It has been a long time since I posted last but I have three good excuses: Pregnancy, work and Interesting Berlin 2010. Another post to follow on that in particular.
Maybe it is because we used to go there at the start of summer, but when I was surfing for something on the web, Stephen Smith´s website caught my eye so I decided to check it out.
I couldn´t help smirking at the banner.
Why? Because for so long coming from the North of England basically meant that you had a heart of gold but either had no money or you were very tight with it. (see wikipedia entry on Yorkshire - interesting I didn´t know that David Bowie´s father came from Tadcaster) It was a poor area which never really got going again after the End of the Industrial Revolution - outside of the city centres of Leeds and Manchester that is. But now all of a sudden the Internet allows you to make an asset of being "cheap"! I love it.