BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.

Subject: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:18 PM

I am always fascinated where we all live.Most of you know i live in a small town called Talbot Green,nr Cardiff by 10 miles in Wales UK.I just thought it might be interesting if we roughly knew where other Catters lived?.
Its worth trying.



Scooby.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:21 PM

There is a location list of Mudcatters, but it is very out of date.

I live in Lairg 60 miles north of Inverness in Scotland, so we're about 600 miles apart.

G

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:24 PM

Well, I live about 600 miles - by air - from Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. About 900 miles by road on sea and land. 900 miles - by air - from Seattle, Washington. Ain't no road.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:29 PM

Pocatello, Idaho. About two and half hours from everywhere.

Ebbie, you know doggone good and well that there could be a road if they really, really wanted one...oh sure, the treehuggers would scream when they filled in the ocean from Juneau to Haines, but you know those ecofreaks, always bitchin' about something...if it ain't clearcutting it's mercury leeching out of your gold mine....

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:33 PM

80 miles NE of Cheyenne, Wyoming, home of the Daddy of em all. Damn tree huggers anyway, :D!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:34 PM

So far I have been to Inverness earlier this year Giok on the way back from Dornoch where i was on holiday.Next year i will be in Port Patrick in March.
The other places i have heard of but never been too.Your all so lucky to live so remote.




Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Severn
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:46 PM

Not remote at all, here. In a townhome in Laurel Maryland, a suburb of Washington DC, about 2/5 of the way up the Interstate toward Baltimore.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:47 PM

The Backwoods.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:48 PM

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. But, my forefathers on my father's side are from Three Miles In Back Of Beyond, in the fly infested bog country of Kent County, NB. My camp in Kent County, a one hour drive away, has no power, telephone or cell phone service. But, the flies are still there. It's heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:52 PM

Gnu,
I wonder if Kent County came from a district in London which is called Kent?.



Scooby.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:12 PM

I don' wan' no road. We got one- the Alaska Marine Highway.

(You know, Rap, if we clearcut all the trees and shoved the rocks and soil into the water your plan might work. We got a lot of trees.)

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:20 PM

Not far from beautiful downtown Orillia, a smallish city of about 30,000 people, in central Ontario, Canada, and the Tim Horton's donut shop capital of the world!

Oh, and it's also the birthplace of Gordon Lightfoot.

It is positioned between 2 lakes, therefore blessed with two waterfronts. Definitely a very nice place, but it's rather hard to find jobs here unless you like flipping burgers or working at Wal-Mart.

Not far from town are the palatial residence buildings and sprawling campus of the WSSBA. In the main rotunda is a gigantic statue of Him, standing beside a 300 foot long Tribble. You have to see it to believe it.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 03:00 PM

Woodman, spare that tree...!





a damned treehugger on the western slope of Colorado

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 03:04 PM

Oh, all right then, just fill it in to Skagway. Doesn't matter which; we gotta have Bush conquer a bit of Canada either way.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 03:30 PM

Hmmmm. Where is Halliburton when you need them?

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 04:00 PM

I live in Commutaland - Chesham, 7 miles outside the M25 London orbital motorway, at 10 o'clock. Brilliant for getting anywhere, and that's the best thing one can say about it; because anywhere is more interesting than here.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rog Peek
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 04:03 PM

I live in Bristol England, definitely ON the beaten track.

By the way Skooby Doo, if you are talking about London England, then Kent is a relatively large county to the South West of London.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 04:03 PM

Seattle, Washington. If the map of the United States were an envelope, I'm up where you'd put the return address.

I live in an older apartment building (historical landmark status) on a tree-lined street on Capitol Hill, which is a very nice older residential district not far from downtown. There is a neighborhood business district (grocery stores, pharmacies, restaurants, pubs, bookstores, etc.) a few blocks to the west and another a few blocks to the east. Volunteer Park and the Asian Art Museum is a couple of blocks to the north.

Pleasant surroundings. You know;   Camelot West. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Desdemona
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 04:13 PM

About 30 minutes west of Boston, MA.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 04:36 PM

Albuquerque, New Mexico - which is part of the US, not Mexico. West of Texas, east of Arizona, north of Texas and Chihuahua (which is part of Mexico), south of Colorado. The city was founded in 1706 and named after the Duke of Alburquerque (Spain), I think because the original Spanish colonists wanted him to give them money, but they spelled it wrong and got nada.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:32 PM

Southwest Washington on the ocean. We have 3 roads..counting the beach itself which is a highway. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:34 PM

artbrooks, I stopped in Albuquerque a couple of years ago. I was making a jaunt around the country by Amtrak. Didn't have much time to explore but I took a few photos.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Barry Finn
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:41 PM

45 minutes north of Boston & 45 minutes west of Portsmouth NH & almost 45 minutes NW of Gloucester, Ma. So I'm within a circle that's known as the folk music hub of the world, you're all welcome to come by & experience it.

