Comments on: The Bitch is Back

By: Diziet_Sma

Diziet_Sma — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:05:10 +0000

Rhubarb pie!

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:41:50 +0000

@SarahMC: I will buy a cottage down the lane from you. I’d much prefer a cozy cottage to a big old estate like my friend has. They can be incredibly expensive and frustrating to maintain.

@funnyface: I think the 6 month quarantine that the UK used to require for doggies has been lifted. My aunt once considered moving to London–she had a job offer–but decided against it because her beloved dog would have been jailed for so long. I’m pretty sure that now if you can prove they’ve had all their shots, you can bring them in.

By: funnyface

funnyface — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:37:29 +0000

I’m with you, SMC. A trip to England’s Lake District, where Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge lived and were inspired, REALLY made me want to pack it all up and move there. GORGEOUS. Might be hard to move the puppygirls overseas though.

By: SarahMC

SarahMC — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:33:04 +0000

What I want to live in is a quaint cottage. Not too far out in the country. I’ve never been to England so I don’t even know what I’m talking about but every place they show on Last Restaurant Standing looks heavenly.

By: funnyface

funnyface — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:28:39 +0000

“Country Home” conjures images of quaint cottages. That’s a “Country Estate” up there!

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:00:54 +0000

@emilyanne: I love Stow on the Wold! The ex and I spent a couple vacations in the (unfortunately named) Slaughters and we would go to Stow for pub lunches. But yes, it’s definitely rural out there. So was the part of Kent where my friend’s house is. She’s a Lady Author (also, a kick-ass feminist essayist) who I’ve known for years. When she bought the gracious manor, it had holes in the roof, the top floors were full of squirrels and the heat came from a slag-coal furnace in the basement. It wasn’t Grey Gardens…but it was getting there. It’s taken her 15 years to get it fixed up and now about half of it are tenant apartments (which still leaves her with a sizeable 4-bedroom living area).

And hoorah for St. John. I want to go back there NOW.

By: emilyanne

emilyanne — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:49:58 +0000

SarahMC – my parents live near Stow on The Wold in the Cotswolds, it’s beautiful but a little too country at times.

By: Ellen Meister

Ellen Meister — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:38:00 +0000

Spectacular travelogue! Thanks … and welcome home.

By: SarahMC

SarahMC — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:37:31 +0000

Bitch, that’s no English country home. That’s a mansion!

After becoming addicted to the British tv show Last Restaurant Standing, the boyf and I dream of moving to the English countryside.

By: emilyanne

emilyanne — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:36:08 +0000

yay for St John’s – my favourite restaurant even my enjoyment of it is slightly marred by a bad breakup which occurred there. Also how the hell did you find a house like the one in Kent to stay in? I’m bloody English and i’ve never stayed in a house like that.