Re: [LUG] OT Devon membership advantages

You know you're from Devon when...

you've bought stationery at Trago Mills :)

you can tell sheep from goats
and straw from hay (obviously!)
you think London's 'up north'
everywhere else in the UK feels cold
you have a friend who lives on a farm
you've been stuck behind a stupid tourist on a country lane
you saw the total eclipse in '99
you have nothing to do after 5:30pm
you know how to walk over a cattle grid
you watch 'Spotlight' (and know Teresa Driscoll, Justin Leigh, Russel Labey, Craig Rich and the gang )
you think nothing of grass growing in the middle of the road
your town is 'the gem of south Devon' or 'the English Riviera' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary
until you went on holiday, the tallest building you had ever seen was Debenhams in Exeter :)
you've reversed for 3 miles when you met a stubborn tourist on a country lane
it takes you 4 times longer to drive anywhere between May and September
your neighbours' average age is 76
your parents regularly thanked God for Crealy Country Park and Woodlands
your teachers regularly thanked God for Paignton Zoo, Buckfast
Abbey,Morwellham Quay and the legendary House of Marbles
you thought it was normal for more than 50% of your high street's shops to be
operated by charities
everyone you meet has been on holiday to your home town - no wonder it's so
busy in summer
you spent your entire childhood wanting to leave the place, yet now that you
have, you cry yourself to sleep then dream of rolling green hills and long,
sandy beaches
you used to look through your physical geography textbook because you knew
half of the
places in there
you know that 'the Launa man can' :)
before Freeview, you didn't believe the rumours about a '5th television
channel'
you found out about Plymouth Hoe / Westward Ho! before you realised the
name could be entertaining
your local shop sells clotted cream fudge and bucket/spade packs, but not
newspapers
your local publican (who has sideburns and red face) is a member of CAMRA, &
thinks a 'gastropub' is some kind of medical complication (he serves peanuts
& crisps)
you don't understand why a cinema would need more than two screens

You are addicted to reading every post on DCLUG in spite of only understanding
10% of what is said.

I've removed the bits that don't apply to me, but generally "yep". We have a trago in cornwall too, you know.