Why we live here

[bunn]

Nowhere special, just the local park...

To the East: Dartmoor


To the West: Bodmin Moor



To the South: Plymouth doing its best impression of the shining silver city by the sea:



Others also having a good time:

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh stop it, I'm jealous!

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I'm torn. On the one hand. that's beautiful -- and I am growing to love the part of my current day-job which involves driving out through hills and rugged moorland to small villages (any non-Geordies/Cumbrians want to guess how 'Humshaugh' is pronounced?). On the other, I'm a suburbanite and get severe agoraphobia if I can't see Urban Sprawl...

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

"Humsow"

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Close... but I am assured that it's Hums-yowf.
(The Redheugh Bridge in Newcastle is approximately "Red-hyoof" so I shouldn't have been too surprised.)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I think that's quite wise. Not everyone is cut out to live in the middle of nowhere. I grew up in this sort of place, so the fact that almost everything is at least half an hour's drive away is kind of normal. Though having said that Polo loves it, and he was originally fiercely suburban.

I get claustrophobia living in cities. I never got used to the sky being orange at night.

[chainmailmaiden]

Though I'd hardly call living in the centre of Windermere the middle of nowhere, it was at least easy to reach the middle of nowhere and it still had the advantages of useful shops and a cinema within walking distance. I miss it a lot, I'd love to live somewhere like that again. Bacchus is and I fear will always remain fiercely suburban any tips on how to convert him?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Small towns offer the advantages of both approaches: there are facilities, but you can be out of the place in minutes and a lot of it is edges, so there is less claustrophobia factor.

I fear that to convert Bacchus you are just going to have to buy him that champagne farm...

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Or you could live (as we do, more-or-less) in the last suburb before Town turns into Country. Harder in London, I suppose...

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Oh you live further inland than I'd assumed. Is that a bridge I can just about see, in the Plymouth pic, and if so where is it, either my memory's frelled or its replacing the Torpoint ferry (but I guess tempus fugit). My excuse is I never saw the city from this direction before.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

You can just see the Tamar Bridge, and the Brunel Bridge next to it. Though if you are looking at those three blobs on the horizon and thinking of them as bridge, they aren't: they are three tower blocks.

This is what the 12x zoom made of it:

The Torpoint ferry is still running: in fact I think they have added extra ferries recently.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Aha I spot a Frigate Complex!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, but which ships are they?