What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Jun 10th 2013, 4:40 pm
#16
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
When I was young child growing up in Harris Children's Home - we had fields to play in. Good source for stinging nettles was to use dock leave...
Jun 10th 2013, 4:54 pm
#17
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
No, sorry! I need a supermarket, cinema and restaurants within five miles or I hyperventilate!
Jun 11th 2013, 10:14 am
#18
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
I don't usually quote my own posts, but a lot of the funding for air ambulances comes from running charity shops, so using them, giving them stuff to sell is all good. I currently have gift aid cards for 5 charity shops, which means when I donate, they get an extra 30% as I'm a UK tax payer.
Jun 11th 2013, 12:32 pm
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
I don't usually quote my own posts, but a lot of the funding for air ambulances comes from running charity shops, so using them, giving them stuff to sell is all good. I currently have gift aid cards for 5 charity shops, which means when I donate, they get an extra 30% as I'm a UK tax payer.
I will look out for them.
Jun 11th 2013, 1:21 pm
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Stinging nettles!!!!!!!!
I knew there was something. I think I'm going to invest in a PNG machete so I will be doubly protected (cf your thread on safety in the countryside) and can clear a path through the jungle of nettles en route! Damned things really nip any exposed skin and how come I can never find any dock when I get stung? I thought there was always supposed to be dock in close proximity to nettles?
I knew there was something. I think I'm going to invest in a PNG machete so I will be doubly protected (cf your thread on safety in the countryside) and can clear a path through the jungle of nettles en route! Damned things really nip any exposed skin and how come I can never find any dock when I get stung? I thought there was always supposed to be dock in close proximity to nettles?
Jun 11th 2013, 2:17 pm
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Stepping in a steaming cow pat.
Jun 11th 2013, 2:49 pm
#22
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Fly tipping. Junk just tossed onto the roadside. So sad.
Jun 11th 2013, 3:50 pm
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Getting chased by geese! I was when I went to the local farm earlier today to buy some eggs and they thought I was getting too close to the chicken coop. 
(Apparently they are fantastic burglar deterrents).
(Apparently they are fantastic burglar deterrents).
Jun 12th 2013, 12:49 am
#24
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
agreed
Jun 12th 2013, 1:17 am
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Thanks for all the input. 
Will watch out for cow pats! 
What about wind turbines - are they much of an issue these days ?
And what about fog? How often is that problematic?
And are there any problems with the internet... or even snail mail delivery?
Will watch out for cow pats! What about wind turbines - are they much of an issue these days ?
And what about fog? How often is that problematic?
And are there any problems with the internet... or even snail mail delivery?
Jun 12th 2013, 1:29 am
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Jun 12th 2013, 5:33 am
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Oh yes! Watched an eight on the Cam being challenged by a vengeful male (well, assume it was dad, mum was on the nest) the other day!
Fog - drive slow
Internet - 10 times faster than Transact in ACT
Wind Turbines - neater looking than the maze of pylons but still a waste of money
Snail mail - comes through the door, even on Saturdays! And they use common sense and leave parcels with neighbours, and the village PO stays open until 12 on Saturdays!
BUT - supermarkets shut at 4pm on Sundays!!!!!
Fog - drive slow
Internet - 10 times faster than Transact in ACT
Wind Turbines - neater looking than the maze of pylons but still a waste of money
Snail mail - comes through the door, even on Saturdays! And they use common sense and leave parcels with neighbours, and the village PO stays open until 12 on Saturdays!
BUT - supermarkets shut at 4pm on Sundays!!!!!
Jun 12th 2013, 5:39 am
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Oh yes! Watched an eight on the Cam being challenged by a vengeful male (well, assume it was dad, mum was on the nest) the other day!
Fog - drive slow
Internet - 10 times faster than Transact in ACT
Wind Turbines - neater looking than the maze of pylons but still a waste of money
Snail mail - comes through the door, even on Saturdays! And they use common sense and leave parcels with neighbours, and the village PO stays open until 12 on Saturdays!
BUT - supermarkets shut at 4pm on Sundays!!!!!
Fog - drive slow
Internet - 10 times faster than Transact in ACT
Wind Turbines - neater looking than the maze of pylons but still a waste of money
Snail mail - comes through the door, even on Saturdays! And they use common sense and leave parcels with neighbours, and the village PO stays open until 12 on Saturdays!
BUT - supermarkets shut at 4pm on Sundays!!!!!
As for the mail... when I went to the mail box, outside in the rain, this morning and put my hand into the dark ants nest to pull out the soggy bank statements... I wondered if things were still straight through the door in the UK. Am pleased to hear they are.
Jun 12th 2013, 7:24 am
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Jun 12th 2013, 9:07 am
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Re: What's horrible in the UK countryside?
Tourists. Other than that the countryside in the UK cannot, imo, be bettered anywhere in NZ or Oz. OK, the weather's crap but the countryside is wonderful- little lanes dripping with wildflowers, historic footpaths, ancient hills, beech woods, market towns, and all the lovely countryside smells (not the farming smells- yuck) like the gorse, the wild garlic, the cut grass- it's bloody marvelous.