Hi Desdemona, neighbor, we haven't yet crossed paths, I think lously memory) but hopefully one day. You gotta be close by, I'd guess around Clinton, Bolton area or just to the south somewhere. Do you go to any of the Boston area sessions. My wife & I missed meeting you at the Waterson/Carthy concert. Another time perhaps?

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:56 PM

in the mountains in western Montana

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: nutty
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 06:46 PM

I live in Redcar, a small town at the mouth of the River Tees, on the North East Coast of the UK.

Known for its Chemical Industry, Steel Making and Horse Racing

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Gulliver
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 07:12 PM

Portobello, Dublin. Somewhere on planet...(what's it called again?)

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 07:46 PM

I live on SaltSpring Island, a little island between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Maryrrf
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 08:04 PM

Mechanicsville, Virginia - just outside Richmond!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 09:35 PM

South Portland Maine -- outside of England, best place i n the world.......

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:13 PM

Lapeer, Michigan, on I69, about 50 miles north of Detroit. The town's just big enough to have a monster Walmart, a few small assorted manufacturing plants, most of the fast-food chains,at least four coffee shops, and a decent art gallery.
                         Dean

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:18 PM

Portland, Maine. Just across the bridge from TRUBRIT.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:53 PM

And now for something completely different - I'm one of the Oz 'catters. I live in Sydney Australia - major city and capital of NSW. We are on the east coast with a beautiful harbour and lovely beaches. We have the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and NO kangaroos hopping down the street. There are a few of us in Sydney, but I'll let them post.

I'm actually in Earlwood, which is one of the south west 'burbs of Sydney - close enough in to make it easy to get into town but far enough out to have freestanding houses, wide streets, big blocks of land with lawns and gardens, and trees and birds. Best of both worlds, really!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: JennieG
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:01 AM

Like JennyO I live in the suburbs of Sydney, in the wild western suburbs. Sefton is about 40 minutes south-westish of the centre of the city (far too close in my opinion - at least 3 hours away would be better). It's very ordinary although we are well served by parks and there is a golf course just around the corner, so plenty of trees and birds.

Sefton rarely makes the news except for something like a murder in the local pub carpark.

But my heart is in the country and I can't wait to get out of the city, I used to like it here but have grown to dislike it intensely. Only 2 more years to go.........

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:17 AM

"We have the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and NO kangaroos hopping down the street." JennyO

It never occurred to me to suspect kangaroos or the Harbour Bridge or the Opera House of hopping down the street. Why do you mention it?

:)

By the way, you Sydneyites, I always think of you when I see the beautiful sweeping sails of that waterfront building of yours. Not many things more immediately recognizable.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 04:09 AM

KAKSOD Ebbie! You're bad! Now you've got me imagining the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge hopping down the street.

Believe it or not, there are still a few ignorant souls around who think we have roos in the city running wild, or as pets. Not in this elite company of course ;-) What was I thinking?

Actually, John (Warner) and I went to a concert in the Opera House earlier this month - it was called "Enchanted", and was a rather amazing combination of classical and folk, with Danny Spooner performing with the Sydney Chamber Orchestra. We had free tickets because one of the songs he did was a song John wrote, Newell Highway. Very special!

We have a lot of great places in and near the city - The Rocks, Darling Harbour, Circular Quay, Luna Park to name a few. At Darling Harbour near the Maritime Museum there is moored the James Craig, a fully restored and operational 1874 sailing barque - a beautiful sight. It goes out on trips regularly and there are shanty singing sessions on it sometimes. Pity the parking there is such a !&*@#&* problem!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:24 AM

I dont have Kangaroo's but i have plenty of Grey Squirrels and wild birds that i feed plus a black cat who i call Tom.I think i must do some more traveling if only i wasn't scared of flying.


Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:59 AM

Kings Cross, the entertainment centre of Sydney, about half a mile up the hill from the CBD, next to Sydney's beautiful Harbour.

It's a mixed area of retail, entertainment (expensive bars/nightclubs, 24 hour liquor licences, strip clubs etc) & the highest density residential area in Sydney. Old & new apartment blocks, old terrace housing, lots of rich folks, still some poor folks, street people & drug addicts, lots of backpackers, zillions of tourists & visiting Sydneysiders out for a "good time"

The Cross was part of the first British settlement of Sydney in the years following their arrival in 1788. It's part of the suburb Potts Point which includes Wooloomooloo (public & private housing), Elizabeth Bay (where zillionaires live), East Sydney & Rushcutters Bay. All localities include terrace housing, small old & tall new apartment blocks, rich & poor. And tourists.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Naemanson
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 06:23 AM

Santa Rita, Guam. About 1500 miles southeast of Japan, 1500 Miles east of the Philippines, and about 3800 miles west of Hawaii.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 06:53 AM

Smallish town of 7500 or so souls, located on Lake Huron, called Goderich. Ontario is full of such towns and they all claim to be unique in some way or another, and I suppose they are, except to be full of generally good people. We have a pleasant little 1880s brick house with tangled gardens, two dogs, two kids (well, one's still at home), and well...I think there's a toaster in there somewhere too.

