A morning walk in snow-covered rural County Durham
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Out for a walk this morning around my village, its fields and woodland, all delightfully covered in snow, which is a little unusual this early in December. The attractive woodland is on the site of the former coal mines, which were once numerous in this part of the country. This one actually closed in 1967, with the workers largely being moved to other pits, so no real hardship, although the village did lose its last railway link and perhaps also its reason to exist as a settlement.
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A quadbike Marcel, yes that sounds good, very tempting and would be ideal in this area, except for…the exceedingly angry farmer chasing me with his shotgun!
If i was to milk one of his cows to save some labour of his hands , then slowly manipulate my way up his “friendship chain” , i may just slowly buy some acres of his land and have the guns , then it’s fair game to roll my quads in those lands , and i can always say “chassing rats away!” 😆
// Meditation doesn't mean you have to sit still....
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Whilst out on a walk last Autumn, we actually got chatting to a local farmer who explained the problems he was having with quads and off-road bikes using his land – mostly arable crops – for their ‘recreation’. He ran off an horrendous list of the damage caused and the abysmal response from the Police, given that many of these vehicles were likely stolen and almost certainly un-insured, should they collide with you or your vehicle! I doubt whether very many of these riders would know what a RUPP is. Personally, I regard illegal off-road bikes as a major factor in the ‘I hate motorcycles’ response from the general public and their law-giving politicians.
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