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

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... There's a 2hr conversation about wellies at the bar.

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S11Steve said:

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.

This place is where we live https://spaceguardcentre.com

It's very nice living in a dark sky area.

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Stickyfinger said:

Adenauer said:

You put a fence around the garden to keep the dogs in and the DINNER out. Then at night the DINNER jumps over the fence and eat all of the flowers on the terrace.

Get a licence and a chest freezer

Then set up a Bacon Tree to catch them.

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Steve_W said:

Mothersruin said:

Stickyfinger said:

Adenauer said:

You put a fence around the garden to keep the dogs in and the DINNER out. Then at night the DINNER jumps over the fence and eat all of the flowers on the terrace.

Get a licence and a chest freezer

Then set up a Bacon Tree to catch them.

"It wasn't a bacon tree sarge, it was a ham bush!"

Finally!

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GetCarter said:

You look out of your bedroom window and see this... (yesterday)

Forgot to mention when I did the thread that you're banned

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Jonmx said:

When it's perfectly acceptable for two vehicles to stop in the middle of the road just to have a conversation.
When you wonder how people manage to survive without an Aga or Rayburn in their house.

Rayburns have much better latches

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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.

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silentbrown said:

Mothersruin said:

tokyo_mb said:

The far South West - Shropshire Hills AONB

Leintwardine for me - Herefordshire location but Shrops postal address.

Ah. I'd guessed further south due to the MR stuff! Is the Fiddler's Elbow still any good? We've just moved down to Pembridge - (incidentally from practically next door to tokyo_mb)

Two from me: when "next door" can mean up to five miles away
.. and when your postcode covers exactly one house.

The Brecon MRT area is surprisingly large. From Brecon go NE and NW until you hit the border and the sea, then North to Welshpool and Machynlleth respectively, we deal with stuff that far up. I can be the first on grid some times even living this far North.

Fiddlers Elbow is still good, just had a big refurb actually as they've now bought the place.

Pembridge is lovely. Epic scones in the tea rooms on the crossroads. Know one of the ladies that works there.

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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.