you can tell I live rurally because...

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This new section is the most exciting thing that has happened in ages! [Grin]

Oooh yes

you can tell I used to live ridiculously rurally because I've always got full cupboards and tons of pasta and soup. The IL's don't get it because there's a shop a 5 min walk away but I can't get out of the food hoarding mentality. When we used to get snowed in it was proper can't leave the house for a week snowed in!

Because being prepared is a way of life, not something you do the day before a storm!

Because I know it's going to rain tomorrow if tonight all the fields smell of shit.

...because i drive a really shitty car covered in dirt

Every time I walk along the lane and cars come past, I know about 50% of the drivers....

Me too Ipswich

There are even pallets of tinned food under the beds. Zone 3 London .

I see wild deer and wild boar on the drive home from Lidl.

I have to hello to everyone I meet outside, whether I know them or not.
And this attitude nearly gets me locked up when I go up to The Smoke.

when my car got stuck in snow I had to walk home and wait until a tractor with a snowplough drove past, the next morning.

Not only do you recognise all the neighbours, but their dogs as well. If someone's dog escapes, someone else returns it to them. same applies to the children

The back of the car holds wellies, tow rope and practical gloves at bare mminimum .... and all used / dirty at this time of the year. Car itself two tone... top half one colour... bottom half brown !

We see red deer and a Montagu harrier nearly every day on the school run and barn owls whenever we come home late.

No one else is ever on the roads when we drive to school and back.

Car's filthy and has been for months.
Carry a spade in the boot of the car - useful for mudslides, snow etc.
Everything, but everything, is 20 mins drive away.
Think The Archers is over-populated.
Hate, loathe and detest tourists, especially the ones who leave little bags of dog poo on walls for someone else to dispose of.
Know all the neighbours and their children, dogs and cats by name.
Get excited at a chance to see an NT Live production at the local pub.
The loudest noise at night is made by owls.
The biggest traffic hazard is ducks in the road.

I live somewhere where you can actually use cruise control on the car and then turn it off an hour later without having to have touched the brake once, except for random wildlife

I live in a rural area, but on a base.

In some ways it is the worst of both worlds

It would take 3 buses with small walks in between 1hr 45 to make a 35min car journey and you could do it once a day

Hello, we have wild boar and deer too. They tried to dig up the rugby club recently. I don't wash the car between September and May, no point and the first soft warm days of spring are marked by the glorious pong of muck spreading!
I always have rabbit in the freezer courtesy of DS and his lurcher.

I don't have go faster stripes on my car... I have hedge scratches.

My child is totally and utterly obsessed with tractors; they se to outnumber cars 10:1.

The nearest train station 20 miles away is a steam train that only runs in the summer

My 'alarm clock' is a pheasant outside my bedroom window each morning.

Going out to a toddler group on a morning requires a check in the mirror not to ensure that makeup is satisfactory but to make sure that there is no visible cow shit...

I'm urban and was genuinely surprised to find I needed a torch to walk out to our car parked outside my rural friend's house early one winters evening.

Looking skanky?

Just 'bobble hat' and go...

we have a harris hawk in the garden every now and then.

All our neighbours are farmers, DS always waves to them on their tractors.
I am obsessed with checking the weather daily, even several times during the day.
DS's life is very similar to postman pat's; knows everyone, 8 in his class at the village school.
Everything shuts for 2 hours at lunchtime (France)