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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Am watching country file but they never seem to show anyone like Greengrass from Heartbeat. In fact in my numerous trips across our green fields, I never so much as see anyone leaning on a gate or chewing a piece of grass . In fact it seems to have become all so middle class. Range Rovers, stables, posh cottages and zero signs of life. But then I do live in the South!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You’re think of Last of the Summer Wine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was going to be whimsical here but people might take it the wrong way.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"I was going to be whimsical here but people might take it the wrong way."

No. not here surely not

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You should come to North Yorkshire. We all live in hovels and drive pony and traps. Greengrass is considered the epitome of culture and refinement in comparison to everyone else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was going to be whimsical here but people might take it the wrong way.

No. not here surely not "

It would be going to far lol it's funny in my head though.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"I was going to be whimsical here but people might take it the wrong way.

No. not here surely not

It would be going to far lol it's funny in my head though."

Come on dont be shy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was going to be whimsical here but people might take it the wrong way.

No. not here surely not

It would be going to far lol it's funny in my head though.

Come on dont be shy "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You should come to North Yorkshire. We all live in hovels and drive pony and traps. Greengrass is considered the epitome of culture and refinement in comparison to everyone else. "

Sounds great

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By *ibblingnewtWoman
over a year ago

by the sea

Come but make sure you close the gate!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Come but make sure you close the gate! "

And put your litter in your pocket and take it home

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You should come to North Yorkshire. We all live in hovels and drive pony and traps. Greengrass is considered the epitome of culture and refinement in comparison to everyone else. "

You sound like you escaped from a finishing shool, posh lass

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I once got mistaken for a vagrant. I was out fencing and after stopping for a coffee and a sandwich I had a little snooze under the hedge, only to be awoken by the voice of a child who was out walking with their parents and the family dog,asking her mother ‘ Does he sleep there at night?’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You should come to North Yorkshire. We all live in hovels and drive pony and traps. Greengrass is considered the epitome of culture and refinement in comparison to everyone else.

You sound like you escaped from a finishing shool, posh lass"

Pipe down! You're ruining everything

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I once got mistaken for a vagrant. I was out fencing and after stopping for a coffee and a sandwich I had a little snooze under the hedge, only to be awoken by the voice of a child who was out walking with their parents and the family dog,asking her mother ‘ Does he sleep there at night?’ "

Ha that's funny!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a cottage in the countryside. I drive an old mini so no land rover nonsense for me.

However my kitchen was once a stable.

We see many odd characters wandering around and everyone is pretty friendly.

It's not heartbeat but it's nice

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Have you seen the price of country property? We’re too bloody busy working to pay for it and the associated council tax (for the near lack of services) to spend any time leaning on gates ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You do know heartbeat was set in the 60’s right and time was different then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a sleepy Sussex hamlet, with horses in the fields behind my house. I have proper Wellington boots covered in mud, decent outdoor clothes; I can lay a hedge, sheer a sheep and coppice a wood with not a Range Rover or Barber jacket in sight.

Sounds like there are too many posh townies living where you do OP.

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Don’t let your dog off the lead with my sheep!

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

all we seem to see atm us fire engines abd helicopters as yet again towny morons leave disposable barbeques on tinderdry moorland with predictable results at one point on easter minday there were four dufferent fires burning the moors close to us and still police and park rangers were having to extunguish and confiscate these bbqs idiots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Am watching country file but they never seem to show anyone like Greengrass from Heartbeat. In fact in my numerous trips across our green fields, I never so much as see anyone leaning on a gate or chewing a piece of grass . In fact it seems to have become all so middle class. Range Rovers, stables, posh cottages and zero signs of life. But then I do live in the South!"

I own a small holding and I’m afraid that that time is well gone round us we had over 60 small farms and in the last 20 years all those farms have now gone and the land sold. farms get bigger and less of them as the supermarkets want cheaper food it’s a shame really

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I think Hampshire and Sussex have become so expensive for mere mortals to live there anymore? I don't expect to find Heartbeat but I knew old country folk in the 70s. They were a different breed back then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think Hampshire and Sussex have become so expensive for mere mortals to live there anymore? I don't expect to find Heartbeat but I knew old country folk in the 70s. They were a different breed back then "

So true locals get out priced

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge


"I think Hampshire and Sussex have become so expensive for mere mortals to live there anymore? I don't expect to find Heartbeat but I knew old country folk in the 70s. They were a different breed back then

So true locals get out priced "

they certainly do here on the edge of the peninnes no chance of even renting in the village where i grew up as its rapidly turned into a domitary/retirement village .must of the woolen mills have gone either converted to "apatments" or flattend for 5 bed executive houses .prices to buy are huge and rising

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think Hampshire and Sussex have become so expensive for mere mortals to live there anymore? I don't expect to find Heartbeat but I knew old country folk in the 70s. They were a different breed back then "

House prices are ridiculous and the lack of affordable homes is driving new build housing estates to be built on greenfield sites.

We are losing the skills/crafts that there used to be in the countryside and we have lost the old characters I remember when I was a kid.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You should come to North Yorkshire. We all live in hovels and drive pony and traps. Greengrass is considered the epitome of culture and refinement in comparison to everyone else. "

*Lifts cloth cap, scratches head, with fingers still black from t' pit and soil from t' allotment, says now't...

Thinks, thar's smart lass.

Keep all t'softy southerners, thinking it's a 60's theme park, daft buggers won't come north ever then and we can keep the place to ourselves.....

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills


"You’re think of Last of the Summer Wine."

Live in summer wine country, most are hiding from the tourists, I say most, not all.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge


"You’re think of Last of the Summer Wine.

Live in summer wine country, most are hiding from the tourists, I say most, not all."

we are tutherside o the hill from you suffering from being so close to manchester like you locals hide at weekends from all the toursists come to clog the roads and get away from the noise of the city

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think Hampshire and Sussex have become so expensive for mere mortals to live there anymore? I don't expect to find Heartbeat but I knew old country folk in the 70s. They were a different breed back then

House prices are ridiculous and the lack of affordable homes is driving new build housing estates to be built on greenfield sites.

We are losing the skills/crafts that there used to be in the countryside and we have lost the old characters I remember when I was a kid. "

Fully agree about the house prices you’ve only got to look at the houses they’ve built about 15 minutes away absolutely scandalous price wise. There’s a bit of land between me and the next town and the amount of homes they want to put there and put a bigger strain on the already busy road schools doctors etc. We all know that when they say affordable housing the figure will drop as they start building until there is the bare minimum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thats the BBC, middle class Range Rover drivers, pampering to city folk, they couldn't give a toss about the countryside and its real needs and traditions. Chris Packham and his cronies bunch of tossers.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field


"Thats the BBC, middle class Range Rover drivers, pampering to city folk, they couldn't give a toss about the countryside and its real needs and traditions. Chris Packham and his cronies bunch of tossers."

The wildlife he's trying to protect have been part of that landscape as long as people who live ther, probably longer and don't go around killing off humans as they're an inconvenience or nuscience.

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By *carlet_heavenWoman
over a year ago

somewhere in the sticks

I see both sides of this lifestyle where I live. It’s Sad though because the farmers that have been farming for generations are being pushed out of their land due to unprofitability & development spreading into rural areas. A Land Rover to be a practical neccessity but now it’s an accessory driven by dizzy women with false nails & no idea how to drive a vehicle with compact gears.

Give me an uneducated, filthy misogynistic welly wearer anyday...I think these types are so interesting to talk to. I probably won’t agree with anything they say but I find their perspectives on life fascinating...there’s something so fundamentally unaffected about them

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