Places I have lived

A meme from keirf:

Northallerton, North Yorks, Nov 1975 - 1976
High Spen, Tyne apparently, 1976
Witton Gilbert, County Durham, 1976 - 1979
Kippax (nr Leeds), West Yorks, 1979 - Oct 1989
Allerton Bywater (nr Castleford), West Yorks, Oct 1989 - Oct 1994
Oxford, Oxon, Oct 1994 - Jun 1998 (as student)
Allerton Bywater again, Jun 1998 - Jan 1999
Cambridge (Arbury), Cambs, Jan 1999 - Oct 2001
Cambridge (Kings Hedges), Cambs, Oct 2001 - ?

I was also living at home while I was living in Oxford in term times, but did actually move home full-time for a bit after finishing my degree.

In October 1999 my parents moved from Allerton Bywater to Mirfield (nr Huddersfield) and have been there since, it's never been somewhere I've lived but it still feels moderately like home. They met in Newcastle where they were both students, before that my mum lived in Barwick-in-Elmet (Leeds) and my dad lived in Larne (Co Antrim).

Lent

So tonight I am making pancakes (yay!), and tomorrow is Lent. I'm not a Christian, but I do often give things up for Lent, which some may find strange. I suppose partly it's growing up with Christian traditions and wanting to keep them, and partly just because I find it a useful discipline. And it's a good time to give something up: just long enough to be a challenge but short enough that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, which makes it easier to stick to. I'd never even heard of the concept of feast days and Sundays not counting as part of Lent itself until very recently, despite it being originally something I learned through school and sunday school, so I've always given things up straight through from Ash Wednesday until the morning of Easter Sunday. I was considering giving up either alcohol or chocolate for Lent this year, but I have not one but two nice dinners out this weekend, and my sister's birthday the following weekend, and an entire box of chocolates just arrived at home. So should I even bother? I'm already counting calories which cuts back on overindulgence somewhat. Any suggestions?