I've just done a night shift (I do three nights in a row every two and a half weeks) and I f***ing hate them. I feel in no fit state to do the most important part of the job, which takes place between 0630 and 0830. Then I have to go home on the tube, among people who have washed recently, and...
The forecast for "London" says "sunny intervals", but the forecast for "London NW8" says "light showers".
I live about six miles away from NW8 and I have a totally different forecast. Weird.
Without doubt, or question, or any degree of indecision whatsoever, the best job I have EVER had was operating the main scoreboard at Sussex CCC (before it went digitalised)
There were two of us in there. I must have watched every ball of every Sussex 1st and 2nd XI game at Hove for three...
Well my parents and grandparents have been nice to me for most of my life. But you're right: that accent makes it terribly difficult to appear like you're being nice to anyone.
No wonder my parents swiftly adopted standard southern English accents when they moved here in the late 70s...