The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: happygolucky on October 14, 2013, 09:32:33 am
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No chickens!!! It was the purchase of my first Black Rocks that introduced me to this forum, so now they are gone I think I will too.
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Your dogs count as chickens. Honest. I'd rather you didn't go. I'm looking forward to hearing about your new home :)
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Sandy don't go. We love hearing your stories and as Rosemary has said we are looking forward to hear about your new place when you move.
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I feel such a fraud now....I already miss the chickens as I had to eat the left over doughnuts that I would have given to the hens.......I have opened up the garden now, only hope the weeds do not take over.......the dogs never were a threat to the hens, they all got on fine, even tiny dog
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Just stick some feathers on your oh and chuck him out into the garden, he'll understand, just give him a Hoover and tell him to clean the patio
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You don't need livestock to be an accidental smallholder. Grow veg, fruit and flowers in your new garden and you'll be welcome I'm sure. And we're all nosey folk anyway - we want to see before and after pics of your new home. :innocent: :excited:
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you have experience that will help others, so!!! no need to go really :thumbsup:
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We already have a neighbour :fc: with half his garden an allotment, he grows flowers for another elderly neighbour....but we are not growing much at all....we even have......shock horror......pretend grass and I am sure tea will be out here hoovering Alister.... :innocent: , when I saw he"grass" I thought it was real too........things are getting a bit sticky re house move just now...so who knows?......
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Don't be silly, don't go! There's more to life than chickens, admittedly not much but it's still life all the same. I enjoy your postings and you do have time for what I and others put on here too. :farmer:
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Thanks...its something I have been toying with but the alternative is watching TV and talking to my husband who will go mad as he likes to watch Mighty Ships or Gone fishing.....jokeing apart, I am in no way a club person, I also am not a shopping person, apart from a few trips to the charity shop and B&M....I have no hobby other than the dogs but will go back gun dog training, so basically, this and Facebook is all I have.................I am sort of happy with that though
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So that's the end of it then. You are STAYING
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Dogs aren't a hobby they are a lifestyle - once you are settled you may feel differently about your garden and growing things.
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Well I have tried many times to grow stuff but sadly I neglect plants.......and Steve is not taking his roses either, they lacerated me every time I do gardening, I do love the flowers though...The dogs are a hobby in the way that we can go beating and dog training, that's what I love and so proud of how they are, looks like the pups are turning out to be like mummy Rhum, solid and sound and bomb proff!!! One house we were going to buy did have a humugouse garden and I was so excited about growing stuff, but this house has had a lot of money spent on it to make it easy to look after, even though its a good size, its just for sitting in!!
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If you are staying you really really must learn to spell my name right, in all time I've been on here I don't think you've got it right once :-J
Anyway you can't leave because your not allowed to, so there.
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The dogs are a hobby in the way that we can go beating and dog training,
That's what I call lifestyle. :eyelashes: I am becoming better every day, and train mine every day anyway; and I will soon get back to taking my younger two shooting too - a different type of activity from yours, of course, as mine are what shooters call 'jacks of all trades' not doing just what retrievers do. Mine wouldn't do as peg dogs, wouldn't sit still for hours on end on driven shoots as Labs do, nor hunt close like spaniels. :innocent:
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Alistair, I will try but I cannot be held responsible for the fact that my fingers work independently of my brain......then of course the I pad...that has a life and mind of its own too...sorry!
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But I got it right didn't I? Alistair!!!! I doubt I will get it right again!! :innocent:
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That's twice now :excited:
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hooray your staying, :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: think of us as your hobby, we don't mind, teach us all what you know :hug: thanks for staying
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Still not sure, and this post was not for sympathy or conjouring up " I love you posts" :innocent: this post was just to let people know, I am not going off in a huff or any other reason, I do like to keep up with posts but worry I "talk" too much *rap :innocent: .......I feel I know most of you anyway.....at least on here I can look rough and no one cares!! My daughters and husband think I should cut ties but they do not understand my situation.....my kids do not understand me :roflanim: :roflanim:
,I am hoping to be a bit free when we sell up, but will work, I can take the dogs out with me or leave mother and father in law in our new place to look after the dogs, I would never leave anyone to look after this house and B&B....I was going out earlier but a chap who owns a forest near, tuned up as he could not work, so I am in until he goes out as I do not know him, our other guests I do know so I can leave but it is a tie!! I would love to have some chickens still but not where we are going...they would not like plastic grass!! anyway......Its a bit like closing a book before you come to the end...... :thinking:
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We would very much like you to stay :hug:
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Definitely stay. There's room for everyone on here from wafflers, whingers, eternal optimists and Eeyores plus everyone in between. It's always good to have lots of opinions on a subject and yours is just as valid as the next persons. So stay or else I'll sing "Please Don't Go!" And I have the voice of an angle!!!!!
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hope its not no chickens no house :( ....I would miss this so much as I multi task all the time, right now I am watching benefits and proud while drinking some cheap red wine and of course, chatting on here :innocent:
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Sandy, you are totally outnumbered so that is settled. You are staying. It's not an option. ;D
Anyway, you've never spelled my name wrong - given me the wrong name but the spelling was fine. ;)
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Lesley...thanks...I often think f you as Mary...goodness knows why, my middle name is Mary....... :innocent:
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When I joined TAS, I had only a dog and no land (lived on a boat). Ironically, now I have a smallholding I find I have much less time to post on TAS - too many things to do around the place - though I still log in to read regularly.
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Funny, in both my parents family and my now husbands family, there are no trace of a farmer in sight, but on my Ex's side there are tons of farmers and growers, now my daughter has a smallholding and brother in law tractor obsessed....its certainly not from my side......I am going to focus on something else for a while and just grow flowers!