Some quality tunes there

Joni Mitchell - A case of you

Now onto Springsteen!

We all know the answer, what you need to be asking instead, is in which order?

No, I was born independent fully able to do "Women's work"

Thea Gilmore- Don't dim your light for anyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EONUp5BoAdU

Well, that was short but sweeet

London isn't really "British" anymore, it's a thoroughly multicultural place now and very few London or cockney accents can be heard.
Those Midlanders and Southerners do sepak funny though, they don't have a bath, they have a "Barth" and as you say, they have to go and "white" for a "trying" etc.
We speak proper up here in our grim and darklands.
Blackpool is an interesting one, as it's in Lancashire, but has more of a Manchester twang than a pure Lancashire accent, I guess it's developed into a hybrid accent becuase of the many accents it's residents will have heard and picked up over the years due to the millions of visitors.

As for your Netherlands, it's an accent lovingly mocked and used widely here, certainly, the "laydish" at Eindhoven airport and rail stations stick in our minds whenever we're travelling

-1c
Feels like -4c
Rain and sleet

Yack!

If its a NZ accent then surely it would be a "lank" wouldn't it , as they seem to have got their vowels mixed up

I'm from that area Crystal but a bit further south, i probably have a broader Yorkshire accent than what you'd hear and around Leeds!

I can cook and tell jokes , that's it!

What do people class as a "British accent"? Bearing in mind there are hundreds of British accents, I'm presuming most people think of a London based RP accent rather than a working class northern type accent?

Hell knows
It was that long ago

Cold, Snow, more snow, cold and more snow!

And why?

Not including your hometown/city, but what is the favourite place you've visited and what do you like about it?

I love Berlin, I love the history of it, I like the architecture, the scenery around it, the fantastic transport system, I like how because of it's history it's almost 2 cities in 1 separated by a huge green space.
I love the food, the beer, the culture, the football, the bridges, the parks!

I visit at least once a year and never get tired of it.

Crap!

Cold
Wet
Miserable

One question I've been asking and I've yet received a definitive answer is thus:

If this new variant is more transmissible than it's cousin, then why are the restrictions nowhere near as severe as in the Spring?

I am obviously mainly referring to England/UK but the question still stands, why are many many more people allowed to be out working, out shopping, out driving, out doing anything than they were in March-June?

Surely if this thing is that deadly then the authorities would want everyone locked down properly like they were back then, yet, I see no different to every day life here, I am a key, frontline worker but apart from pubs, restaurants, some higher education and most retail places, everywhere is still open, many shops, most offices, factories etc.

We're supposed to be in a lockdown yet there's more traffic on the roads and more people out and about than since before Christmas, and people wonder why millions are just not bothering with anything Boris and his buffoons say, or do, as the case may be.
There's enough to be cynical about when even the PM doesn't stick to his own misguided and confusing rules!

Mel Parsons - Just 'Cause you don't want me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_0xVAYDRo

Listened to "old soul" by Thea Gilmore on repeat for the last half an hour

This was the first song I'd heard by the mavericks and the next day I went out and bought "music for all occasions"
Loved them and Raul since!