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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: countrywoman on November 28, 2011, 11:27:20 am

Title: New Member from Kent
Post by: countrywoman on November 28, 2011, 11:27:20 am
I just found this site while looking for info on goat-keeping.  I have recently acquired two Golden Guernseys and want to know more!  I also have gold-laces orpington bantams and two rescues Staffies.  Used to have a farm with sheep, cattle, poultry and horses (not to mention cats, dogs, children... ) but have never had any experience with goats and although many aspects of animal-husbandry are applicable all round I am discovering that goats have rules of their own.
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: robert waddell on November 28, 2011, 12:09:57 pm
hello there i know a joke about Kent cant tell it here well i could but some might be offended :farmer:
been down to Kent once canterberry :farmer:
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: feldar on November 28, 2011, 01:58:54 pm
Go on tell your joke, i was born in Kent i'm sure you won't offend anyone. We are a tough lot
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: lill on November 28, 2011, 04:54:13 pm
Welcome to the forum look forward to your questions.  :wave: :wave:
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: Rosemary on November 28, 2011, 04:55:01 pm
Hello and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: countrywoman on November 28, 2011, 06:27:22 pm
Thank you all for the welcome - and what is the joke about Kent?  Come on, I'm not easily offended or shocked!

I've already posted my first question about goat keeping...
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: Lesley Silvester on November 29, 2011, 11:49:32 am
 :wave: Hi and welcome from windy and about-to-be-wet Shropshire.  Wherabouts in Kent are you?  I grew up in Hastings so not far from Kent and visited it often.
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: feldar on November 29, 2011, 08:06:15 pm
Welcome countrywoman :wave: I was born in Bexleyheath and lived in Sevenoaks for a while and then Staplehurst after i was married.
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: thenovice on November 30, 2011, 11:46:51 pm
Hi im not too far away, near cranbrook  :wave:
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: SallyintNorth on November 30, 2011, 11:50:39 pm
Hi there countrywoman  :wave: from just about as far away in England as it is possible to get!  (North Cumbria, about 20 miles from Scotland  :).)

robert's jokes are ripe, very ripe.  He'd probably get banned for posting it, whatever it is  ;) :D

I had a riding holiday near Canterbury when I was about 14, I think - Pennypot Farm.  Lovely countryside for riding about in - at least, it was then!  And I have friends in West Malling, though I haven't visited them for several years.
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: thenovice on December 01, 2011, 12:12:05 am
There still is some stunning scenery around canterbury and the north downs Sally. But sadly the southeast is far too busy and crowded now and peace and quiet is a rare thing. Too many bankers, developers and people snapping up pasture for pony paddocks and caravans, so the price of grazing is way out of reach for most! (sorry, rant over)
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: manian on December 01, 2011, 06:45:57 am
morning and welcome..... :wave:



we have lots of people buying land for ponies here as well..... puts the price up :(
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: skidley on December 02, 2011, 03:35:30 pm
Yey a fellow hello from Kent! We are right next to the Romney marsh, just the wrong side of the canal near Hamstreet.

I used to ride a lot near Canterbury, I'm sure we rode our bikes down the huge hill that Pennypot Stables is on to get to my friends house in Chartham
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: Blinkers on December 02, 2011, 06:16:48 pm
HI and welcome from a very wet (but beautiful) south west Wales.    :thumbsup:
I was born in Kent (Tenterden), and my stomping ground as a teenager was Canterbury and .......Pennypot.....wow, that's a blast from the past  :D      I know Cranbrook well too, and all around that area in fact.
 :wave:

Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: thenovice on December 02, 2011, 09:51:35 pm
Tenterden is nice, when did you move?
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: Blinkers on December 03, 2011, 02:24:05 pm
When I was 8 months old  ;D ;D ;D ;D   But about 25 years later, used to meet my Mum there every few months to go shopping.    She lives in Broadstairs and I was living in West Sussex in those days.   I've gradually moved further and further West  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: New Member from Kent
Post by: Eastling on December 08, 2011, 09:28:58 am
Hello and welcome  we are also in Kent but from West Sussex originally
You will get lots of help here a very friendly lot  ;D