I refuse to venture North of Watford ever again 🙄
Was it grim?
Oops
Come further north next time.
Come further north next time.
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Evening guys!
Problem no. 1: Was staying in delightful cottage opposite open fields containing livestock. At 4.00 am one morning, the Herd (head) Honcho decided to rally the troops and they had to follow him across the field, single file, making as much moo-ing as possible. 😯
They were just being friendly! 😉
one morning, some cows mooed a bit....?
can you claim on your insurance?
OMG!!!
"I refuse to venture North of Watford ever again"
It's not all bad then.
I stayed down in the south the once and at 08:00 hours all the moms got in 4x4's and trundled single file to the school gates making hooting noises.!
Was this your first trip outside the city?
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[b]All[/b] of the herd had to obey so they [b]all[/b] moo-ed together.
It gets worse ...
It's a nightmare too much to bare already. Please spare us anymore details....no really, [b]please[/b] spare us.
I went for a wee pootle on the moor. Suddenly an RAF jet appeared, screeching vertically just above my head. I could see the pilot in the cockpit, reckon he was just showing off 😯
OMG!21!11!2!!!!1111 ONEELLLEVEN1111! THE HUMANITY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
too much to bare already. Please spare us anymore details....no really, please spare us.
I'm not sure she's [i]bared[/i] enough yet....pictures maybe? 😉
I could see the pilot in the cockpit, reckon he was just showing off
You could see that much? Was it a low cut cockpit?
Not getting much sympathy am I? 😉
There were one or two redeeming features but am keeping those to myself. 🙄
there's nowt to see up here. except cows & low-flying fighter jets.
perhaps we should post a sign on the M1 somewhere around Nottingham:
"The North. Nowt here but cows & jet fighters"
then the southerners could then make their own well-advised decisions as to whether to go any further...
No, you're right Mr drummer! There's nothing to see oop North.
So let me get this straight. You booked a holiday in a cottage in the countryside, and one morning, just the once, some cows went moo?
Am I missing any more information?
If that is your idea of hell, I simply cannot wait to die and end up in your idea of heaven!!
if it said there's nowt here but cows [u]as[/u] fighter jets I'd be there like a shot 😀
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How far north are we talking here? Proper north or what I'd regard as down south?
tazzymtb, can they be fitted with frickin' laser beams?
Where north of Watford did you go, Northampton 🙂
Did I mention the lamb that regularly escaped from the field? It couldn't get back in so kept bleating.
Look, I don't exactly live in paradise - too many sirens, boy racers etc - but the noise of 50 or so cattle is not something that I want to hear at 4 o'clock in the morning.
My idea of heaven happened during the daytime 8)
the flying cow of death can take lasers, and a multiple payload of sidewinder rockets. Vertical take off/landing is also possible due to harrier jump jet engines cunningly installed to look like an udder
My idea of heaven happened during the daytime
Please tell us that it didn't involve dead badgers this time!
Hmmmmm, reading between CGs thinly veiled lines.....
Glad you had a great holiday 🙂
(did you find any dead animals/antlers)
😆 @ the Cap'n and tazzy
cinnamon_girl - Member
Evening guys!Problem no. 1: Was staying in delightful cottage opposite open fields containing livestock. At 4.00 am one morning, the Herd (head) Honcho decided to rally the troops and they had to follow him across the field, single file, making as much moo-ing as possible.
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They probably sensed you ate their parents and family in a burger restraunt at some time.
Well, I did think of you lot and very nearly took a pic. Beside a gate was a very dead sheep with some fine horns, got a bit nervous of the maggots though!
Yes Anna, it was great thanks. 😀 Some terrific rides and walks and am seriously tempted to move there!
Vertical take off/landing is also possible due to harrier jump jet engines cunningly installed to look like an udder
So....and I'm going out on a limb here....the flying cow of death also has treadmill-take off capabilities!
We have the perfect weapon.
Bloody unfair of the RAF to restrict their pilots to doing their low flying training out in the countryside where they bother everyone - why can't they fly between the skyscrapers in London?
CG glad your holiday was good , I have a few weeks off soon and cant think where to go .
"perhaps we should post a sign on the M1 somewhere around Nottingham:
"The North. Nowt here but cows & jet fighters"
There used to be one at Watford Gap that said "last salad before Greenland"
cranberry - the air ambulance landed on the M3 this afternoon. Made a change from landing at Swinley Forest 😉
knottie - hey got to be Dartmoor!
😆There used to be one at Watford Gap that said "last salad before Greenland"
There used to be one at Watford Gap that said "last salad before Greenland
Lol, only deep fried mars bars from here in forth, looking forward to the cottage in Yorkshire next month, noisy steam train & all!
Oh - M3? You live down there?
I'm sorry.
Not wishing to add to molgrips recent thread but any ride I organise is naturally open to folk from North of Watford!
Terrier jump jet.......
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That is brilliant!
Anywhere past J6 on the M25 is "up North" as far as I'm concerned. 😆
UziChick will sort it all out!
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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 ?
****ing city slickers - and i can say that now im back out of the ****ing 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 ...
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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?
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 [b]had[/b] 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? 😯
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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.
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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!!!!