Retired Old ■■■■:
pv83:
Retired Old ■■■■:
I think you’ll find that those are “setts”, pv83. If they had been cobbles you’d have been at the physio’s by now!Take an educated guess about my where about’s at this moment
Whatever it was, surely took me back to medieval times like…Oh dear!
We have quite a few streets in Macclesfield still paved with granite setts, although the locals refer to then as “cobbled streets”. I had originally been sent up here from God’s Own County as a missionary but totally failed in my attempts to instil “Proper English” into the Maxonian populace. I should have listened to my old grand father when he told me, “You can’t educate pork”!
Let me salute you Sir for attempting to teach proper English to those parts of the country, but I presume you’ve found out that’s not an easy task… stubborn people up there, one might even say grumpy at best 
but surely it’s not too late to come back safely to God’s Own County, only county where time haven’t stood still…?! 
If you’re still on the missionary path, you might want to go a bit further down south, it seems that the people up there have a very special way of communicate with each other, left overs from a very ancient dialect, strongly spoken in a area called London, absolutely understandable if you’re from a more sophisticated place…