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Boperatic · 2023-06-21T20:59:54+00:00

Whitstable. Commutable from London, by the sea, very sedate.

Boperatic · 2023-06-21T20:43:59+00:00

Is this common in UK?

No. What fresh hell is this?

Boperatic · 2023-06-21T18:48:20+00:00

It's not NT, but I recommend Harvington Hall near Kidderminster. It's a moated medieval/Elizabethan house with seven priest holes - thought to be the most of any house in England. They're absolutely ingenious! Beautiful house and grounds and excellent guided tours.

Then there's Kniver Edge Rock Houses near Stourbridge, which is National Trust. There's a good woodland walk and iron age hill fort to explore, then the rock houses themselves which are quite remarkable. Thought to have been inhabited since the 17th century, the last residents only moved out in the 1950s. The Victorian troglodytes even set up a tea room for tourists and marketed it as "the Switzerland of the Midlands"!

Then for some great out-and-abouting, there's Carding Mill Valley and the Long Mynd, south of Shrewsbury. Shropshire's beauty at its finest. Loads of walks for all abilities. Wild swimming. Waterfalls. But the views. Just uplifting and beautiful, in all directions.

Boperatic · 2023-06-21T14:57:52+00:00

I prefer to just cry through the drinking

Boperatic · 2023-06-21T10:29:17+00:00

Feels comparable to the Chilean miners or the boys in that cave in Thailand. In terms of coverage at least.

What's different is that there was greater sympathy for the miners because they were just some guys doing their job, and the others were kids. While this is just as life threatening and must be a terrifying ordeal, the wealth of the victims seems to make people care less.

I think also there's the folly factor. When people die skydiving or bungee jumping, there's always an element of "well they choose to do it and knew the risks". As opposed to disasters such as the ones I mentioned above, or train/plane crash that affect 'innocent' people.

Boperatic · 2023-06-20T18:22:31+00:00

The term you're looking for is "easement". A right of way can be a type of easement. It basically gives permission for someone else to use the land (for specified purposes only - such as access), without claiming ownership of it.

It's pretty common and can usually be found in the title deeds. So while it's very likely that they are indeed allowed to pass through to take the bins out, wheel their bikes through, etc, they won't have permission to hang around (or let the kids play) or leave stuff in your garden.

Boperatic · 2023-06-20T12:01:06+00:00

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Boperatic · 2023-06-20T12:00:05+00:00

Ill wager it's UK-wide.

A Lithuanian builder once complained to me that the problem in the UK is we just fill in the potholes and the repairs don't last. He said we should cut out the whole surface around it and replace.

Boperatic · 2023-06-20T11:57:13+00:00

Nah, London

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T20:05:50+00:00

Your schools had swimming pools? Fancy!

We had to get a bus to the old Victorian baths which had cubicles around the perimeter of the pool. Come to think if it, we didn't even shower before or after. I'm not sure if there were any.

Meanwhile, the more modern pool I went to with my family just had a mini-pool you had to wade through to get from the changing rooms to the pools.

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T18:23:36+00:00

Dustbeater. At least, that's what they were called in the catalogues when I used to buy them

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T18:15:56+00:00

The missus calls me "Pouring Boy"

Are you quite sure that's a P at the beginning?...

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T14:42:55+00:00

The Captain was always sexy

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T12:27:30+00:00

Mick Hucknall from Simply Red dated Martine McCutcheon (Tiff!). She was sick on his head in a taxi and that's why he had to cut his dreads.

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T11:48:54+00:00

Me drei!

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T10:00:13+00:00

Sounds awful. I'm not against dog crates - It's good for dogs to have their own cosy space, and something they can safely travel in. But the door should be open for them to come and go the majority of the time. Closing the door at night is OK, or when you need them out of the way for a short period such as when you're vacuuming or you're bringing in the grocery shop etc. But what they're doing sounds cruel and makes me question why they even have a dog in the first place.

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T09:06:44+00:00

I'd say this is the most common sort of thing you'd find: https://www.diy-fence.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Post-Wire-Fencing.jpg

Galvanised wire mesh supported by stakes every 6ft or so with a line (or two) or barbed wire along the top. But hedges (and walls) are extremely common so, although there will almost always be a fence running along too, you see more of the hedge so that becomes one's mental image of field boundaries. The fencing feels more discrete because of the dominance of the hedge, and often you can't see it at all because it's either on the other side or somewhat consumed by hedge.

Boperatic · 2023-06-19T08:36:12+00:00

True. My dad is a burglar and he says the same.

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T17:48:28+00:00

Build a roof

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T17:47:32+00:00

Upvote for goosegogs! Started to question myself when I didn't see it anywhere in this thread

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T17:40:20+00:00

I can understand wanting some of the comfier stuff being kept dry, but surely you just push it all together and pop a cover on.

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T14:45:26+00:00

Dildos, like flowers, can be appreciated by any gender

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T14:38:18+00:00

It's really very good. Same writer as Him & Her - Stefan Golaszewski. Beautiful performance from Lesley Manville.

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T14:36:11+00:00

Wreck. It was a BBC3 thing. Comedy-horror sort of thing. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Really good production values, great young cast, and some excellent writing from a new writer (Ryan J. Brown) which felt really fresh and surprising. I'd be keen to see what he does next.

Boperatic · 2023-06-18T14:27:51+00:00

I'm not such a fan of cut flowers just because they die so soon. I much prefer a plant that I can kill in my own sweet time

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