Tassie has many points in its favour, but having to fly to civilization isnt' one of them.
One of my concerns is that after Bury St Edmunds, Daylesford will be too remote. Even in East Anglia, there are people in villages. Bury is the size of Ballarat, not of Daylesford, and it is close to London and Cambridge.
I have a country retreat. OK, so it's an hour from City civilisation (Canberra) and ok, it's not generally very green and English (current water-enabled status notwithstanding) and ok the soil's awful ... but we have silence. (Four roosters notwithstanding :) ).
It also has an excellent spare room for short escapes for anyone needing them. In the near future, it'll even have a separate cottage.
Should you wish to accumulate extra data on whether a "green change" is the way for you, I have lots and lots of gardens and chooks and things that always need some tending :)
I'm no good with livestock. My involvement with the chickens in Arcadia was watching them from a distance, and checking the sick one was alive so that Mrs Host didn't have that trauma.
I could probably make myself useful one way or another.
One of us! One of us!catchmyfancyOctober 23 2009, 11:59:14 UTC
Me and Ingrid are plotting to build a tiny hamlet - one where people can form a community BUT with the emphasis on privacy and politeness - where things and people don't INTRUDE.
We want it to be green (as in happy-for-the-earth) which will probably lead to a lot of green of the more normal kind. I'm all for digging down before we build up.
We have no idea how it is going to happen (severe shortage of $$ and all that) but we hope it will.
Fiona just expects us to come and be on her property come the revolution/apocalypse.
It's funny isn't it - the things we NEED as much as oxygen as we progress through life.
Perfume *is* poisonous, isn't it? Even the stuff in deodorant and hairspray, or perhaps especially that. When I had my few weeks of morning sickness, sitting on the morning tram with everyone's rancid mix of cheap perfume (hairspray/shampoo/soap/etc) battering at me was the daily ordeal. I never had to jump off the tram to throw up, but I did throw up between the tram and work a couple of times, just after.
I hope you get a country retreat happening. Our plans are slightly on hold right now :)
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It's beautiful.
It has country, much of it not far from decent sized towns.
It has a symphony orchestra.
It has a university.
It has cheap housing.
It's as close as you're going to get to the feel of the English countryside in Australia.
It's not far from Melbourne for visits.
It will probably have me ...
Besides, no-one else seems to have got their act together to decide on a country retreat yet.
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One of my concerns is that after Bury St Edmunds, Daylesford will be too remote. Even in East Anglia, there are people in villages. Bury is the size of Ballarat, not of Daylesford, and it is close to London and Cambridge.
But I will be happy to visit you.
If only they could afford to build a chunnel.
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It also has an excellent spare room for short escapes for anyone needing them. In the near future, it'll even have a separate cottage.
Should you wish to accumulate extra data on whether a "green change" is the way for you, I have lots and lots of gardens and chooks and things that always need some tending :)
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I'm no good with livestock. My involvement with the chickens in Arcadia was watching them from a distance, and checking the sick one was alive so that Mrs Host didn't have that trauma.
I could probably make myself useful one way or another.
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We want it to be green (as in happy-for-the-earth) which will probably lead to a lot of green of the more normal kind. I'm all for digging down before we build up.
We have no idea how it is going to happen (severe shortage of $$ and all that) but we hope it will.
Fiona just expects us to come and be on her property come the revolution/apocalypse.
It's funny isn't it - the things we NEED as much as oxygen as we progress through life.
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I hope you get a country retreat happening. Our plans are slightly on hold right now :)
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