[Info-vax] [OT] England, was: Re: Update on Cheap DS10s

[David Turner]

It never really struck me as a dangerous place, until we went  to one of 
the pubs in the high street. (Same with High Wycombe though)
It was the young underage drinkers stirring up the places. Not going to 
mention the pub(don't remember the name) but it was halfway down the 
high street.
I am 56 as was my friend. We got one pint and got the hell out. Very 
confrontational kids aged 15-20.

I did notice that old familiar smell of John Courage brewing the beer 
has gone away too. Sad.
When I was a kid, we lived in Wokingham, so Reading (or Bracknell) were 
the places to go shopping.
We would park in that old Multi-story car park and the smell of the malt 
boiling was intoxicating.

As for Farmers. They have told my wife and I to get off their land 
several times. Granted, that was over towards Virginia Water way past WG 
Park.
And perish the thought that you put a water bottle in their trash can. 
You would have thought we had murdered their pooch !!!!  ;-{

My mother lives by Widbrook common between Maidenhead and Cookham. THAT 
is a beautiful walk. You can go from Bourne End to WIndsor without 
hitting a main road. All fields and backwood trails.  I miss it. In 
Savannah you have to drive. The idea of sidewalks here is lost.
Perhaps this is why the overweight people numbers are so so so high here 
in the south.

DT



On 1/10/2023 2:11 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-01-10, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, well, Reading is probably the most dangerous leg of all. I would
>> rather be attacked by goats, sheep, cows and farmers than the teenage
>> thugs hanging around Reading. Was there last year. Man how it has changed
>>
> [Oh, why not reply to this ? :-) It's not like there's a lot of other stuff
> being posted.]
>
> Goats I have no real experience with.
>
> Sheep are docile and simply don't care about you unless you get really
> close (2-3m) and then they just move away. Around here, there are villages
> where the sheep and the humans share the pavements, grassy areas, and the
> roads and the sheep simply don't care about the humans unless you get
> _really_ close to them.
>
> Cows are a different story and I would rather have to deal with teenagers
> than a field of cows (especially cows with young hiding behind them),
> although sometimes there's no choice because there isn't another viable
> alternate route.
>
> Farmers either tolerate you but mostly outright welcome you and actively
> engage in discussion with you if you pass them by while they are working
> on their land. Last time I had a real problem with a farmer (claiming there
> wasn't a route across their land even though it was marked on the OS map)
> must be about 10-15 years ago.
>
> The only annoying thing about farmers is that they occasionally take
> advantage of their right to place some kinds of bulls in fields which
> have public rights of way going across them.
>
> Simon.
>
> PS: Reading doesn't exactly strike me as a hotspot of danger. :-)
>