RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12, 2020 Just now, Ramblin Rich said: In view of the current lockdown, I need to change my user name to "walking within a 2 mile radius of my home Rich" Yet there remains no specified distance - only "advice" as to how often it may be prudent to leave home. And other than in Wales there is also no limit set on the number of times we may depart the premises in a day. How about "Ramblin Within a Reasonable Distance of Home Rich"? 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12, 2020 50 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: Lockdown Rich. Is that a user name or an instruction? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 10 hours ago, Gwiwer said: Yet there remains no specified distance - only "advice" as to how often it may be prudent to leave home. And other than in Wales there is also no limit set on the number of times we may depart the premises in a day. How about "Ramblin Within a Reasonable Distance of Home Rich"? I dont know about the legal position but I am fairly sure the instruction was to only go out for exercise once a day. The dog doesn't believe this and keeps looking at me around the time for the evening walk. This one is a terrier but we have had collies in the past. I cannot imagine trying to keep a collie in a flat with only one walk a day. We have quite a large garden so can be outside a lot well away from others. It does seem very strange though without the sound of the trains on the WSR. We also had the pleasure of hearing the gibbons yesterday morning they are in a tourist attraction must seem very odd to them with no visitors Don 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 Are you close to Watchet then Don? Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 13, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: Are you close to Watchet then Don? Rob No, he's just said they're not running... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, NHY 581 said: Are you close to Watchet then Don? Rob Indeed our postal address is Watchet and I walk the dog across the fields into the edge of Watchet every morning these days as I fetl someone might object to us driving to the Quantocks five minutes away. Cannot see the railway from here although I have seen puffs of smoke from the top of the garden. Somewhere out in the view from our place was the longest railway inclined plane at Comberrow on the Mineral line. Don 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Donw said: Indeed our postal address is Watchet and I walk the dog across the fields into the edge of Watchet every morning these days as I fetl someone might object to us driving to the Quantocks five minutes away. Cannot see the railway from here although I have seen puffs of smoke from the top of the garden. Somewhere out in the view from our place was the longest railway inclined plane at Comberrow on the Mineral line. Don It was the reference to gibbons that did it, Don. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 13, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 15 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: It was the reference to gibbons that did it, Don. We call them Emmets in Cornwall, must be a Somerset thing. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: We call them Emmets in Cornwall, must be a Somerset thing. Those who are currently being found down there are being called something a lot less polite! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 25 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: It was the reference to gibbons that did it, Don. We have a very good view of the radio masts. Mind you from the top of the garden we can also see the welsh coast and the mountains behind. I will wave to you next time I am up there In Brixham tourists were called Grockles when we were there. I have not heard any term for them in West Somerset but perhaps as neither of us are natives here they only use it behind our backs. I have no idea whether any of these gibbons were born here or not. Cornwall may have a lot of incomers but I doubt if it is a many as where I was born in Lambeth. I dislike second homes were they can kill a village some become dead in winter. Incomers are ok unless they want to change the place to suit themselves. Din 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 16 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: In view of the current lockdown, I need to change my user name to "walking within a 2 mile radius of my home Rich" Thankfully the requirement to wear Lycra or a shopping bag to save the Police time in who they stop has been put on hold . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 53 minutes ago, Donw said: In Brixham tourists were called Grockles when we were there. common usage for them in Dorset too. 53 minutes ago, Donw said: any of these gibbons were born here or not. . . . Cornwall may have a lot of incomers Who did they look at in the tourist attraction before the gibbons replaced them? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 3 hours ago, PaulRhB said: Who did they look at in the tourist attraction before the gibbons replaced them? The Wurzels. 1 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 On Portland outsiders are called Kimberlins Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, mullie said: On Portland outsiders are called Kimberlins Next door on the Isle of Wight they are called "overners"; overners in turn call Islanders "caulkheads" 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 The Isle of wight is a special case the East and West Islanders regard each other as foreigners despite the Island only being only 25 miles wide. As far as they are concerned we all live in the North Island. We lived there while caring for the In-laws my friend Gary lived round the corner in Alveston Road . His family had moved there from Cowes when he was six months old. When he married he had to live in rented accomodation for a year before they bought a house in the same road he is still there over 70 years old. I suspect that had once been common in the North Island but more unusual. Whenn in Brixham we found the House Marion's grandfather had been born in where his dad had a joiner's workshop. Her Great Grandmothers parent lived a little up the road, Her Great Grandfathers dad and Grandfather lived a little further along. People tended to stay in once place much more in those days. Don 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 20 hours ago, Donw said: Incomers are ok unless they want to change the place to suit themselves. People were saying that when the Normans arrived. Weren't they, Rob? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 It always amazes me how far people split it down looking for a difference one of my mates at work even says our box isn’t really Salisbury as it’s in Fisherton! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 14, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 On 11/04/2020 at 07:46, Stubby47 said: Important News!!! Plans are now in negotiation to create the Virtual Show. More details soon. More plans are being planned. Lots of things. 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 14 hours ago, Donw said: Whenn in Brixham we found the House Marion's grandfather had been born in where his dad had a joiner's workshop. Her Great Grandmothers parent lived a little up the road, Her Great Grandfathers dad and Grandfather lived a little further along. People tended to stay in once place much more in those days. Don I 'm living in the house I was brought up in. My parents bought it from my Grandmother who owned it more or less from when it was first built in the 1920s. My daughter is therefore the fourth generation of the same family to have lived here. I have photos from the 20s/30s all showing the family at the house right through until now. Rob. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 14, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 20 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: I 'm living in the house I was brought up in. My parents bought it from my Grandmother who owned it more or less from when it was first built in the 1920s. My daughter is therefore the fourth generation of the same family to have lived here. I have photos from the 20s/30s all showing the family at the house right through until now. Rob. Still got the outside loo ? 1 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted April 14, 2020 Moderators Share Posted April 14, 2020 11 minutes ago, Stubby47 said: Still got the outside loo ? I thought you'd got over that particular unhealthy interest? 1 2 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Stubby47 said: Still got the outside loo ? Seeing as you ask, in a manner of speaking, Yes. Originally accessed from the garden, HQ is now accessed from inside the house and comes complete with magazine rack, cup holder and cat flap. Rob. 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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