Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

On a completely different note, somewhat freaked out by Cyprus etc.

I do not want to sit on a fair bit of money which earn burger all in interest whilst land price soar and banks look dicy.

Any ideas on where you would start if you had £200K

Pembrokeshire south of the A40 If you are worried by the 'language issue,' though personally I'd risk other places in West Wales. The soil can be good in Pembrokeshire. It often seems to be poor, however, where the scenery's nicest!

I think someone put forward the idea that people would eventually be taxed for holding money in banks a few years ago. With the current interest rates not matching inflation that day seems almost to be with us.

It was worrying about having so much money in the bank rather than something tangible that made us impatient to buy again. Now, still having a decent amount left , ploughing most of it into this place looks a better bet than hoarding it for some government to steal. :cool:

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

lir thank you. Would remembering good times make it easier?

I know I deal with grief differently; I need to talk about the "person" whose has gone a lot to get some sort of resolution. Still end up sniffing over the ironing at intervals though.

Tbh just trying not to think about it. When her daughter died some years ago I went off the rails a bit (I was a party girl in those days and the outlets I chose were probably not that healthy. Poor dh got some of that this weekend till he begged me to go to sleep. No chemicals though, and I am still on my annual 'on the wagon' stint, so not even a glass of wine to weep over.

I basically locked myself up last week and tried not to think about anything. To day I am back in normal availability, but still not right...a bit too 'flakey' and squeamish. E.g. I started spring cleaning and when I was scrubbing the landing floor this morning just kept retching. .

It will pass, the rawness. Contrary to how it seems on here where I talk (or type) non stop, I can be quite closed. Grief for me is one of those things. I don't want to talk about her much.

Dh says my parents are asking him what we will do now (about horses). So eventually we will make a more proactive decision about that. ATM I feel happy to devote myself to the proceedings against the heating people, another business endeavour we have going and the music festival I am on the committee for is looming. Dh is actually playing this year (pulling in favours from nearest and dearest that we do not have to pay) and I have even said I will write out some arrangements for him, (takes me hours to do what it takes him twenty minutes to :rotfl:) especially without a 'Joanna' here. I have to find a keyboard somewhere to check everything so I will probably get on with that while the rain is still looming and not much else can be done.

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

Cons......not rural enough for me. Though if you want edge of small/medium town might be ideal for you!

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Rain, yeah....had a lot of it in the last year, but most where I am falls on the hills, not in the valley where I am!

I was born beyond the end of the tarmac and twenty years ago I would have been happy to go back to somewhere very very rural (I nearly ended up in a very isolated place plus the bete noir (he's blonde but..).

Two things have changed my perspective

1. Being really really ill one spring and realising that if I had to produce my own food I would have starved. I needed to be able to curl up and recover and that meant I needed access to shops and things. And running stuff solo means that I have to do as much basic stuff (bills, repairs etc) as a couple would do between them.

2. Fuel costs mean that stuff will almost certainly cost more and more, so I want to be within traveling distance of people who provide essential services.

rain - yep - the weather will dump stuff unpredictably in large volume in the future so I know there is no escape but the further west one goes the wetter it seems to be. Maybe I should purposefuly also write out the east coast as well on the ground of drought potential and flooding had not even considered that area anyway.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

RAS wrote: »

I think one of the issues is that some incomers are ...well.... dire. I have met some whose basic understanding of local law is non-existant so they have upset half the community before they even opened their mouths. Trouble is that means that other incomers can get tarred with the same brush.

Heavens I was born a few miles away and my surname is local but came back with southern accent and I took a lot of hard work to get people to treat me like a human being. They assumed I was a toff. It helped that when they asked where I came from I replied well I was born a few miles away but family come from another local place. I could see the shock as they re-calculated my place in society.

The big leveller is the school run which I would not be doing and I would probably not be working, which is the other big opportunity to correct assumptions. I know how to treat the lowliest staff like humans and with them onside, I can work miracles but if I am not working....

local law????

can you clarify what you mean by the last paragraph????

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

can you clarify what you mean by the last paragraph????

See my edit above

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

local law????

In a different legal system.

alfie_1

evening peeps...:D

well i delivered the 2 chairs i sold, people picked up kitchen island thingy yesterday and iv maybe sold a sofa to the chairs man too

funniest thing today was...i got home at 4, opened front door and the dogs were looking a bit sheepish so i went to kitchen expecting to find the bin emptied...nope ! then i could hear movement upstairs and noticed bimble missing...went up only to find him and one of my foxes "playing tag" under and on my bed.... both stopped, looked at each other and just sat like naughty kids on my now heap of a bed.....:rotfl::rotfl:
i picked up buttercup and took her back to her enclosure...filled the hole and fed them...

may i add that the most savage thing she did was CHEW MY HOT WATER BOTTLE UP !!!! :rotfl:

Itismehonest

Blimey RAS. I've no idea where's left that would fit your bill. To do everything on your list you'd need quite a bit of land, I think. The mix of possible pasture, arable (as in fruit & veg) plus timber/woodland being the killer. You may find a 'project' somewhere but there's not enough hours in the day to take on a building project + organise land + live at the same time. Something has to give - either the building work or the land.

I do, however, totally agree with your reasoning & understand why you changed your perspectives.
Even with just a very few acres it's hard going to keep on top of things as age &/or illness gets you. The only way to do it is to rely on others which usually means paying unless you have very helpful friends or family. Normally they have lives of their own & want to be doing their own thing.

North Wales used to be the area that was less friendly to the English. South Wales was always thought of as England in Wales.

You're right, too, about incomers. The guaranteed way to upset locals is to move in & 'take over'. Those that have arrived, got on the council & tried to chocolate box the countryside don't tend to last long. People who don't understand that the countryside is a working factory can be a menace.
I'm a firm believer in moving into an area because you like it as it is & not in order to 'improve' it to what you think it should be. Do that with your own property but leave others to get on with what they've been doing for years.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Ras.. I still don't understand what you mean by local law/ different legal system? and what you meant by ' I Know how to treat the lowliest staff like humans?

rhiwfield

Got to say that I never felt unwelcome when I moved to Wales, lots of friendly people.

Like RAS I wouldnt want to live somewhere too remote. Increasingly rural isolation means poor services, more petrol cost, second class broadband, delayed ambulance response. There are advantages of course, but at times you have to have a real PMA to find them

DW off tomorrow to help look after a very poorly GS, bless him. You think the trials of raising your own children is hard, particularly with life threatening illnesses, but the emotions kick in just the same with ill grandchildren