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Post by granty on May 5, 2017 19:27:29 GMT
During the mid seventies in my early teenage years, I had a friend called 'Nebs' who mam and dad had a cottage in St Johns chapel in Weardale, about 45 mile away. They used to go there most weekends and he was allowed to take one friend, my dad had a boat, and every young Sanddancer had a passion for fishing, and going out in a boat was the ultimate, so I got to go a lot. The beauty of Nebs' cottage was the countryside in the spring, the bird nesting (pinching birds eggs for your collection) was brilliant, there was all sorts of rare birds we never got in the town. Anyway, I like to go there this time of year and stay in the local B&B and reminisce on my youth, so me and the wife (and dog) are off there tomorrow night again. His cottage is still standing.
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Post by granty on May 5, 2017 19:27:55 GMT
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Post by DADDY O on May 5, 2017 21:33:45 GMT
I love it Granty. My kind of retreat.
Have fun and relax amigo. You two need a rest.
Don't forget your camera.
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Post by sherri on May 6, 2017 0:49:45 GMT
Looks like a lovely spot, granty. Real English countryside. Hope you enjoy!
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Post by granty on May 7, 2017 16:50:25 GMT
Coming into St Johns Chapel The B&B where we stay, £65 for the night, with a good healthy full English in the morning The view from our room, with the stream running along side the garden Milo running wild in the pine forest Had to show off the new car. The road out of the village
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Post by granty on May 7, 2017 20:07:18 GMT
As you drive through the villages, you see a lot of houses selling fresh eggs, with honesty boxes. So you know what they say, "go to work on an egg"
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Post by DADDY O on May 7, 2017 20:11:04 GMT
What a great place. I envy you so much.
Have a great time amigo.........looks like you are well on your way.
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Post by sherri on May 7, 2017 21:51:00 GMT
Love the photos-excellent looking place. Great price on the room too. I can still recall my daughters in London 10 years ago, their room was mega expensive (for the time) and they had some horrid little room where they could just about touch all 4 walls at once. Looks as if prices are more reasonable out of the city.
Would love to buy the honey and eggs that way. I remember the same sort of thing in Tasmania where farmers had stalls and bags of apples & you just left the money in the box. best apples I ever tasted in my life, almost!
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Post by granty on May 8, 2017 19:20:46 GMT
When you leave the towns and drive through the country side in England, it's like another country. Much healthier, cleaner,(no mosques or Asians etc) and generally, you feel like this is what England should be like. As for London, I wouldn't have Buckingham palace if it was free.
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Post by DADDY O on May 9, 2017 17:29:59 GMT
Cabo is your place amigo .
I was there for a week and did ot see one Asian, nor one Muslim.
It was great.
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Post by granty on May 9, 2017 19:14:44 GMT
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Post by sherri on May 10, 2017 21:37:09 GMT
I don't know what the worry is with Asians. I find most Asians really great people, friendly, in tune with our culture and willing to integrate.
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Post by DADDY O on May 10, 2017 22:36:42 GMT
I don't know what the worry is with Asians. I find most Asians really great people, friendly, in tune with our culture and willing to integrate. Ever been shot by one? My father, and I would guess that your father also detested Asians. They are extremely cruel people.
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Post by granty on May 11, 2017 6:26:23 GMT
I can understand why daddy -o hates Asians (the nam) but I find them mostly ok, it's Muslims I can't think of anything good to say about. They don't want to Intergrate, they don't want to live in the modern world. They belong on another planet.
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Post by sherri on May 11, 2017 23:41:44 GMT
My dad never hated Asians or Germans. He did hate the hypocrisy of the local council though. Mum & dad lived in a suburb called Springvale. In the next suburb up was a migrant hostel and in the mid 1970s, this was flooded with Vietnamese fleeing their country. They tended to buy homes and get work in the neighbouring areas to the hostel. The local council requested that all shops put up signs in English and Vietnamese as they said it was a matter of courtesy.
Fast forward a couple of decades. Springvale had become majorly Vietnamese and many shops had signs only in Vietnamese. Dad used to get quite angry and ask where was the council and why didn't they request all signs be in English as well, as a matter of courtesy.
He was right, of course. But we live in a politically correct world and what Australians are supposed to accommodate for migrants does definitely not work vice versa.
There was a case recently where an Afghani man got off totally free from charges of sexual assault as it was deemed he had 'different cultural values.' Dad would not have liked that either as he always said the law should apply to everyone equally.
He didn't like the way the values in the suburb dropped drastically over those 2 decades.
But dad did not dislike Asians as such-just political correctness. Dad worked with Japanese people for several months after the war. Maybe that experience helped because those people were ordinary Japanese people, some elderly. He got on fairly well with them.
He didn't have much time for politicians though-said after the war when a lot of stuff came out, they realised a lot of facts had never been disclosed, so he had no doubt the leaders were hiding stuff during etc Vietnam war. He said in war, the truth gets lost a bit.
Springvale is still fairly highly Vietnamese but also other Asian groups now. 70% of people there were born overseas.
The irony is that after decades of plummeting property prices, the area has picked up. Many Asians are keen to buy in or near the shopping strip. It has all the shops they like, the temples etc. Others travel for miles to shop there. It's a mini city on its own.
We sold my parents house in 2014 for $555,000 & prices went up another $100,000 within the next 12 months. Still climbing.
That's the story of my life with property, by the way-always sell just before the next boom.
But I quite like Asians. We used an Asian to sell the house. Name of Harry Li. He won best auctioneer award in Australasia. Really lovely person. Asians integrate, or at least second generation do, which Harry was.
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