.
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.
I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.
My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.