General Chat

Island, think I may do so! LOL! That would be a sight!

I agree with you. I really don't tar everyone with the same brush at all. But I am amazed by "people" I would consider as "locals" who really don't have a clue. We live 6 miles out of town and it could be a million miles for some of them. And their families have been here generations. (Insert Family History stuff here) I have been helping some of my friends find their (extremely local ) ancestors.

But the wretched church bells...that's different!! When we first arrived here in1988, courtesy of OH's new job, nothing was open from Friday to Monday. We had to be a lot more organised. And on Monday night the bell-ringers were practising. And my middle baby, never a good sleeper would scream for hours. One night my OH said " I'm just going up to kill the vicar." I said, "Please don't do that, the baby hasn't been christened yet!" And so the vicar survived another day and the baby was christened a year or so down the line. And his little brother.

I think the thing is, where there isn't much traffic noise, the bells are awfully loud!! When I retire I think I'm going to learn bell-ringing to get my own back.

Helen, i think people who behave badly do so whether they are at home or away. I just don't think it fair to tar everyone from the same environment with the same brush :-0 :-D

I live in a city block of flats and was amazed to hear of a new neighbour complaining about the church bells on a sunday. Such a shame they built that old church just to annoy him LOL :-D

I'd like to see those chooks coming out of your ears - you should go on Britains Got Talent LOLOL :-D :-D

Well, Island, so do I. Check out my previous posts!!! Chooks and veg. coming out my ears. Been here nearly 24 years.

I think these "people" are almost everyone I meet - who mostly weren't born here. Or who seriously don't get out at all. Even from their own villages. (Probably the transport, lol!!) No-one seems to have a clue. And, in town, it's even worse. But that's their business. I live a great life.

'People'? who are these people?

My tongue was in my cheek with my previous post Helen :-D

Sorry but I do find it very ignorant when general comments are made about town and city people. You'd be surprised at how much some of us know about the nitty gritty of nature and where our food comes from. Heavens above, some of us even grow our own veg and keep chickens. :-0 :-0 :-D :-D

You are dead right, Island, people don't like to think about life and death in the country. But that is where all our food comes from. Plants and animals.

One couple complain about a cockerel and now no-one in town knows where food comes from? :-0 :-0

Ha ha Chris, we have hens etc. In the olden days when there were poultry auctions (pre bird-flu) I mistakenly bought a very handsome cockerel for my girlies.

He was very handsome, a comb sweeping down over his face, gorgeous..... so I put him in the shed with his new wives. By my greenhouse.

The next morning I was awakened in a terrible state of shock. What a loud cockerel! I really thought he was on my bedside table!! It sounded like it!!! Fortunately our neighbour was deaf!! Terrible noise.

After a few days I moved him every night to a rabbit hutch about 100 yards away, so we could all get some sleep. After 2 weeks I took him back to the market and sold him, I got £1.60 which is around 3 times what I paid. In the country, males have no use.

Sad but true. xx

Many years ago - couple moved into a larhge house in a lane and then complained about the cockeral crowing and actually went to court!!!

In the country there are the herds of cattle, pig farms, poultry farms etc etc. - where do the townies think their food line originates from?

As to house prices - blame greedy developers and estate agents plus the fact that council houses were sold off and very few being built to replace those sold.

Liz, what a miserable bunch! We have lived here for 23 years so are only newcomers.

Dermot, I wear my non-Hunter wellies everywhere, even to parties.

Kay, Roger Moore used to live near us, too. I can only think he moved around a lot!

Annina, you sound like much more of a townie than me!

In the next lane to us there is a holiday home (mansion) belonging to a (former) member of Tony's Cronies. Think he is a T.V. guy. Every year there is a big party in August, with celebrities (supposedly) bussed in from London. The police, formerly absent, show up on that evening and quiz all of us nearly-locals on what we are doing, where we are going, etc etc. It's quite a laugh!

One year we were on our way to Gatwick, suitcases on the roadside at 3 am waiting for the taxi.....yup, saw more police on our doorstep than we have in years.

And remember, I am a townie for the next two years, Dermot.......

It works the other way as well. A solicitor I think he was and his wife, moved into an area of Norwich a few years ago, which is close to our old cobbled street and picturesque areas, but also close to restaurants, and bars and St Andrew's Hall, the nearest thing we have to a concert hall.

Over the years they objected to so many things being opened up or changed because they had started a b and b and noise disturbed their guests. Stopped many a concert being held and other things at festive times etc and because he worked for the legal profession he knew all the tricks and wrinkles to hold things up or stop them in their tracks.

Why should a relative newcomer feel it's his right to change things that have happened for a long time in a city that he only just moved to. So annoying - he became well known for his letters and objections to things in the local paper.

Lizx

Yep... Dermot.

Also gotta know how to make pasties.!! :-D

Before you are accepted as a 'local' in Devon, you must live in the area for at least 25 years.

At the end of that time, you will usually be accepted as one of them provided you have a written reference from you grandfather & you wear wellingtons every day except Sunday & Christmas day.

Isn't that right Marilyn? (lol).

Lets face it celeb people who buy your local property are only buying most of the time property that locals cant afford to buy, I have a house near me, worth over 1 half million.....but only a few locals would ever be able to buy it,so if a celeb did, well done to them.........infact it did at one time belong to Roger Moore then worth a few grand!!

No,not Cheshire,NE Derbyshire, although we moved 7 yrs ago to live in Sheffield. We have the GP surgery opposite,shops,hairdressers,and a choice of two buses running every 10 mins from 5 o'clock am, to midnight,7 days a week.

Mind you,I will always be a country bumpkin,and hate living in town.

Stan.
My nieces boyfriend owns a double fronted stone warehouse come furnisher shop with carpets ......He was offered 1 Million for it by We*her Sp**ns early this year .....but he declined ......just waiting for the 1 * 5 Million offer !!
He said they'll come back ....

See he's a local Lad..... owned by his parents at one time .... :-S

Marilyn....

Forgot to add, our doctor's post office and shos have all gone and the bus comes every 2 hours before 6 pm, after which it's Shank's Pony.

I went out last night, was supposed to give a lift to a friend but couldn't do so as I had to be there early. My friend walked six and a half miles to join us, then I drove her home later. Welcome to the country!

Some American tourists visiting Windsor Castle wondered why the castle was built so close to Heathrow Airport. (Tongue-in-cheek).

Oh yes, I'm a 'blow-in' too who relocated to Devon because my employer moved here from London, creating 200 jobs in the process.

I'm still awaiting for my Lottery win though!

Hi Annina, do you live in Alderley Edge, Cheshire??? Footballer territory!! Wish I did!

If I had the money (which I don't) I would love to buy a house in Cornwall, on the coast somewhere. Mullion Cove appeals to me. Would I be depriving someone else of a home? A local person? I hope not. But if I could afford it I would be down there most weekends and spending money locally. I understand you wouldn't want to see empty houses, but I would be employing local people to keep an eye on the house, do the garden, clean the place, stock the fridge when I was coming back.... (yes, I know it's a dream!) Would local people be after a house like that? I don't know. I live in a picturesque Kentish village, there are not many "weekend folk" that I know of.

True Uggers, its probably lots more cash than they have ever had,so who can blame them? an opportunity of a lifetime so they take it.**M**.

No you wouldn't, Glitter Baby - which of us would say oh no I'll take thousands less so someone from the village can buy it?