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Froglet

Completely off topic but i used to live on the North Yorkshire moors.Are you anywhere near Commondale? Bet it's very bleak at the moment!!

Ice_2

Froglet wrote: »

Completely off topic but i used to live on the North Yorkshire moors.Are you anywhere near Commondale? Bet it's very bleak at the moment!!

yep...not far from me...and yes it can get very bleak, but I love the silence, its very calming...after the hussle and bussle of a hectic town/city life...I love it here...
sometimes I don't see anyone for weeks...its great...if you like that sort of thing...:rotfl:
and so beautifull
at the moment, poking through the snow are the late snow drops, early daffs and crocus amazing how they survive the weather, it always amazes me, mother nature can be so cruel sometimes and so awesome other times...
I only go into whitby in the summer times mostly when I go to surf with my DS, if its a good swell, that's about 10 miles from me now, but since the only post office for miles has just closed I may need to go there more often...

Froglet

Ah so you are nearer to Whitby than i was then.i used to go to school on the train ,are you on that line or further out? Was a heck of a treck.We used to live right next to the railway line and i remember once leaving so late i was chasing the train up the line to the station just round the corner! And once it was so heavy snow that the driver let me jump out right outside the house where i promptly fell into a snowdrift!

Yes it is beautiful but very isolated and my parents moved away when my dad retired, to the more level ground of Lincolnshire.But many happy memories,of the sixties where you could play out on the moors and by the streams all day and be safe..

Ice_2

Hi froglet...we have the steam trains back now, is lovely to hear them in the distance, reminds me of the railway children, and I know what you mean I even lock my house up when I go for a walk around the very large extented grounds of the house, pottering, came back in the summer, one day, to find some very nice people sat in the grounds at the back having a picnic, lol, they were very nice, just as well, but they thought it was an open garden, were you could have a walk about, buy some local honey and eggs, and have refreshments that sort of thing, so I made them some lemon tea's and cream scone's...was nice to talk to someone, to be honest...lol...:rotfl: what am I like, my ds said I should have sent them packing, but thats asking for trouble really.
as just never know.
but it gave me an idea to clear some land and have an open range free range type of thing chickens for eggs, and some bee hives for honey, I will have to have a talk with my accountant and see if we can afford to do this, my thinking is that it would pay for itself really.
it just an idea.
:rolleyes:
me and my idea's...:rotfl:

Froglet

My mum had lots of chickens,they wandered about all over.Then she got goats so we were nearly self sufficient,she made her own bread and grew fruit and veg.She was in seventh heaven,having moved from Greater London,the difference was amazing.

the downside was you had to make your own entertainment..........I remember the first telly we got,all grainy black and white pictures and went off just when you were in the middle of something exciting :rolleyes:

God it's making me feel old:D

Ice_2

Froglet wrote: »

My mum had lots of chickens,they wandered about all over.Then she got goats so we were nearly self sufficient,she made her own bread and grew fruit and veg.She was in seventh heaven,having moved from Greater London,the difference was amazing.

the downside was you had to make your own entertainment..........I remember the first telly we got,all grainy black and white pictures and went off just when you were in the middle of something exciting :rolleyes:

God it's making me feel old:D

lol...I am 47 and some days I feel old and some days I don't, I am wanting to be more self sufficient, but the crops that we got so far since moving in last year, haven't been that great, although I didn't have to buy any salad stuff all summer, and I have only had to buy butternut squash and sweet potatoes so far this year, but I guess that'll change soon, I make my own bread now, and we do have a small orchard, it has pears and apple tree's in it, so thats good, and there are some fruit bushes gooseberry, raspberry, brambles that sort of thing, so we can get plenty of that, I don't think I could kill an animal though, so I think we may become veggies in the future, actually we don't eat that much meat as it is, so I wont miss it, I could happily stay here forever and never go back into town/city life...lol...:rotfl: but then I would crave people company...I think...:rolleyes: .
but I love it here.
for the moment.
:rotfl:

Froglet

I've been a vegetarian for over 25 years,and am much healthier for it.Still eat free range eggs though.One look at the ex battery hens my mum took on put me off eating chicken and battery eggs for life,then i progressed to red meat and finally fish.

My mum still misses her friends in Commondale and goes back to visit once a year but she admits she couldn't cope with living there now,as she doesn't drive .There's a lot to be said for the sort of village community you get in those areas.Are you not even part of a village then?

Ice_2

Froglet wrote: »

I've been a vegetarian for over 25 years,and am much healthier for it.Still eat free range eggs though.One look at the ex battery hens my mum took on put me off eating chicken and battery eggs for life,then i progressed to red meat and finally fish.

My mum still misses her friends in Commondale and goes back to visit once a year but she admits she couldn't cope with living there now,as she doesn't drive .There's a lot to be said for the sort of village community you get in those areas.Are you not even part of a village then?

I think you could probably cast me as the manor house...or the big house on the hill...I can see the main road from the roof with binoculars, but not a house/farm or village for miles...its all my land...came with the house...but I wouldn't stop anyone from using it...I think the village (some 5 miles away) (whitby is 10 miles) has some allotments that would class as being on my land, but the way I see it, its less land for me to look after, and I have told them they can keep it, free of charge, I just need to get the deeds drawn up for that bit of land and sign it over to them...as you never know what might happen and they could find it under new ownership again...I write books you know...now anyway...but I used to be a civil servant sort...if thats how I would call it...I served our Queen and country...anyway I like the calm country life it's great...