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Post by vanquish on Aug 24, 2011 12:48:03 GMT
Oh, we've had it all over the years - people complaining about cows moo'ing early in the morning, sheep giving them a fright on the footpath (they jumped out from behind the wall, apparently - terrifying woolly buggers), cows having sex in the field (I've told them & told them, get a room, you filthy beasts), not keeping the walls in good repair (hmm, actually some traveller gits had nicked the topping stones), footpaths too muddy, not enough streetlights, too quiet... Why come at all? It's like going to the city and saying "all these buildings are giving me claustrophobia" HAHA this is hilarious! I love that you have sneaky sheep - all the sheep here in Devon are frightfully clumsy I can't imagine them jumping our from behind walls  Congrats to you all for coping with these blighters! I do think of myself as a country person, being in Devon, but currently I am sitting in an office block and can see the M5... so not exactly rolling hills! So perhaps I'm a Townie too  |
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Post by vanquish on Aug 24, 2011 12:48:23 GMT
Oh, we've had it all over the years - people complaining about cows moo'ing early in the morning, sheep giving them a fright on the footpath (they jumped out from behind the wall, apparently - terrifying woolly buggers), cows having sex in the field (I've told them & told them, get a room, you filthy beasts), not keeping the walls in good repair (hmm, actually some traveller gits had nicked the topping stones), footpaths too muddy, not enough streetlights, too quiet... Why come at all? It's like going to the city and saying "all these buildings are giving me claustrophobia" HAHA this is hilarious! I love that you have sneaky sheep - all the sheep here in Devon are frightfully clumsy I can't imagine them jumping our from behind walls Congrats to you all for coping with these blighters! I do think of myself as a country person, being in Devon, but currently I am sitting in an office block and can see the M5... so not exactly rolling hills! So perhaps I'm a Townie too |
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Post by Ziggy on Aug 24, 2011 14:13:37 GMT
That is very amusing!! Honestly though if the children are that frightened of animals why oh why would you book yurself into a famhouse B&B, bizarre!! Good job you have not got any cows garretponies, what on earth would they have thought of them!!
I started off life as a townie, then country person then ttownie and now country person agian. Give me rolling fields and the smell of muck spreading any day. My Father was Irish from the west country, he would always say when they were muck spreading, 'sure thats a good country smell' , bless him!
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Post by ssm on Aug 24, 2011 14:29:15 GMT
I was asked if our cockerel lays eggs as well as the hens
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Post by parsnip on Aug 25, 2011 17:46:18 GMT
Working Cob - are you Dr. Dolittle? Visions of you ticking off a randy cow!
Garrettponies - my sympathies! X
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Post by Karen, garrettponies on Aug 25, 2011 21:41:02 GMT
Luckily of late my guests have been quite normal. Although a couple of weeks ago some poor folks arrived while my sister was running up and down the garden doing pretend gymkhana games wearing a 4ft wide bright yellow sombrero leading Zoe on the shetland. Rest of family sat in deckchairs watching like it was an everyday thing. The poor folks faces.........they wondered where on earth they had come to  |
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Post by parsnip on Aug 25, 2011 22:46:52 GMT
I want to come to yours on my hols! My daughter would LOVE it! (She's a Zoe too!) X
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Post by Karen, garrettponies on Sept 20, 2011 9:17:41 GMT
I think I must have been really bad in a former life, I've have more than my fair share of whackos this year. This week I am subjected to a very nice but seriously hippy Aussie lady. Now I was informed at booking that she was veggie and required gluten free food. No problem said I, I have a celiac sister so know all about gluten free diets and OH is veggie so no prob there either. This lady is gluten free but not celiac (gluten intolerant - mkaes you ill) why would anyone CHOOSE to have a 'special' diet if its not required medically? My sister would kill to have a lovely piece of sponge cake and other yummy things. This lady is veggie BUT eats fish (that one I can never figure.......meaty things and fish have once lived). Anyway I purchase all food but she announces on day one she is dairy free, decided to be vegan since time of booking but could she have scrambled egg for breakfast. Ermmmmmmm, yeah ok, eggs are dairy but hey who am I to argue. I have three types of fruit juice, she doesn't like any of them could she have cranberry but only a tiny bit topped up with water? Sooooooo I get cranberry juice..........could she have peppermint tea? Aaagggggghhhhhhh I have ten types of herbal tea, not blooming peppermint. So I get some. Asks for breakfast just after 8am, rolls up at 9.10 having done her lymphatic clearance exercises  Now on Day 3, only one more day to go.......... Her cousin is here in a caravan on my site and I have quite happily kept their frozen stuff in my freezer, again they are a bit whacky. They tootled over the other day could I freeze something else for them? Yep, no probs. It was two tiny pieces of cooked ham, now I ask you, would you freeze cooked ham? Two teeny tiny pieces so you could take it home and eat it? ? No, I wouldn't, I'd give it to the dog. Now, I'm all for recycling and don't like to see food wasted BUT, freezing cooked ham? Sorry folks, as you can probably tell I'm losing the plot this morning. Hasten to add, don't mean to offend any veggies/vegans out there but I think it wouldn't have mattered what was in my fridge, it wouldn't have been blooming right |
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Post by sarahp on Sept 30, 2011 15:54:50 GMT
Must admit I freeze cooked ham - we have a whole one at Christmas and any left over gets chopped and frozen loose - really useful to have to add to things like pasta, cauliflour cheese etc. But two tiny bits I wouldn't bother!
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Post by diadem on Oct 3, 2011 8:22:04 GMT
We have a cottage too and i can pretty much tell on meeting them whether theyre going to get into the "groove"there, on the whole theyve been a good bunch. What does bug me though is the road by our farm. Visitors seem to think that pull in spaces and gateways are superb parking spots, tailormade for them,this usually results in them returning to theyre car to be greeted by missing wing mirrors ......hehehehe..... |
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Now on Day 3, only one more day to go..........
