We were sitting down, I reading and Lizzy watching 'Strictly'. "What was that?" I followed the UFO upstairs and eventually cornered it in the study. Lizzy passed me a light bed sheet and we managed to catch this:

 

My youngest sons woke up with a bat in his room a few years ago

 

Lizzy let out a blood curdling scream initially!

 

Is that your voice JT

good accent

Docksider Deck shoe - classic shoe (although they seem more Timberlandy, slightly pointy)


I only mention the voice because my wife says it is my least attractive quality !!!!

 

Was it after blood ?

 

My accent, why do you ask?

Timberland Deck Shoes.

 

Maybe. Poor thing went really quiet once I'd 'netted' him with the sheet. Was a relief seeing him fly off undamaged.

 

well I ask because you inevitably build a mental picture of people

and I find accents interesting (my parents sent me to elocution lessons !!!!!)

and as I said my wife was decidedly ambivalent to my voice/accent

also it is important - you form opinions of people based on accents

I.e people with a brummy accent sound a bit thick!!

 

Yes, I know what you mean. I try to retain some of my Westcountry timbre and, as much as I love the Welsh (and whilst being surrounded by them), I cling on to my English accent as best I can. Well I have to say I'm interested, how would you describe my accent?

 

timbre - great word

will have another listen

just re watching Bitter Lake atm


my wife has an unbelievably "cut glass" posh accent - to the unprepared it makes their ears bleed (so do my children actually)

me less so !!

 

and people like you sound up your own ****

 

Nout wrong with a good West Country accent. Though I have to ask, how West Country are we talking?

 

I was born and raised in north Plymouth, on the edge of Dartmoor. My maternal grandfather was Cornish (ancestry going back 700 years), maternal grandmother Devonian, and my paternal grandparents were very poor, lower working class Plymothians. I had a broad Plymouthian accent as a youngster, this was slightly eroded when I went to an all boys school and then eroded more during further education. I became an estate agent in my early twenties and developed a faux posh accent, but it's been as it is now for the last 15 years or so, despite spending 10 of those in South Wales.

I imagine you to be quite posh!

 

It's not uncommon to have bats come inside our houses this end, and hang upside down on our ceilings. I've been freaked out many a times by them, but I have a special stick that I gently hit them with, and let them do one, via my window.

Makes me think that we must be living in hell.

 

They should be very good at avoiding you really !

 

They are. The North Wales bats don't have a death wish to crash against my strong head.

 

By the way, you guys need to see the Indian bats. They are humongous and so damn haunting looking things that you would freak out with the sight of a single one! Mister was fascinated by them, though. He used to drag me in the middle of the night to the trees near the old palaces; just to look at them and take pictures of them. I used to freak out and found it a bit crazy.

Bat spotting, eh.

 

Small world, I was born/raised in Plymouth until I was 3. Then every subsequent half term spent in the area until I was 18 has meant I've never shaken the accent. Though that being said working with several northerners has meant I've picked up some of their colloquialisms, makes for some strange conversations.

 

No way! Whereabouts?

 

St Budeaux.

 

Unfortunately they haven't knocked that end of plymouth down yet!

I lived in Laira for a while, but it get a little irksome the little ******* from Efford coming down to do their misdeeds (Who would graffiti their own car?!) So moved out into the country....

 

Lots of friends from St. Budeaux! Used to play tennis at the top and went to a few parties there over the years. I'm a Derriford boy.

 

Had a girlfriend who lived in Efford; lovely girl! In fact my maternal grandparents lived just down the road in Higher Compton. Where are you now, J?

 

Now there all coming out of the woodwork, wonder how many more closet Devonians we have on here?

 

Devon knows?

 

Higher Compton is still efford, just for people who dont want to admit to living in efford

Out on Bodmin moor now....

LOL.

 

Bodmin Moor? I guess coming from Laira you got used to 'The Beast' fairly quickly.

 

Remember these ads?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=27JUKA9YkjI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PElnsrEa8vc

 

Maybe a little bit before my time....!!!!

 

Showing my age.