Bloody French!If you don't mow it you get more wildlife. I ended up just doing paths with the mower to the clothes line and oil tank and leaving the rest to the wild. Frogs moved in eventually
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Bloody French!If you don't mow it you get more wildlife. I ended up just doing paths with the mower to the clothes line and oil tank and leaving the rest to the wild. Frogs moved in eventually
I'm living in New Zealand now ( in a lovely spot) but yonks ago we were living in Dublin and we later moved to a rural spot outside Galway. About an hour from the city but in a lovely old farmhouse away from folk. We loved it . But then we're not social types.
We now have a small house at Lake Hawea in the South Island of New Zealand - it rules. ( although it's been a year since I was at a gig, so...)
try it on mapsI've just done a google image search for Lake Hawea.
I fuckin hate you.
Gigs Schmigs!Yeah ..... I should have warned you not to do that.....um....but like....no gigs guys....er...
True enough
Bit late to this, but anyway ... I'm originally from Wexford town, lived in cities (mostly Dublin) from 1989 until 2005, when we moved temporarily to Collon (next village north on the N2 from Slane) while we were building a house on a rural crossroads.
I grieved for the city a lot at first. I missed the buzz around the place, and all the driving was maddening - we're 7km from the nearest village, and it really needs to be a good gig to make up for a hour's drive home from Dublin. Also - I have *very* little in common with country people, with their Mass and their going to the ploughing and their little squabbles with each other. This has kinda been the hardest bit, tbh - I'm not exactly quick to make friends anyway, but living in a community where you're obviously an outsider is a bit isolating. I'm commuting 70km to work in Dublin now, which is a bit shit, but I think being in the company of my own kind of people at work helps my emotional stability
On the plus side the house itself is lovely, and we're on an acre so we've apple trees and chickens and raised beds and a polytunnel and all that, but mind you that's all hard work, and takes up a lot of time. It is lovely being surrounded by a bit of natural wildness, and you've a lot more freedom to do as you please in your own place than you would in the city - we can play music as loud as we like and dance in the sitting room without fear of anyone complaining, the kids can make a racket, we can have campfires in the garden
Never mind all that - what's the internet access like?
Out where I am I get wireless of (up to) 70 with 30 guaranteed.
Up till last September when we changed providers I was getting up to 8
What are we - farmers?
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