[deepinthewoods]

these are the people that maintain ours, they may be able to help you


http://www.pfs-uk.co.uk/

[feldar]

We get used to them down here, there is no season they just seam to be here all year round. I can't get used to people tying to put their toddlers on the cute forest pony! Last year we had 3 people hurt in a carpark when they fed the pony then wondered why it's mates all pitched in with teeth and hooves flying.
The foals are born and the stallions were let out last Saturday so going to be some upset walkers when they get in the way, lots of squealing and that's just the tourists!!
If you want to go anywhere you just get up early, whilst their snoring in their grockle-pods (caravans)

[Rosemary]

There's an idea for your smallholder show, Rosemary, 'Best Pen of Towrists'.

What a good idea! Pa, ma and a wean 

[Sudanpan]

We're also in Cornwall - west, between Hayle and Helston. We don't really notice the invasion that much because we aren't on a major route. However in the summer months we do opt for our other mode of transport (motorbikes) if we have to venture to the more touristy areas  - though a bike is not necessarily faster in the cornish lanes
The thing that does irritate me about the summer is the fact that we get thrown off various beaches for the duration because they ban dogs  It really pisses me off that its a minority of rubbish dog owners who don't clean up after their pooches who tarnish it for the rest of us.
And as for the trash left behind by some people after they've had a lovely day on the beach, then get up and leave the residue behind, grrrr.....

[Hermit]

Might not be the poo issue about dogs Sudopan, we took a Spaniel to the beach once, not a sausage or apple pie left in a picnic by the time we caught him

[Hilarysmum]

I suppose we are privileged to live where we do.  It must be very hard to only be allowed 2 weeks of pleasure per year in the country and the rest of the time spent in concrete jungles.

[jaykay]

Might not be the poo issue about dogs Sudopan, we took a Spaniel to the beach once, not a sausage or apple pie left in a picnic by the time we caught him

we took a spaniel on the hills on Boxing Day once. Stopped for a bite, noticed a broken spectre rainbow, called some nearby folk over to admire it and by the time they'd returned to their turkey and cranberry sandwiches, they'd all gone   they weren't impressed by the offer of jam butties to replace them  

I suppose we are privileged to live where we do.  It must be very hard to only be allowed 2 weeks of pleasure per year in the country and the rest of the time spent in concrete jungles.

that's very true, I need to try to remember that! Also, just how detached most people are (even the landless, living in the country) from farming. Need to educate them I suppose somehow.

[Hilarysmum]

I am still laughing at the picnic capers.  Yes education and teaching people to appreciate the countryside would make for a far better situation for landowners, country dwellers and tourists. 

We need tourists, because if people dont appreciate the country side which they only see as they zoom past on the motor way one day when we need to fight the developers, we will be a very small body, with a lot of ambivalent town dwellers not helping to fight the developers.

[deepinthewoods]

fair point, tho my experience has been that many just use the countryside and dont consider it a privilege, the hedgerow rubbish is starting already, one car drove past my house yesterday and just lobbed a bag of dirty nappies over the hedge and in my garden.lovely.
 if id have been quicker i would have chucked a brick back....

i want everyone to have free and proper access to the land but treat it with respect.

[Cavendish]

I cannot believe someone would throw dirty nappies into someones garden thats really disgusting!!!

I live in Caversham just on the edge of the chilterns, the amount of rubbish you see in hedgerows around here is distressing to say the least, I have never understood people who mindlessly throw rubbish on there own doorstep.. I wonder what there houses are like??

On my way back from work I walk along the thames from reading station to my house in Caversham, during the recent school half term the play area and playing fields on the norther side of the reiver was packed with groups of mums/dads and their kids playing and having a nice time. the next morning doing the same journey to work the whole area was strewn with litter, although the bins that were provided were full and some people had made the effort to pack their rubbish up, many did not and left it all over the park. The amount of it made my stomach turn. why do people do this??.... most of them only live within a 5 - 10 minute walk of their homes, where they have a lovely big green bin to use.

[Hilarysmum]

Not necessarily tourists but have you noticed the number of people who will drive to a local beauty spot to dump rubbish, rather than take it to the tip?

[northfifeduckling]

we do get quite a few 20mph drivers, especially if on the way to and from St Andrews, they "drive"me mad  I can understand that they have to admire the scenery, it is ever so lovely but being stuck behind them all summer....
We had some funny people stopping outside the house. When I asked if I could help them a few said that one of their relatives or so had been born here, weird! Americans, Australians.Most are too shy to have a cuppa and a chat...

[deepinthewoods]

trouble is my 'garden' doesnt really look like one

well 'run to the sun' has began and we're off to trecastle in the brecon beacons, to get some real peace and quiet and climb pen y fan wahay!! ill take my rubbish with me tho, shut every gate, not harrass the stock, buy all my food from local shops and drive like i stole it....

[SallyintNorth]

ill take my rubbish with me tho, shut every gate, not harrass the stock, buy all my food from local shops and drive like i stole it....

Of course you cannot win.  Drive slowly and someone will cuss you for slowing down normal country life.  Drive too fast and some farmer trying to move some ewes and lambs, or a cow or bullock or two, will cuss you for endangering yourself, her stock, her dog, herself...   

[feldar]

I just saw the best one ever today, some woman picked up her dog's poo in a bag then left the bag on the ground!! absolutely priceless, does she think it will decompose quicker in a bag?