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Joined: Mon Mar 16 2009, 08:13PM
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Nice place there Harry. Im not able to take any pictures until the weekend cuz im not at home,
Aw no, i completely forgot about this thread. Im terribly sorry, but in return i have a whole buch of nice images. I apologize for using Imageshack, i know its a pain in the !#=?* but i dont need to do any resizing.
I ran up the hill above our farm to get a nice 360 view, you can barely spot my house in the lower right corner in the first image.
View to the east
View to the north
View to the west
View to the south
Ill also throw in some images from the trip to our family's cabin this weekend:
Austdalen
Tverrlia
Granny by the waterfall
Gjuvatnet
I dont know how lucky i am, do i?
Seterli, our cabin. Umm, pretend you dont see that parabol dish, it wasnt my idea
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Joined: Tue Feb 19 2008, 04:37PM
Location: Nr. London, UK
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Our little village in Kent (SE UK) is on the 2nd highest hill in the SE of England, The church here dates from around 1100AD but the settlement is much older - the main structure of our house is about 160 years old, and is considered quite new around here... views for up to 30 miles over about 220 degrees...
The main village website starts at: There is a "Virtual Village" panorama at:
My office/workshop buildings date from the late 1700s - early 1800s...
Edit: Forgot about the pubs. In the village, The Star & Eagle, The Vine, The Green Cross Inn, The Peacock, The Chequers (used to be another - The Eight Bells). In the parish, also have the Globe & Rainbow. Several of these are quite old - The Star & Eagle dates from the 14th century - several of the others are similar.
Also, this is one of the best documented villages in the UK with two major historic reference books (the "Jubilee" & "Coronation") dedicated to it. See for more info.
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Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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This is a great thread :D.
Wow, some of you have absolutely beautiful places. I cannot take any nice pictures, i do live in the ghetto. Almost. There is an area around 10 miles from here, if you are white, you are shot on sight. Called Magnolia, i believe. But enough of that.
I would love to live somewhere so peaceful as you guy's pictures. Though, when i was young and more naive (notice the word more :)) i found around thanksgiving (all of fall, but especially when anxious for Thanksgiving) to be peaceful. Particularly a tree in my front yard. It stood through the hurricane, and i am glad. In the fall it has beautiful leaves.
Registered Member #543
Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
Nicko wrote ...
Our little village in Kent (SE UK) is on the 2nd highest hill in the SE of England, The church here dates from around 1100AD but the settlement is much older - the main structure of our house is about 160 years old, and is considered quite new around here... views for up to 30 miles over about 220 degrees...
The main village website starts at: There is a "Virtual Village" panorama at:
My office/workshop buildings date from the late 1700s - early 1800s...
Hello Nicko, I've always been a great admirer of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson, and have long meant to come up to Sissinghurst in the motor car to experience their famous garden for myself. Perhaps early next summer, when the gardens are said to be at their most fair, we might meet up for a good pub lunch in a place with a decent beer garden, so that I can smoke my pipe unmolested whilst we chat. (What has become of our island home, Nicko?)
Or we could meet up at the South of England Agricultural Show in Ardingly later in the season, if you were planning to visit this summer coming.
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Harry wrote ...
Hello Nicko, I've always been a great admirer of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson, and have long meant to come up to Sissinghurst in the motor car to experience their famous garden for myself. Perhaps early next summer, when the gardens are said to be at their most fair, we might meet up for a good pub lunch in a place with a decent beer garden, so that I can smoke my pipe unmolested whilst we chat. (What has become of our island home, Nicko?)
Or we could meet up at the South of England Agricultural Show in Ardingly later in the season, if you were planning to visit this summer coming.
We didn't go to Ardingly this year - feel its lost a bit of its agricultural roots - my in-laws farm very near here and even they don't bother now. Last weekend we did visit the Weald of Kent Ploughing Match which was excellent and blessed with fine weather - ploughing matches are as close to the farming community as you can really get nowadays... even the CLA Game Fair has gone rather "chintzy"... (though we do go to that).
Would welcome a pint & a chat any time... (I've a lot to learn)
Sissinghurst is just down the road - not been there for a while as it gets ridiculously crowded and now works on timed tickets. Spring is good - the borders are very floriferous and the sweating hoards of hoi polloi are not so much in evidence early in the season. SWMBO is seriously into horticulture (we grow a lot of our own food), so we likes our gardens... Many fine pubs with gardens in the area - The Three Chimneys has a beer garden and good food....
Edit: Just realised this sounds awfully like some sort of rant! I've obviously lived in the sticks for far too long...
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Joined: Mon Mar 16 2009, 08:13PM
Location: Norway
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Harry wrote ...
And what a lovely hytte! - a palace!
Oh thanks. It was completely rebuildt a few years ago. The tiny old original hut was torn down and a completely new one buildt on the same spot. So it really feels like a palace in comparison Paying the bills was tough, but it was definately worth it.
