Where have you lived?

[Seahorse]

My cousin & family lived in a cottage in the woods right by the Strydd (Strid? Stridde? Anyway - scarey (sorry Clare) fast flowing water course) on the Bolton Abbey estate (cousin in law was a landscape gardener working at the estate)

Oooh... jumping the Strid proved you were 'hard' (aka really stupid!) in my youth!

[carlseawolf]

polly , i lived in cadgwith in 1985 between jan- feb in a guest house / hotel on the side that has the road to the devils frying pan , and the skippers father lived in ruan minor at the top of the hill out of cadwith on the left i think there was a row of four houses.

[Flummery]

Cadgwith Anthem - fantastic tune.

[Polly Fouracre]

polly , i lived in cadgwith in 1985 between jan- feb in a guest house / hotel on the side that has the road to the devils frying pan , and the skippers father lived in ruan minor at the top of the hill out of cadwith on the left i think there was a row of four houses.

Your skipper wouldn't have been my cousin Plugger by any chance?

[carlseawolf]

yes it would , and the boat was " MY PARTNER " and i was their on a Y.T.S course in 1984-85 and had a white 50cc motor bike i rode from hayle and kept breaking down.

[shirlthegirl43]

This thread just shows what a small world it really is. When we lived in California, we made some good friends. We were invited to Betsey's one day and she had other friends round - one woman was an ex-pat who used to holiday in Tenby - 20 mins drive from me!!

[Grandpadragon]

Grandpadragon, what took you to Minety? My ancestors were there for about 200 years until the late 1940's.LumpyJ

A large 5 bed Cotswold stone house with large garden which we could just about afford when we were outgrowing the 3 bed in Wootton Bassett
Left it to go back to Wales when I was made redundant 3 times in as many years
Still have some regrets about leaving it but would never be able to cope with that huge garden now

[Grandpadragon]

This thread just shows what a small world it really is.

You're right Shirl, we were at Cardigan and got talking to another couple and it turned out he and I went to the same school in Reading Berks at the same time but only for 1 year as I was 4 years older

[scarey55]

You're right Shirl, we were at Cardigan and got talking to another couple and it turned out he and I went to the same school in Reading Berks at the same time but only for 1 year as I was 4 years older

Go on then, what school Grandpadragon? I used to live in Caversham.

[Birdie Wife]

Middlesex (near the end of a Heathrow runway, apparently)
Hong Kong
Whitley Bay
St Andrews (uni)
Isle of Sheppey
Suffolk, near Dunwich
Orkney -Papa Westray, Egilsay, Stromness
Wareham, Dorset
Titchwell, Norfolk
then Forsinard!

[Polly Fouracre]

Carleseawolf,you'm almost proper fam'ly.

[Seahorse]

St Andrews (uni)

Another 'small world' thing! From your profile, that would have been a few years after me (unless you were a child genius?) but how cool to meet a fellow alumnus!

Don't suppose you did Medieval History?

[sewer rat]

Talking of small worlds, my own experience is this. Whilst working at Dalcross Castle on the refurb / renovation, I was asked to assist Tom, the Head Gardener with the construction of a garden pond (if 50,000 gallons counts as a garden pond) with an artificial ditch running through the woods. On the first day I met him, the converstaion went like this ; Where you from ? Glasgow. Me too. Where about ? Born in Lennox Castle 1963. Me too. March. Me too ! 27th . F**k off you're freakin me out!!!.
Turns out not only born on same day in same hospital, but I called my mum and asked if she remembered a lady called Betty from the maternity ward - she remembered her because she and my mum both went into labour within minutes of each other and because they both had boys. She freaked when I told her I was standin next to Betty's "wee boy"
BTW, me and Tom are now real good mates.

[Grandpadragon]

Go on then, what school Grandpadragon? I used to live in Caversham.

Alfred Sutton Central in the Wokingham road, just up from Palmer Park. But I left several years before you were born Mother in law lived on the edge of Caversham Park Village, and before that in the Henley Road.

[trousers]

places i have lived in for more than year.

nettlebed oxon
crowbourgh sussex
middle assendon oxon
henley on thames oxon
turin italy
henley on thames oxon
sonning common berks
clairmont france
paris france
caversham berks
aston clinton bucks
wendover bucks
the forest of dean gloucs
and soon back to france....