| Gloucestershire [message #15447] |
Tue, 28 April 2009 18:30  |
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Gloucestershire
Smooshes!
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15465 is a reply to message #15447 ] |
Tue, 28 April 2009 19:27  |
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Ooh, what a gorgeous place. But HILLS! Yes! You weren't kidding! I love those dramatic clouds in the second to last photo. Dramatic clouds get me every time. :)
Hellhounds are dashing, as always!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15485 is a reply to message #15447 ] |
Wed, 29 April 2009 01:48 |
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Fake Frenchie
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Where exactly in Gloustershire? Near Yorkshire? (I know. I'm geographically challenged.) Cuz these photos remind me of when I was driving around Yorkshire in 1985.
Edited to add: I'm just re-reading Beauty, and I thought I'd remind Robin how beautiful the writing is. Lyrical comes to mind. Now that I know more about the author, I wonder if you (Robin) modeled some aspects of Beauty after yourself.
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15505 is a reply to message #15485 ] |
Wed, 29 April 2009 17:51 |
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 Mrs Redboots
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No, Gloucestershire is tucked in tidily north of Bristol and south of Hereford, next to Wales. Not a part of the country I know well, but it is very beautiful, what I have seen of it.
Gloucester, the main town, is, of course, notorious as having been the home town of serial killers Fred and Rose West.
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15544 is a reply to message #15447 ] |
Thu, 30 April 2009 18:35 |
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(First post...hello, all...)
Beautiful pictures. Is it wrong to call even the pictures picturesque? They make me miss England, and I've only ever been there once!
If it was me, I would go gnash my teeth over re-writing under that beautiful, big old tree in the last picture posted. (Or find a tree like it.) Not *in* the tree - sitting in one precarious position for hours is not as great as it may seem - but *under* the tree, a person's got room to be frustrated and inspired at the same time.
Thanks for posting those.
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15569 is a reply to message #15447 ] |
Thu, 30 April 2009 19:49 |
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Thank you.  I live in some mountains myself, and they're very pretty, but England has a whole 'nother kind of pretty. I like the "velveted" description, like even the land is older than American land. More comfortable with itself. Those hills are not all rugged and jutting like the frantic Appalachians; no, they roll and sprinkle their big vegetation around and don't have cliffs of DEATH off every ridge. (...for the most part) I fervently want to go back soon; we have family in England, but plane tickets are a bit too steep to jaunt across the pond very often.
Still figuring this board out - I've got to head over to the "help" forum and figure out those handy dandy quote boxes...
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15616 is a reply to message #15447 ] |
Fri, 01 May 2009 20:07 |
EMoon
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What lovely countryside! Every part of the UK I've seen has been memorable--something for which I can be homesick though I've never lived there. I hope to make it back for another trip someday and see Gloucester and Kent (which I've never seen except from the air--if I could've bailed out and parachuted into one particular set of fields, I would have.)
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| Re: Gloucestershire [message #15625 is a reply to message #15447 ] |
Fri, 01 May 2009 22:57 |
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I've been to Kent! Yes, very picturesque...since that's our theme word. And Americans are known for cluelessness, but some of us do try not to traipse. Around me, we get all the people from Florida who build giant houses just for the summer, then all the leaf-gawkers, then skiing for the winter, plus WE are considered beautiful and picturesque...even Americans to Americans are particularly clueless. A sad penchant our country has nurtured.
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