[Wizard]

  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

[Jackie]

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. 

[dixie]

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!

[Wizard]

Good support story Jackie Its like I am saying about Kate and the sheep .People dont know and that program isnt teaching much

[sandy]

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!

[pedigree porker]

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??

 

[Wizard]

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

[carl]

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.

[Wizard]

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

[juliag]

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! 

[Wizard]

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?

[sandy]

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...

[starcana]

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.

[Wizard]

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

[Rosemary]

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.