Where I live

[Elspode]

*Awesome* digs, CF. The sunroom/greenhouse is tres groovy. Must be rather pastoral where you are.

I'll post a picture of my wholly unremarkable suburban early-60's ranch hovel sometime soon. Looks a lot better now that the toilet and dead monitor and lawnmower are out of the driveway.

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by Elspode

*Awesome* digs, CF. The sunroom/greenhouse is tres groovy. Must be rather pastoral where you are.

As ever, nothing is exactly as it seems, there's always a trade off. We do have fields of horses on one side, the village road on the other (all very twee!). We get a lot of Harleys at weekends as there is a regular meet at Box Hill which is just down the road (I don't mind the HOGs and their machines - they're some of the best around, that's people and bikes). Our real trade-off is that we're only half a mile from the London Orbital Motorway, the M25 - busiest highway in the UK. It's OK when the wind is blowing from the south or west, but east and north winds just carry its noise staright into our yard (it doesn't help that the section of M-way we are next to is the only concrete section on the whole thing - so tires make a nice loud 'flap-flap-flap' noise as they cross from one concrete slab to the next). We don't notice it so much now, but visitors certainly do. Still a great place to be, all the same.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

We get a lot of Harleys at weekends as there is a regular meet at Box Hill which is just down the road

Ah...this is another reason I love The Cellar. At long last, I now know the significance of a line from Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" -

"And he pulled her on astride, and down to Box Hill, they'd ride".

I love these little moments of enlightenment.

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Ah...this is another reason I love The Cellar. At long last, I now know the significance of a line from Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" -

"And he pulled her on astride, and down to Box Hill, they'd ride".

I love these little moments of enlightenment.

I'll try get you a photo of the two places they meet - one is at the bottom of Box Hill, Ryka's Cafe, and the other at the top - used to be called the Zig Zag (after the road but think it may have changed). HD have a big outlet/showroom in Dorking which is the town below Box Hill.

Will post in Cities and Travel all going well...