Sheffield

Decided to make a trip up north to the motherland that is Sheffield, my birthplace and growing up place. was one of those crisp clear cold days and was wonderful. mooched around with jayne, shopped a bit and even got to have coffee with mother dearest. Sheffield is famous for many things, we have the oldest football club in the world, we had the first ever floodlit game of football, oh and we invented stainless steel..now where would you be if we hadnt done that eh??!! rotting..thats where. consequently, sheffield grew into a large industrial city, bilging out great plooms of smoke and pollution and for years was considered a dirty town, since most of the steel industry has now upped and gone to india and china, and following a period of about 20 years from the 1980's to 2000, sheffield struggled to find a new identity and prosperity, however, investment has been made and has seen sheffield go through somewhat of a renaissance, and looks like a beautiful place now...no florence admittedly, but a great place, and a huge university city, having 2 large universities. i always get a tinge of pride talking about sheffield, and have a sheffield calendar in my office in the U.S. in fact, my company buys a lots of specialised steel from sheffield still, and was actually defending a sheffield supplier to my boss the other day. we actually buy steel from the company and factory where my dad worked for 20 years...another fact i am truly proud of..anyway...

here y'all go...Sheffield, the greatest place on earth...