Nicko, thats looks like a place i'd like to visit in the holidays. Everyone else just want to roast on a mediterranean beach for two weeks, but i've been in crete and i spent most of the time longing to get home. Its too damn hot . I would also love to see Canada, but i cannot afford any such adventures while im in school.
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Renesis wrote ...
Nicko, thats looks like a place i'd like to visit in the holidays. Everyone else just want to roast on a mediterranean beach for two weeks, but i've been in crete and i spent most of the time longing to get home. Its too damn hot . I would also love to see Canada, but i cannot afford any such adventures while im in school.
Work/leisure travel is an absolute necessity - like many, my wife and I have spent much of our lives in other countries, both before & after we married. Without travel people become parochial and hopelessly lost in their own limited worlds...
Personally, I love Scandinavia - we have been skiing in Åre several times and I had the great good fortune to work briefly in Stockholm, Göteborg, Oslo & Helsinki. Really don't know much about Norway - did the Vätternrundan a couple of years ago and now want to do the others in the Skandinavialoppet - the Norwegian section is very tough...
Although a lot of Europeans (especially Dutch) come to our area for holidays, this summer we went diving in Turkey, and very nice it was too...
Registered Member #543
Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
Nicko wrote ...
Harry wrote ...
Hello Nicko, I've always been a great admirer of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson, and have long meant to come up to Sissinghurst in the motor car to experience their famous garden for myself. Perhaps early next summer, when the gardens are said to be at their most fair, we might meet up for a good pub lunch in a place with a decent beer garden, so that I can smoke my pipe unmolested whilst we chat. (What has become of our island home, Nicko?)
Or we could meet up at the South of England Agricultural Show in Ardingly later in the season, if you were planning to visit this summer coming.
We didn't go to Ardingly this year - feel its lost a bit of its agricultural roots - my in-laws farm very near here and even they don't bother now. Last weekend we did visit the Weald of Kent Ploughing Match which was excellent and blessed with fine weather - ploughing matches are as close to the farming community as you can really get nowadays... even the CLA Game Fair has gone rather "chintzy"... (though we do go to that).
Would welcome a pint & a chat any time... (I've a lot to learn)
Sissinghurst is just down the road - not been there for a while as it gets ridiculously crowded and now works on timed tickets. Spring is good - the borders are very floriferous and the sweating hoards of hoi polloi are not so much in evidence early in the season. SWMBO is seriously into horticulture (we grow a lot of our own food), so we likes our gardens... Many fine pubs with gardens in the area - The Three Chimneys has a beer garden and good food....
Edit: Just realised this sounds awfully like some sort of rant! I've obviously lived in the sticks for far too long...
Rather reluctantly, Nick, I have to agree with about Ardingly (to our friends in other nations, this event has always been considered to be one of top agricultural shows in England, patronized by our Queen, and her family who actually arrive and walk round a chat quite informally to exhibitors and who have mostly put themselves out for our farming industry.)
My approach to Ardingly now is to make a list of the things I want to see - I never miss the rare breeds, the pigs, goats and poultry - nor the great ceremonial events like the Parade of Cattle, which always brings tears of joy to my eyes to see beasts brought to such a pinnacle of perfection.
I love to see the British heavy horses so beautifully groomed and dressed, and then I'll have a good look over all new tractors, and then I'm off to Haywards Heath for a good lash up in a decent restaurant because I wouldn't give a brass farthing for most of the take-away style food foisted on the visitors to the show at exhorbitant prices, nor the warrens of tacky retail tentage that gives the event something of the horror of the souk or casbah rather than in rural England.
I'm no businessman, Nick, but my guess is that the deicison to create a vast permanent infrastructure for the show has hobbled it with such colossal interest repayments that they've been forced to "re-brand" the event, and will be perfectly happy to see the last farmer dead and gone to Heaven if the showground can be brought up well into the black by leasing business space to touts, hawkers and costermongers who don't give a tuppenny bollock about our formation as people from our own landscape, so long as the champagne keeps flowing in Downing Street.
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Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
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Renesis wrote ...
Harry wrote ...
And what a lovely hytte! - a palace!
Oh thanks. It was completely rebuildt a few years ago. The tiny old original hut was torn down and a completely new one buildt on the same spot. So it really feels like a palace in comparison Paying the bills was tough, but it was definately worth it.
Nicko, thats looks like a place i'd like to visit in the holidays. Everyone else just want to roast on a mediterranean beach for two weeks, but i've been in crete and i spent most of the time longing to get home. Its too damn hot . I would also love to see Canada, but i cannot afford any such adventures while im in school.
If you are planning to come to England on your holiday, and would like to spend a day with me in Brighton, please do let me know,
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Paying the bills was tough, but it was definately worth it.
. I would also love to see Canada, but i cannot afford any such adventures while im in school.