Accents!
The YouTube video I saw yesterday made me feel a little homesick (as I said) so I had a little search online and found some sound clips of accents.
I found a few examples of my ‘old’ accent here. These girls are both around the same age as me, and their accents are very familiar.
I still have lots of northern in my accent but it is more a hybrid now, having been down here for a number of years. If I talk to southern people it tends to be even more southern, but if I talk to northerners (or have had a few drinks) it is definitely recognisable as northern. I think if I moved back up north again it would be a full Lancashire accent within months!
I was a little upset as a while back I searched for and found a clip from Muker in Yorkshire - where my ancestors moved to and lived after they moved from Scotland - and it is no longer available electronically. No fair! If anyone knows where I can get clips like that I would be most grateful 
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