really old style living?

Hippeechiq

NualaBuala wrote: »

:rotfl:
Maybe I should add bigger clothes to the shopping list too! It's pretty bad cos there's just me here so have to eat the treats all by myself!

Good grief woman!! you'll need a marquee at the very least if you eat all of it yourself :rotfl:

ginnyknit

Thats the problem when people find an unspoilt area, they spoil it. Genuine people who want to move to the countryside who are going to help the area versus the rich people who just want to say I have a little place in Scotland and the bl**dy tourist types who may bring income but also bring rubbish, traffic jams and rudeness. One thing that really annoys me is people who move abroad without doing any research or have the respect to learn the language!!! Sorry having a rant.

Mardatha the compost is still a quid a Tesco's maybe you should do tub gardening like a lot of my stuff as the back end of my garden only grows certain plants that dont get eaten by every bug known to mankind! And if you stick the tubs, I scrounged loads of old buckets and stuff, you could use terrace the slopes and use the tubs to hold back the landslides My sunflowers are now HUGE over 10 foot tall and flowering! lots of sunflower seeds for my health bars - finally a glut of something other than tomatoes.

NualaBuala

mardatha wrote: »

Choille thats awful, I'm so sorry that life should be changing like that for you.
Tha mi airson Gaidhlig ionnsachadh - a bheil Gaidhlig agaibh ?

Lovely to see a bit of Gaelic - it's so similar to Irish ach nil a lan Gaeilge agam.

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Good grief woman!! you'll need a marquee at the very least if you eat all of it yourself :rotfl:

Am thinking perhaps a Big Top tent - with vertical stripes obviously for a more slimming look.

Hippeechiq

NualaBuala wrote: »

Am thinking perhaps a Big Top tent - with vertical stripes obviously for a more slimming look.

:rotfl: it's worth a shot

Charis

ceridwen wrote: »

Well - I'll try not to think about one of my fellow INTJ's (? think) - ie Stephen Hawkings - saying that humanity has to "head for the stars" within the next 100-200 years or we've had it.

He's having us on. From Yahoo answers:

I believe Gliese 581 c and Gliese 581 e are the nearest Earth-like planets to our solar system, located 20.3 light-years away from Earth.

Even if we could travel at the speed of light (700 million miles an hour) which we can't, it would take over twenty years to reach the nearest possibly habitable planet avoiding any collisions with other matter on the way. How would the scout ship send a message back to let earth know that it's safe to come on up? If they turned straight round and came back with the message, it would be 40 years later down here. The guys at Houston would have retired and been replaced. Curiously though, Einstein reckoned that travelling at the speed of light, the crew, although they may have gone insane being cooped up for 40+ years, would not have aged at all. I can't get my head round that as I'm not Einstein. So we either fix this place and learn to live together as part of one giant organism (ecosystem) or we all perish together. Apparently the Amish were light years ahead of us all :rotfl:

ceridwen

ginnyknit wrote: »

Thats the problem when people find an unspoilt area, they spoil it. Genuine people who want to move to the countryside who are going to help the area versus the rich people who just want to say I have a little place in Scotland and the bl**dy tourist types who may bring income but also bring rubbish, traffic jams and rudeness. One thing that really annoys me is people who move abroad without doing any research or have the respect to learn the language!!! Sorry having a rant.

My pet annoyance - currently being felt:cool: - is the one about people littering the countryside/green bits in urban areas.

I like going foraging in both - and just take what I need and clear up some litter whilst I'm there (there's ALWAYS some litter:mad:).....and then there's "the others" - the ones who just want to take and take everything. I've done 5 bits of foraging over the last week or so - and didnt get a dickybird in several spots where I KNEW there was something to forage - as other people either didnt know or didnt abide by the "foragers code" and took the bl**dy lot:mad:. Someone made the point about "maybe they needed it" - yeh....but then maybe they didnt need it and were just being greedy regardless....and anyway ..that presupposes the Greedies were psychic and knew for a fact that no other households coming along to that spot after them might "need" it too. If the Greedies are that psychic - then why arent they making a living from their psychic skills?

Rant over for the day....and breathe....

ceridwen

Charis wrote: »

He's having us on. From Yahoo answers:

I believe Gliese 581 c and Gliese 581 e are the nearest Earth-like planets to our solar system, located 20.3 light-years away from Earth.

