Terrier jump jet…….

That is brilliant!

Anywhere past J6 on the M25 is "up North" as far as I'm concerned. 😆

UziChick will sort it all out!

And, if that doesn't work….

So what's so great about Watford then ?

Personally I don't see the point of going as far north as Edgware Road.

Well, there's certainly been some laughs on here tonight! After 7.1/2 hours in the car it has been much appreciated. 8)

Edgware Road? Church Street Market was a frequent haunt of mine, when I was younger obviously.

but the noise of 50 or so cattle is pretty much likely what you'll hear at 4 o'clock in the morning in the country.

be grateful it wasn't a Greek island, where 50 odd goats about to be milked can make a pretty unnerving sound!

cg – I'm a fellow noise freak (at night) – this place is utterly silent after many years of living in noisy cities.

Very occasional fox noise but that's it – so damn quiet that whenever I stay anywhere else, any noise wakes me up. All we hear is birdsong in the mornings.

Not all countryside is noisy and I absolutely love it!

50 cows thats a small holding not a farm ,can't have been in real countryside.I bet the 'farmers' wore hunters

countryside noises are always much better and easier to appreciate when sleeping outside amongst them..

that is all I have to say about this

CG you were lucky the cow suicide bombers didn't get you!

Quote from the reqister

A US couple had a lucky escape when a 600lb cow unexpectedly landed on the bonnet of their minivan, unsurprisingly causing "heavy damage".

According to AP, Michigan-based Charles and Linda Everson were visiting the area around Lake Chelan, Washington, to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. On their way back to the hotel near Manson on Sunday, the bovine in question decided to plummet from a 200ft cliff and impact without warning against the vehicle.

Charles Everson admitted he "didn't see the cow falling and didn't know what happened until afterward". He added he'd been reduced to repeating: "I don't believe this. I don't believe this."

see, it could have been so much worse

am seriously tempted to move there!

not all bad then….. 😉

did your cottage not have doors and windows ? – or walls and a roof ? was it infact a tent ? or a marquee or possibly made of cardboard and duckspit ?

**** city slickers – and i can say that now im back out of the **** city – dreadful places . only good for one thing – getting drunk !

Not proper hills then. Cows- pahh! Cows are for softies. Proper hills have sheep in them. Bleating things that they are.

Doesn't everyone hear cows first thing in the morning?
I'd think 'twas odd if I didn't hear them, or the sheep, or the chickens/geese …

😕

one morning, some cows mooed a bit….?
can you claim on your insurance?

lol

Mooing cows
Baaing lambs
A fighter jet
Sounds like hell on earth, its grim ooop north 🙂

Should've stuffed your fox fur in your lugholes, cg…

Was this you?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5005019/20-ridiculous-complaints-made-by-holidaymakers.html?image=6

City dwellers 🙄 Southern softies 🙄 Complaining wingeing, perhaps you should take a film directer and location manager to provide you with the perfect scenario for your holiday, holiday from hell did you forget your medication! 😆

Hey C_G, glad you're back. Catch up soon. x

john_drummer – Member
…be grateful it wasn't a Greek island, where 50 odd goats about to be milked can make a pretty unnerving sound!

Is that because of what happens after the stroking of their udders?

Thanks for all being such good sports and making me laugh. 8)

A wee touch of post-holiday blues set in literally before I got in the door. 🙁

C_G

PS: I love the countryside really!

You were up here weren't you, where abouts?

So what were the redeeming features? Any headcam footage? Any long hours of fun? Email in profile!

Hello Drac. I was staying in Holystone, near Rothbury. That naturally meant I just had to do the Whitefield Hill descent 8) It didn't disappoint! Had a fantastic ride over Broadstruther way (near Wooler), what a pretty valley.

Holystone though it well my school friend lived there when I was a kid, RIP Stuart, very pretty. Is the Salmon open again my parents would walk my brother and I in the Holystone and we'd play in the stream at the pub after.

Whitefield Loop is a lovely loop great for the winter. Broadstruther, good choice nice descents and stunnig views and no one around. Explains why you seen some many jets you right on the edge of the rangers. We used to play on them and find the phorphorous grenades to take apart and then set fire to.

hora – you really don't want to know!

Drac – no sign of a pub! Descents in Broadstruther area were steep and loose. Rode in Old Bewick too, scene of low flying jet. The Farne Islands were visible apparently. Rode on the Ranges also when there was no shooting, funny seeing a Roman Camp at Chew Green.

Got a bit worried when I exited Simonside and could see there was some "trail modifications". Was so hoping it hadn't been sanitised and I had nothing to worry about, ragged it down there. 8)

Maybe the cows were getting their own back because of your snoring!! 😀

Maybe the cows were getting their own back because of your snoring!!

How did you know that? 😯

😉

I they were them crazy Cravendale cows!

I enjoyed that Bob!

Has it blimey what a shame. Sanitised trails I hope not. You got a rare treat with broadstruther then usually always wet.

MooTFU?

Doesn't everyone hear cows first thing in the morning?

yeah, she normally says " cup o tea please "

just kiddin 🙂

lol at the telegraph list of ridiculous complaints.

"The beach was too sandy"
"There were too many Spanish people"

Hearing sheep cough close to one's tent is quite unnerving. They sound exactly like human coughs. NOt what you want to hear when you believe you are alone in the hills in the dead of night…

Nah, camping near a creek in North Queensland and hearing a big croc is unnerving, in a sort of bowel loosening way.

CG's Holiday Video

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes – "we seem to have gone on holiday by mistake!" – from Withnail and I

Cows mooing in the countryside who'd have thought it!!!!