*This was written back in 2018 when I had just moved to Manchester and had the whole world ahead of me… How things change.
- Everyone is obsessed with prosecco
- Everyone is obsessed with gin
- Everyone loves a sesh
- Everything smells like weed… all the time
- “Alright?” is the equivalent of “how’s it going”
- “Why’d you come here?” is a question I get asked daily
- I offered someone a mandarin and he asked why I offered him a language
- They call work rosters “rotas”
- They’ve still got bloody 1 & 2 pence coins going around
- They don’t have cold drinks – soft drinks are room temperature
- Mushy peas are a #1 food
- Fish finger sandwiches are the #2 food
- It is acceptable to go for a drink after work every night of the week
- Apparently my pronunciation of “risotto” is hilarious
- “Skint” has now been added to my vocab
- Getting paid monthly is the norm
- I accidently came to the rainiest town in the UK
- 21°C means swimmers and sunscreen
- The north of England is so much better than the south