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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: molecontroller on January 24, 2009, 07:26:34 am

Title: HI from Scotland
Post by: molecontroller on January 24, 2009, 07:26:34 am
Hi all, new to site live in scotland Grangemouth spend all my time controlling moles and rabiits (non toxic of coarse)
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on January 24, 2009, 10:49:59 am
hiya from fws in clacks
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: HappyHippy on January 24, 2009, 11:42:15 am
Hiya from me in South Lanarkshire !

I'm sure you'll have lots of very useful info to share ! Look forward to hearing more from you.

Karen  :pig:
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: molecontroller on January 24, 2009, 12:38:26 pm
look forward to it :)
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Post by: Julie S on January 24, 2009, 03:15:15 pm
Hi from a mole-infested field in Staffordshire - shame you don't live a bit closer  :(
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: molecontroller on January 24, 2009, 03:43:55 pm
britian is to big lol
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Post by: Crofter on January 24, 2009, 06:50:55 pm
Hi from the Isle of Lewis too!

Dave
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Post by: sandy on January 24, 2009, 09:23:26 pm
Hello from Clackmannanshire, the smallest county with the BIGGEST stone, take a look, Sandy
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Post by: microbabes16 on January 26, 2009, 09:44:47 pm
Hi from Bathgate, just down the road.

Jen
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Post by: sellickbhoy on January 27, 2009, 01:20:44 pm
Oh, it's almost a wee Scottish commune here eh!! I'm just up the road from you - just outside Linlithgow

Welcome and feel free to bring any spare rabbit you come across  :)

Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: ballingall on January 27, 2009, 09:45:28 pm
It is a scottish commune! I see you're at Muiravonside sellickbhoy, we're down just past Avonbridge.
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: doganjo on January 28, 2009, 01:14:43 am
I tried to buy a cottage near Avonbridge (Candie) last year - went for silly money, twice the asking price, and my offer was no 6 out of 17 - it still smarts as I could have afforded the price they got!  Never mind I'm here now!
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: ballingall on January 28, 2009, 11:50:47 pm
I remember seeing a place at Candie for sale last year (I love looking at houses for sale), as I recall even the asking price was pretty high!

Beth
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Post by: doganjo on January 29, 2009, 09:37:02 pm
No, it wasn't that high o/o £150K.  I offered £202K and it went for just over £300K. As I said 17 offers, most of them below or close to me and only one high offer. It was a tiny cottage badly in need of modernising - sliding doors for wheelchair access needed removing, rotten frames, dilapidated greenhouse attached to back door, untended garden (due to illness) etc etc.  But it had a rylocked 2 acre paddock and backed onto fairly newly planted woodland so not overlooked except by walkers.  4 miles from m'way - perfect for me but my cagey lawyer wouldn't let me bid any higher. Now have a new lawyer ;)
Still an acre isn't bad - just needs roughing up a bit as it's a pretty garden just now.
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: sellickbhoy on January 30, 2009, 03:04:56 pm
ha ha, a wee Avon Gorge community, never mind Scotland!!

well, i'm right opposite the entrance to Muiravonside Country park

apparently the woman the owns the house above me is thinking about putting it on the market - Ooooooooo I'm so tempted to put an offer in for it if she does. comes with 5 acres and a horses stables though (that'll put the price well out of my reach) but she is thinking about keeping the land and the stables and sell the flat (that would suit me as i could make it back into 1 big house!)

No idea how i'll be able to finance such a venture in this climate though!

She's also selling a bit of land along the canal bank so someone can build 4 self catering chalets and a bistro on it - perfect, a local pub!!! just what's needed. Just waiting for the planning permission to go through
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: ballingall on February 01, 2009, 10:33:11 pm
Thats interesting gossip sellickbhoy! Which school catchment area are you in? My sister is looking to move out of her cul de sac in Linlithgow, but because of the kids she wants to be in the catchment area for Linlithgow academy. She'd love someplace where she could keep a few hens, and maybe even their goats. Though I don't think she can afford 5 acres and a stables either!

Annie, an acre isn't bad- we only have just over an acre here.

Beth
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: doganjo on February 01, 2009, 11:26:26 pm
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Annie, an acre isn't bad- we only have just over an acre here.

It is when it's mostly in garden type mossy soggy wet grass ::)  Still, it has it's uses - agility run in the front garden and loads of hunting in the shrubs and trees at the front too with mostly gravel at the back and a few fruit trees(I put them in)
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: mackbear on February 02, 2009, 12:04:34 am
hey Molecontroller,

welcome to the site :)

Im in Armadale....just up the road too :)

Martin,
Title: Re: HI from Scotland
Post by: molecontroller on February 05, 2009, 04:08:49 pm
glad to hear from you all, sounds like we are all nearby