Show Us Around Your Neighbourhood

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

In Dorset? Yes, I thoroughly recommend it.

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

If it was up t'north he'd be pulling a carthorse

[Duke Mantee 14,455]

What a laugh it is reading about ‘The North’ - you go on about it like you were a 5 min walk from Castle Black 

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

It’s really just the Midlands with a chip on its t’shoulder.

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

There was a drive-by on Ecclesall rd last weekend outside my local Marks & Sparks, the victim was 20yr old and driving a brand new Lamborghini, he escaped and nailed it up to Whirlowdale rd, ditched his car and his friends picked him up in their brand new Rolls Royce and took him to the rugby club where they reported it.

A member of staff from M&S commented.. "It's shocking!.. Ecclesall rd isn't what it used to be..y'know" 

In what respect? 20yr olds are driving Lambo's ffs!

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

I think ‘shandy’ is Yorkshire vernacular for ‘cultured’ 

[Dr_Heech 568,260]

8 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

I think ‘shandy’ is Yorkshire vernacular for ‘cultured’ 

So drinking a can of Top Deck is like super-cultured(?)

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

Especially if you’re on a bus above the driver!

[Foxy2 8,930]

Meanwhile up in The North:

chipped in for the Valentine’s Day Dance we put up for the community - made some cocktails…

came home by 04:00 in the morning.

will try to link a video…

[suchislife 75]

On 2/13/2022 at 9:38 AM, MJF9 said:

I bet you took your passport the first time you made the trip up north .  Good to hear you've been pleasantly surprised, appreciate your candidity

I've spent a lot of time in London over the years and have seen the attitude above sometimes but definitely not always and definitely reduced over time

Londoners are even making it as far as my home town in the North West... including a certain Super Frank who is settling in very well indeed and I reckon will have a nice cup in his cabinet in May!!!  

To be honest with you I had been working at home for about 18+ months at that point.  When I got on the LNER, I felt like I was on the Eurostar heading to Europe .

Gutted by the cancellation of the eastern leg of HS2, if that was still happening I would seriously consider moving.

[MJF9 10,533]

Tiled Hall Cafe fits the description 

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

Bike repair station outside the local sports centre. Are these things commonplace? I’ve never noticed one anywhere else but I suppose I’ve never really looked.

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

I've not seen one, there are plenty of pumps around Sheffield, half of which don't work.. There's one just down the road from our house, i often see folks cursing because they push the connector onto the valve releasing yet more precious air then the pump wont pump it back up.. being a kindly soul .. i often take them back to our house to use my track pump

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

You need to step up your game @Geeman

https://www.birminghamworld.uk/news/birmingham-hockley-flyover-murals-get-listed-status-heres-why-3709206

 

 

[Geeman 3,720]

Pah, Hockley Flyover is the poor man's spaghetti junction 

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

The characters you meet on a morning dog walk in the local park

[MJF9 10,533]

Nice - Horween roughout??

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

Spotted on my road today, a pink (and cream) Cadillac to warm the cockles of Bruce’s heart. To be honest, I thought it was Natalie Cole’s song till I looked it up.

The second photo is much further afield but still within dog-walking range (just off Portobello Rd) but has a tenuous pastel colour link

EDIT: I think this is a Mercury rather than a Cadillac.

Edited November 14, 2022 by Maynard Friedman

[Dr_Heech 568,260]

...

 

Edited October 2, 2022 by Dr_Heech
Ah forget about it

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

Where did i get up to...? who knows

Nether Edge today.. (en route to buy some tennis balls) the leafy burbs between the previously mentioned Abbeydale Road and previously mentioned Kenwood

Sugar Mountain was brought up around here, remember him? i think he moved to HK

Anyway, here goes.. heading to Montgomery Road

An old Robin Reliant.. you could drive these 3 wheelers on a motorbike licence because they were considered a trike.. most working-class folks did in the 70s

Zeds Wholefoods.. on the same row of shops is Bench and Cafe9

..past some red brick

There is a strong climbing community around Nether Edge.. a few of my friends live around here, they used to live in shared houses/bedsit land.. with no actual income or proof of.. they got self-cert mortgages in the early 90's and just rented rooms out to friends to cover their mortgage costs allowing them to live rent free so they could climb every day in the Peaks. It worked and they went on to buy 2 or 3 more houses (which other folk paid for) when Nether Edge was a bit more down at heel.. now they've almost retired, f'kin wankers!

