Categories: uncategorized
Tags: Scotland/ England, Reality
Date: 09 November 2009 12:24:45
Living in Scotland as a southerner I often get asked about difference, particularly is there anything from home* I miss, that I can’t get in Scotland. Scots invariable then list of things that are difficult to get down south, (empire biscuits, haggis suppers, tablet etc.) I can never think of anything that is distinctively southern. There is also a variety of extra words or ways of saying things, (see Jack the Lass) that again there is little I can say that is distinctively from home*, the only words that people find strange is somewhen and anywhen. Which while not unique to Sussex, are Southern.
Last week I finally found something which we do in Sussex that made my flatmate go, er what? It was bonfire night, and I said so you have bonfire processions here? I then with a little help from Wikipedia, discovered that they are a Sussex thing. I had assumed that they happened everywhere. While as a child I didn’t go to them as I was scared of fire, I did as a teenager sometimes attend the one in Littlehampton, where my Dad had grown up and as a teenager been part of the bonfire society. Bonfire night is a big event where I come from, with not just fireworks but bonfires and flaming torch lit processions.
*while i'm not sure if i would define anywhere as home anymore, in this context it means where i grew up.