Even if we could travel at the speed of light (700 million miles an hour) which we can't, it would take over twenty years to reach the nearest possibly habitable planet avoiding any collisions with other matter on the way. How would the scout ship send a message back to let earth know that it's safe to come on up? If they turned straight round and came back with the message, it would be 40 years later down here. The guys at Houston would have retired and been replaced. Curiously though, Einstein reckoned that travelling at the speed of light, the crew, although they may have gone insane being cooped up for 40+ years, would not have aged at all. I can't get my head round that as I'm not Einstein. So we either fix this place and learn to live together as part of one giant organism (ecosystem) or we all perish together. Apparently the Amish were light years ahead of us all :rotfl:

..."light years ahead of us all" - except in one very obvious respect...but I'll shut up about their obvious blind spot (where they DO need to adapt to the 20th/21st century).....before I get myself in trouble...

Gigervamp

Urgh, I hate litter! Something I noticed when we were in Chicago, was how clean it was. I'm used to cities being dirty and smelly, so it was a pleasant surprise to see that it's not always the case. Don't know if it was due to people not littering, or that the refuse department kept on top of it.

I was brought up to throw litter in a bin and if no bin is around, to keep it until I could find one. I've brought up my children the same way. Now, people have no respect for anything it seems. It's not always the case of course, I did recently see a group of teenage boys walking along the road eating lunch who put their litter in a bin, but they're few and far between.

mardatha

Nuala, they say that Irish gaelic and Scottish gaelic are very similar- could you understand ours ? Last time I was in Ireland we went on "The Connemara Bus" - a 1950s bus that did day trips. The driver was yakking away in gaelic all day to two girls right off the plane from New York. They had spoent years learning gaelic and wanting to come home to the old country - they were late teens and very Bronx when they spoke english and I thought it was hysterically funny and couldnt speak for giggling :rotfl: veering from lovely soft Irish gaelic into pure Kojak !

csarina

We moved back to Scotland after 12 years of being south of the border. The prime reason was my 77 year old husband wanted to end his days in the country he was born in, not that he is likely to pop his clogs just yet, he tells me he is going to live to be 100........I told him I would not be around to see, he would have worn me out!! LOL. The second reason the pollution from people, lights and noise where we lived. Emergency vehicles sounding their horns at all times of the day and night, the light in the street shining through even the thickest curtains and the closeness of people. I hated having to go in the City it was a run down dirty place, I used to go in and out as quick as possible. We were lucky in that we had a shopping centre with a supermarket quite close.

Our front door faced our neighbours, ours were not good ones, in fact they skipped owing the landlord 6 months rent and a filthy house........

We now live in what is termed a 'rural location' just a mile from the village in a cottage with a largish garden and OH has a veg plot in an adjoining paddock. The air is clear and clean, there are no street lights, when its dark, its dark. We have exceptionally nice neighbours, mind you the landlord is a pain, but we deal with that!! He is a true old fashined Scotsman he will not spend a farthing if he can get away with it, hence us having to pay for the new wood stove. When he has finished on Monday he informed me that he had saved me £400 - £500 pounds by knocking the fireplace put himself!! I was gobsmacked....after all its his house!! We must have put a good deal on its value in the garden alone since we came here. Not that I am grumbling, it was our choice to do what we have to the garden. He did suggest the other day that we open it to the public as part of the village open scheme next year....yup and there would be signs to his garden centre coffee shop all over the blooming place......no ta.........if I open the garden, I do the teas!!

The road outside can be busy with vehicles coming to and from the farm and eearly in the morning cars going to and from, but we accept that......nature is on our doorstep, we have lots of birds who visit us, one little robin used to sit by OH when he was digging and nip in and pick up bits and pieces to eat. The swallows returned......they are getting ready to fly south again, a sign that autumn is upon us. In the field at the side of us a young colt and his mother graze every day. There are acres of fields and miles of footpaths close at hand and a short car ride away access to two fabulous beaches..........We also have a buzzard who visits from time to time, we see him hovering over the fields looking for lunch or supper.

We are both happy here, we enjoy our surroundings every day, what I do not like is the debt, but that will get sorted over the next 12 months.........

Better go this is turning into a screed and I am waiting for the chap to call for instructions how to find us, he is delivering the new wood stove this morning!!! Can't wait.........