h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For posing a rather odd question.
Have you ever lived in Dorset? I only ask because of the name you use. I lived in Dorset for many years, 2 years on a bleak island. There is a place called Fortuneswell on that island. I had some friends who lived there.

I lived on the lovely Isle of Portland yes

Lovely isle? Are we talking about the same place Bleak, always windy, cold and sea mist like no where else! The square flooding in winter....oh yes lovely place!

you have to understand that I am orginally from Yorkshire and nothing is bleaker than here in the winter


It snowed once on Portland, only a little bit and it brought everything to a standstill


Oh and I can remember going into weymouth one night for a drink, only to discover that night that the causeway had flooded and I couldn't get back home again

Aahhh yes, i guess Portland is tame compared to Yorkshire.
I trudged through a foot of snow to get to the bus stop for work, only to discover in Weymouth there was'nt any!
I take it you lived in Fortuneswell? I was over the top near Easton.
Originally i lived in Wyke-Regis, where my folks lived till they passed away. I havent been back to Weymouth since.

are you still living there?

Mizzp U858042 also used to live there

I think she did guides in Easton for a while

No, i moved to Essex in 1980. I've been here ever since. I used to go back every year to visit the folks. Weymouth changed quite a bit, but Portland is still the same.
Have you ever been back?

no I haven't

moved back home when my brother died and all my family is here, so not a lot of need really to go

How long did you live there for?

Sorry to hear about your brother, that musy have been hard for you and your family.

6 years I think

Long enough to pick up the local dialect then eh! I had to lose it when i moved here, no one could understand me I suppose as i went to school there i slipped into the accent without realising.

not really takes some shifting the old yorkshire accent, When I first moved down there it was a bit of a pain

noone could understand me and I couldn't understand them

I can still slip into the accent. I much prefer it to plain old Essex slang

I have to go now. Thanks for the chat, its been nice.
Byeeeeee 'waves'

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