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Title: New to your forum
Post by: Irish Blowin on December 08, 2011, 04:00:56 pm

Hi
I live in the West of Ireland. I was originally from Hounslow Middlesex which is right next to Heathrow Airport. I never had any farming experience until one mad day we bought 2 Landrace sows to turn over our veggie plot. That was 10 years ago. We have kept Gloucester Old Spot, Tamworth and Saddleback pigs. Done AI, bred them the natural way, made salami, sausage, ham, bacon the lot! Looking forward to sharing my experiences with you all and I'm sure I can learn something new along the way.  :wave:

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: Rosemary on December 08, 2011, 04:49:34 pm

Hello and welcome from a rather breezy Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: melodrama on December 08, 2011, 05:08:52 pm

Hello from very windy Forfar  :wave:

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: doganjo on December 08, 2011, 05:27:35 pm

Welcome from wet and windy Clackmannan.  Hope it's not too bad over the sea.  Don't try to make sense of the Bawbag thread, it'll do your head in!  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: DeeDee on December 08, 2011, 06:30:41 pm

Hello and welcome!

Windy and rainy weather has made it's way to Northumberland, so it may be on it's way to you - good luck!

Dee  :wave:

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: plumseverywhere on December 08, 2011, 06:45:46 pm

Hello from WOrcestershire  :wave:

I used to be a nursing sister on the Gynae ward at Hillingdon hospital just up the road from Hounslow!!! small world  :D

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: Brucklay on December 08, 2011, 07:15:14 pm

Hi from a very windy Aberdeenshire and it's due to get worse!!! Hope your not too bad where you are

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: Miss Piggy on December 08, 2011, 09:19:06 pm

Hi warm welcome from Wild West Wales, very wet windy and cold at the moment.  :wave:

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: ramblerskitchen on December 08, 2011, 11:04:50 pm

Hi from Dorset.

My OH was from Hounslow also.  When we first met (we worked together) he was forever taking the P@@@ out of my living "in the sticks" and saying that although he had moved to Dorset he would never be seen dead in wellies.............roll on 6 years   we now rent 2 acres...have 7 pigs 8 sheep and 30 odd chicken.  Have made our own sausages, make chutnies, pickles etc. together to sell. 

He still has a normal job... I am luckier and work for myself as a gardener and accident investigator........The animals and simple things are the best.  Good Luck and this site is brilliant.

Sarah x

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: SallyintNorth on December 08, 2011, 11:09:16 pm

As warm a welcome as I can manage in these gales from north Cumbria  :wave:

Finally got my breeding sow after wanting my own for thirty-odd years.  Still very much a novice on the pig front, so your experience will be welcome!

Title: Re: New to your forum
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 08, 2011, 11:48:32 pm

 :wave: Hi and welcome from windy Shropshire.