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D&DD

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

maybe we could all pool our resources and start a communal farm
housing wouldn't be a problem because farms get special planning permission for farmworkers cottages/houses/bungalows.

I've got tuppence ha'penny and a dodgy back but still useful lol can I come please??


His nectarines are ok thanks BB luckily for me,he's already doing his nut as I fell into the pear tree...


I'm down to a tshirt and still melting here!


Having a quick 5 minutes in between potting,planting,doing the washing and a roast dinner! Came in to 3 bowlsworths of washing up in between,flippin' men!

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

I'm so lucky because I am out of the rat race. I'm in a village of 2 doz houses just off a main A road but in the middle of emptyness and have hills all around me.

Sounds like my place - the only problem is if someone bugs you in a little community they bug you big time. :mad:

mardatha

Ah I'm ok here pineapple, I never see anybody from one week to the next.

pineapple

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

maybe we could all pool our resources and start a communal farm
housing wouldn't be a problem because farms get special planning permission for farmworkers cottages/houses/bungalows.

That's a grand idea. Well my house will be on the market soon (a neighbour's just sold in a fortnight).
The thing is - as the price increases the quality of property goes up by a bigger percentage. If you get my drift.
Pineapple is already looking at existing communal schemes to buy into but the problem is she is not that communal. :huh:

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

Ah I'm ok here pineapple, I never see anybody from one week to the next.

We have about 20 households here - a third are tenants of the farmer and the rest are owner occupiers. I mention this as there is a definite division between the two. We all get on but the two groups tend not to socialise.

The farmer has never forgiven his father for selling his birthright. He would quite like to be Lord of the Manor with us doffing our caps to him. :rotfl:
We are a dead end so no passing traffic and it's wonderfully peaceful with spectacular views.
But it can feel a bit incestuous. :eek:
The animal and human population has increased slightly since this was taken.
http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/west-yorkshire/lumb-foot/pictures/676490-independent-duchy-of-lumbfoot/

mardatha

We went to York once for a long weekend... the traffic was hellish and York was a carpark. We turned tail and fled. Whitby was nice but the Yorkshire Moors were nicer - they looked like home. I dono how we got there though I think we were lost. :rotfl: But I always meant to go back because it was just like here, but gentler.

pineapple

Just to wet the taste buds re rural idylls, I found this site
http://www.greenshifters.co.uk/

jk0

Interesting article by Chris Martenson about Ukraine here guys:

http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/85369/warning-ukraine-flashpoint

GreyQueen

nuatha wrote: »

Does that mean you could get your garden dug over for you?
(Remembering a Porridge episode, and wondering if he could get away with similar)

The thought had occurred to me many a time. The next door plotholder dug up half a boot this afternoon; told her to worry when she found the toes still in it.

Gordon Bennett, but 5 hours on the lottie yesterday and 4.5 hours today. Got carried away with weeding yesterday, thought it was about 2 pm and it was actually 4 pm. Came home, ate, fell into bed at 9.15 and resurfaced 10 hours later.

Rinse and repeat today, came home and showered, chatted to the folks and then fell into bed for an hour. Am temporarily compos mentis and have the oven on, so better stay awake......

Hi, my name is GQ and my hobbies are sleeping, sleeping and sleeping.

Lottie is lookin' good. Not perfect, but pretty darned impressive considering there's 300 sq m of it and only one of me. The tatties were uncovered today and where the edges of leaves were stuck out of the grassy coverlets, they'd got frost-nipped. There was a widespread frost in the small hours; Nan saw it at 4.30 and Mum at 5.30. The day has cleared out and I have no strength to pedal back to the lottie and spend another hour covering spuds, so better hope for an overcast night......

Tomoz I will plant parsnips. In an area infested with horsetails. May the best vegetative product win ( I shall be intervening against the horsetails, bliddy stuff grows an inch per 24 hours and this I know because I was nerdy enough to measure it. That just isn't fair, is it?)

pineapple, I think the trouble with communal living is that it involves other people, otherwise it'd be perfekt. Found your next home yet?

I think I would like to have a semi-buried hobbit house somewhere. Prolly adjacent to the Central Library.:rotfl:

greenbee

GQ - I've been ordering wildflowers online, and you can buy horsetail plugs