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Title: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: OldGaffer on May 06, 2011, 11:09:58 pm

Just like to say Hello. We keep chickens, geese plus some other livestock. We are also keen vegetable growers and have an allotment on Fen soil, which is very good at growing weeds as well :)

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: piggy on May 06, 2011, 11:25:32 pm

Hi and welcome from Suffolk,where abouts are you?  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: Rosemary on May 06, 2011, 11:29:43 pm

Quick welcome from Carnoustie  :wave: now I'm off to bed. Night all  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: OldGaffer on May 06, 2011, 11:39:10 pm

Quote from: piggy on May 06, 2011, 11:25:32 pm

Hi and welcome from Suffolk,where abouts are you?  :wave:

We live over in Cambridgeshire, so may be not so far from you, hence the access to fenland :farmer:

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: Hilarysmum on May 07, 2011, 12:44:46 pm

Hi welcome from Brittany land of weeds.  We keep chickens pigs and hopefully ducks.

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: piggy on May 07, 2011, 02:42:05 pm

We are near Beccles.

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: OldGaffer on May 07, 2011, 07:28:14 pm

I sometimes go to the http://www.icenimsg.co.uk]Iceni Microscopy Study Group[/url [url]http://www.icenimsg.co.uk (http://Iceni Microscopy Study Group[/url [url)], that is based in between Bungay and Beccles, lovely rolling countryside.

We are live near to Ely.

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: darkbrowneggs on May 07, 2011, 07:39:09 pm

Hi and welcome from weedy, windy, Worcestershire -   All the best  -  Sue  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: benkt on May 10, 2011, 03:47:24 pm

Hi - from a fellow Cambridgeshirian. Our fen soil has set like concrete in the sun though :(

Ben

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: OldGaffer on May 10, 2011, 07:37:39 pm

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome  :wave:

Ben, I guess you must have some clay in with your fen peat, in order to set so like concrete, i.e. you must be on fen high land. We have some land that is high land and it has huge cracks every where, but the other area of fen peat is so dry it looks like it might "blow" if there is a strong wind. The crops around here are struggling, I have seen some fields of wheat that are much shorter than I would expect them to be at this time of the year. Lets hope it rains soon!

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: little blue on May 10, 2011, 09:10:20 pm

hello and welcome  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: NorthEssexsmallholding on May 16, 2011, 09:15:38 pm

welcome from North Essex.

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: Cinderhills on May 17, 2011, 07:15:45 am

Hello & welcome from North Yorkshire.  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from East Anglia
Post by: lill on May 17, 2011, 09:02:58 am

hi warm welcome from central scotland :wave: