Darwen: a pretty little market town? the reality can’t be more different!

Living in Darwen, Lancashire

Darwen likes to promotes itself as a traditional pretty little market town, the reality however, can’t be any more different. People complain about Blackburn being full of *****, but at least there are brightly lit shops there to take your mind off the sheer scale of deprivation, teenage mothers, benefit claimants and alcoholics falling over […]

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Shaw: The Place That Joy Forgot

Living in Shaw, Greater Manchester

I spent a great deal of my formative years walking feverishly around the narrow field-bordered streets of Shaw, and found it difficult to describe to friends who would visit just why the place was so awful. To the untrained eye the hamlet seems quaint and even welcoming – this is a false perception. When I […]

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Desborough – It amazes me how shallow the gene pool is

Living in Desborough, Northamptonshire

Desborough. It amazes me. It amazes me how much ********** there is in one small town. Extremely rude people, who are mostly incredibly dumb, arrogant and well.. a bit special. Do not move to Desborough or Rothwell. You will not be welcome. You will only be accepted if your girlfriend is also your sister. They […]

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Buckshaw village – it’s becoming a **** place to be

Living in Buckshaw Village, Chorley

Buckshaw village in Chorley is one of those new villages what are cropping up around this now despicable country. It used to be an RAF base. It’s becoming a **** place to be. There seems to be a whole new sub culture of **** emerging. Most houses and flats are over 100 grand, but this […]

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Bedale is the red and grey brick cyst on the face of the otherwise picturesque Yorkshire dales

Living in Bedale, North Yorkshire

I must regretfully inform you reader that I have recently returned back to my home town of Bedale, which has recently been placed highly on a poll which lists several of the best market towns in the UK, somehow placed ahead of Mashamand Leyburn. And due to my connections with the town, and evidently by […]

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Proud To Be From Keighley? Nah.

Living in Keighley, Bradford

First of all, I’m not surprised that when I search “Keighley” on here, all that pops up is how terrible it is. It’s a shame I have to live here. On my walk home from school, I normally see discarded couches or the average dog poo. The council are too lazy to realise they need […]

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Wells – Posh veneer, with a hidden underbelly

Living in Wells, Somerset

Ah, Wells. Lying at the foot of the Mendip hills its the smallest city in England and the gateway to the Somerset levels. Sounds lovely, right? Well, some of it is. There is a nice old cathedral that drags in hordes of noisy French students every summer, and there is also the Bishops Palace with […]

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Do the Welsh still hate the English?

Living in Wales

Having moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys, Wales from Cheshire for the pull of 20 acres of land for my horses I made the biggest mistake of my life and spent 5 years in a living hell. Yes its beautiful but some of the people let it down – not least those who should know […]

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Aviemore: we are made to feel as welcome as a Christian in Saudi Arabia

Living in Aviemore, Scotland

My bonnie wee lassie and I have stayed in Aviemore on several occasions when visiting the Highlands. Considering the local countryside is among the most pristine in Europe, it is strange that Aviemore was not designed to be even slightly sympathetic to its surroundings. As human beings we have been blessed, by whatever created us, […]

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Wootton – located on the darkest recess of Satan’s brown eye

Living in Wootton, Bedford

Wootton is a horror story within itself, If you believe in Ghouls and Witches this is the place. Located on the most darkest recess of Satan’s brown eye, the people there are mostly old people who live there, Waiting to ripped from the fabric of life. Wootton has a fleet of Ambulances, ready on stand […]

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Blackhall Colliery – I honestly wish I had never set foot in the place

Living in Blackhall Colliery, County Durham

Lived in Blackhall Colliery for a while now and I honestly wish I had never set foot in the place,cannot wait to get out this really is the pits here, but of course there is now no pit here now. Blackhall Colliery, Easington, Horden and other villages in this area are all down at heel, […]

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Forth – a grey & moribund carbuncle on the ****-end of Scotland

Living in Forth, Scotland

The late great Rik Mayall once called Nottingham ‘a dark Godless void on the edge of human misery’, which exactly correlates with my feelings about Forth in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cumbernauld’s little but equally-as-ugly little brother. Granted, it is a village – but hell is it depressing. A grey and moribund carbuncle on the ****-end of […]

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