Alternately I spend time at the family place on Georgian Bay, where, like my parents before me, I hope to retire when the time comes.

Truly if it wasn't for my good wife, I'd probably be living under a bridge in my very own cardboard box.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 08:42 AM

Readington Township, New Jersey. West of New York City, north of Philadelphia, but far enough from each to not be affected by either. It's mostly farmland, I'm surrounded by farmland on three sides, with a Yuppie mansion development across the road, but there are trees that block the view, fortunately.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Cats
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 08:56 AM

I live in a hamlet of 8 houses and 2 farms, only one of which is less than 200 years old, on the south eastern slopes of Bodmin Moor, on the upper edge of the Lynher valley, in Cornwall, UK. I love it to bits and the only way you are going to get me out of here is in a box! I look out of my windows and see open moorland, ancient broadleaf woodland and cows.... also on the horizon I can see bronze age barrows and remains of engine houses.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 08:57 AM

Mt. Rainier, MD. The southern edge of town is Eastern Avenue, the (northeast) border of Washington, D.C.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:04 AM

Cats, that sounds like my kind of heaven!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:21 AM

Let me hasten to add that the "two and half hours from everywhere" includes Yellowstone NP, the Tetons, and other places like Sun Valley and Park City, UT (if you really MUST).

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:25 AM

25 miles from the 'Eel's Foot', Eastbridge, Suffolk, UK.

Oh, and Kent's south-EAST of London.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:31 AM

Gainsborough....reportedly the Backwoods of England....Lincolnshire.
Great Folk clubs locally.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:54 AM

...I understand that they have a really great public library in Pocatello - nothing much else to do there.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Cats
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:55 AM

Katlaughing ~ it's our idea of heaven too, and all those 'Catters who have been here seem to agree. This house had our nme on it. You must vist.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 11:09 AM

Yeah, Art. That's why the literacy rate and intelligence level are so high.

(The Public Library there just won a City Achievement award from the Association of Idaho cities, you know.)

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 11:42 AM

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM

I live in Anchorage, Alaska. Where the moose and Winnebagos run wild in the street. We are 3.5 hours by air to Seattle, 9 hours to New York, and 16 hours to Gatwick Airport south of London. The salmon are thick in the rivers and streams up here right now, so I must be off. So many fish, so little time.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Anne Lister
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 12:24 PM

On a hill on the western side of Pontypool. Which is the most eastern valley of the former coal mining valleys of South Wales. We're about 8 miles north of Newport and 8 miles south of Abergavenny. And we have views across the vale of Usk and the hills above the Crumlin valley.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 01:32 PM

Tabster,
Now i know why you know Dame Pattie so well.Will you be going to Two Rivers Festival,i am going.




Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rog Peek
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:04 PM

Rusty Dobro's correct, Kent is S.East of London, I must have had my back to the computer!?????!!!!! Ha Ha..

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:24 PM

Cats, when I make it over, I shall, thank you!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Mingulay
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:55 PM

On a boat, on the Grand Union Canal in Middlesex UK. 10 minutes from Heathrow airport and 3 major motorways. Sounds like hell until you look out over the tree surrounded lake at the bottom of the garden and watch the wild birds, foxes and hedgehogs all going about their sometimes noisy business. Copulating wildfowl are incredibly noisy especially at 6 in the morning!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:04 PM

I have the same problem with squirrels who copulate in the trees plus the wild birds who are upto no good first thing in the morning.



Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:15 PM

Where do we Mudcatters live....

In MudHuts of course. Or MudCastles. Near MudBanks. Or possibly MudPuddles. With our MudPacks.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Anne Lister
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:31 PM

Scooby, I don't think I'll make it to Two Rivers .. life at the moment is ridiculously busy and weekends are either full of work stuff or vital times to recharge the batteries!

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:55 PM

"By the way Skooby Doo, if you are talking about London England, then Kent is a relatively large county to the South West of London."


"Oh, and Kent's south-EAST of London."


Whew, I'm glad we got THAT sorted out guys, 'cos that's where I live, and I've been getting REALLY confused.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ythanside
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 08:09 PM

On the southern side of the river Ythan, middle of nowhere, 25 miles north of Aberdeen, Scotland. Currently a building site where my good lady, myself and an able-bodied pal are constructing our collective retirement package.

