BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.

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