Been and gone and done it.

[toptoon]

Apparently I had a broad Scots accent when I was 5 but that’s completely gone now! I have a northern accent certainly and people usually spot the Geordie quite easily when guessing where I might be from.
Thankfully I have always spoken to my boys in English. The missus spoke to them in Portuguese and so they are fluent in both now. They have my accent as they learnt to speak english mostly by listening to me!
How about you Pat? Have you lost your Geordie accent after living away for so long and what about your kids?

[ex_pat_magpie]

Apparently I had a broad Scots accent when I was 5 but that’s completely gone now! I have a northern accent certainly and people usually spot the Geordie quite easily when guessing where I might be from.
Thankfully I have always spoken to my boys in English. The missus spoke to them in Portuguese and so they are fluent in both now. They have my accent as they learnt to speak english mostly by listening to me!
How about you Pat? Have you lost your Geordie accent after living away for so long and what about your kids?

Good to see you have had an influence on your lads, did they visit when you last came over?

Well, it's odd you should say that as new neighbours moved in a few doors down and were asking where I was from. I explained I'd been away from the North East since 1964 but the chap said he detected a bit of a Geordie twang, which made me feel proud. Oddly though when I've returned up north relatives and friends sound broader in dialect.

My three children were all Surrey born but fortunately haven't picked up the cockney twang which starts about 15 miles north of where I now live.

June as a northern resident would be best to judge my youngster's accent as she met my youngest a few years ago.

[jacapus]

I hope so as there is plenty to go at. The dilly dallying, the poor late decisions, the fiddling contracts, the unsubstantiated boasts about the world's best track and trace setup supposed to be effective June last year. How much has been put into Tory party pockets for that and other equipment and protective gear needed by the N.H.S. And there is plenty more to come out.

The only success story so far has been the development and effective distribution of the vaccines and the government had nowt to do with that. That was a success of the scientists and the N.H.S. who have got it out.

So I take it the Govt. had nothing to do with securing contracts well ahead of other countries.

[ex_pat_magpie]

So I take it the Govt. had nothing to do with securing contracts well ahead of other countries.

Wasn't that done via the N.H.S. people who established the numbers required and supervised and organised the distribution.

[toptoon]

I think it’s poor to try to make political gain from Covid in any way considering how many people have died.. No-one has ever faced a crisis like this and so it was obvious that mistakes would be made, but I’m sure much has been learnt.
To use hindsight to criticize is also poor and, looking in from outside, the UK is being seen as having, overall, done a very good job in dealing with the crisis. Would you swap places with many other countries now?

[ex_pat_magpie]

I think it’s poor to try to make political gain from Covid in any way considering how many people have died.. No-one has ever faced a crisis like this and so it was obvious that mistakes would be made, but I’m sure much has been learnt.
To use hindsight to criticize is also poor and, looking in from outside, the UK is being seen as having, overall, done a very good job in dealing with the crisis. Would you swap places with many other countries now?

No, you are right there Toptoon.

[toonlegend]

Wasn't that done via the N.H.S. people who established the numbers required and supervised and organised the distribution.

a lot of it was organised regionally - by gp's etc who are employed by NHS but aside from the official NHS organisation. Many hundreds/thousands of volunteers have made the vax programme as successful as it has been.

[Kal]

You need a vaccine to vaccinate someone. The government have been amongst the very best in the World at acquiring vaccines. That's about the only thing they've done right.

[jacapus]

You need a vaccine to vaccinate someone. The government have been amongst the very best in the World at acquiring vaccines. That's about the only thing they've done right.

My very point