BTW, visitors are welcome, and should any Mudcatters make it this far we have a (small & FOC) spare caravan to accommodate them for the duration of their stay. Feel free.

Ythanside

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Joe_F
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 09:34 PM

In Malden, a suburb just north of Boston, MA, New England, U.S.A. (not far from the antipodes of Perth, Australia), in a studio apartment in an old mansion much uglified over the years. I am near the Orange Line, so I can get into town easily without a car. A pleasant local amenity is Fellsmere Park, with a pond that harbors ducks, geese, carp, turtles, dragonflies, and an occasional swan or cormorant, and with plenty of trees for squirrels, chipmunks, crows, blackbirds, and the like. It is a few minutes' walk away, and I take my constitutional there if no other business gets me out of the house.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:45 PM

..we have a (small & FOC) spare caravan..

Ythanside, I was trying to work out what FOC might mean - Full Of Cats? Fallen Off Cliff? Fuelled On Cider?

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Janie
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 11:35 PM

Hillsborough, NC. A lovely community and historic village that has recently been 'discovered' by folks with lots more money than me, and so is becoming too expensive for me to continue to live here. We are on the Piedmont of North Carolina, 3 hours from the mountains and 3 hours from the coast.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: goatfell
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:22 AM

I live in Saltcoats on The west coast of Scotland, it is about 30 miles away from Glasgow, and from my window I can see the Isle of Arran, I tihnk they should call it little England because there is that many English people living there.

but it is called Scotland in Miniture.

Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Little Robyn
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:25 AM

In Hawke's Bay - that's on the eastern side of the north island of New Zealand.
Down under.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ythanside
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 05:10 AM

JennyO; Free of charge, in the tradition of the hillwalkers' bothies to be found in more remote parts. We have dogs, and there are foxes and deer, but no cats or cliffs. No cider either, although the nearest pub (5 miles away) may stock it.
:-D

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 06:37 AM

FOC: Folkies Only Considered?

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Moses
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 07:13 AM

I'm in Ruislip (actually South Ruislip, North West of London - about half an hour's drive from Chesham (George and Vanessa Papavgeris) and 45 minutes drive from the centre of London (in the opposite direction).

Ruislip's a good place to get to other places from - 10 minutes from the M25 (London Orbital motorway), 15 minutes or so from the M1 and 5 minutes from the M40.

I think that says it all - a good place to get away from. Although it does have a 12th Century church and was mentioned in the Doomsday book!

Christine

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Trevor
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 07:14 AM

South Shropshire - about a third of the way down the Welsh/English border, half-way between Shrewsbury and Ludlow, in a hamlet called Bentlont, Bentlawnt or Bent Lawnt, depending on which map or signpost you look at.

I've got a beautuful view from my cottage, across to The Stiperstones and beyond that The Long Mynd, and in the other direction across mid-Wales as far as Cadair Idris.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: polaitaly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 08:03 AM

I live in Firenze , Italy. Sadly, I don't live in the ancient part of the town...or in the beautiful countryside around the town.... but in the middle, the ugly suburbs. But Firenze is small, so downtown is half an hour far.
paola

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Ythanside
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 08:26 AM

Moses, isn't Ruislip in the tropics? :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: mouldy
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 08:34 AM

I live in a village called Hensall about 7 miles south of Selby, North Yorkshire, (and in the shadow of Eggborough power station). I'm very close to the East Yorks border as the next village along is in it. We are also only about 3 miles from West Yorkshire and about 5 from South Yorkshire. We're the bottom end of the Vale of York (York's 22 miles away) and it is low lying and flat. The river Aire is just under a mile away.

As I always describe it - the pimple on the bottom of North Yorkshire. Look at the shape of the county and you'll see what i mean.

Sorcha, I think I went to Cheyenne about 15 years ago. We have friends who live in Saratoga.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: 3refs
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 08:53 AM

Other side of the tracks from Little Hawks house!
He did neglect(innocently I'm sure) to mention our giant from the literary world Stephen Leacock(Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town). My Mother worked for him in the 1930's. Our over abundance of Teenage Mommies and Redneck Dummies.
Check out the "Orillia Song" on "youtube". It's a place like no other!!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:01 AM

Moses,
My son is heading to live somewhere round Dartford with his Girlfriend.At the moment he lives in Bath and its where he works.Toby will be south of you then anything like folk clubs down there?.




Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Pistachio
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:10 AM

Beverley,East Yorkshire, (currently looking like an island due to inclement weather), North of Kingston upon Hull, which is better known as "Hull"!
I'm originally from Bridge of Allan (Beautiful town) in central Scotland tho', a place my late father selected for it's beauty and convenience as a base to travel from.

