Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Patternmaker on August 25, 2010, 10:47:30 am
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Are you happy where you live, if not where would like to move to?
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Peterborough - Yes it about all I can afford.
Somewhere near the sea..... or with 'Roger in France. He's got his own pool !'
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The Northumberland coastline - Lovely scenery and canny folk.
My choice for a move Corfu " " " " " and warm. No equine facilities for wife and her nag.
Her choice Western Isles " " " " " but wet. Great fishing and plenty of grass for nag.
Split the difference and stay here
Geoff
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Isle of Skye- Wet, Midges, lack of jobs ,expensive to stay, petrol £1.28 a litre , great for the kids and great scenery make it worthwhile :-))
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Very happy where I live. %) Two minutes walk from both venues at this weekends shows. :-) :-) ;)
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Skye is beautiful, we stay there every year on our way to South Uist which I enjoy even more,
even though the weather can be a bit wild. Last year fishing in a 40knot wind and the daft thing was
it was one of my best fishing trips ever up there. Yes I know petrol prices are horrendous and everthing
has to come in on the ferry at greater cost but it more than makes up for that with its scenery
Geoff
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In the words of that beautiful add where the Implied swearing removed are you {-) {-) {-) {-) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Canvey Island, 1/4 mile from the sea although below sea level best sea Defences in the country , lowest rainfall in UK, fantastic air quality, even
If I could afford to move I wouldn't want to.
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A choice of beaches all around the peninsular, all long, flat and clean, all no more than 10 mins away.
PLUS, the Lake District is only 30 mins away.
Happy? I think so!! :-))
One slight downside, very close to 3 of the 10 wettest places in U.K!
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Very happy,
New Forest, Dorset and Bournemouth on my doorstep, plus, of course, Westbourne Models.
Only downside is no dedicated boat sailing water nearby
KenP Verwood, Dorset
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I'd choose Canvey Island -- if only for a chance to have met the late, great Lee Brilleaux and Wilko Johnson and Dr Feelgood per se.
They say that Mr Brilleaux was a true and upstanding gentleman. Also played a very mean slide guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hUbrCDX_jw&feature=related
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Yup. very happy with where I am. I'm on a farm about five miles from a smallish town. Close enough for needs, but far enough for peace and quiet. The only change would be a bit of water (stream small lake or whatever)
My place is at the bottom of the picture
John
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I'd choose Canvey Island -- if only for a chance to have met the late, great Lee Brilleaux and Wilko Johnson and Dr Feelgood per se.
They say that Mr Brilleaux was a true and upstanding gentleman. Also played a very mean slide guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hUbrCDX_jw&feature=related
That brings back some memories, did you know Chas Hall, Chas played piano for Dr Feelgood he is now a Motor Caravan dealer with a showroom In Rayleigh.
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Gotta be Nerja Costa del Sol....I'll forever regret leaving there and coming back to the UK 4 years ago, but some lessons are hardest learned I guess !
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...did you know Chas Hall, Chas played piano for Dr Feelgood...
To be totally honest, I wasn't even aware they had a pianist in the band at any time. I always assumed they were just a 4-piece combo, so pse forgive me for never hearing of a Chas Hall. I did find this on Wiki, but again, no mention of Mr Hall - sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Feelgood
Back to your original question...
Wiltshire and Dorset has always done it for me. Even Cornwall.
I'm usually always at my happiest from the very moment whenever I cross the Somerset county line.
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Very happy,
New Forest, Dorset and Bournemouth on my doorstep, plus, of course, Westbourne Models.
Only downside is no dedicated boat sailing water nearby
KenP Verwood, Dorset
Two lakes in the Forest Ken.
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Very happy- recently moved into a 250 year old mill-workers cottage in the Lake District national park- coniston water is 5 mins away, windermere is 10mins away, the lovely town of Ulverston is 5mins away and the locals are salt of the earth, oh and one of the best pubs in south cumbria (see boatmadman for testification) is 4 doors away!
Greg
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We live in West London. We have loved our time here in the U.K. but have had enough. It has changed significantly in the 9 years we have been here so we are moving to Mairangi Bay on Auckland's North Shore.
So, happy where I live? Not anymore.
Where would you move to? The only place wetter then Britain... {-)
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We have friends in Mairangi Bay and where I would like to live is with the rest of my family just north of Auckland in the town of Wellsford.
To ill so have to stay in Southampton where I live not far from the General Hospital. Handy. :-))
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Count me in. My father used to have a week's game fishing in the Bay of Islands every year, and then move on to Tokaanu for some serious fishing on the Tongariro. Near Auckland, or maybe get away from it all in the Chateau national park (forget the official name). Saw a nice ski lodge there recently at a very sensible price.
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I have lived in witham essex for the last 15 years and i hate it with a passion. I would like to live in cornwall :-))
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O0 Very happy living overlooking Newlyn harbour and Mounts Bay ..................... especially with a large boating pool at Wherrytown, Penzance a short drive away!
Beautiful ................... always something to see in the harbour and the bay. Wouldn't change it for the world! ansome!!!!! :-)) :-))
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you would love it here karls 2 minuites from beach 5 minuites from lake and from monday to next april quite as a cemertary all the visitors gone home perranporth beach loverly
(http://s2.postimage.org/ks6_r.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Tsks6_r)
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Vancouver, so I could be closer to the good lady.
