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Looks beautiful! I'm a huge fan of the "Miss Read" books - they're so cosy and comforting in their simplicity - and this looks like I picture the villages in her books.
Ooh no! Sorry Lady A but they're honey coloured Cotswold stone and nowhere are there hills as steep as that, even the hill up from Lulling!Looks beautiful! I'm a huge fan of the "Miss Read" books - they're so cosy and comforting in their simplicity - and this looks like I picture the villages in her books.
Well, I've only a very hazy grasp of British geography. No clue where the Cotswolds are relative to anywhere else!Ooh no! Sorry Lady A but they're honey coloured Cotswold stone and nowhere are there hills as steep as that, even the hill up from Lulling!
More like "over there" as I'm in Ireland! I remember learning the industrial/manufacturing towns of the UK as a child in school - Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield etc. - but just a vague idea that they were in the middle of the map, somewhere.I guess it's all "down south" to you, Lady A ?.
I grew up in Dorset. To us anything between Blandford and Shaftesbury was the Midlands. Anything beyond Shaftesbury was north!!
Although where I am is milder than the rest of Ireland (was minus 3C on the coldest night so far, compared to minus 10 further north) this is exactly why I had the stove put in the living room fireplace this year. And why I've stuck to using gas cylinders for cooking. Much more economical than electric cookers anyway.Major incident declared here with half the houses in Shetland having no power for a second night. Ours was off for 24 hours. First time I’ve ever needed to use a cold chisel and hammer to get into my hens. Grass iced over so sheep totally dependant on hay and nuts. No post, shop shut, very much a siege mentality. Really glad I bought a load of gas cylinders last week.