tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post3084336597140609966..comments2024-03-19T14:28:03.565+00:00Comments on welsh hills again: Town and countryElizabeth Musgravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-42332433063322643422009-09-24T14:34:21.532+01:002009-09-24T14:34:21.532+01:00I'm not a keen shopper - mainly because there&...I'm not a keen shopper - mainly because there's no spare money and if I'm not in jeans I'm out of my comfort zone. But you sound very comfortable and happy so the change in your lifestyle has clearly worked well. And, yes, it's so good to come home!Chris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-3496600139006937082009-09-23T18:11:59.831+01:002009-09-23T18:11:59.831+01:00Thank you for this beautifully thoughtful and desc...Thank you for this beautifully thoughtful and descriptive post. I so enjoyed reading it and settling down into the peace and quiet and satisfaction of it. So much truth here too, about what it means to really life a life.<br /><br />What a special gift seems to have adopted you - that beautiful peacock!Sara at Come Away With Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677354270954094291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-60960635775810664702009-09-23T15:47:22.827+01:002009-09-23T15:47:22.827+01:00mountainear - yes I agree, we have gone native!
Ba...mountainear - yes I agree, we have gone native!<br />Bayou - well this peacock is quiet so far, and we like it that way!<br />Edward - thank you. What a great comment and I hadn't come across the music before and love it.<br />Woozle - I like the idea of barefaced shopping.<br />Miss maddie - hmm, not sure about the idea of a guard peacock!<br />Karen - thank you. I imagine where you live is quite similar and can understand loving it.<br />Gilly - glad I am not the only one with a weakness for JL kitchen department. Just the best bit!<br />Friko - I don't miss the city oddly although I do like the occasional fix. Always glad to get back though.<br />Weaver - thank you. I am still not calling myself retired (too young, too poor) so will one day have to decide whether I am unemployed or just unemployable!<br />BSM - thanks for the tag. I will have to think about that one as I am much more a reader than a watcher. Mind you, Katharine Hepburn in the African Queen leaps immediatly to mind!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-58368734486788537802009-09-21T12:01:13.677+01:002009-09-21T12:01:13.677+01:00How fabulous to have a peacock, if not a little no...How fabulous to have a peacock, if not a little noisy! I remember Percy the Peacock at the Royal Orthapaedic Hospital SBS.<br /><br />I abhorr shopping other than Christmas shopping but I tend to go to craft fairs etc for that. If I have to get anything I do it online where possible. My friends think I'm strange to hate it like I do but I can't think of anything worse than these huge retail centres. I might just about cope with Chester...and Ludlow of course.<br /><br />Ah, wish I'd been there. How fascinating.<br /><br />Now, I'm not sure when you will pick this message up, hopefully not long.<br /><br />Dulwich Divorcee has tagged me to blog my favourite fave film characters and I'd love to hear yours... pleease...<br />So when you have five minutes... <br />COnsider yourself tagged!<br />xxBluestocking Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01502764742097142372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-12274652893149396082009-09-20T15:51:11.289+01:002009-09-20T15:51:11.289+01:00Here I am for my slice of bara brith! Your post ...Here I am for my slice of bara brith! Your post says just what I feel when I go into town and return home. Even the red jacket struck a cord - yes that is lovely but will I wear it where I live? That peacock sure looks happy to me. I knew you would enjoy your retirement - joy seeps out of every word of your post!The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-91625761147961325012009-09-19T18:07:30.219+01:002009-09-19T18:07:30.219+01:00How brave of you to venture into the big city. Sin...How brave of you to venture into the big city. Since I left London to come and live here in the Marches I have hardly been back, despite missing it madly.<br /><br />Your drive back sounds idyllic and I'm sure getting home to chickens and the peacock is a great pleasure too after your day sampling the bright lights.<br /><br />Ahh, John Lewis, my favourite department store; I really must go and get a fix soon.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-63590311124257109372009-09-19T11:05:33.440+01:002009-09-19T11:05:33.440+01:00Ooh yes"! I drool over John Lewis kitchen de...Ooh yes"! I drool over John Lewis kitchen department, too!<br /><br />Cheadle is quite good for shopping, and I too love sitting in the cafe there watching the world go by. Well, when I manage to get up there! Must try and have another go before the Christmas crowds get going. Otherwise its internet shopping for me too!Gillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00322140697547406511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-26464345515854212542009-09-18T22:23:44.185+01:002009-09-18T22:23:44.185+01:00That is it ... I often wonder how to describe the ...That is it ... I often wonder how to describe the noise that the buzzards make as they circle above our house and they do mew, such a good description Elizabeth. <br /><br />Everything you have said in this post echos with me and I love how you express it.<br /><br />I never really understand how peacocks can just arrive in a garden - you would think the original owner would notice their peacock has gone missing, unless of course they are mightily relieved to be free of the dreadful noise that they can make.<br /><br />Have a lovely weekend.<br />KKaren - An Artist's Gardenhttp://www.artistsgarden.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-52769766799399371572009-09-18T22:05:49.408+01:002009-09-18T22:05:49.408+01:00This is a beautiful place you call home.
