to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

You can have my house Ivor. It's not finished, but tough. And then DD and I can move back to civilisation.

Oh yes, buses. We do have them, but going to Lincoln involves 2 changes, and the buses don't overlap. The buses also stop at 5.30pm, and when DD2 got the bus home from school she didn't get home until after five. That's having left the house at 7.40am to get the bus to school.

Lovely school, but like I said, it boards...

Go on then, we can swap. Mine's not finished either, and has a terribly naff 1970s fireplace, but never mind.

(Yy to growing veg, have tried it, total waste of time. I did not grow leeks, I grew enormous long pointy green sticks that attracted flies).

I ended up here quite by accident, in the country that is - not on this thread, and I have really found it quite eye opening. After a period of my children attending a village school i am quitye pleased that they attend nearby town schools now though, even the town they are in isn't that big iykwim. I found the village mothers mentality soul destroying in a lot of cases, though i am sure it wasn't ill meaning, it's just hard after always being a townie

I am a bit of a loner so i suppose living up a lane in the arse end of nowhere but within driving distance of places (ie. under 10 miles to a major town/city, 50 miles from london, 5 minutes drive to a village co-op 10 minutes to witrose )

I also love my chickens too

Oh no, I'm moving back to Essex.

ikwym about school buses too, ours pick up at quarter to eight in the morning and then drop off at quarter past and half past four.

It has improved, DD2's school introduced their own minibus service, it's cheaper than paying for the local bus, plus she gets home an awful lot earlier. Prior to that it was either a hideously long day, or me driving her, and DD1 who's school was in the opposite direction to school every day.

That was a double round trip totalling over 100 miles a day.

Sarah why did you move there?

For the schools.

it must be boring sarah, you seem to have an obsession with dressing up your dogs :o!

Ivor, if you/DP have a firm job lined up up there and you can rent out your place and rent somewhere up there, then give it 6 months and see how you get on. Just please please make sure you don't cut all your ties with where you are now so you have the option of coming back with the minimum of hassle.

I lost count of the number of times I kicked myself for not having any way back

Out of interest, where abouts were you thinking of looking for a house?

My dog's the most up to date thing about Lincs.

Oi!

oh are you in Lincs? I am a county below,,,sort of, BEds, we all mow down here or is that moo

my poor dog though, she has no clothes

I had to go to Lincs for work last autumn - I thought the standard of driving was awful. At least it's often difficult to get up speed in much of London. I don't live in London but work there often and then retreat back to the northern Home Counties.

My dog has 2 very nice coats. Nothing as fancy as what Stratter's dog has.

Beds is miles away isn't it?

Below Rutlandshire/Cambridgeshire?

is it miles away? I don't really know, we had the mayor as a penis story on our local news and i may have got confused it's below northants, sandwiched between bucks and cambs with herts underneath

I had a boyfriend from Lincolnshire once. Obsessed with going in "the tradesmen's entrance" he was.
Just saying.

to be fair in staffordshire in the old days it was a job to get your front door open if anyone called unannounced

Penis mayor! Nowhere near me.

Lincs is a big place, 2nd biggest county I think.

I like Faldingworth, somewhere near there would be nice. Not too isolated, hopefully more than one bus a day.

Penis mayor made me roar