Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Actually when people were generalising earlier about the NPs I wondered how many feel they live "in the sticks".

In my last place you'd need to pop in the car to buy even a box of matches as I lived miles from any shops or transport. Didn't stay there long!:eek:

I'm a city guy at heart and the country doesn't suit me. Feel that puts me in a minority here or do others live in cities/big towns,

Realise that gbd, ndg and probably wheezy are in the same city as me. :hello:

PN, lir, dave sound like you're at the edge of the map! Everyone else not sure whether you're in large or small cities/towns/villages/settlements whatever.:p

TW9 1XP is....not my real postcode by close enough to give the general idea. Closest pub - 5 minute walk, closest train station - 5 minute walk, closest supermarket - 5 minute walk etc. I do not live in the sticks!

Richmond park is very close though, and it's pretty big for a park. About 15km around. My proudest achievement to date is snapping my achilles tendon (I'm exaggerating) when I was exactly half away around, on the one day that the place was shut to cars.

Wheezy_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

TW9 1XP is....not my real postcode by close enough to give the general idea. Closest pub - 5 minute walk, closest train station - 5 minute walk, closest supermarket - 5 minute walk etc.

Ah oui.
Then you must live at 17, Manor Grove, North Sheen, n'est-ce pas?
Enchant!, mon ami.

Hercule





I'm always surprised at how tame the deer are in Richmond Park.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

One for the NP interior designers.

Entrance hall and dining room are going to be tiled, shiny white porcelain tiles. Options are 600 square laid out in rows or 600x300 laid out in a 'brickwork' style. Thoughts?

It'll look like a Victorian public loo, on the walls.

Might it not be slippery when wet?

sss555s

purch wrote: »

Village !!!!! VILLAGE !!!!

That's a conurbation compared to my village :eek:

My village used to have a small shop, pub and post office but it has nothing now. It's well located to the bypass of the near by town which has all you'd need including 24 hour Tesco within 15 minutes


Just noticed that quite a few nice people seem to live in a Village.

zagubov

sss555s wrote: »

Just noticed that quite a few nice people seem to live in a Village.

That's what I felt.
I expect most people in the UK live in larger settlements. (I read once that Scotland was one of the most urbanised parts of Europe - 90% urbanised ie v. few living in villages) but in this thread I got the impression people were travelling further for necessities/routine services.

Living in small communities clearly has benefits that make this worthwhile. I was born in a village and since then lived in inner London and various suburbs and am finally glad that I live in a place that looks and feels like a village (nice) but has the facilities of a town and is on the edge of a city (essential).

chewmylegoff

Wheezy wrote: »

Ah oui.
Then you must live at 17, Manor Grove, North Sheen, n'est-ce pas?
Enchant!, mon ami.

Hercule





I'm always surprised at how tame the deer are in Richmond Park.

No, but where did you get that photo of me from!

I guess the deer have just got used to all the people with their fancy slr cameras thinking theyre the first people to ever see and photograph a deer in Richmond park. God it annoys me. It's a flipping deer get over it.

PasturesNew

In the countryside I've lived in, we've not had parks. The whole "park" thing, seems to be mosstly big cities. If you're in the countryside there's plenty of access to green spaces, if you want to walk along footpaths/similar, but there's no big, central area that's the focus of the village/town.

I doubt I've been in a park... not really sure what a park is or what makes a park a park and not, say, a common, or village green.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

In the countryside I've lived in, we've not had parks. The whole "park" thing, seems to be mosstly big cities. If you're in the countryside there's plenty of access to green spaces, if you want to walk along footpaths/similar, but there's no big, central area that's the focus of the village/town.

I doubt I've been in a park... not really sure what a park is or what makes a park a park and not, say, a common, or village green.

I was thinking that on Monday when I was walking the dog in the park. I've never been a 'park' person. It's okay now with a dog if you're feeling sociable, there's generally someone to chat to, but parks are a bit boring and contrived to me unless they're vast ones like Richmond or Wimbledon Common. I love walking in the fields. DD likes the playgrounds though, obviously.

I'm a bit odd though; if I take him out, I won't walk back into the house from the same direction I walked out from. I think that might be an issue in the new house. It's a big block!

We have to leave our holiday cottage on Saturday. We're now booked into a local Holiday Inn Express for six nights because there are no holiday cottages except these ones. Next week is going to be hell.

I'll be about a mile from the M5 and a mile from the M42. About a mile from where we were, but less villagey as it's the main road into the local town. Our local pub is of a brand name, eating variety. It's a fair few miles to a 24 hour supermarket and convenience shops aren't entirely convenient, about a 10 minute walk. I really liked our old location, I liked how my house looked but I didn't enjoy how it felt. It was a proper cottage, so a bit dark even with 17 windows!

Davesnave

I'm a Tesco snob, so even if they built one in the field next door, I'd not use it, unless I'd run out of something important.

I've tried to see what it's all about with Mr T's, but whenever I've gone into one, I've come out feeling let down. Most things don't even seem that cheap.

Last time I was in a Tesco, I did find an acceptable pie for £4.99, but a much better one from a local butcher here is only £3.60. As for the bread......:(

I wouldn't claim that the others are much better, but an interesting choice arises when we decide to commit to a 20 mile supermarket shop. We can either go to Place A with Waitrose & Lidl, Place B with Morrisons, or Place C with Sainsburys and Lidl. Usually C wins, but mainly for the reason that we can go to the dump and/or B&Q, and then return via Mole Valley Farmers.

Doozergirl

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm a Tesco snob, so even if they built one in the field next door, I'd not use it, unless I'd run out of something important.

I don't know if they have them everywhere, but they own One Stop Shops as well now. The penny dropped for me - there must be one Tesco (of the Express variety) within a 10 mile radius of our main town. One Stop Shops, well they're everywhere. There's no clubcard points or anything, so they've gone in by stealth, afaic.

I don't use them either now.