Passed thru Albuquerque in 1985 on Greyhound trip across, up and over the US of A.
Hazel.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:10 AM

I still live in leafy Ascot, 20+ years now, the longest I've lived anywhere. Not bad for a lad born in inner city Brum with gaslight upstairs, no bathroom and an outside lav. ! (Actually the next place my family moved to also had an outside lav., the council only put my parents an inside ensuite after my late mother had her first stroke - I never had an inside lav. till I went to university).
(Paper bag....[Mony Python reference!])

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:24 AM

I'm in Scarborough, Maine, just about fifteen minutes away from Ranger1 and TRUBRIT.

I agree with TRUBRIT - outside of England this place is definitely the best! A quarter hour drive takes me to a beautiful beach and we, like Ebbie, have lots of trees as well. We occasionally get deer in the yard and wild turkeys. Chipmunks and red squirrels come to feed on sunflower seeds that Kendall puts in the window boxes.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:54 AM

Yeah, Jacqui...but don't you also get that nasty cold white stuff in the winter?

Saw two roadrunners yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:54 AM

I'm in a former mining town on coast of County Durham, north east England. When I first moved here from Lancashire in 1979 it was a town of about 25,000 people, and had THREE working coal mines. You can imagine the effect that Thatcher's programme of pit closures during the 80s had.

It's getting back on its feet again now, with smart housing, new shops planned, and small factories and call centres.

Hay, Paola - we're planning to visit Firenze, back end of September (hoping to get there by train from the UK). Apart from the obvious tourist sights, is there anything we should do or see? Any music going on? Ciao!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:52 AM

We got the same problem here in Wales only one working mine which is in Hirwaun and thats due to close soon.
Have you heard Calennig sing When the coal comes from the Rhondda its worth listening too as they name every pit that is closed now.




Scooby.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:57 AM

Art, I saw a whole bunch of roadrunners on my way to work. Danged near hit some 'em -- those joggers should stay on the sidewalks during rush hour!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: HouseCat
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:58 AM

Homewood, Alabama, a pretty little town near Birmingham in the Oxmoor Valley. Home to one of the few American concertina makers (Bob Tedrow at Homewood Musical Instruments) and Dale from Chiff and Fipple lives nearby (for those whistle players out there).

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: redsnapper
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:59 AM

Dunblane, Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:03 PM

Redsnapper.
You must be disappointed that Andy is not in Wimbledon this year?.


Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Folkiedave
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM

I live in Sheffield - home of the "Sheffield Carols" which is in fact a misnomer because similar carols happen elsewhere. I have a wonderful view up the Loxley Valley and at the top on the second horizon there is the Royal Hotel, a great carolling hole as it is known. About 3 miles.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: redsnapper
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:09 PM

Indeed ScoobyDoo, Andy will be sorely missed this year!

RS

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:19 PM

Pittsford, Vermont, US. West side of VT about halfway up. We live right on US 7, but back a little ways across a narrow green, in the middle of the village. Ours is one of the first few houses built in the village, and therefore on the highest ground, which is nice when we get really wet weather. Our colonial ancestors weren't really that dumb.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:23 PM

suburbia by the 30 mile long rock creek park that goes to Washingtom DC

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Beer
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 10:19 PM

I have lived in Quebec Canada since 1967 but I don't call it home.
Beer (adrien)
Good thread

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:03 PM

I live in a small cabin my wife and I built on eight acres of trees and wild blueberry bushes. It's located in rural northern Santa Rosa County, in the Florida panhandle, just a few miles south of the Florida/Alabama border. The nearest city of which you may have heard is Pensacola, which is about an hour's drive to the southwest of here.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: SharonA
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 02:56 AM

I live about an hour away from Mudcat Central, in southeastern Pennsylvania (the Philadelphia area).

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: polaitaly
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 03:31 AM

Bainbo, I think you make a good choice coming here by train - the traffic in Firenze is...well I can't even begin to explain how awful is. (The town centre in closed to cars, but there is traffic the same. Mistery.) If I were you, I'd tour the town walking (the ancient part not too large) but, if you have enough time, I'd rent a car for the countryside. Not Chianti: it's very beautiful but really, really too touristic. Try Val D'Orcia, on the road from Florence to Siena: it's simply incredible. Anyway, you can PM me and I'll try to give you more informations.
ciao
paola

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: The PA
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:34 AM

Cats you are so, so lucky. That is exactly where we have always wanted to live. We go to Cornwall every year for our holidays (too many years to remember) and every year without fail we take a detour on the way home across Bodmin Moor, looking out for our perfect home.
We are in soggie Worcestershire and all in all its pretty nice here.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: HouseCat
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 11:58 AM

Bee-dubya-ell, are you close to Cantonement? I know the Pensacola area well, we camped out at Ft. Pickens every summer of my childhood and beyond. It was paradise for a kid in those days, we rode bikes all over Santa Rosa Island and rambled around in the old forts and batteries.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM

Art - we do have that white stuff but it is still a bit of a novelty to me right now. Thing is, unlike the UK, the system is set up for it here and the roads get cleared pretty fast. Kendall has a snow blower that takes care of the drive so we can get in and out. You just need to make sure that you're dressed for the weather.

