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We live completly out in the middle of nowhere in the North East of Scotland and after a long,long wet winter it was good to be outside in the glorious sunshine again.

It just hit me yesterday after spending the day digging about and planting in the garden whilst stopping every now and again to take in the wonderfull view of where we live and it realy hit me.

What an absolutley beautifull country we live in this time of year!!

We live in a valley down by the river which is teaming with salmon and trout with the odd sighting of otters and heron's fishing.

Deer visit us frequently as do badgers and this is one of the few areas where the red squirrel still live.

The orchards we planted in previouse years have just finished blossm and after a long day settled down to a barbie and a few beers..just us ,the dog and cats and sat out till midnight just taking in the scene with an open fire flickering away.

What is it about this time of year that you love about where you live??
 
I really love the light evenings and the way everything is so green and lush.

I just wish the season could be a bit longer.
 
Where I live on a day like today you can see far and wide... where ever you look there is beautiful hills and dales.... and lush greens of the trees and hills. We are so fortunate to live in a town and close to 3 busy towns.. but yet within yards of anyone's home here you can benefit from our natural landscape and paramanic views that we all take for granted... its just on sunny days like this it feels so special :)

Enjoy your Sunday everyone :hug:
 
For me it's got to be the sun and warmer days - oh and of course longer days so you can do things outside after work!!!!!

I find it amazing every spring that all the plants come back to life when you thought "oh dear all gone dead" and yet nature brings it all back with even more beauty and power, accompanied with the birds singing and waking you at 4am in the morning!

As you all know where we live by now....its fantastic when you are digging around in the garden and you look up and there is just so many different shades of green, the sun is shining and no other person in sight (apart from Collin) and to be working all day and sitting with a glass of wine and BBQ in the evening is the most fantastic thing!!!!

I wouldnt change a thing in the world (even if it means sore muscles and aching backs) if just the winters werent so long!!!!! But then at least you get some work done in the house and on a rainy day maybe finally get time to finish my kitchen?

Isnt life beautiful?
 
NOTHING! Normally this would be very easy for me to answer poisitively as I think I live in the most beautiful of countries, but I have had a very stressful day which I wont go in to and yesterday we had a most unexpected dumping of snow, and we have had recent warnings that if we dont get some badly needed rain to fill the lakes (to make electricity) we may be facing a winter with enforced power cuts. How bad is that? I guess if I was a skier I would be smiling because the ski season has just opened as is looking like a good season is ahead.
 
Well I live in South West Wales, and the days that it isnt raining are just beautiful!! Pembrokehsire in particular, has some of the most breathtaking scenery I have ever seen!

When its raining however, its miserable and grey!"
 
Being able to leave my back door open all day and into the evening to, my back door opens straight into my living room and the site and scent of my roses is beautiful and then as the sun goes down, we have the benefit of the living room filling with the smell of night scented thats planted in a neighbours garden. We too have badgers and foxes that come in of the fields at night, a pair of mad gray squirrels and you name it in the country wild bird collection and it usually puts in an appearance in our garden.
 
Well this time of year it should be the outdoor life, but we have had rain and more rain for nearly a month now with serious flooding in the north of Spain. However the upside is everything is growing like made and everywhere is so lush and green. All the plants bloom at least a month if not two earlier than in UK so our seasons are slightly different. But right now there are wild cornflowers everywhere and they are so blue, and with the bougainvilla and oleander in full swing it's so pretty.

All we need now is some sunshine :green: The pic was taken about 6 weeks ago when I was out walking the dogs in the orange groves where I live in the Jalon Valley.
 

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The pic was taken about 6 weeks ago when I was out walking the dogs in the orange groves where I live in the Jalon Valley.

I might not have your view but I've got the same blinking weeds :irked: Its taken me hours to pull them up and next week they will be back:grr:
 
well i'm just home from florida, so its a bit tough to see the upside of northampton right now.
however i am so lucky to live in a really beautiful part of northampton [in fact i am almost susie h's neighbor]with all landscaped gardens and backing on to a park. every time i walk back to my home through the historic cedar trees it makes me be glad to be alive.
 
Collin, I want to come and live near you!!!!:lol:

I'm going to sound really miserable now, I know this is meant to be a good upbeat thread to encourage us to see the nice side of life, but I really cant tell you one good thing about where I live.

