Dave is fine Dolly; He is a proper cockerel now and tries his luck with the three hens but they ll clout him one and send him packing! He never learns though haha. I only have three cockerels and three hens now though as I lost one of my old girls a couple of weeks ago but once we move I'll have some more for sure because they are such characters.Rita how’s that animals doing? My Dave?
Was thinking the name of the four of them posing Like group name Caravan four.
Oh my gosh I remember the Three tuns!! I never expected that through the Hate and detest of Skanky that my past would revisit!!
Thank you XX for some reason the watch thread had buggered off.
Fat Boys Cafe!!! My days!! But do you remember when it was R&M cars and Key cars up the road I worked at both I think I covered all of Kingston and a lot of Surrey in taxi control jobs lolI originated from The Other Side of Kingston (Hampton Court / Surby/ Esher & onwards). I've not been to UK in two years now but last time I did I was horrified TBH and I'm in no rush to go back ever again since my kids have all left the area now and headed off to pastures anew with their own families. That alongside, my parents are now both dead now (and thats another not-so-nice set of memories), I'm not in contact with my siblings anyway so thats IT as far as visiting the old Stomping Grounds! Resigned to the Past
OH was only reminiscing the other day about Fat Boy's Caff just down the road from the Cambridge by Kingstonian FC with their legendary mega-fry-ups! Thinking of His Belly as usual LOL Oh and the Sir Robert Peel pub! Oh lordy!!
Like you though I am very glad to be OUT actually because we have found a peace in life we'd never have over there, life plods along in a time-honoured fashion, nothing ever rushes along and there is NO PRESSURE whatsoever to have a brand new car or any of the rest of it; We will see out our days here and watch our little French granddaughter grow up
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and a little one speaking French has got to be Heck a Cute That Top one is reminding me of KFP’s Sink Boy lol
I would be screaming like a Banshee if I saw them lol Thank Fook St Patrick got them outta Ireland 
OH says we'll just about have it finished then we'll die but at least it'll be nice for our son to inherit eh? Actually I paid the place a little visit the other day to say hello and tell her we'll be there for her soon enough, (yes I am a loony who talks to houses haha!) - the farmer has moved his cows right in front now so as I pulled in they all raced over to have a look at me then studied me as I waded through the long grass. I look forward to the challenge in one way but in many others I am bloody dreading it but I guess I'm lucky in that OH is very experienced in all aspects of renovation having done many over the years we've been here - I have not got the problem of finding a Builder because I have one on a leash already LOL; I just hope that we can get the main cottage habitabe before he have to leave here otherwise we'll have to live in a caravan or mobile home and that'll be a bloody nightmare scenario!
Key Cars? Think that was Mick Kempsons cab firm? I wish I could find this other thread so we don't get told off?Fat Boys Cafe!!! My days!! But do you remember when it was R&M cars and Key cars up the road I worked at both I think I covered all of Kingston and a lot of Surrey in taxi control jobs lol
But I then did a bookkeeping course and cooked a LOT of books as well ( yes Dodgy fucker that I was!!) only ever participated in weed as far as drugs go but Fictional accounts were a specialty
Esher!! My mum worked in claygate, auntie in Esher brother lived weybridge Walton ( worked at Walton bridge cars as well lol
And That Denise I was talking about to @Joanna Surrey She worked at the Robert peel as well
I’m the same I’ve nothing to go back for except my sister in Kent but she’s over here regularly and irelands the same for the slower pace of life, it’s just easier to live without stress
I can but pray for grandkids my daughters are 26 and 30, That must be such a joy
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That Top one is reminding me of KFP’s Sink Boy lol
Does remind me of Sink boy
Used to keep my horses down Telegraph Lane in Claygate.
Awwwww cows saying hello to you,is that your home,pic of cottages?Morning all! Well we lost another chicken yesterday, we think taken by a bird of prey or a fox on his way from the forest going by the amount of feathers, so I am down to three hens and two cockerels now. ( Panic not Dolly - Dave is perfectly fine -its just him and his Dad left!) Now we'll just have to get them in earlier than we would normally in summer and thats not always easy when they don't want to go home, but I won't get any more until after we move, whenever that'll be!!
Nope, still no news on the final exchange date either for our new Home when all we want to do is clear the cottages out to begin making them habitable again, and thats not going to be a quick job seeing as theres a minimal electical supply (two sockets & a lght bulb per cottage), the water main is on the property edge & stops there, both roofs are buggerred along with the barn roof and theres no septic system at all, plus no kitchens, bathrooms or even A Toilet in either house! I just wonder how the old lady existed in such conditions but clearly she did for many years until she was taken into Care, thus we have got quite a task ahead of us to which perhaps we have left it a bit late in our lives to be tackling this little lot AGAIN having done it 18 years ago when we came to France originally - hey-ho!
