I agree @uff - there's a wild and windswept beauty with awesome sea views, but not the place for a keen gardener. Especially one that doesn't like the cold i.e. soft southerner I just wonder what folk do there especially in the winter months where there's barely 6 hours of daylight and no obvious shops or a pubs that I could see. It's the sort of place I'd love to visit - if I could get home in a couple of hours!
The closest I've seen is around The Maltings in Snape. Often went there in late autumn and the beauty of the endless windswept flats and marshes that stretch to the horizon on a blustery day is magnificent and really invigorating.
I've not really kept in touch with her, but I'm really interested in finding out more why she moved there and what she plans to do there to eek out a living.
Billericay - Essex
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The closest I've seen is around The Maltings in Snape. Often went there in late autumn and the beauty of the endless windswept flats and marshes that stretch to the horizon on a blustery day is magnificent and really invigorating.
One of my favourite places … I’ve spent a lot of time there professionally, at concerts and just to walk and enjoy the place … and a favourite thing when at a concert is to take my interval G&T outside and watch the swallows swooping over the rustling reed beds.
Love it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Pete.8, I think there's more of a community spirit in such places. We were struck at how many community halls there are. We noticed those because people with motorhomes or camper vans are invited to park in the car park overnight for a donation. It's the same in the Highlands, the community hall is the hub and residents make their own entertainment and without doubt everyone knows what's happening in the area. It's less so here in the south west.
Yes it must be a very different way of life out of necessity so far north. No doubt the hardy folk who live there look out for each other in a close-knit community where they may often depend on each other.
Billericay - Essex
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Cornish people who retain the dialect [not many these days] would say ''up country'' rather than up north.. loosely referring to anywhere beyond 'Deb'm' ..
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(And in Carlisle there’s an old people’s home on St Peter’s Close)
I had a drive around the area (courtesy of Google) - what a desolate place.
Not a tree in sight anywhere, no sign of any shops or even a pub!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I just wonder what folk do there especially in the winter months where there's barely 6 hours of daylight and no obvious shops or a pubs that I could see.
It's the sort of place I'd love to visit - if I could get home in a couple of hours!
The closest I've seen is around The Maltings in Snape.
Often went there in late autumn and the beauty of the endless windswept flats and marshes that stretch to the horizon on a blustery day is magnificent and really invigorating.
I've not really kept in touch with her, but I'm really interested in finding out more why she moved there and what she plans to do there to eek out a living.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Watford counts as the Midlands and anywhere further "up" is North, ie.Northampton is definitely North!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's the same in the Highlands, the community hall is the hub and residents make their own entertainment and without doubt everyone knows what's happening in the area.
It's less so here in the south west.
No doubt the hardy folk who live there look out for each other in a close-knit community where they may often depend on each other.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.