I'll tell you - after a snowstorm, when the sky is brilliant blue and the sun is shining it's a real joy to be alive.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 01:11 PM

Biddeford, Maine, about 15 miles south of Kendall, Jacqui, Trubrit and Ranger 1. If you use Don Firth's envelope we're where you'd put the stamp. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Greg B
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 03:26 PM

Doylestown, PA. County seat of Bucks county, about 40 miles
as the crow flies North of Philadelphia. We border a very
scenic section of the Delaware river, the southern terminus
of which is where George Washington crossed over that famous
Christmas Eve to 'put brise up yon Hessians an toin da tide
a da war.' Doylestown is a 'Renaissance' town typical of a
small-town America that died and then came back to life with
very nice restaurants, pubs, and shops, all within walking distance
of my front door.

On the other hand, drive 4 miles the other way and I'm on my
friend's horse-farm (where I actually need to be in about an hour
to tend to a thoroughbred and a rocky mountain horse's evening
needs and to have them generally nudge me around and snuffle me).

Pretty nice spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 03:31 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 03:39 PM

...about 2 miles S.E. of Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:23 PM

On Orkney Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:25 PM

I was up near the Orkney Isles early this year at John O'Groats.



Scooby.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:27 PM

It a lovely place try get across next time scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Mickey191
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:09 PM

Mid-Hudson Valley, N.Y.S. - Dutchess County. Beautiful scenic hills & many lovely horse farms.

George Washington did indeed stay at the Old Drover's Inn. FDR had his home in Hyde Park-Now a National Historic Site, along with the Vanderbilt Mansion. We are about 7 miles from NW Conn. border and in about 1 1/2 hrs. one can arrive at Grand Central Station.

Alot of history here-I love it.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Naemanson
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 02:40 AM

Becca72, I used to live in Biddeford. I went to college at UNE back when it was Saint Francis College.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Naemanson
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 02:44 AM

I suppose the next step is to start visiting. You're all welcome here in Guam.... Gotta pay your own airfare though.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 02:52 AM

Nah Naemanson the next step is i buy an atlas :)
then i can check if its warm enough to visit ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 06:33 AM

Megan,
I am up in Port Patrick next year.But i will try one day to do the Orkneys.

Kind Regards.
Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: pirandello
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 08:04 AM

I'm in Exeter in the county of Devon in south-west England. About 40 miles down the road is Plymouth from where a bunch of people sailed to invent America.
I live on a hill on the north side of town and I can see the foothills of Dartmoor from my living room. Behind my house are fields and woods with deer, pheasant and foxes among other things.
Exeter once had a beautiful and ancient city centre containing many historically valuable buildings; then Hitler decided to redesign it with the help of several Heinkel bombers.
There's been a resurgence of live music recently though mostly of the rock variety but there are several pubs in the surrounding villages which host acoustic music(so I'm told although I've yet to find them!).
It rains a lot.

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: bubblyrat
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 08:52 AM

Near to St. Mary"s Church by the bridge in Henley-on-Thames.Lots of noise and traffic, sadly, but I was born here and I love it !! Anyway, the surrounding countryside is beautiful, and the nearby villages of Bix, Rotherfield Greys and Highmoor are delightful !! At the moment, "Swan Upping " is taking place, and all the swans in Henley are being captured and taken down to Windsor, so that the course will be clear for next week"s Royal Regatta ! Although the river is in spate a bit now, after all the rain we"ve had---could be exciting this year !!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 10:05 AM

HouseCat - I live about 40 miles or so from Cantonment. If you go north from Cantoment on US 29, you come to the town of Century, almost on the Alabama border. I live about 25 miles east of Century.

I used to catch a lot of fish on the pier at Ft. Pickens. Unfortunately, the road to the park was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and they're still haggling over engineering proposals to build a more hurricane resistant type of road. They don't want to just rebuild the road as it was because it's been wiped out several times before and the consensus is that doing so would be throwing good money after bad. Only pedestrians and boats can get out there right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: HouseCat
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 11:25 AM

Yes, BWL, we were there last July and it's just not the same place since Ivan. We made the trek out to Ft. Pickens on foot and nearly perished from the heat but I had to get a look at the dear old place.
HC

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Naemanson
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 08:38 AM

Trust me Megan, it's warm enough. The record low temperature was around 71 degrees F. The standard weather forecast here consists of variations on the theme that includes; "partly cloudy", "chance of rain", and "temperatures in the 80s (F)". The sea is blue with shades of green and sometimes gray. The water is clear as crystal and the fish and corals come in every shade you can imagine including the neon colors. Coldest water temperature I've seen here was also in the 70s F.