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Wonderful, is there room for me? ❤Morning all! Well we lost another chicken yesterday, we think taken by a bird of prey or a fox on his way from the forest going by the amount of feathers, so I am down to three hens and two cockerels now. ( Panic not Dolly - Dave is perfectly fine -its just him and his Dad left!) Now we'll just have to get them in earlier than we would normally in summer and thats not always easy when they don't want to go home, but I won't get any more until after we move, whenever that'll be!!
Nope, still no news on the final exchange date either for our new Home when all we want to do is clear the cottages out to begin making them habitable again, and thats not going to be a quick job seeing as theres a minimal electical supply (two sockets & a lght bulb per cottage), the water main is on the property edge & stops there, both roofs are buggerred along with the barn roof and theres no septic system at all, plus no kitchens, bathrooms or even A Toilet in either house! I just wonder how the old lady existed in such conditions but clearly she did for many years until she was taken into Care, thus we have got quite a task ahead of us to which perhaps we have left it a bit late in our lives to be tackling this little lot AGAIN having done it 18 years ago when we came to France originally - hey-ho!
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Mick Kempson is Ringing Bells but I can’t place himKey Cars? Think that was Mick Kempsons cab firm? I wish I could find this other thread so we don't get told off?
He’s got some fancy footworkAww so sorry about your ChickenMorning all! Well we lost another chicken yesterday, we think taken by a bird of prey or a fox on his way from the forest going by the amount of feathers, so I am down to three hens and two cockerels now. ( Panic not Dolly - Dave is perfectly fine -its just him and his Dad left!) Now we'll just have to get them in earlier than we would normally in summer and thats not always easy when they don't want to go home, but I won't get any more until after we move, whenever that'll be!!
Nope, still no news on the final exchange date either for our new Home when all we want to do is clear the cottages out to begin making them habitable again, and thats not going to be a quick job seeing as theres a minimal electical supply (two sockets & a lght bulb per cottage), the water main is on the property edge & stops there, both roofs are buggerred along with the barn roof and theres no septic system at all, plus no kitchens, bathrooms or even A Toilet in either house! I just wonder how the old lady existed in such conditions but clearly she did for many years until she was taken into Care, thus we have got quite a task ahead of us to which perhaps we have left it a bit late in our lives to be tackling this little lot AGAIN having done it 18 years ago when we came to France originally - hey-ho!
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that’s heartbreaking and They are some lovely Moo’s that the farmer has Moooved in 
lol) and threatening them with burger buns lol
Awwwww oh yes cows big buggersMick Kempson is Ringing Bells but I can’t place him
when I was at Key cars it was John Billy bullshit who owned it, he had a old Range Rover and painted it with Hammerite paint ( hideous lol)
Mick i wonder if he was one of the VIP drivers at Oak radio cars and he was one of the Status Quo drivers?? ( Rick Parfitt was such a funny fucker lol )
This is the Thread we can chat on
God that’s annoying me now I can’t place him
But to be fair I must have worked at 50 mini cab companies either in the control room or cooking the books lol
That is going to bug me all day I can picture a face but can’t place it lol
Love Barnaby
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Aww so sorry about your Chicken
I had a cottage on a farm I rented for a while and we had Mooing visitors, but Yours are much prettier
( yes I would be chatting shite to the cows
I’m smack bang in Galway city now little ground floor flat but I miss the Morning Moos
few years ago where I lived Leytonstone (which has Epping Forest which stretches for miles) cows had ancient right,so cows allowed to just use the forest,but cows do like nosing about,we used to see them walking down roads near us going in gardens eaten the flowers etc,I was born in the forest in Nissan hut,so we had cows around us,naughty buggers they were.in summervdoor was open,they did to our Nissan hut,in he walked done a spank on the living room floor and walked out,mum had to lure him out with a cabbage,Oh dear those was the days.
Small world! I know it wellKey Cars? Think that was Mick Kempsons cab firm? I wish I could find this other thread so we don't get told off?
Yes it is Dolly; The cottage at the back by the lane is the one we will live in so top priority. The smaller one at the front will be storage initially then maybe a gite, then theres the barn on the right; The place behind is another cottage but not part of our property, the land at present stops in front of the cottages then goes off in an L shape behind the barn, but we are hoping to buy or lease a portion of the field where the cows are to give us space for all the animals, however this view was taken from a small piece of land up the road that actually belongs to us but its about ten feet tall in brambles and stingers at present, plus I want the animals near us rather than 5 minutes away.
