Argh, I'm freaking out having moved to village!

[dinny]

I miss London! Feel really unsettled and ds been really poorly for a week with throat infection, raging temp, chesty cough.

Does it take ages to settle when moving house? Had forgotten how weird it all is.

pull yourself together woman

Just imagine you could be on the Holloway road in Rush hour

Good Cop, Bad Cop on this thread Dinny

actually, am at work in London now SuzyW and feel mnuch relieved!

Beetroot, not even the country proper - just south of M25. Am being a silly mare,I know...

dd starts nursery in Jan

Brief hijack to say LOVING your xmas name suzywong.

thank you
but I copied beetroot
Who's going to be the 8 maids a milking or derivative thereof

Dinny, I know it's hard moving out of London but you are in there by day, count your blessings

yes, great names that am too tired to type fully, sos!

never thought I'd miss London as thought I hated it! grass is always greener....

Dinny

Roughly where are you ??

I moved North/South five years ago and I refused to even programme my home number in on my phone as HOME, I had it under The House. Now I would have to be dragged screaming and kicking back up North.

You must have had good reasons for moving,keep those in front of you.

LGJ

It will prob take a bit of getting used to and meeting people to feel settled. When did you move?

Am in Surrey (near Kent border).

Thanks for that, Sherlock.

Beetroot, are you in SW?

give it time - winter is not the best time to get to know a new place.

that's our next move, Beetroot, to Cornwall in a couple of years. will go bonkers!

glad you've come over to the bad cop team beety

need a good cop - bet Hunker will swoop in any moment...

I'll do my best

Yes, it takes ages to settle when moving, IME. We've been in our house two years and it only just feels like home (but that's because we moved into a total wreck and had to do it up - I wouldn't have bathed a dog in our front room when it was first ours). I still hanker after our toasty warm flat sometimes - but that's because I'm good at blotting out the bad things about it (the used tampon I found in the communal stairwell, the people through the wall who played the God Channel at all hours, LOUDLY, the people upstairs who'd come home at 3am and put their music on loud enough to wake the dead, etc, etc).

You will be fine - partly it's because the mornings and evenings are dark and the days don't get much brighter - nobody feels full of the joys of spring at the beginning of winter (er...obviously - doh!).

It took me about three years to start to enjoy village life (basically after I got a job in a nearby small town )

I still think I am a Londoner at heart but am stuck here so what can I do?

The beautiful frosty mornings and woodburner and no neighbours do almost make up for the loss of the Ranoush Juice Bar if I am in a good mood.

oh, piss piss piss!

maybe will have to increase amount of days I work!

suze i got a kebab on way back from cinema from crystal kebabs...and thought of you

yes its deathly sometimes

AND I cook and go to church you'd think I was made for it

I must say I am sure 'proper' rural villages are more friendly than (sorry) 'faux' ones - ie anywhere near the M25

hold on, the M25 - you are playing at it dinny!!

mmmmm Ranoush Juice bar
no one mention Bar Italia or you'll set me off

What did you see Bundle? And did the doner still have a hoof on the end?

actually, there is a Cafe Nero in next "village" now, lol.

oh p*s off dinny

that's the burbs not a village