My excuse is: Nothing grows in bloody sand without watering it twice a day and I'm not prepared to waste that much water. Even weeds don't grow here well may through October. Only have to mow the lawn March and April and then again in October. Once temperatures start getting below 10C it turns Brown and goes dormant for the winter. In the summer when it hardly rains it goes dormant as well. (although turns grayish green). Grass looks ugly most of the year but culture dictates we grow a lawn. You can tell which batards waste money and water because they have green lawns in summer.
Enough of this Grizzly Adams crap. We have smackheads walking our estates with unmuzzled pitbulls. And I have to walk my dog past free-grazing horses and cattle every day. And I live closer to Gunchester than you...
Plus we have Matth and UiR in the UK. More dangerous than any venomous insect, or at least they would be if they had a single brain cell between them.
Pitbulls are actually the most common breed in South Carolina. Or they were a few years back when I saw a list of the state's most popular dogs. However, all in all, I feel safe where I am. Probably safer than being near Manchester. Quiet suburbia. A few gangs but I know where to avoid. Low crime area mostly. Not having @Matth_2014 around makes it even safer.
Sunds like a place I lived growing up mate, they even had horses in their gaffs, it's a hell of a thing to walk into someone's kitchen and a horse is in there staring you in the face
I'd give up all the spiders in the world to have these beauts living locally: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor.../Watch-Orcas-chase-boat-in-San-Diego-bay.html Awesome. I saw some in NZ, and @ three decades ago I saw some off the coast of Joan O'Groats. Saw a male sperm whale off the coast of Kaikura too. More spine-tingling than any car or plane, or indeed anything manmade bar a Saturn V rocket, imo.