Author Topic: the tourist invasion is starting.  (Read 19982 times)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #45 on: May 30, 2011, 12:27:18 am »
Oh it's very common, leaving the bag of poo.  There's lots of these stories on the 'dog pooing on my land' thread, including a few people who throw them up into trees and hedges!

As I said on the other thread, dog poo in bags is worse for the cattle farmer than just leaving the dog poo - inquisitive young cattle will try to eat pretty much anything and eventually all the rubbish they can't digest can kill them.

I think somehow we have created a society in which everyone thinks that 'someone' should make the whole world be a safe and well-organised place, and it is someone's fault if it isn't.  So they think, "If no-one supplies a dog poo bin (and empties it now and again) then how can I be expected to dispose of my dog poo?"
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Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #46 on: May 30, 2011, 08:59:24 am »
I had someone yesterday taking a photo of his wife buying fresh eggs from my gate! Just makes you realise what are novelty things are to some people  , we take for granted.

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #47 on: May 30, 2011, 09:56:16 am »
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I think somehow we have created a society in which everyone thinks that 'someone' should make the whole world be a safe and well-organised place, and it is someone's fault if it isn't.

I'm sure you're right about this, in all sorts of spheres! Makes people helpless (and hopeless!) as a result. I love living here because people are self-reliant and help each other out. We're so far from any thinly spread 'authorities' we expect to sort things out ourselves  ;)
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I had someone yesterday taking a photo of his wife buying fresh eggs from my gate! Just makes you realise what are novelty things are to some people  , we take for granted
Yes, easy to forget what 'funny' lives city dwellers live  :D
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #48 on: May 30, 2011, 01:15:15 pm »
I had someone yesterday taking a photo of his wife buying fresh eggs from my gate! Just makes you realise what are novelty things are to some people  , we take for granted.

I think that's really nice.

I don't think it's helpful to create some sort of "them and us".

waterhouse

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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #49 on: May 30, 2011, 03:10:23 pm »
A friend who lives in terror central (Luton) told us that she buys eggs from a neighbour but was horrified to be given some that were still warm last week.   How does she think eggs happen?  It makes us boggle that she boggled: she's seen our chickens and had our eggs too!

The supermarkets have won, at least for a lot of people

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #50 on: May 31, 2011, 12:23:01 am »
I had someone yesterday taking a photo of his wife buying fresh eggs from my gate! Just makes you realise what are novelty things are to some people  , we take for granted.

We get a lot of tourists here on Hadrian's Wall.  Quite a few of them seem as, or more, enthralled at us moving some sheep up the road as they are at the Wall.  Certainly it is very common that the cameras turn from the Wall to the sheep as we approach!

I don't think it's helpful to create some sort of "them and us".

I expect you are right Rosemary - I for one am just letting off some steam, hopefully amongst friends.  I don't want access to the countryside to be shut down but I really do wish people had a little more common sense when it came  to how to behave once they are here.
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #51 on: May 31, 2011, 07:29:37 am »
when I was in my late teens I went to Ireland, hiking with a friend. Having been a city girl" I was absolutely stunned and taken by the beauty of the countryside and country living that it may well have been us standing by the roadside staring at sheep openmouthed. Now , of course, it's other people doing just that and the wonderful sights around where we are are admired by other people because we see them every day. I still try to keep the "Wow"factor alive somewhere inside me as it is the most beutiful part of the world we live in! Don't ask me to feel that fondly for tourists when I have the next one doing 40 all the way to St.Andrews in front of me when I'm in a rush  ;D ;D

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #52 on: May 31, 2011, 08:33:00 am »
We have a B&B down the road from us, every summer is the same people with children think its ok to let the kids climb the fence to talk to my ponies. Colts being what they are its just asking for trouble. We now have electric fencing everywhere. Our other problem is rubbish being dumped. I came home one day to find a woman up our farm road which is 250 yards long, when I asked her what she was doing she said she had come to speak to the horse. In her hand was a pile of custard creams. We do get people that are lost all the time, even had two French girls late one night in tears who could not fine the camp site they had booked into. We had never heard of it so let them put up their tent on our lawn. Gone in the morning without even a thankyou. I love where we live, its a beautiful place which I know I am lucky to look out onto every day so i do try to see it from the tourist point of view. Just wonder how many of them would put up with me and my dogs trailing about in their back yard.  ;D

ambriel

  • Joined Jan 2011
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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #53 on: May 31, 2011, 01:18:47 pm »

You can tell the English schools have broken up.

There must have been a dozen cars in the carpark by Oldshoremore beach yesterday, with maybe three dozen people on the beach - that's massively busy for round here :)

Lots of scouser voices shrieking at their little darlings not to get too close to the sea/sand/rocks/seaweed etc.

Having a lot of single-track roads round here it's always amusing to see how normally urban drivers cope when faced with an on-coming vehicle.

northfifeduckling

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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #54 on: May 31, 2011, 01:43:35 pm »
especially if THEY have a 4-wheel drive and not move an inch to the side in case they damage their vehicle  ::) :&>

deepinthewoods

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Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #55 on: June 01, 2011, 06:20:42 pm »
dont get me started on dog poo. why bag it and bung it up in a tree i dont know. what i do know is having spent the last 5 days in lovely wales, ive realised just how ridiculously busy cornwall is. hardly any traffic all week in wales and as soon as i get near home boom here we go again.
i know the income they provide is important but the change ive seen here in just the last 15 yrs is gobsmacking.
sod it, animals all fed and watered and looked after, im out of here till the end of half term. hay festivals on and thats still not as busy as trying to get to truro.
 pen y fan was a bit busy tho. at least 50 people :o ;D

shearling

  • Joined Mar 2011
Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #56 on: June 01, 2011, 08:19:53 pm »
Yesterday...went to get hair cut with daughter and son. Son went to barber and finished first. Son got car keys and sat in car listening to 'music' and had air con on... went to car with daughter turned the ignition...ziltch...battery run down.  Phoned OH no answer as he was in the field/garden/shed generally out! bought another set of starter leads. Son asked local folk for use of their battery no joy. Then couple fro OZ said yep and helped to get the old girl going. Result - went to dentist on time (paid lots of dosh for him saying all ok)... But thank you so much for the kind people who were willing to spare 10 mins to help us out. Sometimes tourists are better

mab

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • carmarthenshire
Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #57 on: June 01, 2011, 08:33:47 pm »
I don't know if it's 'cos it's flat around here, but we seem to get a lot of old people on the broads - Not that I have anything against old people but must they drive SO SLOW???  ;D

It's funny how quickly you get used to this way of life though - it's less than 1.5 years since I first got sheep - I remember driving home on the A47 with them in the back of the van, and thinking "what am I doing??"

Now it seems perfectly normal to be followed into the kitchen by sheep and chickens.  :D

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NormandyMary

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: the tourist invasion is starting.
« Reply #58 on: June 01, 2011, 09:05:46 pm »
I live (literally) on the Normandy/Pays de la Loire border in France. From late April onwards the roads are busier with campervans which are so very popular over here. Then from May onwards, we get the retired Brits with holiday homes over here, and from June its everyone else. What I cant stand though, is the bolshy attitudes of some of my former fellow countrymen. It makes me feel ashamed to hear them. They talk with very loud voices to show that they are british, and are sometimes very rude to the french. They forget that there may be other people around who understand what they are saying.

 

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