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thomo
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Posted -  06/04/2008  :  14:05
That could have been "Time to come home" but its all relative to where one happens to be living at present. Home is not always where you are living but where you consider your true home to be. In my case it is definately "Barlick". I was born there, grew up there, the bulk of both of my family, and my wifes family still live there and it is where the greater part of my happy memories were generated. I have travelled all over the world, resided in Hampshire, on Anglesey, in various ships for months on end and currently just out of Colne in what I consider to be "that other county". Living in a two hundred plus year old listed cottage with nice views is probably a lot of peoples idea of heaven, but on the other side of this idylic coin are walls two feet thick and solid, the ideal breeding ground for very nasty airborne spores that can attack the human respiratory system with complete impunity. The nearest bus stop and regular post box are one and a quarter miles away, the purchase of anything is as best a three mile round trip.  "So" we are going or coming home, hopefully in early May, to a 1936 stone built bungalow with more garden space, a brand new kitchen and bathroom, a garage that doesn't leak like a sieve, the one here used to be be a smithy and a monthly energy bill that is only 40% of that required to make this aged pile comfortable. The bus stop and post box are about forty feet away, and the neares pub, sixty!. We will only be separated from these three items by one of Barlicks four main access roads. The access road to our current home is a narrow country road that also serves as a testing run for boy racers, a proving ground for the dozens of local didums transporters (4 x 4s) and at night as a relief road for the HGVs that are too big to use the main roads in the area, oh yes, and the tractors that would look more at home on the vast plains of North America. But the greatest pull of all is dear old Barlick, that oft joked about hotchpotch of architecture and characters that make it what it is, and unlike most of the other mill towns in Pendle, it almost certain that it will never sucumb to the overwhelming displacement of its indigenous residents by those who have no time for our way of life and what it means. See you all soon.


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frankwilk
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 14:13
Nice on Thomo

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moh
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 14:40
Well done Thomo - hope all goes well with the move


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Sue
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 14:51
Hope it goes well, but where you are sounds delightful, not dissimilar to our place in france
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Stanley
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 16:29
Didn't know you had moved Pete.....  Hope all goes well with the move.


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Julie in Norfolk
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 17:45
Good luck with the move.


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Callunna
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3044 Posts
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 19:12
Yes, back where you belong. A good move.

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panbiker
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 19:43
Nice to know you're coming back to the nest Peter.


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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 20:01
I once tried to get back but they wouldn't let me out of Barrowford. Nolic


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gus
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704 Posts
Posted - 07/04/2008 : 00:17
Well done Peter, I hope to see you knocking about Barlick soon,

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Cathy
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Posted - 07/04/2008 : 09:46
All the best with your move home Thomo.  Smile


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Tizer
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Posted - 07/04/2008 : 11:06
Thomo, you are probably best out of the old thick-walled house. Ours is like that (and some thick inner walls are cob) and it takes a lot of keeping warm and dry. Anyway, Godron Brown plans to make us all update our old houses to be eco-friendly. I don't know how he thinks we'll do it - pull them down and start again perhaps?


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belle
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Posted - 08/04/2008 : 11:54
Home, what an emotive word, I am glad you are able to identify where it is and find your way back there.... that must be a good thing to do . Like you I have lived all over the place, and at the age I am now, in my fifties, I am beginning to wonder more and more where home is. I was born in barrowford, and have recently taken to little forays in that direction, to visit old haunts and see if they feel like home, but they do not. Nor does the Lune valley where I spent at least four years of my life, it certainly isn't down south, where I had six of the hardest years, nor where I am now, even though this our seventh year here. Cumbria , where we were for seven years, is comfy but it doesn't swell the heart like "home" would. That leaves one or two places north of the border, I am still meditating on that. I am also visiting some of th eplaces my ancestors came from, they all lived in the Craven district, so perhaps somewhere round here, there is a place that will speak to my genes. it should be Haworth, but I don't get much of a vibe there, despite having over 80 ancestors in the graveyard!
I envy you Thomo, Have a great move home!


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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt


2021 Posts
Posted - 08/04/2008 : 15:09
Many thanks to you all for your good wishes, one thing I do know is that I will be exceeding glad when it is all over and done with.


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gus
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Posted - 18/04/2008 : 10:14
Does anyone know if Thomo is home yet ??


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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt


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Posted - 18/04/2008 : 10:58
Not yet Gus, about another three weeks. We have commenced packing but an ongoing medical problem is currently making large demands on my time, I am just about to go to Airedale Hosp, for the third time this week. The amazing thing about all this when you consider the bad press that the NHS gets, is the speed things have moved for me in the past seven days. I have had a second chest infection thats two in three months, last Thursday, having recieved X Ray results, my GP rang me in the morning to say that I would have to go to hospital for further tests, four hours later a call from Airedale told me to be there first thing Monday morning, this resulted in a Bronchoscopy yesterday and today a CT Scan. Suddenly I appear to be No.1 on several peoples lists and given the aforementioned bad pressl it leaves one thinking S**T, how bad is this. My biggest Demon, having once nearly drowned, nearly choked to death and been gassed, is any alien object going anywhere near my throat, add to this, those persons who knew what I was facing all came up with comments on just how unpleasant this proceedure is. So, to anyone else facing a Bronchoscopy I would like to add this, "You have nothing to fear". I have had tubes and cameras inserted into every other orifice and on the scale of "YUK" a Bronchoscopy is at the bottom. Thankfully I was given a choice of hospitals and I know that I chose the right one, so a big "chuck up" for Airedale and its staff.


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