lovely.... but I see your Yorkshire Dales and I'll raise you the Cornish moors
( we have a cottage.. currently for sale... just off of Bodmin Moor )
http://www.britainexpress.com/zen/al...rlers-6354.jpg

http://www.cornwallinformation.co.uk...010/01/008.jpg

( not my pics by the way.. just 'nicked of the interweb. )

Regarding that second picture. Your wife's family name wouldn't be Baskerville, would it?

you can call me Beast

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...CORdqH0DOYKrCE

Ohhhh. That's lovely.

But those ain't the Dales.

That was just Shibden valley, at the back of our village. Where I walk my dog.

I'll have to dig out some pics of the Dales and maybe Bronte country as well :p

there I go.... iggggnerant American mode again... ;) ... I look forward to some pics and I'll try to get some of my real pics posted

meantime... if anyone wants to invest in a little holiday cottage

offers in the area of £220 K please..

Tumbledown Cott.

wow............that was a thread killer


:facepalm:

I want that cottage so bad I could eat it.

But want does not reality maketh so, thereto, and hereforth...well for one thing I can't convert to those poundy things and for another I don't have enough of those poundy things.

ok monkey.. here is the plan...

1) calm down
2) find out where you live now ( you are kinda confused by your description )
3) get a good job earn lots of poundy things
4) send them all to me.
5) repeat 4.

That plan is just crazy enough to work!

(I, for one, welcome our new Bosty Swissy Overlord.)

I want that cottage, too.

Monkey, maybe me, you, DanaC and Sundae could all go in to buy it? :)

grynch - you seem rich. Are you from Wellesley?

ohhh errr... thanks...

wait till I tell mrs. G... I've nevah been an overlord before !!! :sniff:

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...BZj1YcbcEb2Emo

Bri... sorry if I am sounding a bit snobbish... no, I am not rich, nor from Wellesley

( if you know that area I grew up in a lil town about 10 miles from there.. wrong side of the tracks )

That's exactly the sort of thing a rich person would say!!

;)

I'm just too provincial - I equate travel and ex-pat status to money. Maybe you got out just as the "W" years were commencing?

actually I did ok in the internet boom years... meeting, kidnapping, selling certain chatters into bonded slavery.

say, would you like a cuppa coffee ?