I'm going kayaking on Sunday. Anyone interested?

By the way, average airplane ticket cost from the east coast of the USA is around $2,000.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 10:44 PM

I'm in Northern Minnesota,US.
I have an 80 acre farm in the woods with ponds, hills, small amount of wild flower pasture and trees!! Rapaire, I say trees!! Trees to hug, climb, feed the beaver, fall on power lines, fall on the road, fall on the trails, trees to house flying squirrls and spatulas
I have pine and oak, asp and ash, maple (Oh, sweeeet maple), elm and ironwood, popple and birch, basswood and apple!! TREES!!!
Oh- and the deer are bringing their fawns around, while the wolves chase them through the garden and trample the cabbage and carrots that feeds the rabbits and woodchucks, that the hawk, owl and eagle swoop down upon and capture therefore saving my cabbage and carrots...........

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Rowan
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 11:31 PM

On ~150 acres of bush that's never been cleared, nor even grazed since 1980. There's a bit of creek (usually flowing at 3 teaspoons/month), a bit of tall Eucalypt forest (E. macrorrhyncha, E. melliodora, Angophora and a few others), a bit of tea tree (Leptospermum lanigerum) scrub, a bit of relict native pasture, a bit of rock (the contact zone between the granite batholith and the overlying metamorphosed sedimentary stuff), a bit of flat and a bit of steep. The top is at 1000m ASL and there's no part you can stand on and see all of it. Quite a few gliders and native birds (no currawongs, thankfully) and a resident mob of macropods (a couple of Swamp wallabies, a couple of of wallaroos and a variable number of the inevitable Eastern Greys) that clutter up the half kilometre of driveway before I hit the road to town (usually Armidale) about half an hour's drive away. Armidale is where the more famous (and original) UNE is located, has 25,000 people, a good Art Museum, and more decent entertainments than most Oz country towns twice its size.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff, AKA wdyat12
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 05:28 PM

Maggie and I live at Whitmore's Landing on Arrowsic Island in Maine. The Town of Arrowsic is the first and only Maine town so far to vote to end Bush's oil war of choice. Some of us are going down to Kennebunkport on Sunday for the Peoples Summit to Impeach. We will march to the checkpoint on the road to Walker's Point to show Bush and Putin our outrage.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: skarpi
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 05:30 AM

I live where the Ice, Fire and water are .
In the N-Atlantic , the land belongs to two condenence both Eroupe
and America, we black desert, biggest clacier in Eruope a very
big valcano witch is about to go up anytime now , I live where
our forfather and mother took land after they left their home,
Norway , they sailed across the sea and took land here on this
Island , they called it ICELAND so they could be left alone from
others the land of Fire and Ice , the land of Brennivin and Rotten
shark ( Brennivin is an alcahol made in Iceland ) and also known
as Black death . So if you are interested to visit

we have in the summer time , for exsamble Vikingfestival in June
its a around the solstice and we a folk festival in the North
of Iceland in July around 4-7th . We have a big Festival in Vestmann
Island first weekend in Agust there are usally about 12-15000
thousand people there , very special one , we have also in
Agust a gay pride weekend , we have in September a Light night
and thats something special too.

So from the North all the best
Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Surreysinger
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:39 AM

Guildford, Surrey, UK.

I live in the middle of the town, within 5 minutes walk of bus and railway stations, the town centre and High Street with it's setts (often wrongly referred to as cobblestones) and Guildhall and clock, two theatres and all the necessary amenities - with Surrey countryside all within easy reach, and London 40 minutes train ride away. For the last ten years, the Electric Voices organisation (run by Lawrence Heath) has been providing high quality folk entertainment for the town and its area, and has now branched out to Cranleigh and Farnham as well as Godalming where the borough hall barn dances have been going on for over 30 years. We now also have our own club in the centre of the town. I was born here xxx years ago, and with the exception of a couple of moves to Farnham and Dorking following my Dad's work in the Fire Brigade around when I was in my teens, and three years at University in Aberystwyth, have lived here all of my life.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 11:37 PM

Sounds wonderful.......Tom and I own a small house in Dorking --we lived over there for five years through my job (at the time) --we look forward with great pleasure to living there half the year in about 8 years (Januayr through June -- it is too bloody cold to live in Maine January through March/April so our plans include leaving here around Jan 2 and returning when winter has finally done its worst...

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 12:47 AM

I remember putting my location in some sort of Yahoo map thingie a while ago... what happened to that?

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:52 AM

Still living in East London, but we are looking at other areas and adding them to our plan to move in the next few years, we don't really want Harry to go to the local schools. Having said that I'll keep buying the lottery ticket, you ever know our numbers might come up!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:19 PM

Curmudgeon and I live in an owner-built post and beam house on 33 acres of trees and rock (south slope) in Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA. We're 40 minutes to Portsmouth and our home pub, The Press Room, about the same commute time to the Atlantic Ocean anywhere on New Hampshire's short 16 mile coastline. We're midway (uphill) between the Seacoast and the state capitol, Concord; about 90 miles from Boston, Massachusetts; and 75 miles from South Portland, Maine. (Hmm...about 35 miles from Barry Finn, 4 miles from Jeri.) I've only been here since 1981 -- Tom built the house in '76. He's the true Yankee; I'm a displaced Milwaukean.

Nottingham has a population of about 4400 and the chief business in "downtown" Nottingham is a convenience store/gas station/pizza place called Liar's Paradise (from the optimistic fishermen who used to hang out on the benches out front). It also used to house the post office, but that spun off about 20 years ago into its own establishment which finally offered home delivery. Nottingham is also the home of Cedar Waters nudist camp. Cool Cravings, the local ice cream place on Rte. 4 (bumper sticker: "Pray for me, I drive Rte. 4"), sports a sign that says:
            Ice Cream
Lobster Rolls    Hot Dogs
    Loam & Gravel

In 1722 the town was granted to 101 petitioners from Seacoast towns between Boston and Portsmouth who wanted to settle a tract of land north of Exeter. The petitioners asked that the town be named New Boston, but Governor Shute gave it the name Nottingham, in honor of Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham. The Earl was a close friend of Colonial Governors Shute and Dudley of Massachusetts when New Hampshire was under that province's jurisdiction. The original grant was considerably larger than now, but Deerfield separated from Nottingham in 1766, and Northwood separated in 1773.

If you check out Nottingham on satellite photos, almost all you see are trees -- and Pawtuckaway Lake.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Susan A-R
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 10:03 PM

I live in Montpelier Vermont, New England, US, about 2 hours from Montreal CA (If the border isn't difficult)

Montpelier is a great little town. It's two main distinctions are that it's the smallest US State capital (8,000 souls)) and it's the only state capital without a MacDonalds. Great food, great books, great movies, nice entertainment, and I can walk to all of it. there is white stuff, but tha's part of the charm, although April snow is a bit much.

Mudcatters welcome on the futon, as long as you aren't allergic to cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: SharonA
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:09 AM

Well, what do you know -- I live about ten miles away from where Greg B. lives!

However, I feel I must clarify some of Greg's description: Doylestown is only 26 miles north of center-city Philadelphia "as the crow flies" (but 40 or so miles as MapQuest's circuitous route makes the crow drive). Also, Bucks County does indeed border on the Delaware River, but Doylestown itself is not on the riverside.

More importantly for historical accuracy's sake, I must point out that George Washington did not cross the Delaware River at its "southern terminus" (nor even at the southern terminus of Bucks County); he crossed 15 or so miles due east of Doylestown, at a location now known on both sides of the river (PA and NJ) as Washington Crossing, upstream from the Hessians in Trenton by about 10 miles (and over 100 miles upstream from where the river ends at Delaware Bay!); I have driven over the bridge at Washington Crossing many times so I know the place! Moreover, Washington did not make the crossing on "that famous Christmas Eve"; the crossing began during the late hours of Christmas Day, 1776, and was not completed until about 3:00 a.m. on December 26th, whereupon Washington and his troops marched downriver to fight and win the Battle of Trenton (which only took about an hour -- they were re-crossing the Delaware back into Pennsylvania by noon!).

Greg is quite correct, though, in describing the area as very scenic with many a horse farm, and in describing Doylestown's revival. They've preserved many of its older buildings and created a nice night-life of activity there. Hey, Greg, have we seen each other at the open mike at Puck's?

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Splott Man
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:10 AM

Pontyclun, south Wales (pronounced Pont-a-clean).

We've got quite a cluster of Catters here. I live 150yds from JudeL and Soup Dragon, within a stone's throw of Scooby Doo (hers is the house with all the broken windows), within cwtching distance of Dame Pattie Smith EPNS, and within shanty shouting distance of Dr Price.

Oh, and good choice, Trubrit, I was born and raised in Dorking.

Now, who remembers Dorking Folk Club in The Wheatsheaf, or even before that in the Surrey Yeoman?

Splott Man

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: ad1943
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:22 AM

I live in Baulkham Hills Sydney Australia

Sydney is so central to everything. Do you know that you can catch a plane there and in 12 hours be somewhere interesting !

AD

Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
From: Diva
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 02:26 PM

In the very lovely and peaceful Scottish Borders