ShalisR posted:

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Edit: Found a full frontal

http://www.my-crap.com/gallery/thumbs/lrg-1197-100_1612.jpg

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ShalisR posted:

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Most British gardens are flower gardens with some lawn and people here can get incredibly anal about it.

From what I understand in the US you have a yard and in it you may have a flower garden, veggie garden, lawn etc? For us we have a garden and in it may be some flower beds, a vegetable plot and a lawn. If it doesn't have anything like that in it, then it's usually a yard. When I was a kid we had a garden and a yard. The yard was a large flagged (paved) area where my dad would tinker with cars or build yachts and the garden had alawn, flowers beds, veg and my swing, that was that my mothers area.

I wish I was a good gardener, sadly, I'm not. I'd love to have some fresh fruit, veg and herbs, but I'd just kill them. I have a few flowers that don't take any care and I can stretch to weeding when it's needed.

Because space is at such a premium here you will rarely find massive lawns that require a driven mower to cut, we have small spaces which we try to cram as much in to as possible.

It's funny that the term "yard" isn't used so much any more as it probably originated here. The rows upon rows of terraced houses in most of the towns and cities barely have a yard of space out back and that space was used only for an outhouse and somewhere for coal to be dumped. We're quite lucky to have a reasonably sized back yard compared to most terraced houses, enough to actually turn in to a landscaped garden. You certainly couldn't put a pool in it, and it barely fits my daughters trampoline, but it's big enough to sit in with a good number of friends and have a BBQ.

I'll post up photos when it's done

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Raiztlin posted:

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On a sidenote - I don't like it when people have lives :<

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ShalisR posted:

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It's finished!!! Well kinda. The old brick walls still need rendering and the outside all needs a lick of paint, but aside from that. it's done, now I just need a nice day to take some photos.

I did take one photo, the wheel barrow finally gets to have a rest...

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Shriva_al-Destroyer posted:

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Remember when you say US shal.. That it's a huge place compared to over there.

No idea what you paid over there.. But prices here can range extremly. Place I lived in PA , you had to spend 300-500k for an acre and a 3 bedroom 2 bath house.

Down here in Alabama my 2 arces with 3 bedroom and 2 bath only cost alittle over 100k

I post on another British board (auto/trike board) and always get a kick out of them saying Americans should travel more and how most of us don't leave the country, till I explained how the diff states are almost like different countrys and how BIG it is over here.. Heck just go a couple states away in distance would take you passed France over there.. Hehe
They are nice people though, I just like to tease them.. LOL

Your place is looking good! Does that mean your husband isn't moving you over here for his job?

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Raiztlin posted:

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It's not a question of distance though, but of culture

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Raiztlin posted:

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same could be said for norway, a tiny tiny country in comparison.

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GhostOfACPast posted:

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Raiztlin posted:

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It's not a question of distance though, but of culture

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Yes, but the one thing you in Europe do not understand is that in Texas, for instance, there are 5 different eco systems and 5 different lifestyles. It is like 5 separate countries.

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kashani posted:

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And what, pray tale, is wrong with hillbilly's?

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ShalisR posted:

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GhostOfACPast posted:

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Raiztlin posted:

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It's not a question of distance though, but of culture

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Yes, but the one thing you in Europe do not understand is that in Texas, for instance, there are 5 different eco systems and 5 different lifestyles. It is like 5 separate countries.

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Absolutely on the eco systems, I think it's amazing the geographical diversity in just one country, but culturally, the "Global Melting Pot" is a world wide phenomenon. It may be more obvious in the US because people went there from all over the world, but it is also very apparent in smaller countries like Norway and the UK.

I live a few miles North of a city called Manchester, when I go there I drive through many different neighbourhoods and the difference in race and culture is extremely obvious. Jewish, black, Muslim, Polish, Chinese, just to name a few. This is the same in all UK cities, and to a lesser degree in smaller towns. When I go to my preferred supermarket in Blackburn, there are more Muslims walking up and down the aisles than there are native Brits. We are just as multi cultural as you are with similar problems concerning immigration and language barriers. The class divide also adds to the problem with there being very little sympathy or understanding from any side.

Add to that, in the UK we also have four different countries with 4 different cultures and languages (with very little tolerance for each other) before you even add immigration.

In Norway, the people even look completely different based on what part of the country they are from. In the south you have your classic tall blondes that Scandinavia is famed for, but in the north, the native people are short with dark hair and eyes.

America represent what is happening the world over, on a grand scale, we are just the same (weather aside) only in miniature

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GhostOfACPast posted:

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kashani posted:

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And what, pray tale, is wrong with hillbilly's?

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I was seriously waiting for that bro.

To answer you nothing but I would like to have a few things I grew up with and took for granted now I can't even find them anywhere within a 200 hillbilly, errr mile, range.

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