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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: lethe on June 13, 2012, 10:53:28 am

Title: New to Forum
Post by: lethe on June 13, 2012, 10:53:28 am

Hi.  I'm Lynne.  Phil, my husband, and I live on a narrowboat on a river in Cambs and work 2.5 acres there (rented).  We've just bought 5 acres across the river in Norfolk.  We keep Wiltshire horn sheep (5 ewes and a ram - 5 lambs this year), Dexter cows (a steer, a young heifer and about to take a heifer in calf), Tamworth pigs (i sow, 7 weaners), rir chickens and have 2 horses.  We are trying out veg growing on half an acre.  Very much looking forward to good advice from people here!

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Bionic on June 13, 2012, 11:02:47 am

Welcome to the forum Lynne from a sunny (at the moment) Wales  :wave:
Gosh, living on a narrow boat, that must be interesting.
 
Sally

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Rosemary on June 13, 2012, 11:47:53 am

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

Sounds like a fabulous set up that you have :thumbsup:

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: sabrina on June 13, 2012, 06:56:16 pm

 :wave: Welcome

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Post by: chrismahon on June 13, 2012, 08:33:35 pm

Hi Lethe and welcome to the forum. Don't know how you cope with life on a narrowboat. There are a lot of resident narrowboats along the Canal where we live and it looks really miserable in Winter. Especially when the Enforcement Officers keep moving them on every few weeks. Good luck to you and your growing smallholding.

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Mammyshaz on June 13, 2012, 09:06:36 pm

Hello, and welcome from Durham  :thumbsup:

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Post by: Beewyched on June 13, 2012, 10:10:21 pm

Hi & welcome from West Scotland  :wave:

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Rosadollymixture on June 14, 2012, 07:34:53 am

 :wave: Hi, welcome to the forum from Aberdeenshire.

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: chickenfeed on June 14, 2012, 08:35:38 am

 :wave: welcome from the fens of cambridgeshire

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Teapot on June 14, 2012, 01:54:13 pm

Hello and welcome from another newbie.

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: lethe on June 14, 2012, 04:35:29 pm

Hi all, well, that's been a lovely welcome!  Regarding the narrow boat and winter......well, we did have minus 17 degrees in January, but the boat actually is too hot!  We tend to have the hatch open as the woodburner keeps us too cosy!  The boat is moored on private land where we keep our livestock so luckily we don't get moved on!  Anyway, back to thinning out and replanting sprout plants - I do believe every seed has germinated, will be fed up with sprouts until at least Christmas!!

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Lesley Silvester on June 14, 2012, 11:26:49 pm

 :wave:  Hi and welcome from soggy Shropshire.  I have long had hankerings to live on a narrow boat, so I am filled with envy.

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Pedwardine on June 17, 2012, 11:16:52 pm

Appeals to me too but alas too many pets!

Title: Re: New to Forum
Post by: Bert on June 19, 2012, 07:10:14 am

Hi from the Isle of Mull  :wave: