[foot-loose]

Is there a specific subject you would like rambled about?

Open Access and the Right to Ramble. In the countryside I mean. Seems appropriate.

Your wish, ma darlin, is my command...

**clears throat**

"ba da doo da doo da da etc etc

Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
My brown eyed girl,
You're my brown eyed girl.

Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing,
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and sliding
All along the water fall, with you
My brown eyed girl,
You're my brown eyed girl.

Do you remember when we used to sing,
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da"

On this basis, I have decided that people should be allowed to go a wandering wherever they god damn want. We live in a beautiful country - people should be allowed to experience it for what it is.

However, there should be a debate about how to preseve what we have. If all the people from the towns decend on the country, it will destroy what they are all off to see. This is where national parks are a good idea. They give the public a place to go where they can experience what they are after and at the same time gives someone the responsibility of looking after it all.

PS - I have a goat that needs a home...



DISCLAIMER - I have not thought this through at all. If I owned a load of land somewhere that I had paid a fortune for, I wouldn't want some chavs wandering about it "willy nilly". So at the end of the day, I have no idea what i'm saying.

[Boboff]

We have a footpath on our house, and we keep chickens "free range" Often inconsiderate dog owners who do not expect to have to keep there dogson leads, as they should on a footpath, allow the dog to attack and kill the chickens, and then they just wonder off leaving the chicken half dead.

On that basis more public access would be wrong, in my humble opinion

I am also sad this morning after one of our 4 week old kittens died last night, the dog decided to take it out in the field yesterday and I found in on the side of the path Wet, cold and scared, we put her back on Mum, and she cleaned her up, and she looked fine, then last night we noticed she was not feeding etc, it was at 3 a.m. she passed away, sad, ,ironically we had called her Molly, Mrs Boboffs nans name who has just been diagnosed with Bowell Cancer, now that it not what you would call a good omen is it?.

[S4B]

Awww Boboff, sorry about your kitten.

Dogs should be kept on leads on public footpaths for the chicken reason (& the children reason)

Footy do you really have a goat?

[foot-loose]

Sorry to hear about that Boboff - the kitten and Mrs Boboffs nan.

Dogs should be kept on a lead any time that they are out of the house unless they are somewhere relativly enclosed.

No I dont really have a goat.

[S4B]

No I dont really have a goat.

When I was a kid we used to keep goats, my sister was allergic to cow's milk, we used to talk them for walks but always on a lead!

[Boboff]

Well, hole dug, kitten in sleep pose with eyes shut was laid to rest in our garden, with a stone and everything.....I have listened to Eddie Izzard on Radio 7, thanks for that tip Foot man, excellent, and now listening again to Fridays show.

[S4B]

Awww Boboff sending hugs xx

[catherine]

Aww we had a little kitten who died she was so damn cute, we called her Munchkin and she would cry and waddle up to you, you had to pick her up and put her on your shoulder where she would sleep whilst you watched t.v.

[DemonHorse]

On this basis, I have decided that people should be allowed to go a wandering wherever they god damn want. We live in a beautiful country - people should be allowed to experience it for what it is.

in that case, you'd love Urbex...

[S4B]

Where's Urbex or is it a thing?

[DemonHorse]

it's a thing... Urban Exploration. Basically where people find ways into abandoned buildings and stuff, old tunnels, a lot of old airbases and stuff, but unlike chavs who would just graffitti everywhere, they take pictures etc.

[S4B]

To what purpose?

[foot-loose]

it's a thing... Urban Exploration. Basically where people find ways into abandoned buildings and stuff, old tunnels, a lot of old airbases and stuff, but unlike chavs who would just graffitti everywhere, they take pictures etc.

Im not convinced I could be bothered with that...

Plus, I would prob end up pulling a whole factory down on top of me!

[DemonHorse]

To what purpose?

just to explore, to go somewhere that most people don't for whatever reason.
Half the time it's to explore places that aren't listed, are about to be demolished, but might have some history to them. Also applies to remote places, they do old miltary bases and disused airfields a lot.

[S4B]

I used to do that as a kid, there were loads of old tumbledown buildings near where we lived in the middle of nowhere. Kinda get it now. Thanks honey

[DemonHorse]

I used to do that as a kid, there were loads of old tumbledown buildings near where we lived in the middle of nowhere. Kinda get it now. Thanks honey

Yeah basically same kind of thing, but older people doing it.
I used to do the same with an old air raid shelter in some woods near where I lived among other local landmarks. Best one was an old viaduct that I could see from my room, had to climb a massive hill to reach it.

[S4B]

My mum used to tell us off for trespassing, is it not illegal?

[DemonHorse]

Some places it is, people have been arrested doing it.

[S4B]

ooh sounds like fun, maybe i'll give it a go.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

with all the bombs and the bird flu we are probably all gonna be dead soon.