Anyone visiting England UK this summer?

[English Chick]

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Rain rain go away.......... but good I suppose for the complexion.....Scotland is lovely,,,, what I love so much about our country is the fact that all the different shades of green and crops in the fields, turn it (for me anyway) into a living tapestry...wonderful. Enjoy your stay will pray for the sunshine for you!

 

[goatkeepers]

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You're kidding?! Oh I am gonna DIE when I see those pics. It's my dream to live in a thatched house with green, lushness surrounding me. Remember the movie "Babe"? That's where I wanna live. That place is fabulous!!

Oh gosh, please have pics posted when I get home from work! I cannot wait to see it!

I've been to London once, by the way. A looong time ago though. My family lives in Germany so next time I go visit them I'd like to make another trip. This time not London, but the country side!!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

English Chick, we are looking forward to the pictures, whenever the sun decides to shine over there.

My favorite books are written by UK authors, and almost always take place in UK. I've read about the Cotswolds and the Cornwall area, and of course about London.

Would love to take a slow train from southern UK to upper UK someday. Seems like a dream that won't come true unless my circumstances change drastically.

Do they have farm-holidays over there like they do in NZ? That would be neat too, to live and work on someone's smallholding for a couple of weeks. So much better to live the life rather than just passing through in a rented car or bus and seeing the highlights...

Thank you for joining BYC and posting about your life. It widens our world.

 

[Greyscale Rainbow]

Psst . . . Bristolian here

My mum grew up in Cheshire (Macclesfield) though, and I have been there a few times. I also spend a lot of time up in the Cotswolds near Stroud because I go gliding most weekends. It is beautiful up there, but you can get a bit blase about it.

<-- a video some of you might like. It's by an English comedian, Bill Bailey talking about "what's Britain like". Just for reference, Nectar points are loyalty points that several different shops dish out, and "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" is a favourite slogan of the ruling Labour party. Little Chef is a terrible (and I mean terrible) fast food outlet seen only along motorways. The sane and those with tastebuds only use them for the toilets. Argos is a shop where you go in, look at the catalogue, pick what you want and they come and bring it to you from the storeroom.

English Chick lives a full 71.9 miles away from Sheffield (Google Maps tells me so

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Anyone coming over would have to check import regulations, but it might be possible for you to bring back some large fowl silkie eggs or anything else that we have here in the UK but you guys don't have in the US. If anyone wants, then I can scan in the classified ads from Country Smallholding and Practical Poultry and you can have a look through and find some near where you're visiting. It could even become quite a lucrative business selling LF silkies to BYC members

 

[goatkeepers]

Where are piiiics?

 

[hoosier]

Yes, please, English Chick!

 

[English Chick]

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Bless, dont cry Goatkeeper I am waiting for the sunshine (which looks promising today!) to walk to the village and take the pics for all of you........keep smiling will post soon......errr as soon as I work out how to upload properly..bit of a techno dino! OR to make it simpler for me can I Email the pics to someone in an attachment and they post them on the forum on my behalf..help appreciated as I have read the instructions on uploading to the site, but unfortunately clear as mud to me!....doh

 

[English Chick]

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D Hi Greyscale, good to know another Brit uses this wonderful site! Even I did not know that Sheffield was 71 miles away....still a long way though for someone who doesn't really like driving these days, totally agree with the Little Chef theory..yak! I think the US import laws will not allow us to post fertile eggs from the UK, have looked on our Defra site and it does not say that we cant...hope I have looked in the right place. But doubt if US Customs would let them through.......

 

[English Chick]

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Hi Buff,

Am sure that my husband would let you work (and play) on our farm should you decide to visit..... he is a tough workmaster though ha ha, working 16 hours a day and you would have to keep up with him, but he had lots and lots of tractors for you to play with....Enjoy!

 

[goatkeepers]

Pictures!!

All I have to say is English, you are one lucky chick!!

Thats a beautiful place to live. I looove your little lamb! Please tell me you aren't planning on eating it...

Sorry that it saved some of them small. I was almost done saving when I realized it and I must go back out and help hubby stain the deck-- otherwise I would have re-saved them. Hope that's still ok with folks. Some I did save larger.

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