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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Bert on January 20, 2012, 11:57:11 am
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Hello First thing you need to know is I have dyslexia. So apologies if the spelling is unreadable at times! (as I will not always have the dictionary if front of me. like now ;D). Now I've finished making my excuses, down to the important stuff.
I live on the Isle of Mull (it's fantastic!). I am a jack of all trades a master of none. At the moment I'm a gardener at a local hotel. The kitchen garden is my favourite part, love growing veg. I've got 10 quail (love my girls) and then there is seven the retired working collie ( yes his name really is seven). Should mention I also have a Bob, he is the other half. In the very near future will be getting some chickens. Going to do some house work now, then I will be back to ask lots of silly questions .
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Hello Bert, and welcome to the forum. :wave:
Don't worry about spelling and punctuation, it's optional for some members anyway and so long as we know what you mean everything will be fine. :thumbsup:
I love Mull, worked there a wee while as a forester when I was young(er).
Looking forward to hearing more from you, and the only silly questions are the ones you don't ask. :)
Dan
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Hi Bert and welcome from southern Scotland. I too love growing veggies so look forward to learning from your experience. Seven Bob - love it, or is that 7/0 :dog: :pug: As Dan says, don't get yourself in a twist about spelling - no-one else does ;D
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Hello & welcome to TAS from me in Lanarkshire :wave:
I LOVE Mull, such a beautiful place !
Look forward to hearing more and hopefully helping answer some of your questions ;) Like Dan says - they're only daft if you don't ask them ! :thumbsup:
Karen :wave:
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Hi Bert and welcome to the forum, hope you are not in the path of the mull rally when its staged, anyway welcome again from central scotland :wave: :wave:
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Hi Bert and welcome to the forum from the bigchicken fay Fife. Mull is fantastic been there a few times and I thought the west coast was somethink else.
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hi from cornwall! :wave:
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Hi Bert, I spell
atrotiousely!! very badly, I am not dyslexic but my husband is, he spells OK but uses his own made up words that often make me giigle....anyway, I love the sound of your job, growing or forraging for food is a great way to keep healthy, Welcome, from Central Scotland!!!!
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Hi Bert.
A warm welcome from West Sussex and good luck, you will find everybody on the forum very helpful
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Hi Bert and welcome. We used to holiday in Mull once or twice a year for many years until the cottage was sold to a Dutchman from London 6 years ago. Was at Calgary bay by the side of the beach near the tiny camp site and stayed in the Bartholemews place. My friends sister lived there and her husband was the chef at the big hotel in Tobermory -or Balamory if you watch kids TV. She got 'island fever' -panic attacks when the last ferry left and she knew she couln't get off!!
Love the place, even the twisty single track roads and the tourist traffic jams that result! You are really really lucky living there.
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hello and welcome :wave:
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Hi from North Yorkshire. :wave:
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Hi from north Cumbria :wave:
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:wave: Hi and welcome from rainy Shropshire. I used to live on the Isle of Arran and got to many of the other islands but never made it to Mull. I'm training to be a dyslexia teacher so may practice analysing your spelling. ;)
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Hello from Bedfordshire
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Hello and welcome from Aberdeenshire :wave:
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Thanks for the very warm welcome everybody.
Lill, luckily the Mull rally dose not pass our door, I'm more of an F1 girl myself :)
Mad Goatwoman of Madeley good luck with your training and even better luck analysing my spelling. Please let me know what you think,as I do find the hole thing fasinating. All of the above has been done with out a dicenery or spell check ( spell check dose not help very much for a lot of my spelling anyway) just for you.
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I'm more of an F1 girl myself :)
Me too. :)
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Hello and welcome from sunny Carnoustie :wave:
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Hi, :wave:
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Thanks for the very warm welcome everybody.
Lill, luckily the Mull rally dose not pass our door, I'm more of an F1 girl myself :)
Mad Goatwoman of Madeley good luck with your training and even better luck analysing my spelling. Please let me know what you think,as I do find the hole thing fasinating. All of the above has been done with out a dicenery or spell check ( spell check dose not help very much for a lot of my spelling anyway) just for you.
Thanks for the practice. You actually seem to spell phonetically whereas most of us spell phonetically where possible but also by learning the words that don't fit the phonetic pattern. Some dyslexics have no rhyme nor reason for their spelling so yours does make life easier for those of us reading what you put.
Have looked at your profile and see that, despite your name, you are female and that you appear to live in the middle of a loch.
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Bert are you a mermaid please say you are. ;D ;D ;D
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Hi Bert :wave:
You shall find this forum fantastic,it is a very friendly community ;D
:wave: Welcome from Northants!
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mmmmmm mermaid!!!! :D
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You've reminded me Bert of the time we arrived on Mull and went shopping in Tobermory and then drove over to Calgary, after waking at 3.00am and 13 hours travelling, only to find the road was blocked by the rally and had to wait another hour. Exhausted we arrived at the cottage only to be told that the night rally would go right past the front door around midnight. We were so tired we slept through it!
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Hi Bert and welcome from East Aberdeenshire - can't spell to save myself so I'll not notice - when I was on Mull we we're on a cycling holiday and camped near were the boat came in only to be overrun by flying ants - not a very nice night in the tent - packed up next day, cycled about an hour or so and then found the most amazing river - showered in the falls and felt so great after it was great - the low and highs of cycling holidays - next night was on the most perfect sheep cut grass to the sea on the west of the island - not a flying ant in sight!!
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Hi and welcome from West Wales :wave:
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sorry to disappoint, I'm not a mermaid ;D.I live on the edge of the loch. I put the pin in the middle of the loch because me & the other half (Bob) spend most of our time there fishing on our kayak in the summer. Great fun, Very peaceful,
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if you fish the fly you may want to chat to sylvia on here, fly tier par excellence!
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It's sea fishing we do. Never really got into the fly fishing.