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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: tattycat on November 25, 2013, 12:56:37 pm
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Hi folks. Have done this already but cant find it on the forum. So hi from co cavan ireland. Hows everyone finding this forum for contacts?
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We had a glitch ;)
Welcome from :sunshine: Carnoustie :wave: . Love your name - there must be a story to that :eyelashes:
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Hiya I know all about gliches. I do all my internetting on mobile with very rural signal!! We have 4 goats, horse nd foal, donkey, hen's, duck's, turkeys, geese, rabbits, guinea pigs, pot bellied boar nd hopefully a Mangalitza sow!! Soon to be moving to 3 acres rather than on 1acre nd verges!! Life is very interesting!!
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Hi Tattycat ,
Welcome to TAS ... I love the zoo you're looking after .. do you eat any of them ??
Roast Guinea pig is supposed to be brill :innocent:
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:wave: and welcome from Shropshire.
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Funnily enough I'm looking forward to the guinea pigs!! However they are on order to a petshop...any that don't go though....Last billy kids I had mom rejected all of them. So left me feeding them with 1 baby bottle!! Then found the miracle that is a feed bucket, nd got my life back, and all went as pets!! However the next ones might not be so lucky....lol
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Nd hi to Telford. What goats you got?
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Hi from Tyrone. Like all your animals.
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Ha!! That's only because ure not looking after them!!!! ") Don't kid it, they're only lovely when they're ill. Nd not very obliging when you're ill!! Wouldn't be without them!! Even Jojo the Pot bellied pig, who thinks I'm the electric fence every morning when I feed him, grabs a gob full and runs off squealing!! Bless his rescued socks.....
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Hi Tatttycat,
Where abouts in Co. Cavan are you? I don't know much of the area but we come over every couple of years - got lots of family in Killeshandra so know Cavan town, Belturbet and a couple of the other villages in the area - beautiful part of the world!
Chris.
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Hiya Chris. Cheers for your post. Funnily enough were just outside Killeshandra, nd yes beautiful part of the world!! Always welcome to pop by next time your over. What are you keeping for your sins? lol
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Hiya mcginty. How's Tyrone treating you. What do you keep/grow? Lovely weather for it again........
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Hi Tatty,
We don't keep anything at the moment - hoping to make the move to somewhere with land soon though. We'll be in Killeshandra in the summer (the bungalows by Town Lake) so will bear your offer in mind. You will probably know of my family then, the Galligans?
Chris.
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Hi Chris. Can't say I know the family name, we're not church gowers, or pub drinkers, but will prob know the faces to chat to! I know the bungalows by town lake though.
We are out on the Carrigellen road, and are soon to be moving to a larger property. So our place is to rent. Its a lovely little cottage on about 1nd bit acre. 4 good sheds, nd 40 acres of willow behind the house. Dont know if your looking to rent, but the landlords wonderful.
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Not pub goers?!? Are you sure you live near Killeshandra? Would love to live out there one day - tried to convince my parents to move out there now so we can go for long holidays but got old grandparents in the north east. Think my wife and I may one day...
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Hey, didn't say we didn't drink....have you seen the price of a pint of guiness!!! Gotta get back into brewing our own. The nettle beer worked real well, real quick! Nd the hedgerow wines were a little too alcholic........
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Sounds great - can't wait to make a start on these types of things!
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Cavan is an amazing county, sooo much water there, lakes, rivers, locks, hasn't it got the nick name of a thousand lakes (or similar)? We went every year to Cavan for summer, mum came from Gowna. Bril fishing and clean air. Your so lucky. :thumbsup:
Ciaran.
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Hiya Ciaran. There's so much water in Cavan cause its always raining!! lol Apparently there's a lake for every day of the year, nd a million midges to go with it!
Yes we're very lucky cause on a sunny day there's no place more beautiful!! Nd the hedgerows are still full of bounty.?
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I'd heard the lake for every day thing as well - and plenty of rivers to go on top of that. Fishing the stretch of water that connects the two lakes at Killykeen is one of the most relaxing days imaginable if you get the weather for it :-)
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And a beautiful place just to sit nd contemplate. (Or is that drinking beer that I'm thinking.....)