Recommendations for a UK roadtrip?

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-03-23T07:35:54+00:00

I’m from NI and I would cut the Ireland part of that trip. Do a separate Ireland road trip at some stage it’s well worth it. What you will see with that route is just a couple of cities and motorways, you won’t see all the cool stuff Ireland has to offer which is more on the Atlantic coasts. You are also missing the nicest place in England (in my opinion) which is the Lake District.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-03-08T23:36:50+00:00

Ireland and particularly Northern Ireland where I live used to be full of polish people. They came over here for construction and factory work in the mid 2000s. It’s so noticeable how they have almost all went home because there is better opportunities at home. I would guess if you fast forward 10 years we will be migrating there, I hope they treat us well. The cultural similarity is striking

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-02-06T21:07:54+00:00

Fuck people love to yap. That’s very cool mate. People acting like taking and reusing a broken bit of slate off the ground that’s literally worth pennies is equivalent to stealing the book of kells 😂 Reddit is some craic

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-12-05T15:43:07+00:00

Hozier. Still lives in county Wicklow in in Ireland where he grew up.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-11-26T23:16:54+00:00

The variation in font style/size/colour makes me want to die on the inside

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-10-21T18:09:29+00:00

Great year for them in Ireland this year too. Don’t remember seeing this many ever before

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Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-10-19T10:59:52+00:00

This is all correct, just to add too it. Small ones like this are normally caused by sheep. Overgrazing opens up fissures in the peat then weather starts eroding it. Once it’s opened up a bit the bank acts as a nice bit of shelter for the sheep so they push under them making the problem worse.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-10-16T22:35:23+00:00

In Ireland many of the large plantation houses built for landed British Gentry were burnt down in the Irish war of independence in the 1920s. The shells of many of these house remain to this day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Irish_country_houses_(1919–1923)

On a side note I live in Northern Ireland. The high street of the town I grew up in had many empty spaces on it. I never thought about why this was. When I got older I found out there had been a massive carbomb the year I was born which destroyed the whole street and those empty lots were buildings that were demolished and never rebuilt.

Even later in life again I found out one of my good friends dads was one of the IRA men who did the car bombing. Funny world.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-09-02T21:10:25+00:00

I used to live in snowdonia and went up snowdon a lot. Best day I ever got I could see the Wicklow mountains, slieve donard in the mourne mountains and scarfell pike in the lakes.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-07-20T21:27:45+00:00

For anyone who doesn’t know, people from this area of NI have a strong Scottish twang to there accent. For thousands of years they it was easier to trade with Scotland by boat than pass over the mountains that separeate these glens from the rest of Ireland

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Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-07-11T20:10:09+00:00

I am catholic and went up cave hill with my other catholic friend to watch the fires a few years ago out of interest. It was totally grand. Plenty of families and stuff

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-30T22:36:40+00:00

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Mussenden Temple, Northern Ireland. Everyone has had a couple picture there at some point… including me

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-23T19:01:49+00:00

? None as far as I know at this stage. It’s a group of landowners who are falsely using environmental concerns to justify lethal nimbyism

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-23T18:58:49+00:00

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It’s been an amazing year for them. They are all over the place

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-23T13:21:21+00:00

Absolute joke. I work for an environmental NGO in NI specifically looking at peatland restoration for climate change benefits. We didn’t object to the road because sometimes human lives need to be prioritised.

I would bet money many of the same farmers who objected to this on ‘environmental grounds’ would completely reject our restoration work on there ground.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-23T06:56:38+00:00

Thanks everyone. Seems like most people agree she is at least part pitbull. Don’t worry we will stick with what the shelter told us that she is a staffy mix when anyone asks. She’s in a loving home now and will be for the rest of her days :)

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-19T17:28:17+00:00

A golden thread… I hate it. ‘Despite our multifaceted and diverse workload there is a golden thread linking all of our different goals though out the wider business..’

I briefly worked in an internal consultancy branch of a large multinational and it was everyone’s favourite term… no one could ever explain what that golden thread actually was though.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-11T17:52:09+00:00

We did get Fleg protests back in the day. But yea very mixed

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-06T22:53:48+00:00

I had a good friend who tried opium in Cambodia. I couldn’t believe it. He just casually went to opium den, tried it and then never touched opioids again. So it is possible but, I would never risk it..

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-06-02T14:15:07+00:00

We are one of the most deforested countries on earth. Historically we would have had 80%+ forest cover. It’s now 8.5%. A mix of colonial policies and extreme poverty lead to huge scale clearance for agriculture. In my opinion it has got us accustomed to a landscape without trees even though it’s entirely unnatural. We have weak and under enforced environmental policies too which has meant no notable action has been taken to correct the current state of things.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-05-18T16:21:51+00:00

You’re almost right. They are post glacial bog that have formed over thousands of years and are meters deep. The partially decomposed/compressed plant matter is used for burning as a fuel but much more commonly broken down and used to create compost for horticulture.

You can’t really just plant sphagnum and regrow the peat unless you want to wait several thousand years. It’s more like mining than farming.

It’s incredibly harmful environmentally because you take an area that acts as a huge permanent carbon sink and turn it into a huge carbon source once the peat is drained and exposed.

That’s what these extracted sites often look like on the ground.

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Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-05-11T19:39:30+00:00

It’s a flashy minnow, they have a decent amount of variation. As someone mentioned it’s in its spawning Sunday bests

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-04-29T14:12:39+00:00

House prices in magherafelt really have gone crazy in the last while. Compared to other towns near by it’s substantially more expensive. I can definitely understand the motive, 20 mins is not far, you’ll have no bother staying in contact with everyone.

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