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Rural living

Looking to relocate to the countryside? Find advice in our Rural Living forum.

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FightingFires · 28/03/2014 22:23

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

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KepekCrumbs · 31/03/2014 06:38

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monkeyfacegrace · 31/03/2014 06:48

Oh yes, the late night dog walking in my pj's is ace.
Excpet its so bloody dark that when you step in a bog, you dont notice that your welly is stuck and fall flat on your face

The kids (7&5) spend their time running in and out of the maize fields, climbing trees, making bonfires, and helping to herd sheep down the lanes.

Everybody knows everybody, so you never have to worry about running out of sugar or Wine!

There are only 12 kids to a class in the village school.

Oh I could go on. Estate/town/city living would kill me.

KeatsiePie · 31/03/2014 06:53

Hahahaha monkey in our first winter here, DH didn't know that dirt B-grade roads turn to mud first and then freeze only on the top. He was walking our dog late at night and went right through ice into a foot of mud. It sucked his shoes off. Which he had to pry out and put back on and go home in. I did laugh Grin

Kepek fwiw. we lived in cities before this and I miss New York every day. Even though I LOVE it here. I need a city home and a country home.

BikeRunSki · 31/03/2014 07:04

When you go into town, your 5 yo asks if the 3 storey buildings are skyscrapers.

13loki · 31/03/2014 07:13

I dropped my licence in the local shop. The lady who works there gave it to my neighbour to bring home to me, before I even realised it was gone.

We were walking through the forest to the swimming lake when a man came up to us. "Are you the Australians who have moved into the old Dorsen house? How do you like it here? What is it like working at (names our workplace)? "

The local mothers are teaching their children some English so they can easily play with my kids (we are in Sweden).

There are 800 people living in the area, and 3 churches.

We wait for the church bells on a Sunday before doing noisy gardening.

We play a game of trying to spot deer or (more exciting) elk on the commute.

The council doesn't plough our road in winter- the farmer who lives behind our road does.

Power cuts take ages to get fixed, and if in summer evenings end up with foraging for berries in the forest.

crockydoodle · 31/03/2014 08:13

I trip over a mountain of wellies when I come through the back door.
Loads of wee lambs are skipping about in the fields down the road.
The freezer is full of beef from an animal from our farm.
We burn turf and wood in the fire.
We have to go up a land to the main road.
We have views of field, hills and trees from our windows.
We only wear good clothes if we are going out somewhere.

Owllady · 31/03/2014 09:32

I live in bedfordshire and I don't think I have ever heard a muntjac bark, that's fascinating!

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purplemurple1 · 31/03/2014 09:56

The only responsive noise my 7 month old can make is a tractor (brrr roll of the lips).

toastedteacake · 31/03/2014 09:58

Last year we had a small family of Muntjac (3) visit our garden.

On one of their visits they appeared to be sunbathing next to our trampoline and didn't move away for over an hour.

I wonder if they'll come back this year.

purplemurple1 · 31/03/2014 09:58

Nearest pub is an hour's drive away.

Owllady · 31/03/2014 10:02

A muntjac had the audacity to die in my garden Confused

Purplehonesty · 31/03/2014 10:06

I can stop the car in the middle of the road/street and adjust dc car seats, wipe faces, hand them snack without anyone beeping!
Can also stop the car and have a chat to someone walking by and if anyone drives up behind they just wait til you are finished.
If someone new moves in nearby we pop in to say hello and we end up friendly enough to use each other as babysitters within a week.
Fruit and veg comes from our garden, the neighbours, friends and people drop random things at your door like bags of plums or empty jars.
Dc can play out in the garden all day and scream as loudly as they want and nobody will hear.
When the farmers plough the fields in march most of the soil ends up in the garden, car, house, playhouse when the wind blows. My windows looked lovely last week!

LuisSuarezTeeth · 31/03/2014 10:16

One bus a week.
No DAB signal
Steam powered broadband
Home-brewed moonshine beer
Unlocked cars/houses

Purplehonesty · 31/03/2014 10:30

When you Leave the keys in the car so you don't forget where they are

Purplehonesty · 31/03/2014 10:32

Oh I have another
When your dh the local bobby pops home for tea with the whole shift and there are only two of them!

HenriettaTurkey · 31/03/2014 10:39

We can wave at the cows/horses/sheep in the nearby field from our living room window.

Our neighbour has a shiny tractor & lives next door to his dad, who has a big old tractor that he uses as his main mode of transportation.

DH knows pretty much all the farmers around as they went to school with him.

The local school doesn't have much in the way of subject breadth but, even if Latin isn't an option, agriculture gcse is. Smile

Aelfwyn · 31/03/2014 11:11

'Ah, the night-time badger, clambering over furrows like a stripey pillow'. Love that, Piglet John ! Grin

You can see the Milky Way on clear nights. On the other hand, dark nights are black as pitch. Tawny owls hoot me to sleep on winter nights.

We keep our off-road tyres on all year. If we're late for school it's usually because of hold-ups on the single track road, caused by cock pheasants fighting (spring), calves suckling their mums in the middle of the road (early summer), flocks of young pheasants newly released from rearing pens without a smidgen of road sense (August), guns and dogs milling about at the end of a shooting drive (autumn) or our helpful neighbour snowploughing with his tractor (winter).

Most of our neighbours are non human. Some days I see more roe deer than people. Which is fine! Grin as on the other hand, we know all our human neighbours by name and we know that any of us would drop everything to help each other out in an emergency.

Our meat and fish comes from the woods/fields/river, not from a supermarket. The veg comes from the garden and the gluts of fruit get made into jam or liqueurs.

Getting dressed up means anything that isn't jeans and thermals.

The car is an ancient, rusty, green Land Rover, with the grey plastic benches in the back covered with bits of old rope, fishing tackle, random tools, branch clippers etc.

I feel very lucky. Smile

Aelfwyn · 31/03/2014 11:15

Oh and yy to no DAB and steam-powered broadband, LuisSuarezTeeth. And power cuts in every storm, dodgy private water supply, and no central heating when the oil supplier's tanker gets snowed out. It can't all be perfect! Grin

pmgkt · 31/03/2014 13:56

Slight reverse post but my hubby has never lived in the country so is always trying to eat what's in the freezer, hates buying anything in bulk and insists that loads of things can't be frozen.

Bramshott · 31/03/2014 14:02

No frigging broadband! And an increase in people sending me messages with attachments I have no hope of downloading!

On the upside, we dropped DD2's favourite teddy in the next village on a walk, and I received a text saying "we have your teddy" before we even realised he was gone!

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 31/03/2014 14:17

This thread has made me Sad
Currently living in a town ( a rural county market town but still a town) and I hate it. Been here two years and we've been desperate to move all that time

Enjoy your badgers and birds, combines and quiet, Stashing food and shit spreading

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 31/03/2014 14:19

Oh and enjoy your mud
Your brown mud, your black mud, your stick mud, your sandy mud, your orange mud...
Feel like I'm about to channel Flanders and swann

Aelfwyn · 31/03/2014 15:10

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood... Smile

Nevertell · 31/03/2014 15:19

DH is a Londoner. He tried to get a take away delivered when he first moved here Grin

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