The peaco...This is a beautiful place you call home.<br />The peacocks over here were once used as watch guards in colonial times for their shrill pitched cry warned of intruders.Perhaps yours is waiting till he settles in!<br />SusanSusan McShannon-Monteithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525642217533620081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-66899417737780149372009-09-18T17:08:55.939+01:002009-09-18T17:08:55.939+01:00Am so with you on the shopping thing! How did we ...Am so with you on the shopping thing! How did we ever survive without internet shopping? Hate the getting dressed "up" just to go to the shops, putting on a bit of make up, when I love to be bare faced.........<br /><br />We had 3 peacocks that adopted us about 5 years ago (they left home from a neighbouring farm - seemed to like our brand of wild bird seed!) and they used to roost on the roof of our barn. Unfortunately, one by one they disappeared until the last one was run over! Can you believe that? Still can't imagine how someone would fail to see such a bird!xWoozle1967https://www.blogger.com/profile/10438625886508520803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-89860220614823438902009-09-18T16:39:58.986+01:002009-09-18T16:39:58.986+01:00That was a terrific post - I happened to have exac...That was a terrific post - I happened to have exactly the right music on my headphones when I read it (Martina Sorbara, if you're interested) and the rhythm of the prose matched perfectly. A great way to end the working week.Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06548801150312804111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-87603098263736009412009-09-18T14:03:46.642+01:002009-09-18T14:03:46.642+01:00ElizabethM, this is such a nice description and I ...ElizabethM, this is such a nice description and I feel (like you, I am not working for the time being) suddenly so many things take place in the foreground which were hidden or not visible. I would not like to have a peacock but an old growing turkey instead. Peacocks make so loud noises (they speak French: calling Léooon, Léooon!) and we had them when we spent holidays in Cornwall. They woke us up far too early and pecked on the window seals. <br />If I had the choice, I would always go shopping to Chester and leave Manchester where it is.... Me too, since living on the country side I don't long for shopping anymore.bayouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08803865167364775151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-80531587022692001242009-09-18T09:55:42.669+01:002009-09-18T09:55:42.669+01:00A lovely post. I think I respond to the town/count...A lovely post. I think I respond to the town/country thing in the same way. I too can stand and crave things in John Lewis. (The Cheadle store does seem quite a civilised place.) Coming home though is a different matter - the sense of space, the air and feeling in touch with the land and the seasons. City shoes off and wellie boots on. Bliss. I think we've gone native<br /><br />PS I'm sure he's a happy peacock.mountainearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977393968796316843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-66000210273539191062009-09-18T08:29:59.347+01:002009-09-18T08:29:59.347+01:00Rosie - I do like the idea of being able to walk t...Rosie - I do like the idea of being able to walk to the shops but then I would lose my view!<br />Anna - I so agree, I hate the Trafford Centre although like Chester and central Manchester. The Trafford Centre makes me feel quite queasy - all that consumerism in one place!<br />Teresa - you are so right. I never run out of things to do.<br />QMM - it is funny isn't it? Shopping is definitely an addictive thing.<br />Dimple - thank you. I am glad you enjoyed it.<br />pondside - at the moment the peacock is quiet. if it starts to screech we may reconsider its future!<br />HAH - with you on Amazon as have a serious book weakness. So far I have resisted ebay.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-55719219984878677702009-09-18T08:19:10.309+01:002009-09-18T08:19:10.309+01:00I missed the shopping gene,althogh I do or rahter...I missed the shopping gene,althogh I do or rahter did ahve a weakness for the remembered smell of John Lewis Fabric department, all the dressing in the cotton and I adore charity shops and jumble sales. If I go shopping I rarely buy anything for myself but I am lethal on the internet. Without me Amazon and Ebay would sink into oblivion.her at homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553181592011484686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-26026642752756700592009-09-18T06:33:13.379+01:002009-09-18T06:33:13.379+01:00You've described just how I feel when I come h...You've described just how I feel when I come home every day - that lovely feeling of coming into a softer place.<br />There are peacocks around here - escapees from Royal Roads. They make the stranget noise.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-56112943794355408312009-09-18T04:58:43.615+01:002009-09-18T04:58:43.615+01:00What a fabulous description of city and country li...What a fabulous description of city and country life. I'm with you, though. I really prefer the country. It is busy enough, but usually much quieter, than in town. Thanks for sharing your day.Dimplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08313315926201426600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-18915786157033717722009-09-18T03:32:31.339+01:002009-09-18T03:32:31.339+01:00The peacock is absolutely beautiful.
