to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

I did once, embassingly, write a book. I showed it to a young DH, who, amongst much swirling told me it was just like x book. I must have just subliminally written what I'd once read. Or, she stole my thoughts from the inside of my head. Rather mire likely meringue.

Take a sledgehammer with you. Do a proper job on it.

Add a bit of grafitti too, maybe 'thieving bastard' or some such.

What about just CUNT in red spray paint?

I like the graffiti idea. Make it CUNTWEASEL and we'll all be happy.

Done

Actually.

He wasn't a cuntweasel. Throw caution to the wind and spray 'arsebadger' on him. That'll learn him.

Or, you could cross out 'stars' and go with Sarah's suggestion.
Then it'd read 'We are all in the gutter but some of us are aresebadgers'. I bet Mr Issacs would beveeally pleased.

sarah - cuntweasel, fucking love it, what a fantastic insult!!

Genius Tufty, sheer genius.

Did you see the thread a week or so ago about "how do country people cope" with not being close to the shop when they want wine?

It oscillated between aww, lovely, country, wood-burning stoves and OMG get me out of here to somewhere that Dominos deliver.

I would join your rival WI Hully, if I knew it was you running it.

Maybe an actual live Mumsnet club, like the WI but for MNers would work? We could have far more interesting workshops than them.

All this talk of the WI, I decided to have a look at our village group.

Here are some of the delights to tempt this year-

Crafts of the Inland Waterways
A young boy's dream-Life on the Rails
The rise and fall of the 78
Summer supper, bingo and quiz

I don't think I could cope with the excitement of a quiz and bingo in the same evening.

I went to the village pub quiz once, with some mates who are Oxford educated. I thought we'd have a good chance! We came last! But we got very drunk, had a laugh, and did the whole thing again a year later (when we came last again).

So much for an education, it's worth nothing if you don't know who wrote "a photo of Doreen gray". Poo

A bit confused by this thread.

Plenty of bits of countryside near busy market towns. Even bits of countryside close to big cities.

Also bits of countryside near train stations.

I realise that sometimes because of personal circumstances people can't live in these bits of countryside, but there are more places in Britain to live than Clapham/Brighton/Cold Comfort Farm.

Move back to London . I have always said to dp that if we moved out of Lindon a bit of me would die

Lindon - where the hell is that

Indeed, merry.

wrt WI; you should try and change it from the inside. Like what our union rep says (our union is beyond hope though, so I refuse to hand over my subs).

Hully - I thought a bit about your predicament, and my best advice is:

(1) Kindle (get lots of fantastic books, immediately)
and
(2) LSD (10 hours of solitary fun, staring at the sky & the mountains)

You could also consider growing marijuana, weather permitting.

susit - I don't even know where any of those places are, but DH did mention Surrey.

I. Don't. Think. So.

Poor Hully. There you were thinking you were doing the right thing...

Surrey! That might be worse even than Kent.

It's never gonna happen.