Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Tahlullah

Generali wrote: »

This is the beach (bog standard Aussie beach):



This, however, is the road you drive along to get there:

That road is fantastic! And what a view. I could imagine lots of accidents because everyone is too busy looking at the view and not concentrating on the traffic around them.

And I am always in awe of the structural engineering that goes into making roads like this. Bridges over large expanses of water make we wonder at mans ability to create such structures.

michaels

Lydia

Sorry if my post seemed in any way critical, it wasn't supposed to be. I was a fussy eater growing up, somethings like brocolli I now eat and enjoy, other things like tuna and liver the smell still makes me feel nauseous. Our kids all eat some of everything, although only a couple of mouthfuls of the thing they don't like but it is interesting that they often eat the things they don't like when they don't remember that they don't like them...

Generali wrote: »

This is the beach (bog standard Aussie beach):



This, however, is the road you drive along to get there:

370m built for 200k - amazing, it will cost about 200k to build our 140m project house should we get planning permission..talking of which in the UK the 'natural beauty' of the beach approach would never be permitted to be defiled with a road like that, after spending about 100m of various appeals and public inquiries it would be announced that a tunnel would be built which would be abandoned as too costly in the next spending round.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Lydia

Sorry if my post seemed in any way critical, it wasn't supposed to be. I was a fussy eater growing up, somethings like brocolli I now eat and enjoy, other things like tuna and liver the smell still makes me feel nauseous. Our kids all eat some of everything, although only a couple of mouthfuls of the thing they don't like but it is interesting that they often eat the things they don't like when they don't remember that they don't like them...

I suspect the main reason that it seemed critical was because I was overtired and consequently oversensitive, rather than anything you wrote, but thanks anyway.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Lydia

Sorry if my post seemed in any way critical, it wasn't supposed to be. I was a fussy eater growing up, somethings like brocolli I now eat and enjoy, other things like tuna and liver the smell still makes me feel nauseous. Our kids all eat some of everything, although only a couple of mouthfuls of the thing they don't like but it is interesting that they often eat the things they don't like when they don't remember that they don't like them...



370m built for 200k - amazing, it will cost about 200k to build our 140m project house should we get planning permission..talking of which in the UK the 'natural beauty' of the beach approach would never be permitted to be defiled with a road like that, after spending about 100m of various appeals and public inquiries it would be announced that a tunnel would be built which would be abandoned as too costly in the next spending round.

I suppose there is less beach here, and more there un built on to enjoy ' undefiled natural beauty' , something which is hard to find in uk 'Undefiled' in a modern way is hard to find in south of uk. We are TINY compared to places like Australia! Our few unique Eco systems are correspondingly smaller and in need of some protection too.

lostinrates

We're considering buying a new car BEFORE this one dies.

This is a radical move.

Crazy even?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I suppose there is less beach here, and more there un built on to enjoy ' undefiled natural beauty' , something which is hard to find in uk 'Undefiled' in a modern way is hard to find in south of uk. We are TINY compared to places like Australia! Our few unique Eco systems are correspondingly smaller and in need of some protection too.

Exmoor, Dartmoor ....

The South isn't just London

I stumbled across a place in Cornwall that looked like "land that time forgot", a dangerous looking road trail that lead down to a derelict ex-tin-mine site. Blue Hills Tin Mine area. Grotty, but enchanting to discover by accident - if hair-raising the first time.

I went in mid winter, Google car went in summer and wimped out of some of the road parts. And, it ends (or starts) with a VERY narrow gap in the road.

Mid-route: http://goo.gl/maps/FkKEJ
Gap: http://goo.gl/maps/mhujJ

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

We're considering buying a new car BEFORE this one dies.

This is a radical move.

Crazy even?

Can make good financial sense, depending on how old a rust bucket it is, whether it's going to go "kerplat" in the near future and how much it costs to service.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Exmoor, Dartmoor ....

The South isn't just London

Both are shaped by human practise. however we try and preserve them now they are managed to stay As we know them. Very little of uk is 'natural'.


(Edit...its interesting about this time of year to drive across salisbury plain when its open too......not farmed or managed in the same way as moors or new forest, with which it shares some similarities......but huge differences in the result.


Btw, if any one does to, please take time to sign the register of guest attendance in Imber church. It helPs the local community tremendously to maintain access to the church and village if its seen that their is wider interest and numbers so I understand.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Can make good financial sense, depending on how old a rust bucket it is, whether it's going to go "kerplat" in the near future and how much it costs to service.

Too much to service really.
Problem is when ever we try and decide what car we cannot decide.
Already causing some discussion.

I just think I've got too spoilt for a defender.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We're considering buying a new car BEFORE this one dies.

This is a radical move.

Crazy even?

Not crazy; you have complex and unexpected journey requirements, in a bit of a stranded corner.