A day At Home

Luz started this on the my fav o rite place. What do you like best about your city? I sleep on the upper floor of a house that is old. the roof is slate it was replaced not long ago 1835 they went from thatch to slate. the house was built in 1585. It has riseing damp in the winter but we cope. The ground floor has three rooms and a bath. The 1st floor two bedrooms the 2nd floor the same. When I wake up in the morning whatever the Temp is out side thats the temp inside. I love waking up going down three flights of bad steps to the lou a shower a shave get dressed and out. A good walk on a cold morning down to the safeway to the cafe. A nice plate of two fried eggs fribread a couple bangers pork & beans toped off with a spot of tea. This is a great morning TOP OF THE MORNING as my irish friend would say . We almost killed her once.

Oh james, I started that thread 😢

So sorry I must give credit were credit is do.

Question: Can you answer this post if you live *NEAR* a city? Concord, Manchester, and Portsmouth are all within ninety minutes drive, and I've been to Boston a few times. That's only seventy-seven miles away, after all. Otherwise, I'd have to resort to saying the population of where I live would only approach city standards if you counted trees. Or sheep. Or maybe cows and horses, but you'd have to combine those and I'm not sure the outcome would be entirely pleasant, especially not with all the tractors motoring around. If we had traffic, I'm pretty sure all this commotion would cause a jam.

Needless to say, though, I absolutely love living in a hole-in-the-wall town, with somewhere around a third of the population counted as seasonal and even then only adding up to a couple thousand. It's not as boony as Maine, though, for the record, and the landscape is absolutely heartstopping sometimes. There are some high points where the views make Claude Monet's best works look like a Chicago sewage facility. Phoenix would like the music most stations play around here, I know for a fact. I grew up listening to classic rock from the cradle. Got Neil Young on now, as a matter of fact. Now, to answer the question....the landscape. Everywhere I look I see a Thoreau poem or a Jack London wilderness trek.

...Now, if only the girls looked that beautiful (tee hee)...

josh manchester is in north west england just a bit east of liverpool. portsmouth is in hampshire south england. Portsmouth is just a couple hours drive on the m from dover or canterbury. I think one of us is lost.

It's wonderful how every town in England is also a town in the US, it really shows how original people can be.

Josh, you truly have a way with words. I certainly have to admit that I couldn't say such nice things about where I live. It's beautiful, I guess... But I wouldn't want to write poetry about it.

James, I'm sorry to have to be the one to say this to you, but they made a new Hampshire. It was the last of the original thirteen states to be made, 'tis true, and it is also true that I don't know what you consider a long time. However, it must take quite a while to make a whole new Hampshire, whatever that is (and put a million people in it too! My gosh!), so I'd be willing to bet lots of people had known about it for a long time beforehand. I'm sorry you missed that boat (*wink wink* history humor is almost as fun as Pre-Calculus class humor, is it not?) but all of this has been around since the 1780s. Then again, the way history is measured in England (not New England, they made another one of those too) I'm not surprised two hundred years would be considered sudden.

At any rate, if you want the specifics, just ask George Washington. I've got his phone number if you'd like. I know him personally, and I'm good friends with a friend of his. At any rate, I've seen his card. Old Georgie Boy, well he works for some company called "Living History" but I don't know what that's all about. He still wears a red coat though, which you might be glad to know (he went back to the Faith--er, King!) and sports the best hair powder this side of the Piscataqua River. He's masquerading around under the identity Reverend George Moore (potentially related to former James Bond actor Roger Moore? Hence the mastery of disguises?) and I am attending the sunrise Easter service he is leading at 6am this Sunday (my mother's birthday, coincidentally). If you'd like the truth about how things are, I'd like to see you there and count you as a friend. At any rate, maybe you could answer a question for me: What's "the M"?

Josh me lad the M is a road way like your super highways but not as nice our road system is not as good as yours. M's are our many lane roads a's are two lane roads. That is about it except one lane roads. A big joke when I was in the states was were are all the washingtons and jeffersons now. Answer in the nba I never got it. The big joke now is in Paris the street names are washington Jefferson Franklin.