If We All Lived In The Same Town....

[Eleanor]

@scout - I"ll help with the feeding - I need routine. Although, my horse would tell you that I am always late on the feeding thing... No matter what time it is! Are sheep more appreciative?

I was thinking also a bandstand, and dancing ... that could be on a schedule so you'd know when to show up....

 

[Flossy]

I would like a rockpool to sit in and read trashy magazines. I want to be allowed it sit in it and drink my cup of tea out of a fine bone china tea cup, so please no signs telling me what I am not allowed to do in the pool or next to it. I might pee in the pool. Just sayin.

I volunteer to cook huge tasty healthy curries, bold beef with a tomato base and sweet coconut chicken curry with chilli and tamarind whenever I get a hormone surge. I will even ladle it out in large bowl with crusty parmesan bread on the side.

On Sundays I will sometimes do huge amounts of american style pork ribs with garlic ginger soy and honey gravy. Must be eaten with fingers like vikings. We can make damper on sticks too over a fire that has turned to coals.

We need glitter on the pathways and roads, just to lift our spirits. The library will have all the best books and magazines like Vanity Fair and Mindfood. Autobiographies will be a large percentage of the available range.

We will be allowed to wear fur (ethically sourced) if it is cold because it is tactile and soothing to stroke. Our mattresses will all have the very best memory foam covers and beds will have surrounds on them so we can be tucked in if we need it. There will be beds outside on verandahs for hot nights and we will have cotton mosquito nets to make us feel safe and cocooned.

We can do archery, canoeing and there will be trampolines in the parks. We can hold outdoor movie nights with all the great classics and hotdogs with crispy onions and grated cheese for tea. The seats will be the old laid back sling types made of canvas so we can easily look up at the stars and any owls that join us.

The guys will be encouraged to go out in the darkness and run around in laplaps slapping each other on the back, eating meat cooked over a fire and talking man talk way into the night.

I will encourage girlfriends to sit in the forest at night and talk around the fire then float in the clear creek with our long cotton nighties on and look at the moon as though it was our magical light.

We are all allowed to sleep in whenever we want and have full doona days with no explanation required.

There will be no mobile phones. Only home phones and outdoor phone stations that are free to use and can be called as well.

 

[Changing4Best]

I think we should have special fenced in areas for our dogs to run and play in. Then I can go in there and pet folks dogs, even though I don't have one. My dog was in a health crisis and so I don't have here anymore. (Long story). I love dogs though, so I would want to go into that area with some balls to play fetch with too. Any of you have a dog?

 

[oasis2003]

Yes I have a lab she loves being cuddled and stroked and eating

 

[Deleted member 1860]

No fall or winter for those of us with SAD. No victimizers, either. I couldn't live down the street from someone else if I knew they were a child molestor, even if they did have ptsd.

 

[Ronin]

@KwanYingirl, what about bit older cheerleaders? I can so do the flag waving, slogan writing and waving, go-go-you-can-make-it!, cheering.

@Flossy, why no cells? That could be solvable differently, with fees, if they're the only concern. Or there's always walkie talkies. Personally I don't see much point in something that's hardly mobile, hard to reach in emergencies as home phones, pretty easy to disable et all. While we're talking about the 'safe(r) variants of things'.

 

[Flossy]

@SheilaKathy I have a 13 year old 5kg black pomeranian. He has leukemia but he is doing well on steroids. Dogs are a life saver for someone with PTSD. Nothing like forced joy to bring you back.
@Cashew I just find them annoying. I am being selfish cos I dont have one. OK we will have them but we will understand if some of us dont want to. Older cheer leaders will be encourage to cheer and wave their flags and wear their outfit wherever they want to.
@itsKismet No child molesters or victimiser are allowed to enter the village boundaries. They will be chased out with big sticks if they try. We'll all be terribly politically incorrect and yell out their names.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I always have my cell on silent, never on vibrate mode..... OMG I was expecting a call last week and it DROVE ME NUTS b/c I had to leave my phone on and the sounds agitated me! (Well, the call never came. Gotta love Social Services and how they lie about calling....) I like being un accessible. Of course it drives everyone else crazy that I can't be reached! Other people's phones don't bother me. I just hate being called, texted, whatever.....Same reason why I don't get alerts here on the forum and I have my account closed off to others. I hate feeling like I'm being called like a dog who must obey commands. (Right after diagnosis there was this guy who harassed me via phone for weeks, so the trigger sort of stuck.)

 

[hodge]

Oh, Flossy, I so much love your dream of what this place would be like!! SheilaKathy, I agree there would have to be fenced-in areas for all our dogs. Hopefully, it would be like a dogpark, where they would all group off and play. Our dogs are our lifesavers, oftentimes. They deserve a lot of consideration in Shimmerville.

 

[Deleted member 29961]

They will be chased out with big sticks if they try

Can we form a brute squad? with an official brute squad t-shirt that says "I'm a member of the Shimmerville Brute Squad, mess with the best and get called out like the rest."?

 

[Ronin]

Wasn't it mess with the best, get water sprayed like the rest? Unless we're low on water, we'd have sticks for all sorts of building spared.

 

[hodge]

Lol.