The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: supplies for smallholders on July 16, 2011, 09:58:45 pm
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Hi,
Found this link to an article on a software forum, whilst it relates mainly to software, there are a few interesting points for those who ask questions, and those who answer them.......
http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/ (http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/)
Enjoy
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So SfS,
Do you think we need a self help group?
Do we need to grow a small TASH ?
Are you a Vincent Price or a Robert Pattinson type!
ET ;D
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Perhaps it depends on where you are living.
Here in Norfolk people are pretty independent and are more keen to offer help than accept it.
I live in a little town where there is a high proportion of elderly people. Neighbours maintain their independence as long as they can but most of us eventually need and appreciate a bit of help. Mostly little things like getting to a hospital appointment, collecting oversize shopping when without a car, changing a blown fuse etc. And the help is appreciated.
I haven't seen anyone here who fits the title of help vampire. Perhaps that's part of why I am happy living where I am.
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Very interesting SfS - I hadn't thought of things like that before.
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Can you tell me how to start a successful smallholding?
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;D ;D ;D
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Can you tell me how to start a successful smallholding?
Oh thats an easy one - Just a few simple steps......
1) Give up all thoughts of normality
2) Watch your bank balance dwindle
3) Look after the photos from your last holiday - you wont get another for 74 years!
4) Ponder how excited you get when you make 5p profit on selling 3 butchered pigs
5) Dont settle for one species of livestock - get them all!!
6) Keep telling yourself you enjoy it!
Simples........
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You forgot the plug SfS.... ::) ::)
7. Instead of scouring magazines for your next purchace of perfume/aftershave and house freshener;
be prepared to study catalogues for wormers/flysprays and dissinfectants!!!
Emma T :wave: :wave:
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A Plug?? I don't possibly know what you could mean.... :bunny:
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or....
A good day out is a 20% off sale at the feed merchants
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A Day out ?? But the pigs / sheep / cattle may escape.
I had a day out once, went to the livestock auction, neighbours called me to tell me my pigs were out - They opened a gate themselves ! - Found my car and trailer blocked in at the car park - by the time I got home pigs were all asleep back in their pen - but my Lawn had gone!!!
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sounds like me last year, I couldn't work out how the sheep were escaping until I found the local council had put another gate in the top field for the public footpath and the gate doesn't shut securely. :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
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SfS, I think you missheard your neighbours that day.
The message was "your piggin' lawn's escaped, again!!!"
ET x :pig: :pig:
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When we had the wider family around a couple of weeks ago the fact that my wife was measuring something with an NSA sheep testicle tape was commented upon.
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When we had the wider family around a couple of weeks ago the fact that my wife was measuring something with an NSA sheep testicle tape was commented upon.
;D ;D ;D