Here's a question: I went for a nice walk around Ashington Community Woodland before work this morning. I got all of the words on this info board, apart from Kyst, and I can't find a specifically Geordie/Pitmatic/Northumbrian translation online, although I did see that in Scots it means Chest, so I most likely something to do with that. Does anyone know?

#Geordie #Northumbrian #Northumberland

This is fantastic, a 1976 documentary about the Northumbrian Dialect, featuring Cheviot hill shepherds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpdQVk9U70

#Northumbrian #Dialect #Language

3/3 Just to give one example. #Northumbrian #Water is a subsidiary of Northumbrian Water Group plc, which is owned by CK Infrastructure Holdings, which is 75% owned by CK Hutchison Holdings - a Hong Kong–based and Cayman Islands–registered #multinational conglomerate corporation. Private water companies are money channeling operations that funnel wealth from the general UK public into the koffers of the tax evading super rich.

Singing Hinnys with jam and clotted cream. #northumbrian #notthumbrianfood #northumbriantraditions #homebaking #baking

#TheReckoningofTime (Latin: De temporum ratione) is an Anglo-Saxon era treatise written in Medieval Latin by the #Northumbrian monk #Bede in #725CE … an explanation of how the spherical Earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Moon influenced the changing appearance of the new moon at evening twilight…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reckoning_of_Time

#Histodon
#HistoryofTime
#Astronomy
#Calendar
#EasterSunday

Is "they say you can learn a lot by walking a mile in their shoes. Why not try on their hats instead?"an old #northumbrian saying I don't understand?

#newcastlecastle #newcastle

#northumbrian

A proper wild #Northumbrian day. With the dog walked, it's time to huddle by the fire and maybe share some stories.

#northumberland #autumn #winter #storyteller