I agree with ...The peacock is absolutely beautiful.<br />I agree with Elizabethm about the less I shop the less I want to shop.<br />QMMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-90620443781477214212009-09-17T23:51:14.980+01:002009-09-17T23:51:14.980+01:00What a beautiful post. I agree - as a transplant f...What a beautiful post. I agree - as a transplant from the city to the country, I enjoy the gentler, slower rhythm of life in the country. And for those who say "there's nothing to do out here"... well, gosh... just open your eyes!Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14186138266137470331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-4166032363605798932009-09-17T23:34:58.054+01:002009-09-17T23:34:58.054+01:00Shopping is not for me unless it's plants or b...Shopping is not for me unless it's plants or books. Manchester is not for me either although I do enjoy the Christmas market there. I must be in a minority as I have never visited the Trafford Centre. Would rather venture into Liverpool or Chester if I have to go shopping. I smiled at your remark about the state of your fingernails :)Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10794392333038962798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-27701544252102483192009-09-17T22:53:06.426+01:002009-09-17T22:53:06.426+01:00It is good to know what makes you happy especially...It is good to know what makes you happy especially if it doesn't cost anything or not much. Your peaceful life sounds lovely although I am quite content with my own. I can go shopping without getting in the car as I live on the main street of a small town. I quite enjoy it, but then it can be completed in under an hour which might include several stops for a chat with friends.<br />I envy you your peacock but they do screech rather don't they?arosebyanyothernamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12425445354742817398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-30265413454660273862009-09-17T22:36:11.855+01:002009-09-17T22:36:11.855+01:00locksparkfarm - the peacock doesn't call - yet...locksparkfarm - the peacock doesn't call - yet! He may have to go if he does.<br />SS - I admit to liking the kitchen department too. It was a Kitchenaid mixer that I was feeling I needed!<br />SBS - if we decide to move the peacock on N could give him a home, it would only be kind.<br />Kitty - now your garden would be much more suited to a peacock than ours. He is in the post.<br />Maggie - I do like him really. As you say, it is a bit of an honour.<br />Fennie - the peacock is shedding tail feathers so I could go into millinery in a big way. Do you think it would be hit by the recession?<br />3c - I do know what you mean about the good things of the city and occasionally I need a fix of streetlights and galleries but mostly I am very content to be here.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-73825206638969207002009-09-17T21:56:08.974+01:002009-09-17T21:56:08.974+01:00I had to move away from towns when I got epilepsy ...I had to move away from towns when I got epilepsy - all the movement, and moving aside, and light through railings . . . increased the number of fits I have.<br /><br />I love it where I live now but there are things I miss - not shopping though! (Never shopped.) But theatres and galleries and museums and orchestras and operas and . . . I feel a bit of me has withered because I can't get to them.<br /><br />John Lewis - anything would look good in a John Lewis shop. It's something to do with the lighting.<br /><br />Peacock - I don't have a peacock in the garden but I have had half a mouse two mornings running. (Not of the same mouse.) (Not even opposite ends.) (Unless it was a two headed mouse.) (Very was!) <br /><br />I do enjoy your writing.3chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048900092251377796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-1599686814858033112009-09-17T21:53:24.143+01:002009-09-17T21:53:24.143+01:00You are so lucky to have a peacock - now I'm t...You are so lucky to have a peacock - now I'm thinking of the red jacket - trimmed you know with a couple of feathers - well the beast must moult sometime and there you would have something that would stand you in good stead anywhere. No one could accuse you of playing inferior football in such garb and indeed once worn I am sure it could catch on. What turquoise feathers could do for a red jacket they could do for a Liverpool (or even Manchester) shirt though I'm not sure they would go with sky blue. Where do people get the money to buy all these new cars? Obviously they've been making economies - shedding peacocks left right and centre no doubt.Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-39023631023510648342009-09-17T21:52:04.985+01:002009-09-17T21:52:04.985+01:00Love your peacock. You are honoured to have him ca...Love your peacock. You are honoured to have him call on you.<br />You live in such a beautiful spot but I do love shopping! I would hate to shop on line. That would be a terrible chore. I do like to touch things & feel things before I buy!<br />I like to be on my own when I shop though!<br /><br />Those mushrooms are pretty. I would be scared to eat them though!Maggie Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06183886005936250976noreply@blogger.com