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postman Jan 6, 2011 16:27:21

Replying to faerygirl

faerygirl wrote:

Postie always makes me smile and has often been the little voice in the back of my head telling me to just jump the fence!

like here
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/12905/ardno.html

And I was going to reference a few hopping over fences posts, but around 4 in 5 postie visits involve " a wee bit of trespassing"

They've packed us in so tightly that sometimes it just can't be helped,
(trespassing that is) For me ownership of land is mostly bunkum, climb every fence, cross every field, do it sensatively and i'm sure all will go well.

StoneGloves Jan 6, 2011 16:44:29

Replying to postman

I remember a postman coming to deliver stuff to a house in a field. It was at least a ten mnute walk there, from the gate on the road, and he was always cheerful. He didn't attempt it when the weather was bad and now there's a little road been built, to the cottage, up through the woods. It still doesn't have mains water or electric, though. So getting through at all costs is a postman's ethos, from the old days. (This was long before Mailsort rubbish, of course).

Howburn Digger Jan 6, 2011 20:47:20

Replying to postman

postman wrote:

I am a bit intrigued about the harsh, regressive, restrictive regime in the South where freedoms like the abilty to walk over hills and fields, wherever one might wish, apparently just dont exist. I still find this difficult to believe and so I had to check on your English Rambler's Association pages to see if the limitations on personal freedoms (like walking in your countryside) were actually true (or just made up). The Rambling Ass. people of England and Wales actually tell me that in England
"In general, there is no freedom to roam and in most areas of open country, you are a trespasser."
I mean it's the 21st Century. Cant you cats down in Engerland and Wales just get with it? How can you bear to live like that?
We'd have no truck with such nonsense up here. Sort it out! Normally the only time I set foot in England is at Shap services on my way to Wales (or Charnock Richards for emergency fuel) but I was seriously considering visiting some sites in Cumbria this year. This kind of trespass law silliness just puts me off.