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Does it matter if you live in a 'Street'

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kittylester Thu 30-Oct-14 09:18:30

Another of my Mum's Mrs Bucket moments yesterday:

For the 20th time on this visit alone

Mum: So, where do all your children live?
Me: Well, DS1 lives in a flat in town, DS2 lives in our village, DD1 lives in Derby, DD.........
Mum: Where in Derby does she live?
Me: *** Street.
Mum: Oh!
Me: What do you mean 'Oh'
Mum: A Street (along the same lines as 'A handbag!!')

It set me wondering whether addresses count nowadays? I've said before that we live on what was called 'Catsick Lane' so I don't have leg to stand on grin

Mum would be very impressed if anyone lived in a Close or on a Crescent - do you judge people by their addresses?

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FlicketyB Sat 08-Nov-14 19:48:37

kittylester No 1 London, aka Apsley House, the London home of the Dukes of Wellington. It is at Hyde Park Corner.

It is known by the name No 1, London, not because of the Duke of Wellington, but because when it was built about 100 years earlier it overlooking the main turnpike into central London.

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kittylester Sat 08-Nov-14 19:53:58

Thanks flickety. I remembered later and should have come back and said!

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Nytsom Sat 08-Nov-14 23:05:09

Only self centred people judge others!

Judge not lest you be judged,

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FlicketyB Sun 09-Nov-14 11:05:48

kitty I have been fascinated by the 1st Duke of Wellington ever since I was at school. I think it was because everybody thought of him as useless and unlikely to achieve anything in his childhood and he proved them all wrong. I thin I had a fellow feeling for the first bit.

In these non-judgemental times I see no harm in sometimes being judgemental. It is not what you do it is the way that you do it.

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