I worked at Oak Radio Cars!!!!!!Mick Kempson is Ringing Bells but I can’t place him
when I was at Key cars it was John Billy bullshit who owned it, he had a old Range Rover and painted it with Hammerite paint ( hideous lol)
Mick i wonder if he was one of the VIP drivers at Oak radio cars and he was one of the Status Quo drivers?? ( Rick Parfitt was such a funny fucker lol )
This is the Thread we can chat on
God that’s annoying me now I can’t place him
But to be fair I must have worked at 50 mini cab companies either in the control room or cooking the books lol
That is going to bug me all day I can picture a face but can’t place it lol
Love Barnaby
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Aww so sorry about your Chicken
I had a cottage on a farm I rented for a while and we had Mooing visitors, but Yours are much prettier
( yes I would be chatting shite to the cows
I’m smack bang in Galway city now little ground floor flat but I miss the Morning Moos
I was a telephonist. Then moved to Park Road with them when they became ABC. I could claim 100s of thousands in historic sexual harassment but they are probably all dead! Then it was as called life. I remember Angela, David, Gordon, Ray, Colin oh everybody.My Aunty May and Uncle Charlie lived on Weston Green Esher/Thames Ditton. We went to all the big jumble sales in the church hall round the back. This would be early 70s. My Aunty Ada lived in West End we went to tea and had salad and ham and wonderful cakes. I used to fish for Sticklebacks in the pond. Many happy memories of a time sadly gone by.
The foxes around here are bold beyond belief. I'm so sorry about your chickens they are great characters and so friendly. We've lost a couple it's heartbreaking. Barnaby is super friendly but Shaun the white one will try to bully and butt. I tell him off and give him a smack but doubt he feels it just goes off sulking! I don't think KP has ever she's a tear over any of her dead animals.Small world! I know it well
Well just after I logged off here earlier I was clearing up and washing-up after OH made his toast (what an effing mess he leaves every time!); Anyway there was a huge kerfuffle outside, I turned to look out of the back door to see a fox had pounced on one of my last hens and was in the process of carrying her off, I unlocked the door and raced out to corner the bastard trying to drag her through the fence to the old goose run but he couldn't get her through the wire so abandoned her and left her to die in my arms, my poor little girl; So we had another funeral. Well things must be desperate if a fox is out and about during the daytimes but it did look a rather old and tatty animal so perhaps thats why its suddenly decided to kill my birds? So OH is after it now and I'm on red alert in case it comes back again. Two hens and two cockerels left now
Thats a Oussant sheep - I had a couple of them years ago but sadly the ram was an evil little bugger who attacked everybody and everything so he got rehomed! He actually attacked me when I was feeding them all and I collected a headbutt in the face giving me massive shiner - never had any problem with goats though, they are such lovely creatures. My Barnaby is a darling boy too x
Yes it is Dolly; The cottage at the back by the lane is the one we will live in so top priority. The smaller one at the front will be storage initially then maybe a gite, then theres the barn on the right; The place behind is another cottage but not part of our property, the land at present stops in front of the cottages then goes off in an L shape behind the barn, but we are hoping to buy or lease a portion of the field where the cows are to give us space for all the animals, however this view was taken from a small piece of land up the road that actually belongs to us but its about ten feet tall in brambles and stingers at present, plus I want the animals near us rather than 5 minutes away.
OMG! I know all these places - the old home turf Joanna!! My late mother worked at the Hospice for 25 years too plus my father's racing pigeon club was in the clubhouse at West End. These days those tiny cottages on the Green sell for zillions!I worked at Oak Radio Cars!!!!!!
My Aunty May and Uncle Charlie lived on Weston Green Esher/Thames Ditton. We went to all the big jumble sales in the church hall round the back. This would be early 70s. My Aunty Ada lived in West End we went to tea and had salad and ham and wonderful cakes. I used to fish for Sticklebacks in the pond. Many happy memories of a time sadly gone by.❤
Yes it sold again a couple of years ago for over a million. It's tiny. They were so pretty little 2 up 2 downs no bathroom and outside loo I absolutely adored going there and my dad always dropped them off at The Cozy bingo in Surbiton on the way home. This is Weston Green. The ones in West End go for even more. Although it's turned into a rat run these days since Garson Farm extended vastly. Peace shattered for the people who live there.
