Good old Gruaniad

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Their article on "why the North is best" is headlined with a Tennyson quote:

"Bright and fierce and fickle is the South
And dark and true and tender is the North".  

I'm tempted to adopt that as the family motto...

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He certainly did (it's on line at http://www.george-orwell.org/North_And_South/0.html)and it's interesting how much it is written against the background of a prosperous industrial north.