What's your idea of Paradise?

13 Jun 2006

If you could change your living circumstances to anything at all what would you do?
I'm not sure if I want green countryside or pale beaches - maybe a combination of both. I live in a green'ish part of a city centre but love to go out into the wilds but equally love to be near to the sea (it's only 7 miles from me anyway but would like to be right by the coast) and yet really enjoy living in a city centre setting.
Not helpful I know - but I don't long for miles of beach and Pina Coladas served by big men in skimpy costumes......mmmmmmmmmmm need to rethink that one! redface

OK.. Paradise here we come. Dashboard lights not considered. lol

13 Jun 2006

a small tropical island, and me served by my own team of hunky servants

13 Jun 2006

Like Well_busty_babe wrote
A small tropical island, Only I would like a team of sexy nude females to serve me ( and Tony ) all our desires :twisted:
Also, there would be no war, no starvation in 3rd world countries, no hate...ext. ext.
And absolutely everyone of age would be swingers :twisted:
Shaz x

13 Jun 2006

a chocolate-box cottage or small farm , out in the sticks with a bit of land to be self sufficient and that's it really. To wake up early in a morning to collect eggs for breakfast, to drink freshly ground coffee in a picket-fenced garden & earn through my own little cottage industry biggrin

omg how pink and fluffy was that :shock:

13 Jun 2006

Quote by Shaz_n_Tony
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Also, there would be no war, no starvation in 3rd world countries, no hate...ext. ext.
And absolutely everyone of age would be swingers :twisted:
Shaz x

The above but a string of communal hotels to drop into when you are travelling. In Paradise I would do a lot of that. Summer in the south, then summer in the north.

13 Jun 2006

Quote by Darkfire
a chocolate-box cottage or small farm , out in the sticks with a bit of land to be self sufficient and that's it really. To wake up early in a morning to collect eggs for breakfast, to drink freshly ground coffee in a picket-fenced garden & earn through my own little cottage industry
omg how pink and fluffy was that :shock:

Ah, the Rural Idyll - it sounds just like a Constable painting.
I spend a good deal of my 'out in the car' time looking for free range eggs with chicken shit on them still. No need to have disinfected eggs.
Jazz music.... nice. Actually I'm new to jazz as it somehow makes my nerve endings jingle jangle in an unpleasant way. Just bought a Terry Callier CD... chilled.
String of hotels - now that sounds good. As long as the transport between them is easy and effortless!
lol

13 Jun 2006

An old house in the country, preferably in need of renovation and with it's own land, where the crime rate is feck all and you can't hear the neighbour's music. Complete paradise would be a world where guys don't take the piss or think you should be eternally grateful for any attention they give you, where petrol is cheap but the roads are safe enough to cycle along and someone has invented self-tidying gardens.

13 Jun 2006

Running an animal sanctuary with my gf somewhere beautiful! surprised

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13 Jun 2006

Paradise to me would be with the wife on a permanent world cruise with a balcony cabin.
Sitting outside with a brew at a new port of call every morning,heaven !!!!!!!
Oh,almost forgot ! All passengers would be members of S.H ,double heaven !!!!!!
L.B

13 Jun 2006

Quote by little bighorn
Paradise to me would be with the wife on a permanent world cruise with a balcony cabin.
Sitting outside with a brew at a new port of call every morning,heaven !!!!!!!
Oh,almost forgot ! All passengers would be members of S.H ,double heaven !!!!!!
L.B

Just noticed it was your first post and wanted to say wave

and :welcome:
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13 Jun 2006

Quote by little bighorn
Paradise to me would be with the wife on a permanent world cruise with a balcony cabin.
Sitting outside with a brew at a new port of call every morning,heaven !!!!!!!
Oh,almost forgot ! All passengers would be members of S.H ,double heaven !!!!!!
L.B

Good first post ! Hi there and welcome to SH wave

I'll get my passport, I could do with another cruise wink

13 Jun 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
An old house in the country, preferably in need of renovation and with it's own land, where the crime rate is feck all and you can't hear the neighbour's music. Complete paradise would be a world where guys don't take the piss or think you should be eternally grateful for any attention they give you, where petrol is cheap but the roads are safe enough to cycle along and someone has invented self-tidying gardens.

I can do the self tidying garden for you. Take a large piece of wood or plastic. Bury one foot (that's about one of a meter) in the ground. Then paint on the top part, 'Nature Reserve'

13 Jun 2006

Thank-you so much Kiss-Me for the welcome,much appreciated
Love the avatar,is the hi vis jacket so we can see you cummin !!!!!!!
L.B xxxxxxx

13 Jun 2006

:laughabove:
cheesy but funny , you're gonna fit right in! wink

13 Jun 2006

Fancy moving out into the country and finding Darkfire as your neighbour? :twisted: That really WOULD be paradise! kiss

13 Jun 2006

Well, paradise never comes cheap, there's always a price to pay. I suppose I'd love to leave the country and live in the Maldives. Nice and warm, quite unspoilt, on the beach, slurping a mid morning, lunchtime, afternoon, evening and night time cocktail and watching the sun go down with not a care in the world. But the only problem there is there's always too many tourists abroad !!

