Where are we all

welcome Carolemimi another cornish ressi,my gt grandad was born Hayle is name was Thomas Rowse.

EsleG welcome &enjoy gransnet.

Hi ...another recent reader on gransnet (enjoy reading the huge variety of threads) ... tend to read more than post(still not confident ...as lost two!!) ...born a Maid of Kent ...lived in various parts of south west London ...then southern Lincolnshire ...now back in Kent ...living as a Kentish Maid.

Like so many of you moved to train, for work and to marry.

Oh how I envy those of you in Cornwall; I've been thinking a lot of the place recently [saw a programme about St Ives the other week which probably set me off]. We always used to go to the north coast round Trebarwith at this time of year [I'd lived there at one time]. I even went on rRght Move yesterday to see if there were any houses I recognised! [there were!]

crimsom,i live 3miles from the strand,go down there early &late to avoid the crowds better is port William bay.I bet the house prices have rocked since then!

There's a little building on the left hand side going down to the beach that's built into the rocks..it's selling for @£110,000..no garden or parking but who needs a garden when you've got the beach a few yards away! I love the way the waves crash against the rocks at Trebarwith. I used to know an old lady called Mrs Phillips who lived at Treknow..but that was oh so long ago. I had a flat at Hengar Manor at St Tudy. I can still close my eyes and be there.

I worked on some of later stuff shaped like alpine ski lodges,before or after your time crimson.

We haven`t been to Trebarwith Strand for a long, long time, 1984 in fact, and it was a very grey, and extremely windy day, but warm, and we have some great cine film of our then 14 year old son being consumed by a gigantic wave which caught him unawares from behind. It must be lovely there on a sunny day.

Lovely indeed, numberplease, but give me a windy day with the waves crashing against the ricks. I spend a lot of time in Northumberland, and the beach is long and sandy and beautiful, but I miss those crashing waves. I've decided I have to go back next year. I always thought we'd spend wonderful family holidays there with grandchildren playing where the kids used to but, alas, the family have fragmented due to divorce. However, my daughter took her husband and chikdren there the other year, and they also fell in love with the place.

Hi I am in Bristol and have always lived here. Have just become a qualified Childminder. Have always wanted to do this but now I am retired have fufilled this wish. Whether anyone will want a Granny as a childminder, well lets wait and see!!!!

Wecome toppers,enjoy childminding.Up Bristol in Nov to see South Pacific ahhh.

Hello! I'm originally from Warwick but spent all my married life in sunny Devon near the sea, seven miles from Plymouth, proper job!

I remember being on the phone to someone when I lived in Cornwall who kept saying [wurrr be too?]. Took me ages to work out what he was asking!

I'm a relative newbie - only been checking in for the last week or so. Born in Reading (parents evacuated during WW2), moved to south London in 1947. Both parents were cockney through and through. Mum eldest of four children, Dad youngest of 13! Not seen any of my rellies for years and years. Now live in West Sussex, having previously lived in Kent, Hampshire and East Sussex. Would love a place in France but daughter wont allow it!

Welcome Bellesnan,lived Worthing,now in Cornwall.

I'm in Wales - Gower.
Moved to the country from Berkshire three and a half years ago but before that Bucks, Kent, London, Australia and Lincolnshire.
Husband says he's not moving again.

Port Eynon ,sigh!!!!

I'm a Manchester girl, lived in Cheshire for 40 years though.

West Norfolk, since marriage 38 yrs ago , originally came from Bucks.

Central Scotland, in the Hillfoots near Stirling. Never moved more than five miles from where I was born and far travelled daughters have now come 'home' to bring up their families so we are quite rooted for the time being.

Resident of North Devon, been here for around 23 years. Prior to that, Middlesex (although apparently it doesn't exist anymore!)

I'm a gran-in-waiting, and new to Gransnet. I am from South Africa (Cape Town) moved to London in my twenties and lived there for 35+ yrs. Last year DH and I moved to China and am now living in Beiing! Quite a challenging environment - wish some of you could send me some decent fresh air!

Fresh air is what Scotland does best, along with haggis, Aberdeen Angus beef, shortbread, oatcakes, whisky, mountains, water .... oh, and rain.

Raspberries, Border lamb, tweeds, scenery.