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Right. I walked home from school every day and it was about 4 miles through farm fields and along country roads with blind corners.


See here, and deer were hit regularly on the 4m road I walked... but even as a kid I recognised it was kind of dangerous, and I wouldn't want my own kids to do the same.


4 miles? Luxury.

I used to dream of walking just 4 miles to school.

I had to walk SIXTEEN miles in the wet, cold snow AND pay teacher for permission to come to school!

(edit: It's the Four Yorkshireman sketch. A joke, people...)


School?!? Well fiddledeedee which luxury part of Yorkshire are you from?

When I were a lad I used to walk sixteen miles just for a kick up the arse and then have to walk home again to work under t’spinning machine at t’mill for the other 14 hours of the day.




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