| Some 40 per cent of the houses are either holiday cottages or weekend havens for wealthy townies. |
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| During the hiking craze of the 1930s, hungry cottagers would throw stones at the knapsacked townies who came to gawp. |
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| A lot of the people I've seen hunting have actually gone in anoraks, and who most townies would describe as thick country bumpkins. |
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| Professors, students, and townies alike stood around us, sobbing silently at the destruction of the most beloved building on campus. |
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| I think at the moment the spin merchants and townies are trying to push the countryside that bit too far. |
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| He's stuck in a pebble-dashed council house on the edge while townies occupy the cottage that his grandparents once lived in. |
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| This is the simple aspect of the proposed plan that is lost on townies who know only concrete, Tarmac and a town park. |
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| Lots of townies and people with a couple of acres are buying hens, just to have them milling around their feet. |
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| It's a typical case of townies trying to tell people how to run the countryside. |
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| From cards to boats to horses, the townies of Oxford seemed only too willing to indulge the students in morally questionable pastimes. |
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| A growing number of townies have been phoning Sarah at her home in Milford on Sea to book a stress-busting session at her riding school. |
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| But it is not the huge caricature the townies would take it for at first glance. |
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| The problem is with groups of townies who clog up the shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon. |
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| It was only the incoming townies who ever kicked up about it. |
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| Not all small communities see the benefits, however, and the taverns of Port McNeill have seen heated arguments between pro-farming townies and anti-farming islanders. |
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| In Britain, we have townies and country folk, northerners and southerners, but Spain has 17 distinct regions, each with its own food, festivals and politics. |
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| The 1960s were full of ballrooms of no chance, lacquered townies and long stepping country men who came looking for their hearts delights under fat Harvest moons. |
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| Fed up with annoying townies blathering on about the countryside? |
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| Having conveniently forgotten our vows never to return, we showed off our still-attached limbs, teaching the mix of students and townies the art of disco-dancing. |
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| For some time now the town has been simmering with a feud between miners and townies. |
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| I expect it's just those countryfolk proving to us ignorant townies what wonderful nature-lovers they are. |
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| They are more popular with the clientele the townies who want a breather less prone to pest attack and they encourage a greater diversity of wildlife. |
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| For their part, the Tories portray Labour opposition to culling as base pandering to soppy townies who are sentimental about fluffy animals and don't know the first thing about the harsh realities of life on the land. |
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| During recess an inviolable border separated the townies at the northern end of our play area from the barnies at the southern. |
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| In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war. |
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| Earlier, there would probably have been a grudge match between two townies, or locals. |
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| In that sense, the townies, not the farmers, were the inheritors of a pioneer capacity for hard work. |
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| A PAIR of townies receive a less-than-friendly welcome from their new neighbours in this plainly unremarkable home-invasion horror. |
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| Is there a link to the bitter rivalry between the smug townies and the rural rabble? |
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| Not to be read by Defra, politicians, townies and anyone else who dares interfere with the countryside. |
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| For the benefit of townies, we don't grow rice in Britain so the picture probably came from China. |
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| Many townies do not realise that farmers work seven days a week and in summer you are very likely to meet farm animals or vehicles on rural roads, even on Sundays. |
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| I'm sure they don't need townies that don't understand rural activities. |
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| Parmofan Out the townies come saying the snow''s not that bad. |
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