I have been meandering around the boards (as you do!) and noticed that on several different threads various people state where they live. Shall we collate the info onto one thread so that people can get in touch with others more easily if they want to ?

Just a though really (I know , I know , it's lonely ..my brain doesnt have many) :D

Anyway , I can start , I live in Lincolnshire ...about 16 miles from Grantham

Melody

Don't forget that everyone has the option of listing their location in their profile :-)
Most of the time I *live* in a little world all of my own :D

Rotherham, South Yorkshire:D Melody- I don't think you're that far away from Zicos Mum!

Godalming Surrey about 7 miles from Guildford.

Karen

Gosh Stacey - what a small world - I'm originally from Rotherham. My folks are still there - Clifton.

I'm now in Harrogate, N Yorks

Pam n co

Pam! I was in Harrogate just last month buying a bed! Wish I had know you lived there!!!! Will have to email you next time I go to add on to the bedroom suite!

Hi Quinn - yes you must - lol, r u not far from here then?

Pam

I got a parking ticket in Harrogate last Friday :(

lol - yeah - they'll do that to you here:(

Pam

When I finally found a parking place in Harrogate it was in a "disc zone". I hadn't a clue! A very kind local took pity on me and gave me his. It's still in the glove box to use the next time I visit!

Can I just say, Pam, BEAUTIFUL CITY! Wish I had more time to wander around. I love that little shopping area tucked in behind those antique shops by the big hotels (can't remember hotel names!). Very charming!

Quinn

Harrogate is beautiful - only a town though not a city, gets a bit full of "visitors" sometimes - but we like it here. Been here nearly 7 years now -scary - longest we've been anywhere.

I got got when we'd not been here long coz I got confused with disc zones and meter zones and the such. The council were very unsympathetic too:( Parking is a real nightmare at the mo as they've closed one of the multi storey-s for a rebuild:rolleyes:

Let me know next time you're coming - we cud meet.

Pammy n co

It was worth it. I LOVE Harrogate, and I'm afaid I LOVE Betty's and their Yorkshire Rarebit! We head for Scotland several times a year and always stop in H for lunch. Although this time it was a forced detour as the A1 was shut ...on Good Friday! The chaos!!!!

Hi Linda

Harrogate will go to great lengths to get people in to the town - but staging a really bad accident on the A1 that day - it was shut most of the day - caused us a few headaches too. It was the fog in the morning and people still driving too fast, apparently 30 cars were involved!!!!

Pam n co

http://www.bettysbypost.com

They're not on there, but they do fat rascals by post, just phone up and order them. My mum sent me 16 for my birthday :D

My Yorkie was whelped in Harrogate. :D :D Had her family tree at one time... vanished long ago. :( :(
toodles
for the moment-- residing in Landstuhl, Germany.

Sara! My daughter and I used the hospital over there. Took a medevac (sp?) flight from Rota with people on drips lying on stretchers etc... Ramstein & Landstuhl are lovely. We were lucky enough to go when there was snow on ground, which was a nice change from Spanish weather.

Quinn,
I take it you were talking about this winter, eh? Yeah, I know all about the snow [$ ice. We were socked in from 20 Dec.- 18 Jan with extreme cold :-) That's how I dislocated & broke my ankle.... 2 days before it melted!!! I would have loved it, except for that minor incident ])

& yes, I do love living here despite the noise of existing between the autobahn & the RR tracks, along with a concrete mixing & 2 moving companies just down the road from us. Have I mentioned my road being ripped up for construction & pipe laying going on 6 months now? Despite this, cars still fly down the "road" at high speed making it like a dust storm. Oops, didn't mean to ramble on... frustration about veh. parts ordering & not eating are taking their toll.

Pammy - I'm in Brinsworth! Next time you're up visiting- let me know- I'll meet you in Clifton Park or something:D :D :D As you probably know- great day out for dogs and kids!

Hi Kash - My folks are within a five minute walk of the park - spent many a happy summers evening in the old paddling pool afterschool - in my youth - when it was a safe pklace to go:( I used to love the secret garden up by the museum and the moth eatne lion and two headed kitten they had in it:rolleyes:

I'll let you know next time we're there - but to be honest we tend to fly down just for a couple of hours then come back home again - but you never know;)

Pam n co

Pammy- the lion's still moth eaten and still there:D I can remember going there on a school trip when I was a kid and seeing the lion- also a frog? Last year my daughter went there too on a school trip:D Have you ever been over to Conisbrough Castle?- I mean since it's been refurbished (1996ish)?- It's great- I took the kids there for a day out last summer it was marvellous. Through one of the top windows we could see a kestrel with a baby (she'd made her nest on the otherside of the window) and at the otherside of the nest there was a dead mouse/vole- must have been her pantry:). My two were great didn't make a sound so as to scare her off etc and didn't want to stay looking too long and tried to take a photo without the flash- how considerate:)? Then as we were walking off someone else came with her two shitty kids (excuse my French) and let them bang on the window etc- you name it!

