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Original poster

to think there is somethign seriously weird about where I have just moved.

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Dimtan · 08/08/2010 17:04

It's this village on the coast in the middle of nowhere, seems like it should be really busy, there is a shop and a cafe/chippy but there are hardly any people here, it's really bizarre.
I have seen some children running about but never any teenagers or babies. I've onyl ever seen under a dozen grownups in the week I've lived here.
Oh, and no-one has a car ether, even though there is a bus which I have never seen anyone on, and a train track but I've not heard a train either.
None of the adults talk to me, they just look through me as if I am invisible.

I just feel really creeped out. AIBU to get out of my contract and move somewhere else

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DinahRod · 08/08/2010 18:05

The residents are all related and have gone on their annual family holiday

UnholyMoley · 08/08/2010 18:05

Or! is it the few locals left that are burning down the holiday homes! That happened a few years back in your neck of the woods, didn't it?

DinahRod · 08/08/2010 18:05

The residents are all related and have gone on their annual family holiday

ItsGraceActually · 08/08/2010 18:09

Crumbs, Moley, THAT's why they need so many firemen!

Handy for Dimtan, though ... you are single, OP?

domesticsluttery · 08/08/2010 18:12

Definitely trying to work out where you are so that I can burn down the holiday homes

TartyMcFarty · 08/08/2010 18:17

It's been said before, but it's likely to be because local families can no longer afford to live there. Because the summer's so crap people probably aren't bothering to visit their second homes.

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Dimtan · 08/08/2010 19:09

Well that was interesting.

I found the fire engine, tender and a little ambulance van down on the edge of the forest where there was a load of tents ablaze.
4 firemen and helicopter support there and it looked like this weird old bloke and 4 kids all camping together when the campfire had set fire to the tents.
Everyone seemed to be blaming this one poor boy who kept saying it wasn't him but was getting all the grief, the firemen then put it out and they all started laughing, was very weird.
Then the chopper landed and this australian bloke got out and was laughing along with them all. I mean, it's not funny! if that had spread it woudl have destroyed the village!

I have locked the doors.

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fullofbeanstoday · 08/08/2010 19:17

Did Norman Price start the fire?

domesticsluttery · 08/08/2010 19:20

An Australian bloke got out of a chopper in a remote welsh villlage to help with a fire?

Was he called Tom? Grin

usualsuspect · 08/08/2010 19:21

They were only trying to fry sausages ..did you have a storm at all ?

UnholyMoley · 08/08/2010 19:21

This just gets stranger and stranger.

Can you hear diddle diddle music?

Or some duelling banjos, maybe?

DorisIsAPinkDragon · 08/08/2010 19:31

Can't believe I fell for that!

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Dimtan · 08/08/2010 19:33

No, no storm, the little boy was called norman, I felt really sorry for him as he kept saying he hadn't touched the fire, but they all kept saying it 'sounded like something he would do'
His mum was there too, she seems a bit pfb over him though.

Didn't catch the Chopper pilot's name, he was lush though. AM trying to work out where they get the money for all this equipment from when there are only a few people.

I did manage to get a word with some random bloke watching the fire, he said that there isn't anyone else in the village, and just looked really blank when I asked about all the empty housesHmm

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ItsGraceActually · 08/08/2010 19:44

Good to hear nobody was hurt, anyway :) Poor little boy, being automatically blamed like that!

Could be good news for you, though, Dimtan. Now their tents have gone, they might have to move back into the village - use some of those non existent empty houses. Sounds as though it's not so quiet over there, after all!

PS: Are you on the telly?

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Dimtan · 08/08/2010 19:47

I think they were just camping out so they obviously live somewhere in the village, god knows where, they probably have a row of houses knocked through or something.

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PavlovtheCat · 08/08/2010 19:47

LOL. you are talking about Fireman Sam Grin

UnholyMoley · 08/08/2010 19:48

Ach, no wonder I had no idea what you were on about. My kids are far too old to watch fireman sam.

PavlovtheCat · 08/08/2010 19:49

Do I win a prize?

I do realise now, that after my guess, i should have in fact Played Along...

sorry...

CuppaTeaJanice · 08/08/2010 19:55

Dimtan, could you do me a favour and pop into the cafe opposite the supermarket? I knew a nice Italian lady called Bella who used to own it, but I haven't seen her around for quite a while now. I'm a bit worried to be honest.....

Overrun · 08/08/2010 20:02

He he, but as far as I know Fireman Sam is set in South Wales, some where in the Valleys, not West Wales. Just saying....

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Dimtan · 08/08/2010 20:10

I did have a peer through the window of the cafe cuppa but I couldn't see anything apart form some tables covered in dust and what appeared to be a stuffed cat....

(the name comes from 2 SW valley villages)

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domesticsluttery · 08/08/2010 20:11

I was going to mention that it was the valleys and not west wales judging by Dilys Price's endearing accent, but then decided that might be being overly pedantic...

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Dimtan · 08/08/2010 20:36

oh yes, the accents in this village are all to cock, and most of them have a very strong welsh accent, and yet...none of them speak welsh
Now that's just weird

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domesticsluttery · 08/08/2010 20:39

I've heard them speaking Welsh Grin

TartyMcFarty · 08/08/2010 20:47
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