You know when you live in the country when...

You know when you live in the country when...

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KrazyIvan

4,341 posts

176 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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When you wake up to next doors horses in your garden again....


civicduty

1,857 posts

204 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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You can actually see the stars rather than an orange haze in the night sky.

kowalski655

14,656 posts

144 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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When it takes 20 minutes to load one page on PH

anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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When you throw birdseed on your lawn and it's eaten by friendly pheasants.

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

106 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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garyhun said:
When you throw birdseed on your lawn and it's eaten by friendly DINNER.

Cold

15,252 posts

91 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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When gas/electric/water companies and Yodel, Uber and Sky claim your address doesn't exist.

anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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Stickyfinger said:
garyhun said:
When you throw birdseed on your lawn and it's eaten by friendly DINNER.
Out of season now wink

crofty1984

15,873 posts

205 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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When you say "God, it smells like turkey st."
That's right, specifically turkey.

Timfy

331 posts

120 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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lucido grigio said:
The pub car park is filled with tractors.
It's horses around here on hunt days, usually with somebody sat on top in all the hunting garb eating a cheese and ham roll from the bar. 😂

TwigtheWonderkid

43,406 posts

151 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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There's 30 kids in the class but only 2 surnames.

All types of birth defects come under one heading ...N.F.N.
(normal for Norfolk)

Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Friday 31st March 08:48

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

180 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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You make pigs smoke

vx220

2,691 posts

235 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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alorotom said:
When you get nervous wibbling over what to do with a miss-delivered hockey stick rather than man up and just sort it
The only reason I clicked this thread was to leave a reply similar to yours...

cbmotorsport

3,065 posts

119 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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When the lane to your house has grass growing down the middle of it.

Jon321

2,817 posts

189 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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....You never bother washing your car, as there's little point.

tribalsurfer

1,142 posts

120 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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Jimmy Recard said:
You make pigs smoke
Use more lubrication !!!!

S11Steve

6,374 posts

185 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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civicduty said:
You can actually see the stars rather than an orange haze in the night sky.
I spent a weekend in the Cairngorms earlier this year, and the sky left us both completely awestruck. The more our eyes adjusted to the dark, the more stars we could see, almost to the point the sky was grey, not black,

We have started talking about retirement plans based on that weekend.

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

101 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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thebraketester said:
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Do you feed beef burgers to swans?
What's wrong with that? They're high in fat, they'll help the swans float!

Adz The Rat

14,129 posts

210 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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Walking from the door to your car you are jumped on by 4 muddy dogs.

sidekickdmr

5,078 posts

207 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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You know your guests are arriving a good 5 mins before they arrive as you can hear the car approching

Handy to pop the kettle on

Johnspex said:
We've just moved to North Devon and all of those are true except the one about mother/sister. It's chuffing great.
Us too!

Where abouts are you?

Edited by sidekickdmr on Friday 31st March 09:45

Slushbox

1,484 posts

106 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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.. your twenty minute commute takes two hours during the harvest season.