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to want to live like this?

40 replies

CharlesRyder · 14/01/2015 19:13

Island life

I don't know if it's an introvert's cop out but I have a really strong feeling that, if it wasn't all wrong for DH and DS, I would be doing this.

I would just love to stand in the emptiness every day and breathe.

Maybe I have had my brain washed by Katy Morag.

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CharlesRyder · 14/01/2015 20:28

Skolastica we used to call the Sainsbury's in the centre of Ofxord 'Moscow' because there was never any bread or budget gin. Is it worse than that? surely not

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Laquitar · 14/01/2015 20:56

Thats my idea of hell. I would cry.
I feel scared in places like this and i feel safe in London.

ZingTheGreat · 14/01/2015 20:59

that is our dining table, right there

ZingTheGreat · 14/01/2015 21:00

the window as a picture frame is awesome.

NiceAcorns · 14/01/2015 21:03

Heaven! Heaven! Heaven! When can I go?

CaptainHolt · 14/01/2015 21:05

I love the house, but my friend lives on an island and judging from her life it's not great for an introvert. There are only about 200 of them where she lives, but they all know each other. Lovely, but a bit intense. She leaves her car keys in the car 'in case anybody wants to use it' Hmm

wobblyweebles · 14/01/2015 21:08

Near where I live there are quite a few islands with only one house on them.

Don't fancy it myself.

MidniteScribbler · 15/01/2015 00:09

I'm currently staying at my holiday house on a small island. I intend to retire here in about fifteen years time, but for now we spend most school holidays here. It is absolute bliss. I'm sitting on my balcony now, overlooking the valley and out to the ocean. I can see the roof of one other house in the valley, and other than that, just livestock. It's my little haven from the rest of the world. There's a small community here, but I can interact as much or as little as I want. Some groceries are more expensive, but most produce is locally raised or grown, so incredibly fresh and you don't need to buy much processed food. In the early morning I can go down to the beach and I'm often the only person there, with the whole beach to myself. I adore it, and can't wait to make the move permanently.

skolastica · 15/01/2015 07:10

CharlesRyder am not on Tiree myself, just somewhere similar. Our shop shelves are bare and the pub ran out of beer... Many scheduled boat services cancelled again today. Siege conditions for many.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 15/01/2015 11:00

There's no way I could keep that house clean and tidy. For a start, I am a slattern housework avoider (so many better things to do in a day - MN, games on the iPad, reading, crochet....) and secondly I have three sons (17,19 and 21) - ds1 and ds2 are away at university, but come home to sponge off us in the vacations, and ds3 is off to university this autumn, but will join the vacation spongers, just as ds1 graduates and, fingers crossed, gets gainful employment and stops coming home to sponge.

None of them have ever grasped the idea of tidiness - we are more of a clutter family - and all those lovely floors would fill up in an instant with clothes and other gubbins.

Thirdly, I have two dogs, both of whom love a bit of mud - and if it has cow shit in it, all the better for rolling in - it's bad enough trying to keep my somewhat cluttered, not terribly well vacuumed house looking as if two muddy dogs haven't rampaged through it - but that house would show EVERY paw print and every hair shed - and believe me, they can shed! When I do vacuum, I gather enough dog fur to knit a new dog!

I am tempted by island living/isolated rural living - as long as the internet connection is good, and Tesco/sainsburys/Amazon/Wool Warehouse deliveries can all get through. I suspect this is not always the case on Tiree!

I am planning to drag dh off for a holiday on one of the Scottish islands at some point. I spent a week on Orkney with dmum and dsis - loved Orkney, wanted to kill them in the actual face with a spade - so I might want to go back there, or somewhere like Tiree or somewhere in the Hebrides. He can walk the dogs to their hearts content, whilst I sit in front of a log burning stove with my book and my crochet - heaven!

Apatite1 · 15/01/2015 11:03

No thanks, nice to visit, but I love living in London.

farfallarocks · 15/01/2015 11:09

I love London too! It makes me feel allliive and I feel claustrophobic in the country for more than a weekend. If I was to live on an island it would have to be tropical!!

TotallySociallyInept · 15/01/2015 11:18

Ooo yes yes I would love that. But not with DCs I want them to have a good rounded life with plenty of opportunitys from citys/town/villages. Once they have made there own way in life. Then I will end my forced interaction with society and become hermitGrin

mmgirish · 15/01/2015 12:47

Beautiful house for a holiday but I wouldn't want to live there. I like having people around.

Gawjushun · 15/01/2015 12:54

Is there wifi? I could probably cope with crushing isolation if there was Netflix.

I love rural areas, but I need to be 10 mins or so from a decent sized town. What if you run out of wine? What if you can't be arsed to cook and there's no chinese place that delivers? Not to mention buying tat online would mean high postage costs and long waits.

I have no soul though. Grin

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