13 Jun 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
Fancy moving out into the country and finding Darkfire as your neighbour? :twisted: That really WOULD be paradise!

thats it, someone fetch the white coat people

13 Jun 2006

keep thinking about the 'backup pan' i dreamed up in my youth (and it's getting more tempting all the time)
give up the daily grind here, sell everything and move somewhere sunny, buy a boat and spend my days taking tourists out sightseeing and fishing. maybe try and open a little bar for some evening entertainment. just fancy getting away from some of the crap that comes from living here and live a little more simply

13 Jun 2006

Would have to be a tropical island biggrin

I would be the owner of a pole dancing club :twisted:
Carribean music, me swinging in a hammock, sipping rum and coconut, watching the ladies dancing :D
Every night would be party night, friends come round and stay as long as they wanted.
Oh and I would have a cave, like the one at the playboy mansion, where you could swim in the warm water, and get naughty :rascal:

13 Jun 2006

Quote by meat2pleaseu
give up the daily grind here, sell everything and move somewhere sunny, buy a boat and spend my days taking tourists out sightseeing and fishing. maybe try and open a little bar for some evening entertainment. just fancy getting away from some of the crap that comes from living here and live a little more simply

sounds fantastic
maybe in another 20 years when I actually have something to sell rolleyes

but Its the whole idea of living more simply that appeals so much to me, to be self-sufficient and live a bit olde worlde - no more of this rat race and daily grind because its what's expected of us, more that I would choose to do it for me & my family and frankly stuff everyone else. Not sure as i'd be any good at fishing on a boat mind you, but the principal of it sounds great biggrin

13 Jun 2006

How about what would spoil paradise?
For me it's the lack of anything to achieve.

13 Jun 2006

I have looked at all the replies... and I have thought and thought...
I am about to move into my own house after 9 years in two long relationships sharing a mortgage and experiencing misery as well as lovely times.
Once I am in my own house that will be paradise. biggrin

It is a large victorian house that needs renovating (have done that many times so am happy with that )
It gets the sun all day. has a lovely little garden and a big enough outside brick store for the motorbike. It is close to my work which I love. It has enough space to run my business from- which I also is close to my sons' school and his friends. It is close to a huge park where I can picnic, sunbathe and feed the ducks
I will have the freedom to have any of my friends to stay. I will be able to make my own choices about everything to do with the house and my life. I love town life. I like visiting the country.
the cruising and the island holidays and the beaches I can do anytime and I would worry they would lose their shine when experienced daily.
So yes I am a month away from paradise.
x x

13 Jun 2006

Apart from the obvious comment that paradise is anywhere that Jags is :inlove: :inlove:
Well, I get top marks for creeping, surely :giggle:
Paradise for me would be a job that allows me to spend as much time as possible with my family (until recently I have been spending most of each week away from home), but still allow me enough time (and money) to follow my main outside interest (no, not swinging! rolleyes

Honestly, you lot - one track minds) and also to give my children a reasonable start in life.
Preferably somewhere in the countryside (neither Sappho nor I particularly care for towns and cities) with a pleasant view and plenty of birdsong - though if the dawn chorus could start a little later than 4:00 am that would be nice (sorry to be picky, but it IS supposed to be paradise).
It would also have to include good wine, good food and good company - which brings us back to Jags passionkiss

assionkiss:
Will
PS Jags, when are you coming to stay for the weekend?

13 Jun 2006

it would be a toss up between . . .
your rural idyll, with pigs and geese and chickens and horsies and a nice little organic veggie patch, something along the lines of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage, nestling in a little wooded valley with a sparkling little trout river running through the garden,
or . . . a comfy little narrow-boat so i could wander the country as the mood takes me and pull up wherever i please.
i somehow have a feeling the first option's gonna out of my price bracket sad

but i have high hopes for the second! smile

neil x x x ;)

13 Jun 2006

Quote by willxx69
Apart from the obvious comment that paradise is anywhere that Jags is :inlove: :inlove:
It would also have to include good wine, good food and good company - which brings us back to Jags assionkiss:
Will
PS Jags, when are you coming to stay for the weekend?

Sometimes it's SO VERY GOOD to come home after a tough'ish day at work to find lovely posts in this site! kiss

:kiss: You are both next on the list - got a certain pair of chocolate bars to contend with next weekend! :inlove:
Hope you achieve your dream Will. Meanwhile, tomorrow is Wednesday, perhaps we could revive an old tradition??
wink

13 Jun 2006

Give me the countryside anytime......a nice little villiage with a villiage square with pond,a tall church with steeple were the bells rang on Sunday....but instead i'm stuck here in London! :cry:

13 Jun 2006

I'd like to be in a house (don't matter where) that has a large room ideal for all my home cinema kit. I could set it up and spend lots of time watching my favourite film and TV on a Big screen with big sound without bothering anyone else.

13 Jun 2006

I grew up on a small farm, with chickens and lambs, horses and cows. I now live in an old farm house in the countryside but close enough to town to hop on a bus and be there in 20 minutes, and 20 minutes drive from some of the most beautiful beaches in the country. My idea of paradise is having someone to share it with.
H.x

13 Jun 2006

Quote by Darkfire

give up the daily grind here, sell everything and move somewhere sunny, buy a boat and spend my days taking tourists out sightseeing and fishing. maybe try and open a little bar for some evening entertainment. just fancy getting away from some of the crap that comes from living here and live a little more simply

sounds fantastic
maybe in another 20 years when I actually have something to sell rolleyes

but Its the whole idea of living more simply that appeals so much to me, to be self-sufficient and live a bit olde worlde - no more of this rat race and daily grind because its what's expected of us, more that I would choose to do it for me & my family and frankly stuff everyone else. Not sure as i'd be any good at fishing on a boat mind you, but the principal of it sounds great biggrin

So just you, meaty and the Rivercottage cookbook. lol

Storm....... Who has the set redface

13 Jun 2006

Somewhere with a quiet beach and lots of sunshine, where I could get up in the morning and go down for a swim. A big bleached-wood deck where I could have parties and BBQs, and lots of spare bedrooms for all my friends to come and stay. A huge library and no TV, and a sunny room to sit and write in. A friendly town within walking distance to wander in, chat to a few people and do some shopping. And an airport nearby so I could pop off to Rome or London or Geneva when I felt like a bit of city buzz.