Fenland

Antique_Guitars

Not a bad part of the country reminds me a bit of parts of France with the miles of flat open farmland.

LastMantra

Don't miss next week when A_G will be visiting Grimsby.

roundthebend

I live on the edge of Fenland. I find the stark flatness to be quite mesmerising.

The people are a bit odd though.

Good to hear that others like it too.

Antique_Guitars

I'd give it a go, people should donate money or train tickets for me to explore the UK :-)

equalsql

I used to work for BT out of Peterborough, and did a lot of work out in the Fens.
I always found it to be an almost haunting landscape.

The soil is so rich that when the fields are being ploughed it looks like liquorice..
I never got bored driving through it as it has an almost mystical feel.

The inhabitants can be an odd lot though, I remember being in a tobacconists in Wisbech and a local walking in with quite literally a halo of flies buzzing around her greasy matted bonce. Boy was she  'ripe'. It was almost like a scene out of 'League Of Gentlemen''.

Travisthedog

Bogtrotters

mike_l

equalsql said:

The inhabitants can be an odd lot though, I remember being in a tobacconists in Wisbeach and a local walking in with quite literally a halo of flies buzzing around her greasy matted bonce. Boy was she  'ripe'. It was almost like a scene out of 'League Of Gentlemen''.

The problem there is, you were in Wisbech......

Antique_Guitars

I was over near March

mike_l

And you didn't call in for a brew on your way past......

Disappointed

(March isn't a long way from me.....)

Antique_Guitars

Oh I had no idea you lived around that way. I was actually in parson drove to be more specific, I was helping my friends dad move in there.

VimFuego

Antique_Guitars said:

. I was actually in parson drove to be more specific, I was helping my friends dad move in there.

lol, f'narr, f'narr.

digitalscream

It's not terrible, but you do have to make an effort to hide your reaction when you notice the webbing between the inhabitants' fingers...

VimFuego

round here the inbreds don't have webbed digits, but you can spot them cos not one of them are over 5 foot tall. Oh, and they all get really huffy when you post the dog shit they kindly left on your driveway back through their letter box.

Phil_aka_Pip

back to the OP,

I too very much like the open countryside around there, but have never wanted to live there because the place is dependent on being pumped out. There is also the drainage which helps, but most of those cute little dutch windmills that the dutch drainers installed a couple of hundred years ago have been replaced by lekky powered pumping stations, so its only a matter of time before you get flooded if the lekky goes off. If sea levels continue to rise, the fens will have had it. Enjoy while you can.

Phil_aka_Pip

VimFuego said:

round here the inbreds don't have webbed digits, but you can spot them cos not one of them are over 5 foot tall. Oh, and they all get really huffy when you post the dog shit they kindly left on your driveway back through their letter box.

Do they also have Hobbit-style feet?

Evilmags

A Spanish council actually paid people to post dogshit to all of the errant villagers who let their mutts shit on the street.

Bidley

I love it here I do. Best sunsets around, the constant faint smell of shit everywhere... heaven.

mike_l

VimFuego said:

round here the inbreds don't have webbed digits, but you can spot them cos not one of them are over 5 foot tall.

Worry when they start playing banjo's

bigjon

The view across the road from my house. Lived here on the southern edge of the fens for 12 years, love it.

http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n498/bigjon1684/Field.jpg

VimFuego

mike_l said:

VimFuego said:

round here the inbreds don't have webbed digits, but you can spot them cos not one of them are over 5 foot tall.

Worry when they start playing banjo's

we likes our squeeze boxes round these parts.

imalone

roundthebend said:

I live on the edge of Fenland. I find the stark flatness to be quite mesmerising.

Yes, that one. I took up distance running while I lived in Cambridge, I like hills, coasts, mountains, woodlands, but there's nothing quite like running or cycling across that expanse.
Also anyone who lives out that way should read this http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/w-+g-+sebald/michael+hulse/the+rings+of+saturn/4594234/