What do you love about the country you live in about this time of year?

[loubylou]

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'm in Bradford too chelle and i know exactly what you mean, you have to take a deep breathe and dare yourself to walk to the local shops,
but i don't let it get the better of me on a weekend, i go off somewhere for the day, york is a firm favorite, lots to see and do and so different from Bradford, 1 hr in the car or 20 Min's on the train,
also go to Bridlington, scarborough, Whitby and if i can be bothered with the pace Blackpool lol,
Bradford is glum but we do have plenty of places that are local to us that are nice, get yourself out and about hun :hug:
Beautyguru i think you are talking about keighley, this is close to Bradford and just as bad if not worse

 

[JANEY K]

:irked:absolutely nothing special ,pleasureable,tranquil or breathtaking about where i live ,concrete flaming paradise as i call it !!..i like the warm mornings and longer nights but hate the traffic fumes, the noise ,nosey neighbours , screeching kids who run across my garden,roaring planes from the airport ,weeds,thorns and wheelie bin eyesore ....what i would give to be back home in the highlands and i miss my "rowies"..so am gonnie hiv tae wait a wee whiley longer fer tha' tae happen :cry:

 

[pazzy]

I'v just come back from a beautiful hot walk with my dog and I breathed in the beautiful scenery. Although I'm in Sunderland - beside the shops busy life etc - I am a stones throw from woodlands, fields and lovely walks. Apart from the occassional broken glass and bongs scattered around - I feel like I'm in centreparcs.

I appreciate how beautiful this country is with sunshine.

If you go abroad and it rains the place then becomes the most ugliest I have seen.

 

[becki x]

We moved allmost a year ago,i adore that every morning i wake up to a beautifull feild,i ove that on an hot evening me and hubby sit in the garden while our little un does "tricks" on the trampoline and all we can hear is the birds and all we can see are the beautifull blossom and apple tree's.

And i love that yesterday we caught the ray's while my 5 year old played great and football and then we sat in the beer garden drinking ice cold j20 (i've stopped drinking) and he was digging eating icecream playing football and generally getting filthy and lovin every second,yesterday i felt alive and completely content,it was a beautifull day and just goes to show how the weather,your location and company can boost your spirtit no end !

 

[Lynne Baker]

There is never a day goes by when I don't thank whatever it was brought me to the lovely place I live in - Kingsclere - midway between Newbury and Basingstoke. We have excellent road/rail links to everywhere, but we are in a chocolate box village with lots of amenities. We have a duck pond, woodland walks, Watership Down, loads of byways to go hooning around on the crossers, and we have a lovely little garden, complete with pond (well, more of a puddle with an ego problem) hedgehogs, slow worms, nesting birds, frogs, dragonflies, tadpoles, solitary bees, wisteria, roses, scented shrubs, and a glorious terrace to sit out on and enjoy it all.
I am VERY lucky, and I never take it for granted. Some nitwit this morning wanted to know if I wanted to relocate to New Malden!

 

[wowbb]

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:

Ha, I know exactly what you mean....the plants wont grow but the supply of happily growing weeds is neverending...you start in one side of the garden and by the time you are at the end the first part already looks like a jungle! (no wonder with almost 3 acres and not listening to anyone just wanting to have everything in planting and flowers and doing everything myself) but isnt it still wonderful?

 

[Lellipop]

I love the scenery I like in south cheshire and We have breathtaking hills and lots of green fields and lakes to walk round infact I live up at the lake on days like today
My Mum lives in the most beautiful part of town and has fields, a river and a lovely wood behind her house I love to go and sit in her garden and watch the birds etc

 

[Amethyst_Angel]

I love the annual Yorkshire flooding that nobody expects! :hug:

 

[beautynails]

It's soccer season, so my daughter doesn't send me insane....................
..................but then it rains all week and council close the fields:irked: and then she's a real pain in the butt.

 

[grafxgal]

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.

Hehehe I hear ya....although in Aucks we dont get dumpings of snow. But the weather can get miserable. Although, even though it's still cold, autumn and spring are beautiful, I love the array of colours.

 

[Ruth Mills]

I love the long days and the abundance of greenery at this time of year. We're lucky to live right on the edge of town with some lovely country walks just a few minutes away.

Alas this is probably the time of year when I feel the least well though, on account of being bombarded by toxic pollen, which is at its worst during the first half of June, and generally not coping with the heat well (I swelter in the summer, but whereas Sonia freezes in the winter, she is always glad of her "Ruthie Radiator" to keep her warm then lol)...