Do they all have a chip on their shoulder or what? Our Scottish bretheren excluded of course, most hospitable people on earth as many a full stomach and hangover can attest to.
Just having a whinge, ignore me. I'm a northener too, getting grief for the crime of living and sailing in the south.
Something about RYA recognition being unable to cross the boundary of the Thames.
If you're a northener you would know the answer to your question. Or have you just gone soft in the southern airs? I'm a southerner enjoying the relative cheapness of sailing in the north. And the price of a good pint!
OOh me and mrs tcm (also northish) got offered jobs to clean boats whilst wandering around Golfe Juan. Mrs tcm went potty. A few weeks later she was offered another job, in a charity shop, paying even less (nothing in fact).
As a northerner who's lived the last 25 years in Poole and Devon, I've found "ladies" thin on the ground. No shortage of "ladettes" though! G&T is no substitute for Robinson's Best Bitter.
Tha mun be a Stockport lad! Rest o't world's susceptible to advertising tha knows and only mentions Boddie's - it's that Gladys Allthorpe what's done it.