Grayling

I often get into trouble for my references to Australian news.

However, living in rural Derbyshire, this caught my interest

A welcome development for all us shy country folk:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...6-1702,00.html

The mind boggles

G

anya4oz

I'm just amazed it's taken scientists so long to breed bare-bottomed sheep; after all, they've been breeding students like that for years...!

Anya.

possoms

LOL i'll definatley be looking out for them when we arrive

dont think they would survive very well here in Derbyshire though

Grayling

Where are you from Possoms?

I live near Matlock

G

possoms

sunny (not) stoney middleton

Grayling

Derbyshire is beautiful though isn't it?

G

possoms

Hi yes it is very beautiful and is going to take some beating scenery wise, funny but I now find myself looking at it all in a very different way and seeing things I never noticed before and thinking are we mad to leave this?

We certainly wont ever be able afford to come back here.

But summer will be here soon and it will take me 10 mins to get out of my drive for bloody tourist traffic, and if i need to nip to the co-op in Bakewell there will be no where to park, as for going up to Monsal Head or Castleton forget it ....sorry winge over

moneypenny20

But it's possibly a bit too cold to have a bare bum in

Grayling

It's never stopped me

G

Bordy

Thats my night ruined with that bloody vision .

steandleigh

Didn't realise you were near Matlock, G.

We've spent some beautiful weekends up there and around ( we were North Notts ).

How's your plans going?

HiddenPaw

Talking of rural stories and boggling minds, there was an article in the Aussie news yesterday entitled "Rural Teens Baby Boom", about the soaring teenage pregnancy rate amongst schoolgirls. The second para, which amused me immensely, reads:

"Victorian MP Sharman Stone blamed foreign doctors with little cultural understanding of Australia, and the impact of the drought, for the astonishing pregnancy rate. "

I still haven't worked out how it all fits together!! Any ideas?

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...5E2862,00.html

Grayling

Hi leigh

Probably on hold for maybe a couple of years.

We are waiting for Mrs. G to get made redundant rather than retire. Likely in the next year.

I have decided to go back to work for a while

We are no hurry as we will probably simply retire to Australia.

I will write an update when I know for definite what we are doing

Best wishes

G

Grayling

I used to work in Mansfield,Worksop and Retford.

My wife was brought up in Mansfield.

G

Grayling

Perhaps the doctors all had fast bicycles and didn't need much to drink

G