Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City 3 Blackburn Rovers 0 | Att: 13,788 | The EFL Championship

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The NE is firmly on the list of places that Mrs. Winston and I would like to explore. She's vaguely related to Bobby and Jack Charlton (Grandmothers were cousins or something like that) so it's a bit of an ancestral thing for her.

Durham looks gorgeous. Bamburgh too.

My comment about moving from Sunderland to Swansea being a no brainer was partlly tongue in cheek. I absolutely agree that the NE has a lot of beautiful areas but Sunderland is definitely not one of them. I have huge connections with that area as my mother was born in Bishop Auckland in County Durham and nearly all her parents and grandparents generations had huge families, some with 12 or 13 children so there were relatives spread all over the NE and I spent many a summer holiday in the area when I was a kid in the late 50s & early 60s. My mother and both of my sisters lived in the Tyne Valley near Gateshead until my mother and one of my sisters died in 2021 and my other sister moved to Cheddar just before Christmas just gone.