Cork, with the good lady.
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I have lived in witham essex for the last 15 years and i hate it with a passion. I would like to live in cornwall :-))
LOL Thats where I used to live, well actually Silver End
I moved to Finland 2 years ago and I havent looked back. Only a few things i miss, a pint and a decent cup of tea. Although I do normally fill my case with supplies when I come back to see the family. This includes Tea bags, gravy, bassets allsorts, and galaxy chocolate for the other half oh and modelling supllies from the 99p stores
When you only have to open the back door to see veiws like this
(http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/Essex2Visuvesi/PHOT0012.jpg)
And this is our Lake in winter Well its not entirely ours as its huge, I doubt ill ever be returning to the UK for more than just a visit
(http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/Essex2Visuvesi/02252009006.jpg)
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you would love it here karls 2 minuites from beach 5 minuites from lake and from monday to next april quite as a cemertary all the visitors gone home perranporth beach loverly
(http://s2.postimage.org/ks6_r.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Tsks6_r)
Hi perranporth has got to be one of the best beach's i have ever seen i love it...
atb a Jealous karl :}
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Hmmm, this
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:-)) Now that rem2007 is ansome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Each to his own. I like Northumberland. It can be wet. It can be windy. But it can also be a county of incomparable beauty....without many people (away from the tourist "hotspots").
If I had the money, I think I'd like a bolthole at the top end of New Zealand, but I'd come back to Northumberland. BY.
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:-)) Now that rem2007 is ansome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or maybe this.....
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unfortunately, I'd have to pose as a Park Ranger to live in Algonquin Park, someday maybe.
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Each to his own. I like Northumberland. It can be wet. It can be windy. But it can also be a county of incomparable beauty....without many people (away from the tourist "hotspots").
If I had the money, I think I'd like a bolthole at the top end of New Zealand, but I'd come back to Northumberland. BY.
One of my favourite places Bryan, Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/New%20Zealand/DSCF0046.jpg)
A real beach not far from my mums in NZ.
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/DickyD_photos/New%20Zealand/DSCF0036.jpg)
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My apologies PMK you are correct Chas Hall was not in Dr Feelgoods band I contacted him yesterday he said he was asked to attend an audition but his style of boogie woogie was not what the band wanted. He made records with Digby Fairweather, prior To that he was in a band called The Red Diamonds I used to drive them to gigs In a clapped out Bedford Dormobile.
It would seem the majority of you are very happy where you live, there are some wonderful places in the UK with stunning scenery, I have toured most of the UK by caravan my favourites, Lake District, Devon & Cornwall, my favourite beach Perranporth where my brother lives
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Yes I am very happy where I live it has all I need. ships and more ships at my front door . but the view from the back door well need I say more , Wirral is a pleasant place to live.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff272/Turrets1/IMG_9611.jpg)
Bowwave O0 :-))
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or maybe this.....
(http://s2.postimage.org/mzvoJ.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TsmzvoJ)
unfortunately, I'd have to pose as a Park Ranger to live in Algonquin Park, someday maybe.
The Park...now you're talkin. Beauty picture too! :-))
John
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Yeah very happy where I live,Ontinyent Spain, bit too warm at the moment though hottest August for thirty years.
Great people, great food and drink only dark cloud lack of model shops
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No we are no longer happy where we live so we have sold our house and will become
grey nomads for a couple of months or six (motorhome touring) then looking to buy up the north coast
of the mainland to settle down again, for a while............... :-)) :-)) :-))
Roy
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From where I live, I can get into the City in 30 minutes, and Docklands in 45. I can make Heathrow in 40 minutes, and Luton Airport in 25. On the fast train, I'm less than 20 minutes from Euston and the West End.
That rings a lot of my bells...
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The Park...now you're talkin. Beauty picture too! :-))
John
...taken last summer. Ah, just listen to the wolves howling.
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From where I live, I can get into the City in 30 minutes, and Docklands in 45. I can make Heathrow in 40 minutes, and Luton Airport in 25. On the fast train, I'm less than 20 minutes from Euston and the West End.
That rings a lot of my bells...
With a "name" like Dodgy Geezer, your erudition in replies and the location of your destinations makes me and Dr. Watson think that a Dodgy Geezer must be a lowly legal clerk....surely "full blown" legalistas would never stoop so low as to mix with us who just mess around with toy boats. BY.
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... a Dodgy Geezer must be a lowly legal clerk....
Although I can remember working with Clifford Chance for a short while in 2004, I have never been a legal specialist per se. I might mention in passing that the legal fraternity and/or the police (neither of which I belong to) are by no means the only callings where it is useful to have an accurate idea of when you are, or are not, breaking the law...
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Peterborough - Yes it about all I can afford.
Somewhere near the sea..... or with 'Roger in France. He's got his own pool !'
mmm I thought you were married Martin ;D {-)
Wullie
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The photo is taken about 100 yards from the front door, on a nice sunny winters morning.
It,s hard to beat! :-))
Mick