Where I live, you take your life into your own hands if you walk alone in certain areas. We have gangs of kids who emerge after dusk and they patrol the village, vandalise property and terrify the elderly. People dont feel safe to let their kids wander in case they get mugged or beaten up. The kids who perpetrate this disgusting behaviour know that they are pretty much above the law, even if action is taken they get a slap on the wrist and are told not to do it again, well there;s a deterrent eh!!
I hate the fact that my daughter has a mobile phone because so many kids have been robbed of theirs, but I need to make sure she can contact me in an emergency. The school bus that she gets on regularly gets bricked by kids from a rival school, one girl was hospitalised because of this. This is just a typical example of how life can be in the area where I live.
I used to like where I live, some of the outskirts have some really lovely scenery, but my husband and I have already agreed that once our kids have left school and have families of their own we will be leaving this city, possibly to emigrate to another country.

Sorry to add my miserable outlook to an otherwise happy thread :lol:
 
I love seeing this time what once was a seed a few months ago,and is now in my garden a flower blooming,and I look at my carpet of flowers in my garden and think mmmm I created that!:) But god damn I hate the weeds that get in between and slugs that attempt to trash my hard work.:irked:

With the mixture of sunshine and rain in the South weve had its helped my garden to bloom.
 
Collin, I want to come and live near you!!!!

I'm going to sound really miserable now, I know this is meant to be a good upbeat thread to encourage us to see the nice side of life, but I really cant tell you one good thing about where I live.

Where I live, you take your life into your own hands if you walk alone in certain areas. We have gangs of kids who emerge after dusk and they patrol the village, vandalise property and terrify the elderly. People dont feel safe to let their kids wander in case they get mugged or beaten up. The kids who perpetrate this disgusting behaviour know that they are pretty much above the law, even if action is taken they get a slap on the wrist and are told not to do it again, well there;s a deterrent eh!!
I hate the fact that my daughter has a mobile phone because so many kids have been robbed of theirs, but I need to make sure she can contact me in an emergency. The school bus that she gets on regularly gets bricked by kids from a rival school, one girl was hospitalised because of this. This is just a typical example of how life can be in the area where I live.
I used to like where I live, some of the outskirts have some really lovely scenery, but my husband and I have already agreed that once our kids have left school and have families of their own we will be leaving this city, possibly to emigrate to another country.

Sorry to add my miserable outlook to an otherwise happy thread :lol:

hey,
don't wait till the kids have grown up..it's to late then...I gave up a job for life on over £125k P/A because I was sick and tired of the rat race....moved here 4 years ago for a beter quality of life...what a good move that was..never looked back.
trouble is thiugh came up here to take it easy..thats really happend :rolleyes:..work harder now but in a differnt way ..and this place is just awsome.

When my two boy's come up for their school holidays from the city...they somehow change into what lads should be within day's.

So if it sucks where you are....stuff it...pack your bags and move somewhere like this.

getting a job or starting a buisness here is sooooooooooo easy as there is a shortage of labour up here.

Sit down..weigh everything up and make a move...your only on this planet once ...so make the most of it :hug:
 
We live completly out in the middle of nowhere in the North East of Scotland and after a long,long wet winter it was good to be outside in the glorious sunshine again.

It just hit me yesterday after spending the day digging about and planting in the garden whilst stopping every now and again to take in the wonderfull view of where we live and it realy hit me.

What an absolutley beautifull country we live in this time of year!!

We live in a valley down by the river which is teaming with salmon and trout with the odd sighting of otters and heron's fishing.

Deer visit us frequently as do badgers and this is one of the few areas where the red squirrel still live.

The orchards we planted in previouse years have just finished blossm and after a long day settled down to a barbie and a few beers..just us ,the dog and cats and sat out till midnight just taking in the scene with an open fire flickering away.

What is it about this time of year that you love about where you live??
Well I have to say it sounds like we are neighbours :lol:
I have beautiful views out all my windows of a little village with hills and mountains practically in our garden.

We are so bad for taking things and places for granted and shouls look after and appreciate what we have before its all gone.
 
I love being able to sit out with the kids and see the baby calves in the farmers fields over the road, kids love it if they get to see one born. Mind the smell is a little nasty some days!!!

I love the fact that we have wonderful places on our doorstep, like Raby Castle (Peter Pan! :lol:), Auckland park, High Force among others and that we can pack up and take the kids camping at a minutes notice.

I love planting my sweet pea and then waiting for the first flowers so i can cut them and have them all over my house.

