you can tell I live rurally because...

[FightingFires]

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

Im classed as semi rural .I live a farming village approx 2 miles away from the two nearest other villages (which are mining villages and much larger). We have no shops and one pub ,get snowed in every winter and have to wait for the farmer with his tractor and plough to clear the roads,the children can play out safely until it gets dark in summer ,car is never locked,can leave windows open day and night ,bikes out in the garden ,even the scrapman knocks to see if you have anything rather than helping himself . Car is always dirty infact I had mine washed last week for the first time since feb and my grandson thought id got a new one :D .On the rare occasion a police car is about eveyone comes out to see whats going off ,the helicopter is an even bigger source of excitement . The school still does maypole dancing and we have wheelbarrow races every year and Morris men

Rush hour in my village is cattle being moved to another field.

I always have pasta and UHT milk in cupboard ans a loaf in the freezer.

Nearest shop is 2 miles away down the hill. Great in snow apart from having to walk back up......

Hence I have a winter store cuoboard just in case!

No bus service for miles.

We have our 'own' red kite.

Walking to the local shop would take a couple of hours.

Our house has a name not a number.

Our car has never been washed.

I love living here

Own up
How many of you are shropshire (monners )

nah... you are all southern shandy drinkers.

You can tell you live rurally when you can distinguish numerous different types of mud.

Wet mud (all gateways)
Brown mud (normal soil mud)
'Muck' (as in cow poo)
Green mud (silage mud)
fucking mud (any mud that is in the way or has caused someone to become 'shit up' or get something stuck)
Yellow Mud (comes out of the bottoms of tiny farm animals)
its only a bit of mud (what every rural person describes any of the above muds to a townie who dares to complain about the mud)

Just found this and have this to add: septic tanks instead of mains sewerage.

Also, DS (19 months)is learning colours by means of tractors;
Red = Massey
Blue= New Holland
Yellow = JCB
Orange= Fiat
Green = John Deere

He also has a collection of overalls and wellies which are worn when he goes out with his Granda to inspect the beasts and comment on the state of the turf ("grand, so") and the weather ("grand out").

Oh aye and, of course, my car at all times contains a head collar, some bailer twine and at least one bucket.

Not rural anymore, but remember when we were and Xp and neighbour were both on the dole and the local post office (two miles away next to the nearest lamp post) only had enough cash for one person's dole money...