Sheffield Bridge Club est 1936

..past lotte an urban beach coffee shop?? ..i know right!

..back through Kenwood

..and off home

Edited November 13, 2022 by Double 0 Soul

[H...crimper 714]

19 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Where did i get up to...? who knows

Nether Edge today.. (en route to buy some tennis balls) the leafy burbs between the previously mentioned Abbeydale Road and previously mentioned Kenwood

Sugar Mountain was brought up around here, remember him? i think he moved to HK

Anyway, here goes.. heading to Montgomery Road

An old Robin Reliant.. you could drive these 3 wheelers on a motorbike licence because they were considered a trike.. most working-class folks did in the 70s

Zeds Wholefoods.. on the same row of shops is Bench and Cafe9

..past some red brick

There is a strong climbing community around Nether Edge.. a few of my friends live around here, they used to live in shared houses/bedsit land.. with no actual income or proof of.. they got self-cert mortgages in the early 90's and just rented rooms out to friends to cover their mortgage costs allowing them to live rent free so they could climb every day in the Peaks. It worked and they went on to buy 2 or 3 more houses (which other folk paid for) when Nether Edge was a bit more down at heel.. now they've almost retired, f'kin wankers!

Sheffield Bridge Club est 1936

..past lotte an urban beach coffee shop?? ..i know right!

..back through Kenwood

..and off home

Seen Ben Moon around there a few times, good cafe there as well.

[Maynard Friedman 570,502]

Sean Bean Moon?!

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

13 minutes ago, H...crimper said:

Seen Ben Moon around there a few times, good cafe there as well.

He’s got his own little training space around the corner from my work in an old industrial building 

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

Chippy-run, well.. chippy-ride really

..past one sweet van

..past another

..past some neighbourhood xmas lights

through the park.. and popped out on Sharrow Vale road

to the chippy

 

[smoothsailor 2,867]

My workshop is in a funky industrial area. Old metal collectors, social work, used cars, garages, etc. And some people live their off the grid life I suppose, including the guy I rent my little corner of the world.

 

[MJF9 10,533]

Nowt special, but it’s quiet around here so here’s a post… 

The usual weekend entertainment of Junior MJF9's football, cross country or athletics is on hold as the lad's recovering from quite a bad injury...

So an impromptu jaunt from the Hyde Park student area into Leeds city centre and back

Hyde Park cinema, Grade II-listed building from 1914, being refurbished – looking fwd to the reopening in April

Skol Skol Skol Skol

Hyde Park

University buildings

Thorntons Arcade in the city centre

Original home of the style-leader Hip (est 1987) who introduced me, and many more, to the acid-house era attire of Duffer of St George, Mitchiko Koshino, Boro etc, plus in later years LVC, Maharishi et al (photo from the 2000s from a Supreme launch)

Hip is now owned by the JD Sports empire

Yuketen in the sale

Dirty Leeds

Coffee and hot chocolate with my boy at the best coffee place in Leeds Mrs Athas

Most importantly, we never forgot the burger buns

Edited January 8 by MJF9
To place the text between the photos!

[Hopethisoneisnttaken 1,765]

A walk with the dog in the fields behind our house. Lovely sunset and a lot of mud. 
 

 

[Double 0 Soul 12,818]

This is a pretty dope project at Nether Edge

On The Brink Community

For £370,000 you can buy a share in this commune https://strike.co.uk/property-for-sale/263363  you get 2 of your own bedrooms.. your own bathroom and lots of shared living space with 1.5acres of growing space..

"On The Brink is a multi-generational cohousing community based on companionship, ecological awareness, and mutual respect. Residents of On The Brink have their own individual homes as well as sharing communal space for cooking, eating, gardening, meeting, relaxing, and having fun together. The buildings of the cohousing community sit within 1.5 acres of grounds including some wild land, a vegetable garden, a large enclosed garden, and some impressive and unusual trees. In early 2021 the second phase of the project was completed, which led to the construction of several new properties on site. In total there are now 26 members, from primary school age to mid-70s. Because of the nature of cohousing, prospective buyers will be required to apply for and be accepted for membership of On the Brink Cohousing Community. This involves filling in a questionnaire and visiting On the Brink and getting to know the other members, in order for the community to determine whether someone is a good fit"