Village People.......

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 18, 2021

Chopsy Varmint said:
I also remember going on the Countryside Alliance, the carriages filled with robust, ruddy-cheeked, ruralites in smelly Barbours, all saying 'hello' as they walked past.

Whilst it was funny at the time it's actually quite a sad reflection on urban society.

Fun, wasn't it!

Exfarmer · Mar 18, 2021

holwellcourtfarm said:
Fun, wasn't it!

and not one piece of litter left!

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 18, 2021

Swarfmonkey said:
I lived in London for three years when at university. What really rammed it home about how impersonal the place was when this old dear keeled over in front of me and a mate on Oxford Street. He and I went to help, damn near everyone else just walked past without even casting a glance at her.

I was very glad to get the hell out of that cesspit. Didn't even bother going back for the graduation ceremony.

Exfarmer said:
My daughter did a year at LSE and hated it, son just loves London. personally I am in your camp!

We both cringe when TV shows show a presenter standing in a swanky city flat looking out over a city saying "wow, just LOOK at that view"!

Although, actually the view from the 34th floor of our 5☆ hotel off Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok 8 years ago wasn't too bad as there's lots of parks and trees.

10 million too many people though.

kfpben · Mar 18, 2021

We’ve had some great people move into our village. We are close enough to London to be commutable but far enough out that it is still properly rural. I find people who move in with families are fine- they want to get involved in the village and are too busy to make a nuisance of themselves.

I used to work in Dorset where most of the newcomers were retirees. What a nightmare. They had nothing to do but complain.

eg. ‘The whirring noises start at 4am every morning. It smells etc etc’
Well you did buy a house next to a dairy farm love.

JP1 · Mar 18, 2021

Chopsy Varmint said:
A few years ago a friend lived on the edge of Richmond Park. It was great sport to see how many folk I could startle by saying 'hello', 'nice day', or 'afternoon' as we walked past.

I also remember going on the Countryside Alliance march, getting the Tube from Greenwich and the fear on the faces of regular Tube users as the carriages filled with robust, ruddy-cheeked, ruralites in smelly Barbours, all saying 'hello' as they walked past.

Whilst it was funny at the time it's actually quite a sad reflection on urban society.

And so sad that on that Evening Standard article about the lady who regretted moving to the Cotswolds; the number of folks who commented on FB to say they wouldn't go to the countryside boring, nothing to do etc

I wouldn't say that about a city or big town, I have an enquiring mind and can always find things of interest

Paddington · Mar 18, 2021

We lived in a town darn sarf that wasn't even a town, more a conurbation of thousands of houses, no green spaces, very limited parking, yet the locals referred to it as the village, which it might have been years ago. Couldn't wait to move to somewhere where we could get parked and we weren't picking empty drinks cans out of the garden every morning.

Robt · Mar 18, 2021

Our village doesn’t have a local loony..... ah, hang on......

Forkdriver · Mar 18, 2021

We moved to a village years ago that slowly became a town. We hated it in the end and now enjoy splendid rural isolation.

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 18, 2021

Forkdriver said:
We hated it in the end and now enjoy splendid rural isolation.

We too aspire to that soon!

Cowmansam · Mar 18, 2021

GeorgeC1 said:
That lady from somerseat just shows why the country needs massive development of rural public transportation.

Nah

Tha Ulsterscot · Mar 18, 2021

Paddington said:
Went to buy a newspaper at the local shop a couple of days after moving in, they knew who I was, where I lived and the fact that the furniture van had nearly come to grief a couple of times before getting here.

Sounds like our neck of the woods

teslacoils · Mar 18, 2021

I lived for three years right in the very heart of London. It was ace. Didn't know my next door neighbour at all. But shops, museums, decent transport, facilities.

marcot · Mar 18, 2021

Robt said:
Our village doesn’t have a local loony..... ah, hang on......

So thats you and Chopsey then ...I rest my case [emoji18]

Doing it for the kids · Mar 18, 2021

Chopsy Varmint said:
A few years ago a friend lived on the edge of Richmond Park. It was great sport to see how many folk I could startle by saying 'hello', 'nice day', or 'afternoon' as we walked past.

I also remember going on the Countryside Alliance march, getting the Tube from Greenwich and the fear on the faces of regular Tube users as the carriages filled with robust, ruddy-cheeked, ruralites in smelly Barbours, all saying 'hello' as they walked past.

Whilst it was funny at the time it's actually quite a sad reflection on urban society.

I was going to say the same thing.

i remember chatting to the police on ‘patrol’ most of them didn’t reallly know what we were doing there but they all commented on what an easy day it had been for them and how we were quiet and no litter. Nor their average protest.

The tube was especially bizarre, lots of laughter, chat and generally things the local were not used too, very sad.

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 18, 2021

teslacoils said:
I lived for three years right in the very heart of London. It was ace. Didn't know my next door neighbour at all. But shops, museums, decent transport, facilities.

London does actually have a fair bit of green space in it with lots of parks. Right in the centre, though, many are small private ones in the Georgian Squares and only open to the (very wealthy) residents.

Doing it for the kids · Mar 18, 2021

holwellcourtfarm said:
London does actually have a fair bit of green space in it with lots of parks. Right in the centre, though, many are small private ones in the Georgian Squares and only open to the (very wealthy) residents.

friends family home backed on to Richmond Park. I was invited down for the weekend after A levels and drove in ( that was an experience!) parked up and went in, all very jolly.

the next day he suggested a walk for us all to recover from night before so off we trotted, across the lawn to a door in a big wall, opened up on to the park. I was suprised by the vastness but even more so by the herd of deer who just walked past a few metres away! I’d never been so close to (alive) deer before then, they assumed this was normal!

Exfarmer · Mar 18, 2021

holwellcourtfarm said:
London does actually have a fair bit of green space in it with lots of parks. Right in the centre, though, many are small private ones in the Georgian Squares and only open to the (very wealthy) residents.

I believe London is one of the greenest cities on the planet

manhill · Mar 18, 2021

FonterraFarmer said:
People underestimate the role of coal over the last 300-400 years for without it society and technology would be no where near as advanced had we not used it.

love a coal fire!

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 18, 2021

Exfarmer said:
I believe London is one of the greenest cities on the planet

Look on Google maps (or fly over it if you get the chance), quite an "eye opener".

Some specific parks have a bad reputation for drugs, violence etc though.

Some of the rivers I looked after in East London ran through some quite pleasant parks.

FonterraFarmer · Mar 18, 2021

manhill said:
love a coal fire!

Coalition is for steam engines!!!
Prefer a good wood fire myself, preferably with a tidy blond.....

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