DERBY DAY in Newcastle with the TOON Army – Street Food at the Grainger Market

Jane Lee McCracken, Artist

This year my birthday luckily fell on one of the two most significant dates in any Newcastle United or Sunderland Football Club fans calendar – Derby Day!

As a birthday treat, mon chéri and I decided to go into town for the day and catch the match in a pub, tickets for the game had long since sold out.  Let me explain the word ‘treat’ in association with the words ‘go into town’, something a lot of people take for granted as a weekly or at least monthly staple. Lily can never be left on her own, EVER.  Northern Inuits as a breed are pack dogs, and left alone they suffer from severe separation anxiety.  People often comment on our situation ‘Oh it’s just like having a baby” – you can put a nappy on a baby! And unlike France, the Great British service industry does not welcome with open arms…

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