What do people want or expect from a CL ?

Take it from me John, there are some folks who should never visit CLs, or the rural areas altogether. Years ago, we had builders in doing a bit of work for us, a nice team, mainly in twenties age range. We said to them use garden for lunch as it was a lovely Summer. I came out with a pot of tea for them and one of the lads asked what those strange large birds were at bottom of garden. He had never seen a live chicken before!

Some members are dipping in a toe to CLs, as Club Site prices creep ever higher. Upon arriving there, a few are shocked to find live animals around, birds that hoot in the night, no peg dictating how to park and strange green stuff hitherto confined to parks! They then go online demanding things are brought up to Club Site standards!😂👎

There are some people who are impossible to please. 

The daughter of a farmer friend of ours was asked by a work colleague where milk came from.

As TDA said, there are some people who should avoid the alien environment of the countryside. 

There are also those of us, who have lived and worked in London all our lives up to retirement, who thoroughly enjoy the smells, sounds, muck and beautiful views afforded by CLs.

Quieter and more peaceful than some club sites we have been on.

Each to their own,

"There are also those of us, who have lived and worked in London all our lives up to retirement, who thoroughly enjoy the smells, sounds, muck and beautiful views afforded by CLs."

That's because you understand and appreciate the differences, RF, others don't.

There are people who live in the countryside who don't notice what's around them, it's not the environment it's those who live in it without being aware of their surroundings, town or country. Luckily a lot of people do appreciate things.

Our tale is a someone at work who rushed in one morning here in Somerset and declared he'd just seen a Golden Eagle....even though he'd lived all his life in a spot where buzzards lived in the trees near him, he never knew what they were. So you can be amongst it and still not notice!

Had to laugh today. Had a day out at Chainbridge Honey Farm, which has a vintage double decker bus for a delightful cafe. Top deck, mid cuppa, cue mayhem as someone spotted a couple of wasps inside, and the arm flapping started! I just calmly grabbed a clean glass and a piece of paper, caught said "hornets" inside, then let them go out the window. Some embarrassed faces when I explained they were honey bees, often found on a honey farm! Some folks are just plain barking!

We've lived in the countryside and holidayed mainly in country areas for the majority of our lives.

However my sister has always lived in a city. One year we took her with us on a flying visit to see some cousins in Dublin. The ferry docked back in Holyhead early in the evening and as I was driving through the Anglesey countryside she asked a very simple question:

"Where do they put the sheep at night?" 

She insisted on going home early when she stayed over at our house because she couldn't sleep due to the strange noises that some bird (an owl) was making and as for the birds in the morning. I wouldn't mind but she lived on a busy road in Liverpool.

Some people should never be allowed out in the countryside without taking an exam first.

Chickens to cluck, cockerels to crow, sheep to baa and cows to moo otherwise I’m in the wrong place

Wood pigeons tap dancing on the caravan roof at 4am can be a bit annoying!