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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Wizard on March 10, 2010, 09:01:49 am
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;D Hello all this is not intended to run the town dwellers down in any way at all.So one of my jobs used to be pool maintenance and I used to borrow a lad from SLDD out of the college in Grimsby If I needed help I could ring the H of D and say How about a boy tomorrow Steve Yes OK will Brian do.yes fine hes a good lad.So the following morning I picked Brian up at the College and we set of to Stenigot Hall,We left the town and there are only a few houses Brian said he hadn't been out of town as far as this do I know the way back and of course the further we went the fewer houses,anyway we approached Stenigot going south down the Blue Stone Heath Road by turning Right and down a steep cutting mid way down apheasant took up off the bank and it really frightened Brian and he tried to hide under the dash Having explained what it was I told him if the keepers were about they may let himsee a lot We arrived at the Hall and there are two bronze stags mounted on the gate pillars now he really was taken with them and he wondered what they "Would weigh in at if he took them to Potts scrap yard" We drove around the back and parked walked toward the kitchen door and the window flew up "Morning Baker Gillie is round in the Apple Room I'll be across later".and closed the window,Hey said Brian Did you see that woman she has a WASHING UP LADY ;D ;D :farmer:
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Once when we all decided to take the in laws to a country pub father in law (from Sheperds Bush London) leaned over a gate of bright yellow crop (yes I do know what its called but you will see) and the farmer said to FiL "Lots of rape in the fields this year." To which FiL replied "Yes the dirty B**tards they should castrate them all!"
He truly couldnt understand why the farmer and myself burst out laughing. ;D ;D
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When we moved here a few years ago the place was really run down, a bit of a mess! but not derelict! our friends arrived a couple of days later, opened the boot of the car and they all put on brand new wellies, just for the visit! We still call them margot and Jerry!
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Good support story Jackie Its like I am saying about Kate and the sheep .People dont know and that program isnt teaching much
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I consider myself a betweenie, not a townie at all yet not a rural person either, my father in law (farmer) used to moan all the time about "Townies" BUT, he lived in a small farming village and it was getting very run down, all the younger people, including my husband, worked in the nearby town and hated country life, so as the old families and old people dropped out, houses that were run down were sold to "Townies" then they were done up to look postcard pretty, the incomers started village events and the new income changed the dull old country pub into a gastronomic extravagance that drew in hoards, so money going back and life going back...Things change and we need them to, I wonder if living in the town will return in favor and all the smallholdings and rural places die out like they did ???Hope not!
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I work in FE, the knowledge (or lack of) never ceases to amaze and astound us, for example did you know that you get cream from a bull?? that a micro pig (kune kune) is a pig that you can put in the microwave??
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PP Yes Isn't bulls milk in them tall bottles with crown caps on not seen any lately is that something else thats gone it seems to me.
No jersey
Blue Top past yer eyesd
Green Top skimmed
Red Top butter milk or full skimmed
Sterilised UHT from Tibetan Cows I think
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let's not become zenophobic. we can't all help where we were brought up, and how we understand each others ways. I have a foot in each camp. Live in country and have done 85% of my life but have worked for 60% of my life in a city. Admittedly I can't wait to get home, but I have to respect that the people living across from my office have no choice. If you have no money in the country it is hard, as you may be miles from your nearest shop, or workplace. In the city or town you have everything in walking distance and don't need to broaden your horizons. Different strokes for different folks.
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Why xenophobic Carl I have no fear of a townie on a joskin either. I have worked in most environs but not the Ford factory at Basildon where we once visited a man just put wheels on and another the nuts then another man spun them tight for 8hrs a day I would ask a grand a week and become ill after the first day I can tell you.Zenophobic a posh word for a Wednesday don't you think.To posh maybe ;D ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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We had friends from london staying last year and we picked them up from the local town. As we turned off the main road onto the country lane which runs down to our village but meets our house first after about a mile and a half they couldnt believe they were on a road with grass growing down the centre. They were staggered and just couldnt stop laughing in disbelief. They have now told all of our mutual friends that we are so 'loaded' we have a mile and a half drive leading to our house! ;D
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You are quite right Juliag I can take you to loads of places in Lincs where the road is like that.Its good for osses feet intit? :D ;D :farmer:
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A townie friend told me, when you stand in dog poo in the town, you have to walk for ages to clean it off on some grass...a good comparison...
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Yes, what always puzzles me, as someone who grew up on very large council estate in a London suburb, is how siblings brought up the same way, in the same home, can choose such different paths later in life. When I left home to go to college, I chose to go to the North East, as a typical Londoner thinking, 'it will be good to go a long way away as I'm bound to end up back living in London for the rest of my life.' Then having spent time around the North York Moors, the Northumbrian Coast etc I knew I never wanted to go back to London. I did of course, have to work in cities for all my working life, York, London, Birmingham, etc but always lived in small villages and put up with the long commutes. Now I've retired I live in quite a remote part of Cornwall and love it - just what I always wanted. But when my brother visited last year, just after we'd moved and he and his wife have never left London. They think a walk is going window shopping in Oxford Street. When my OH took my SiL outside to hear our owl, she started started screeching louder than the owl 'there's wild animals out there and it's pitch black'. Yes, the lack of any light pollution here is one of the things we love and she found it threatening and frightening - more than the knife crime, burlaries etc etc that go on all around her in the city. But, as someone said earlier, each to their own.