I love laying on the lawn with the twins and watching the clouds go by whilst making daisy chains :hug::hug::hug:
 
Perfect example, the garden needing some tidying up and Steve and I went to our local garden centre. We're in Walton-on-Thames, right next to Weybridge where there is a lot of money. This time of year my jaw drops with the amount of cars out there with their tops down. It's such a lovely area around here no yobos or chavs about (just posh school kids with the big 80s hair style - whatever that's all about). Just made me smile. We were thinking of moving and now we don't want to just because we love the area we're in.

Then we saw a brand new ferrari 599. What a bar-steward. Put me off for life with all of the pretentious gits round here!
 
Well I have to say it sounds like we are neighbours :lol:
I have beautiful views out all my windows of a little village with hills and mountains practically in our garden.

We are so bad for taking things and places for granted and shouls look after and appreciate what we have before its all gone.
Well Karen..if you'r that close you'r gonna have to nip round for some tea on the roof terrace and enjoy taking in the view with us one day..doors alway's open :hug:
 
Collin i would love to live where you and Britta live, but i would miss the shops too much and been able to pop in my mam's to raid her fridge! Oh and wouldn't like to get stuck on that road in the snow EVER AGAIN!!!

I love where i live this time of year, light warm nights, i can walk our Sniff down the beach.

I cant wait to get my new patio furniture... i will be able to geek and work in the sun!!!:green::green:
 
hey,
don't wait till the kids have grown up..it's to late then...I gave up a job for life on over £125k P/A because I was sick and tired of the rat race....moved here 4 years ago for a beter quality of life...what a good move that was..never looked back.
trouble is thiugh came up here to take it easy..thats really happend :rolleyes:..work harder now but in a differnt way ..and this place is just awsome.

When my two boy's come up for their school holidays from the city...they somehow change into what lads should be within day's.

So if it sucks where you are....stuff it...pack your bags and move somewhere like this.

getting a job or starting a buisness here is sooooooooooo easy as there is a shortage of labour up here.

Sit down..weigh everything up and make a move...your only on this planet once ...so make the most of it :hug:

I can exactly echo those sentiments. I too gave up the good money, the fast paced life and moved here....where I open our front door in a morning and I see, fields, sheep, trees, and in the distance, mountains. I walk 5 minutes up the road and we have the most gorgeous harbour, with a beautiful clean bay, scattered with little islands, to explore, when we go sailing on our boat.

We have fresh fresh sea air, and a micro-climate that belies the usual storries of it always raining in Wales....we've had weeks of sunny days here.

We've just had freshly barbecued scallops for dinner...hand-picked from the bay by a diving friend. I buy freshly laid duck eggs on Mondays off the farmer next door, and all our meat and fish are local and bursting with flavour. At this time of year, our garden is starting to produce. our early crop of potatoes is divine, there are Mange Tout ready to be picked, baby spinach for salads....and you want to see the juicy big pile of fresh homegrown strawberries I've just picked for our pud later on as a treat! Yum!

Love it, love it love it....it's just sad it took my daughter having such a serious illness to get me to wake up and see what was important. To anyone....if you have the opportunity...do it!!!
 
Collin, I want to come and live near you!!!!:lol:

I'm going to sound really miserable now, I know this is meant to be a good upbeat thread to encourage us to see the nice side of life, but I really cant tell you one good thing about where I live.

Where I live, you take your life into your own hands if you walk alone in certain areas. We have gangs of kids who emerge after dusk and they patrol the village, vandalise property and terrify the elderly. People dont feel safe to let their kids wander in case they get mugged or beaten up. The kids who perpetrate this disgusting behaviour know that they are pretty much above the law, even if action is taken they get a slap on the wrist and are told not to do it again, well there;s a deterrent eh!!
I hate the fact that my daughter has a mobile phone because so many kids have been robbed of theirs, but I need to make sure she can contact me in an emergency. The school bus that she gets on regularly gets bricked by kids from a rival school, one girl was hospitalised because of this. This is just a typical example of how life can be in the area where I live.
I used to like where I live, some of the outskirts have some really lovely scenery, but my husband and I have already agreed that once our kids have left school and have families of their own we will be leaving this city, possibly to emigrate to another country.

Sorry to add my miserable outlook to an otherwise happy thread :lol:
I hear similar stories from my father's sister who lives near you...Keleigh i think the place is....my aunt is a social worker,and i have heard many a dreadful story....i am not being disrespectful to the place where you live though:hug:

The south of England can be lovely in this time of the year...the New Forest is pretty,and The Meon Valley is lovely aswell....but my heart still pangs for the Mediterranean waters,from the beach at Canet Plage,to the Pyrenees that dominate the sky line.....:!:
 

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