Pam, sorry about the "city" reference. It seems bigger than a town! And it seems to have a sophistication about it too. So, town it is! :)

Melody......
Great topic! I always think it's so nice when we can relate to each other here on a subject other than dogs! :)

Linda....
When did you last eat at The Pheasant? It had a change in chef patron about 2 1/2 - 3yrs ago, and Martin & Jayne Lee are at The Old Bridge Hotel & Restaurant in Huntingdon now. They really know how add that something special to your night out!

Hi Quinn Have you said 'Hello 'To Gareth yet at the Old Bridge ???

Hi Mattie,
No I haven't, but I did speak with Martin about him and you. He thought it was great that I have met you though this website! :)

Are you stll getting people knocking on your door for directions ? LOL

Stacey

Fancy the old Lion still being there, don't remember a frog at all. I remember Conisbrough Castle well, always popular for school trips. Keep saying everytime we pass it on the way to the old folks that we should take the kids as it has the best observed keep around. We also keep saying about going to Magna sometime - is it worth it?

Why are there always such burks who can't respect wildlife - I shudder when I come across it.

C ya

Pam n co

What a terrific thread - spooky to see how small a world it really is tho

Pammy n co

Most of the time I *live* in a little world all of my own

I MUST NOT PASS COMMENT
I MUST NOT PASS COMMENT

:D

ROTFL ......you're a quick learner ;-)

I'm paranoid that TH will get nicked, as she's such a valuable gundog. ROTFLOL :D

But. Near Tomintoul, Highlands of Scotland. Follow the trail of white hair . . .

Originally from Beverley, East Yorks. And the TH is originally from Suffolk.

Tally and I cause havoc around the local parks and walks of Rainworth, Notts.

Rachel

I would post my full address but I don't think anyone is brave enough to steal Max - waste of time getting him chipped LOL :rolleyes:

Whitburn, Tyne & Wear !

8 miles from guildford surrey,6miles from aldershot,every good roads to get to the shows,great walks,and a clear cannal to do water work,what more can i ask for,??? a bigger house for the dogs,

Obviously, you've read OHenry's "Ransom of Red Chief" ...eh?

Well I'm in Guernsey, Channel Islands and it is miles away from everybody :(

Nightmare for Champ Shows, but I dare say it shows the dedication that some of us put into our Showing :D

Derryn & The Boys ...

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire about 20miles from Peterborough.

2 miles from Thame show ground Haddenham, Bucks

Bournemouth, in Dorset, hoping to move soon to Christchurch (Dorset, not New Zealand!!!)

Feel very lucky to be near the fantastic paradise of the beautiful New Forest..... :)

Lindsay

im about 6 miles from notts polly i used to live in oxford my nan and grampy in thame

Keyston, Cambridgeshire! Midway between Huntingdon and Kettering off the A14. I don't expect many of you to know where we are, but there is a very well known restaurant in our village called The Pheasant. That's how most people place our village!

North Notts, practically South Yorks:D

The Pheasant! I know it well. I grew up in St.Ives and my brother lived in Rothwell for a while so we used to meet and eat at The Pheasant for family celebrations.

Hi,My son is a chef he worked at the pheasant but is now at the Old Bridge Huntingdon (same management) just a bit of useless information :)

Got friends with horses in Wisbech - nearly moved there too. Live in Northamptonshire.

KirstyS (when I'm not on my own wee planet :))

Well we only moved here at the end of last year :)

I have got two horses but don't know many other people around here with horses :( (Except my next door neighbour :D)

Tracy

The girl I know who lives in Wisbech has Lipizanners or Andalucians (can never remember which) and her husband works with my other half in Peterborough.

Am also horsey - bit far away but happy to talk horses anytime (sorry know this is a doggy forum) - email me if you like. :D

You said you only moved there last year - from where?

KirstyS

P.S. Sorry if I'm being nosey :)

Half the time in west london, other half in little birch in herefordshire - a bit close to wales and the midlands. Great for the shows, terrible for anything else :p Moving to Sussex or twyford area in about a year

I live in London, And I think we have quite a lot of dog and cat pinching.

High Wycombe in Bucks

John

Workington in Cumbria

When I'm not in Lancaster I'm in Keswick.