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Hello Star Yes but you have moved to the country to alter your ways and you enjoy whats there not try to alter the country to your ways like so many do.I am quite sure you are most welcome where you live.Its the Linda Snells of this world that puts so many backs up :D :D :farmer:
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I don't think it's fair to classify people by where they were born and brought up. It's a form of racism. The countryside can't exist without the towns and vice versa. I wouldn't want to live in a city and I'm sure lots of folk wouldn't want to live here. I think what annoys me is when people shout the odds about things that they don't know anything about and make judgements based on not very much, then implement canges that don't affect them but do affect others - the fox hunting ban springs to mind as an example. Legislation driven by "town" values that impacts not on the "town" but on others.
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Do you often ride wi the ounds an run wi the fox Rosemary No offence but?
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One of lifes greatest pleasures, gazing at stars without light pollution, and listening to "night noises". Screech owls and vixens can be a bit horrific, and lapwings a bit alienlike. Our friends from the smoke always turn up with shiny wellies and wrinkle their noses at the slightest pong. I always need to take my inhaler when i visit them, and manage to find a green space to walk in. I also feel a bit aggoraphobic in shopping centres, but that might be a man thing. Where I see grazing land my friends see real estate and development, or tax dodges instead of woodland. If my Aussie friends from London visit they laugh at my rustic barbeque with logs burning to eventually die down for the coals to cook on, he has a gas barbie, plumbed into the mains, with halogen heatlamps, a lighting system and piped music. It's as though we are from different planets, but we get on fine and we respect each other, especially when he gets free Lamb and pork, and we get a free holiday at one of his villas. Our main household income is derived from "the city" and from industry. a neccessary evil, which creates the stress that the country life releases.
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I was born in Peckham! glad I dont live there now!
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Yes Dixie and from what you write you dont want to change the country to the town thats why you choose the country unlike some ;D :farmer:
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When did you put up a profile pic George ;D I was a bit confuddled there, thinking, who's dat? ;D
I don't live in a very rural area, and I would like to move to somewhere more rural, where I don't see people for days. I think as a family we've changed a lot, and no longer have the same interests as people we grew up with, and they seem to tolerate our interests with amusement, whereas we view their interests with horror. Who in their right minds still want to go out clubbing at our age??? :o :o It's bad enough we live near a pub and get the odd singing at nights, but to voluntarily go out and act like prats, no thanks! :P
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Hello sage its my pal Annie she sent it me its a picture of a JJTolkien's wizard Gandalf he's in Lord of the Rings dont you like Him He's a ace wizard in the story and a ace picture on here me thinks anyway.Sorry sage I have all ways took it you lived in the country .Wrong agen thats 3 times this month and its only Thursday ;D :farmer:
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Nah I live in a semi-rural area. I'm surrounded by farms but we have a busy main road here and about ten minutes away from the town centre. Only one shop and one pub though!
Whoops sorry, forgot to add - I like the pic George ;) Have always liked Lord of the rings ;D
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Ta lass I think its a great picture.I also hope you can find a nice place thats to your liking and you can afford There are plenty of places but o dear the price :o :farmer:
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Hello Carl from reading your second post you're one of the chaps that the country side needs Knows about town living but finds more pleasure in the countrymans way of doing things You're BBQ story is a great illustration.Its not you and your likes that I have no time for Its the ones that come and want all the stuff they had in town.Mind you Carl Virgin Broadband in Scartho is very desireable over BT in Toft when it works in Toft.A little story might amuse you a long time ago my employer said I want you to go down to Ipswich to the Ransomes factory To learn all about the new Ransomes 902 combine harvester Some of you may remember was it 1960? I was billeted in a smart hotel on the main street in Ipswich Bloody lights on all night city type buses Goddamn awful place wouldn't swap my rented farm cottage for that place if it was free.
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Hi wizard I rode wi the ounds just once, once was enough even my equibriefs were not really man enough! Last year on a lovely little cob I had on loan. on approaching the meet , one of the old men (every hunt has them, you know the ones sucking a pipe with a flat cap that knows where the fox is going to run even before the fox does!!) looks at me and asks where I have left me caravan!!! :o Well! Me gasted was flabbered!! I thought I looked very smart ::)
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lets not forget the stars. its vastly diffrent in town. i love looking at the milkyway before moving up here i never saw it. to see a sky bright with stars is atreat. the northern lights are another. still waiting for a very good one.
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Hello Paul its a whole new world isn't it Either way go into town or come out into the country I have met one or two girls that want to go back into town.Its to quiet and desolate in the country.Theres now't to do ??? ;D :wave:
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Going back to your ransomes post, wizz. I had a similar experience in the early 80's. Staying at a b n b on the main road into Ipswich, while visiting clients. Luckily it was also the main road out! Always stayed further out after that.Suffolk has some lovely villages, with great little pubs.
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I'm pleased you had that little experience both of us can talk with conviction I have got used to the problem the only time we hear the big buses is if one stops because there is traffic from the right The windows vibrate in sympathy Bruuumm bruuuumm You've followed them in your vehicle ??? ;D :farmer: