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[Bakerboy 4,677]

59 minutes ago, mel b said:

I've never left the UK mack . The Isle of Wight was pushing it for me .

My mrs has done her share of travelling,  and so have the kids , but I've just never wanted to . I love the UK,  and I haven't finished looking around it all yet.

I love to read your travel stories , and hear the stories my friends and relatives bring home from around the globe , but I just don't get the urge to do it myself. 

I'm never happier , than when I'm sitting in a highseat waiting for a deer . Mooching along a hedgerow with my rimfire looking for a couple of rabbits , or just sitting outside my tiny caravan in my woodland,  just looking at the very poor quality stone wall that I built , and heads that I carved.

I must be a right simple minded feck .

 

Thank fck for that, thought I was the only 1, went abroad once, not for me

[mel b 2,244]

22 minutes ago, mackem said:

Are those heads based on the moai of Rapa Nui?

I'd like to say yes mack , but the honest truth is that they were the simplest carvings that I could find for my first attemp .

Just to add.

I'm going to attempt to carve some similar heads from granite.

[mel b 2,244]

19 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

Thank fck for that, thought I was the only 1, went abroad once, not for me

I've got pretty simple tastes . I take great pleasure from just putting a new chain on my chainsaw,  and making those first few cuts, it always feels fantastic.  When the kids ask what I want for my birthday,  my answer is always the same. Come round and we'll all eat together as a family . That makes me happier than if they'd given me a ferrari. 

My mrs and kids always put money in a card for me for Christmas and birthdays. I've got about 2k sitting in a box now . I buy stuff from time to time , but I only ever buy things that have a purpose( tools , guns etc). I just don't feel the need to have all the trimmings like some people do , but fair play to those that do , if it makes you happy , then go for it .

Mind you . If I do want something,  it drives me feckin mad until I get it .

I want my own fishing lake , and its killing me that I can't afford one . 

[mackem 26,261]

25 minutes ago, mel b said:

I'd like to say yes mack , but the honest truth is that they were the simplest carvings that I could find for my first attemp .

Just to add.

I'm going to attempt to carve some similar heads from granite.

They have the look of them Mel,as soon as I looked at them I thought you had based them on the Moai.

[mel b 2,244]

3 minutes ago, mackem said:

They have the look of them Mel,as soon as I looked at them I thought you had based them on the Moai.

It stands a pretty good chance that they are the ones that you're thinking about mack . I stuck pretty closely to the pics that I found on the Internet. 

Doing things like sitting on a log , just carving , using a chisel that I forged myself (from a van coil spring) , and a oak mallet that I made myself ( from a windblown oak) . Is the type of thing that makes me smile.

[Neal 1,857]

14 hours ago, mel b said:

I've never left the UK mack . The Isle of Wight was pushing it for me .

My mrs has done her share of travelling,  and so have the kids , but I've just never wanted to . I love the UK,  and I haven't finished looking around it all yet.

I love to read your travel stories , and hear the stories my friends and relatives bring home from around the globe , but I just don't get the urge to do it myself. 

I'm never happier , than when I'm sitting in a highseat waiting for a deer . Mooching along a hedgerow with my rimfire looking for a couple of rabbits , or just sitting outside my tiny caravan in my woodland,  just looking at the very poor quality stone wall that I built , and heads that I carved.

I must be a right simple minded feck .

 

 

Completely agree. My wife has travelled a lot (including a year in one of the kibbutz which was recently attacked and a year as a teacher in Japan) but I never get the urge. Even after watching Race Around the World and thinking "Wow! I'd love to do that," I still thought "but there are so many amazing places in the British Isles I've not seen yet."

[mel b 2,244]

Just now, Neal said:

Completely agree. My wife has travelled a lot (including a year in one of the kibbutz which was recently attacked and a year as a teacher in Japan) but I never get the urge. Even after watching Race Around the World and thinking "Wow! I'd love to do that," I still thought "but there are so many amazing places in the British Isles I've not seen yet."

That's exactly how I feel. I haven't finished mooching around the UK yet.

One day I might just wake up and think , feck it , I'll get a passport. Then spend my time flying around the world. 

[mackem 26,261]

34 minutes ago, Neal said:

 My wife has travelled a lot (including a year in one of the kibbutz which was recently attacked and a year as a teacher in Japan) 

Your wife has a condition known as fernweh, the only cure is an airport and a flight. 

[mel b 2,244]

5 hours ago, mackem said:

Your wife has a condition known as fernweh, the only cure is an airport and a flight. 

I wish my mrs would get fernweh , and go and live in Japan for a year .

[mackem 26,261]

43 minutes ago, mel b said:

I wish my mrs would get fernweh , and go and live in Japan for a year .

Give her the ticket and a decent wedge of cash,the only cure for the malaise is to follow the path to its final conclusion.

[mel b 2,244]

2 minutes ago, mackem said:

Give her the ticket and a decent wedge of cash,the only cure for the malaise is to follow the path to its final conclusion.

She wouldn't go, her life's work is to live with me and make me miserable

[DIDO.1 22,637]

1 hour ago, mel b said:

She wouldn't go, her life's work is to live with me and make me miserable

The other day I was up a ladder, wearing gloves, mask and safety goggles whilst creasoting the fence.....I heard the Mrs shouting me....so climbs down, takes everything off, walks down the yard and into the house.....turns out she wanted me because she had lost the end of the cellotape. Honestly! I'd happily give her the money to have a year in Japan 

[chartpolski 23,244]

8 hours ago, mackem said:

Your wife has a condition known as fernweh, the only cure is an airport and a flight. 

German is a strange language, words like “zeitgeist “, “schardenfruede”, etc, that we don’t have a single word equivalent in English, and now I have “fernweh” to add to my vocabulary to bore dinner guests with ! LOL !

Cheers.

[mel b 2,244]

43 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

The other day I was up a ladder, wearing gloves, mask and safety goggles whilst creasoting the fence.....I heard the Mrs shouting me....so climbs down, takes everything off, walks down the yard and into the house.....turns out she wanted me because she had lost the end of the cellotape. Honestly! I'd happily give her the money to have a year in Japan 

Im laughing,  but im feeling your pain brother .

[mackem 26,261]

1 hour ago, chartpolski said:

“schardenfruede”,  that we don’t have a single word equivalent in English

Epicaricacy is the English equivalent,as a kid I used to purloin three types of book Plummer books,atlases and dictionaries,all of which I read repeatedly and voraciously.