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Title: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: faith0504 on October 14, 2010, 09:36:31 pm
hi, not been on line for a few weeks, a certain phone company completely messed up connecting our phone line and internet, were still waiting!!!!!! we have had to purchase dongles just to get us on line,
the move went really well, horses are settled, happy and chilled. the hens love there new patch(the back garden) and dogs have claimed there places in the house, i.e favorite chairs, or settee by favorite windows. and me and alan are living our dream, its amazing, incredible.
i have been busy sorting the land for the horses, and fencing, trying to get as much done as poss before winter kicks in, its a good way to diet and get fit, and gosh im sleeping well.
thanks for all your advice and support, missed you lot  :wave:
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: CarolW on October 14, 2010, 09:39:12 pm
Hi where have you moved far - where to ?
Carolx
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: faith0504 on October 14, 2010, 09:42:29 pm
we are near buckie,
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: knightquest on October 14, 2010, 09:57:23 pm
Congratulations! Glad it's gone so well  :)

Ian
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Post by: Daisys Mum on October 14, 2010, 10:11:03 pm

Hi and welcome back, glad to hear that your move went well :wave:
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: doganjo on October 14, 2010, 11:51:27 pm
Buckie?  Better get everything in for the winter then.  Mind you the Gulf Stream still goes around that area doesn't it? ;) ;D
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: Rosemary on October 15, 2010, 07:40:23 am
Welcome back  :wave: Glad the move went well  :)
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Post by: Hilarysmum on October 15, 2010, 10:53:33 am
Really pleased for you - keep enjoying ....
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: faith0504 on October 15, 2010, 11:59:37 am
thanks everyone, buckie had a fair bit of snow last winter, what will be will be weather wise, least all the family is together, no more journeys to stable yards,
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: Daveravey on October 16, 2010, 12:17:53 pm
I used to go to Buckie on holiday when i was a bairn.

Glad everything went ok for you.

Sounds like BT doing what they do best   :D
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: ser3dan on October 27, 2010, 05:44:05 pm
I'll be in Buckie for a job interview on Monday 8th November - now that would be funny if two people from here ended up living just down the road from each other!  :D
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: faith0504 on October 27, 2010, 06:52:19 pm
hey good luck with the interview, let us know how you get on  :wave:


daveravey                we got a new tesco opening on monday, bet buckie gas changed since you were a bairn!!!!!!!!
how many years ago?  :wave:
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: Daveravey on October 28, 2010, 02:26:56 pm
Ermmmm, more years than i care to remember Faith   :D :D :D

My old man was working up that way & was a crewman on the lifeboat for a while.

Can also remember the "Grace Paterson Ritchie" lifeboat on sea trials after a major refit. I'm sure she was the first steel hulled lifeboat in the country at that time.

Jeez, that takes me back   ::)
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: faith0504 on October 28, 2010, 07:20:14 pm
found this daveravey   

this is what has happened to "grace paterson ritchie"



I bought this boat in reykjavik in 2002, renamed it "grace ritchie" and brought it back to the clyde where I am trying to restore it to its former glory after 14 years of hard use in iceland. It is now berthed at Largs marina. I hope to be able to return to Kirkwall with it some time soon.
The Arun that replaced it as the Reykjavik lifeboat was the ex-Lerwick boat "soldian".

Added by Iain Crosbie on 01 February 2006


i hope this brings back memories  :wave:
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: ser3dan on November 12, 2010, 08:24:14 pm
hey good luck with the interview, let us know how you get on  :wave


Well, landed the job but again, had to turn it down  :( The pay wasn't enough for what they wanted, and certainly wouldn't let us move and buy a smallholding, so it's back to the job hunting and interview circuit again. Very  :(
Title: Re: we moved and love every minute of it
Post by: faith0504 on November 12, 2010, 09:35:23 pm
oh dear that is a shame, good luck with your hunt  :wave: