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

[Never you mind]

You know you live in the countryside when this seems like a good idea. It was!

And this is normal



Yes that's a goat in a pub

Edited by Never you mind on Tuesday 11th April 20:39

Edited by Never you mind on Tuesday 11th April 20:41

[carmadgaz]

Mothersruin said:

tokyo_mb said:

themanwithnoname said:

tokyo_mb said:

Some we haven't had above (all from our Shropshire experience):

Your neighbour lives in the house he was born in, has never travelled further than 40 miles from home, and has never driven round a roundabout.

Errr where in Shropshire? I lived there most of my adolescent life, and you could barely travel 5 miles without going round one...

The far South West - Shropshire Hills AONB

Leintwardine for me - Herefordshire location but Shrops postal address.

Anywhere south of Ludlow used to be clear of Roundabouts in Shropshire until they put one in in Burford a few years back (a safety measure that caused more crashes as the yokels had never seen a mini roundabout before ) .

Incidentally I have the opposite here. Live in Shropshire with a Worcestershire postcode :/ .

So much truth in this tread amongst the expected mickey taking. It's a different way of life and I wouldn't want it any other way. Was up on the scaffold the other day at my house and I could of sat up there with a cider just enjoying the view...

[Jonmx]

Never you mind said:

You know you live in the countryside when this seems like a good ideaAnd this is normal



Yes that's a goat in a pub

That pub looks suspiciously like the Nobody Inn in Doddescombleigh, but I can't be entirely certain. If it is then I have walked home from there naked at 3am on a cider fuelled New Years eve as a foolish young man. Again, you know you live in the country when...

[5ohmustang]

Jonmx said:

There does seem to be a misconception in that thread about what a walt is. I've just posted a link in there to a walt pretending to have been special ops in the Falklands to try and restore the balance.
I went on a rather splendid walk through the lanes at the weekend and came across a group of 4 lads all aged about 13-14, all in DPM and each with their own air rifle. All had the barrels broken on the rifles and were polite enough to stop and say hello. They'd just been to ask the local farmer if they could go and shoot rabbits on his land, unsurprisingly he had said crack on.
I remember a couple of years ago in our local city there was a 'firearms incident' where a young lad had been seen with a rifle in some fields in the city. Full ARV attendance with helicopter and dogs. Very different attitudes between rural and urban, although understandable to a degree.

Every Sunday evening the hills are alive with gunfire, it's just background noise.

[Colonial]

When you laugh at people who think having a few acres 10 minutes from a village with a twee stone pub is living in the country.

[karona]

Last weekend there was a series 1 Landrover pickup with a wild boar carcass in the load bed parked outside the village bar.

Our Sunday lunch was a full meat and three veg roast, and the only thing sourced more than a mile from the house, including the leg of lamb, was the condiments.

There's one post code for the entire village.

Hatches, matches and dispatches are announced by the church bell, slow ring=bad news, rapid ring=good news, frantic ringing=fire alarm.

Goats outnumber the residents by at least 20:1, and most residents have guard-geese, way more dangerous than guard-dogs.

[Le TVR]

When even your lawnmower has cup holders.

[Stickyfinger]

Le TVR said:

When even your lawnmower has cup holders.

You put cup holders on Sheep & Ponies ?

[Sheets Tabuer]

Stickyfinger said:

Le TVR said:

When even your lawnmower has cup holders.

You put cup holders on Sheep & Ponies ?

I'd have thought he'd just put a can of cider down the suspender belt.

[grumpy52]

You tell visitors which lane to wait in off the "main" road ,then 20mins later you turn up to guide them in .
On the third visit they say they will be ok and then ring you from 15miles away after getting hopelessly lost .

[Mothersruin]

Whenever I pop over to my mates, I turn off the main road, go through the farm, open the first of three gates, on a track through actual fields but it's worth it. Stunning location. Offa's Dyke runs past the back of the house.

[Jonmx]

5ohmustang said:

Every Sunday evening the hills are alive with gunfire, it's just background noise.

I think part of the issue in the UK is that we have been progressively led to believe that firearms are bad and unnecessary. As someone else has said, folk from urban areas will ring the Police if they see anyone with a firearm, even in the countryside in a field. Whilst I respect the US openness to firearms, I think some guys take it a little too far in respect of open carry with AR's down a high street. Whilst legal, it's not exactly responsible gun ownership as they know full well that their actions are provocative and could result in an armed confrontation with law enforcement.
Every other sunday the hills are alive with shotgun fire here thanks to local Clay Pigeon club, like you say, background noise.

[Storer]

Taking your shotgun (in gun slip) in the pub with you after a days shooting, and nobody makes a comment or gives you a funny look.