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moneyistooshorttomention

I'm surprised at someone treating another person as an incomer within the same county - though, coming from a city as I do, I don't know whether there would have been any of that if I'd moved to somewhere rather smaller in the same county. Perhaps so.

The effect is very much multiplied in a part of the country that is so different that it might as well be a different country - and a lot of people here will tell you it is:cool:

Personally - I'm "making the best of things" and getting on with it. But I do know what my answer will be if ever I get the chance (ie enough money:cool:0 to move back. I don't anticipate having that chance - but then I hadnt anticipated the chance coming up to buy my first house. So - I suppose it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that I might ever have the money to go back there - and, if that happens, then the removal van will be parked outside my house again rather fast:rotfl:

I'm basically regarding it as a learning experience. When one has lived for a very long time in one area - then you do think/assume that the way of thinking etc etc etc will be pretty much the same anywhere else in the same country. Famous last words:rotfl:So it's been a learning experience in finding out just how different things can be elsewhere in the same country.....:cool:

mardatha

Camel? Where? .................
MrsL would you have any recipes for camm - erm. I'll PM you.

fuddle

It's an interesting insight. I know here not many people move. Many of my neighbours have lived in the same village all their lives. Some, not all though, give people grief for moving in from even other surrounding villages. I now live about 40 minutes from where I was born and bred and even though it's all in the same county, my birth village was only a handful of miles from the city in which our county gets its name, next door treat us, call us incomers when our accent and mother tongue are as true to our county as you can get.

It was completely different when I was in Dorset so I can see why you would struggle with the difference of thinking but again that was a large town with a vast mix of people so maybe I shouldn't compare. It could be possible that the smaller Dorset villages might be of similar thinking to what we're thinking. It's been nice talking to you and I thank you for taking the time with with me.

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Pie or Roast MAR???

FUDS we're all from somewhere else these days, but we all belong where we fetch up to live so next door are as whack as a troop of baboons just wait till then tell you you sound posh!

Islandmaid

I like a camel burger, but the bun lid keeps falling off :rotfl::rotfl:

fuddle

I wish you lot would give over, Hester will be along later talking about eating Camel Toes and I can't cope with what that actually means infront of you all! :whistle::think::silenced:

camelot1001

Don't give mar ideas, give poor old Humpty a chance!

Builders were here first thing, they chipped off the plaster around the back door (outside) and discovered a huge crack in the brickwork. Turns out there wasn't a lintel over the back door. That's all been sorted now, skip emptied and returned and I've cleaned up some of the dust that made its way inside.

I've picked my first cucumbers and tomatoes from the allotment, it's so exciting, who knew I could grow them?

monnagran

Nan, you sound as though you almost understand what is going on here. Perhaps you could enlighten me one day because I don't have a clue.

mar, DON'T YOU DARE! Keep your mitts off poor Humphrey. You wouldn't like it. Take no notice of Islandmaid, she can't type properly. Camelburger was a typo, she really meant CARAMELBURGER. You know IM, she'll try anything.
Anyway, just to put you right, those humps aren't stuffed with jellybabies you know. And the meat tastes almost exactly like kale. So think on before you start sharpening your knives and shuffling your freezer round to make some room. That camel is MINE, d'you hear?
I have plans for it in the area of transport. It doesnt need petrol. It doesnt need an M.O.T. Parking is a synch, they haven't invented a camel clamp yet and the Parking Monitors can't decide where to stick the ticket. All in all I'm on to a winner here.

Islandmaid

I think Monna has got the Hump :rotfl: Poor Humphrey, poor delicious Humphrey

Caramelburger Hmmmm....

ivyleaf

That did make me smile Monna , and Humphrey is of course just the right name!

nannywindow How nice to see you back "home" again :T

I made a stir-fry for dinner, with really lovely meat from the butcher, but when it was ready I was too hot to eat much of it What a waste.