to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

I do ride btw

I do everything there is

Everything there is possible to do I seize upon in like a vampire bat on a fat cow's haunch

I told you where I live. HUFF

motherinferior - I grew up in sarfeast London

Now I pine

I work for MI5 tho Ivor

I hit SW London in 1981. I have never left it and never want to leave it. I love:

Black cabs
The Thames
Red buses
The tube
The Kings Road
Peter Jones
Bishops Park
Kensington Gardens
St James's Park
Fortnum & Mason
Theatres
Covent Garden
Decent food in non pretentious restaurants

DH is desperate to have a home in Yorkshire but I am a good wife and have compromised and said that's fine as long as we have a little house in London so I can find sanity very often. The children have to finish school first.

So do I

Are you not supposed to tell people this stuff?

Shit. Don't tell them.

The tractor pulling was brilliant, actually. DS sat still for a whole hour with his mouth hanging open. One of them had five engines and they were pulling loads of 60 tonnes.... This is probably still not helping.

It's what you make of it. I'm doing an OU course and have taken up crochet. There are sooo many wee art galleries and studios round here too, so not short of culture. I've never been fussed about the cinema or stage, but DH does miss the cinema. We are going tomorrow, actually, for the second time in two years.

Do you have a job? If not, perhaps you should try that. If you work hard enough, especially if you have children, peace and quiet is blissful. At the weekends I'd rather poke my own eyes out than go back up to town.

Yy Hully, try that

God you are just making no effort are you

Jolly - ARE YOU JOKING?

The second time in 2 years?

Yes thank you Karlos, I do work.

Work more (good one actually)
Ride
Enjoy own company
Appreciate tractor pulling
crochet

Now I do have to admit I am partial to a bit of 'Tractor Pulling'.

The European Tractor Pulling Championships used to be on Eurosport - you don't even have to go to country sports events now they are on satelitte TV.

I'm serious about the cinema, as I said I'm not fussed about it anyway. DH has been with his friends a couple of times but someone needs to watch DS so us both going is difficult.

In which case Hullygully,you are going to have to come up with stuff that you can see if you can get the locals to enjoy,and get your fun that way.

Oooo, morebeta, I will be stacking up sky plus with those!

Do you work FT? If you do, it's probably the job that's to blame, rather than where you live. What is your profession? Would a move be feasible?

Oh the locals are all blissfully happy in their Boden-clad cupcake making white insular world. It's me wot ain't

Enjoy the sheep
Open own carvery where people don't have to queue and the meat doesn't taste of boots
Paint your wellingtons lovely colours
Place old washing machine in garden for when you experience urban whimsy
Slap your thigh with a riding crop when you stride accross the fields
Refer to all women as 'fillies' (but never as young girls)
Embroider hankies
Write bestselling novel about living in the country

Hully yanbu.

You can do 3.5 years. Just don't mix.

I lived in an arse of a town in Devon fro$ birth and was determined that dd wouldn't spemd her teenage years there.

Loads of people on weed
The school is crap, and the other nearest schools are miles away, and they are also crap. Even the private schools are shite. No choice.
Casual racism EVERYWHERE
No jobs other than casual tourist ones as there is no industry.
Salaries are terrible but house prices are high because of second homes
Every fucker knows your business, especially if you are a 'local' you are always someone's daughter, someone's wife
Miles from anywhere. No infrastrcuture.
Public transport non existent
No culture - except the Tumbleweeds. I am only in my 30s and remembver when the black and white minstrels came to Ilfracombe in the late 80s
Poverty - real, grinding poverty.
Lack of hope

It is the most beautiful place on earth, but those views sustain nothing.

Hully, you could try watching back-to-back box sets set in Chicago/NY/London/anywhere at all where they have crime/hospitals/signs of civilization? Would help to pass the time.

London rocks - I couldn't live anywhere else.

And my children go to fantastic schools.

Well, you didn't go to watch movies and plays everyday did you?

And how is walking along Southbank any more pleasurable than walking in a meadow with wildflowers or by a quiet, non-polluted river?

I think you are just being difficult, Hully

The last one on Ivors list might be a good idea?

I hate the Cotswolds.

There. I think I ahev only said this a million times on mumsnet so am saying it again.

I went to Bourton on the water today. May god smite it.