The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: vickylouxx on August 26, 2009, 09:26:23 pm
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hi i found this site by accident while looking for info on sheep keeping , i moved to the top of Scotland in February and have just found some land to rent to keep some home grown lamb and hopfully pork on Ive also tried growing my own veg but found all my cabbages and broccoli eaten one morning ,as its just me and my 3 kids plus our dog i will be hoping for any advice when i get stuck or lost on the way lol
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Come on in a sit yah bum on a seat :)
linz
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Aye, an fou ye daein? Fan did ye move in tae bide up thon wye? Furryboots ur ye?
You probably won't understand that - but welcome anyway. Like Linz I'm in Clackmannanshire. There's loads of help and advice on here
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no didn't understand it lol, and thanks for the welcome ???,
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Hello, I'm from Clackmannan too, it's the water in Clackmannanshire, it makes you say strange things, especialy when I dilute it with Whiskey!!!!!
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no didn't understand it lol, and thanks for the welcome ???,
Translation:
Hello, how are you. When did you decide to move so far North. What part of the country are you in?
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well i can understand the diluting it but erm not whisky tried that don't like it lol ,ive moved from Kent and trying to get used to the cold :o
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decided last October when i had both my dogs poisoned and i lost my springer leaving my bullmastiff sad and withdrawn and the kids not been able to understand why people are so cruel also we cant raise sheep in a council yard the neighbours would complain , i now live up near thurso but looking to rent in lybster as that house has centrel heating and i will be aloud to keep some chickens
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That is so sad. I have heard that before and also friends say they never give the breed of their dogs, just say they are mongrels in case they get stolen. I wish you more luck and happiness in your new home and hope you can get the house with central heating - you'll need it up there!!!
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unfortunately for me it was the mastiff they where after thinking my house would be a easer target with her out of the way , but despite the cold me and the kids like it up here we found all the locals friendly and my boy is hoping for a pet pig :o which he is saving hard for
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Hi and welcome. I hope your new life in Caithness is everything you hope it will be.
Re cabbages - we have to keep ours netted all the time or they are gone to caterpillars and flies.
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thank you for that i will now know for next year ,but was looking forward to some home grown as my pots and carrots where lovely ,I'm loving it up here so save for the kids to play out , only thing is i have to watch out for the monsters that scare the dog ;D
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hello and welcome from me in dollar,
hope all goes well for you and yours in your new home, i used to live in thurso many many moons ago great place to stay.many fine memories ahhh the weigh inn at scrabster on a sat night, its all coming back too me lol.
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Hi and welcome. Wish your lad the best of luck with his pig, although it would be better if he has 2.
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hi you all are so friendly and helpful thank you all, yes i told him he will need to get two he says it will take him a year to save enough to buy his pigs ??? so he phoned his dad asking for them as a Xmas pressent oh well it will give him something to work towards
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That would be a funny sight, seeing Santa with a pig in his sack shuving it down a chimney ;D ;D How sweet!!!
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hi , yeh it would but said father didn't see funny side ;D
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That figures, my husband was a bit too serious for his own good too. second one was better - he had a GSOH ;D ;D ;D
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sounds just like men thank full he lives 500+ miles away now as he thinks the dog should be enough for any normal family :o
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Hi Vickylou,
Men- that sounds like my brother, but he thinks any pet is too much for one family, never mind a bunch of farm animals. Funny really given our upbringing on a smallholding! Anyway welcome, and I am glad you are settling in to your new area.
Beth
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hi beth
men- for me means the lot lol , yes me and the kids have settled nicely be glad when i can start getting some animals other then the dog , bunny and guinne pig , think i will be a regular on here last time i had any thing to with farm animals i was 18 so long ago :o
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Hello and welcome. What a brave moe. What made you choose Scotland (and that area). We are looking into Scotland so I am always keen to hear of others who have made the move from 'down south'.
Glad to hear you are enjoying it so much.
:pig: :&>
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chose Scotland by giving the kids a chose wales or Scotland and as we had just been up to the mountains in October with all the snow they chose Scotland , the area was all i could afford it was a big decision i have no family or friends any where up here i left them all in Kent but decide i wanted a safer place for my children Ive not regred the move at all was shocked at how cold it is even in the summer but kids have been so much happier here and have settled so well ;D
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We chose Scotland for several reasons, 1, we love space, countryside, trees and variable landscape, hills, mountains, valley's, rivers and coast, Scotland has the lot in abundance. 2. I liked the system of when you have an offer on a house accepted, it's yours and you can plan moving etc, we sold 4 times in England and each time something went wrong so we lost the one we were buying in "Cornwall" had a job and everything!!!!!3, my Ancestors came from Scotland and i have loads of relatives here. 4. This should have been one because I love Location Location and saw one ages ago when some couple wanted a flat in Glasgow and a small house where the husband could do his pottery, they ended up with a B&B overlooking Lock Lommand, that we could have afforded, so, we aimed for Scotland, you only live once and I LOVE IT!!! sad to leave my children and they do miss me, if I could have a magic wand and some money, I would get them up here, much much better for children and the MAIN thing is, not so narrow minded (here anyway) I felt people where I lived were too much into image and what yo had, here it's real, about life, about who you are...LOVE IT.....please don't send me back!!!!
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the mountains was why it was between here and wales , we love the country side often just drive about looking at the deer and birds of prey ,and i dint do neighbours to many complaints if the kids get noisy which they do , well even now i always apologies if they making a lot of noise its happit before some one complains i just get looked at as if i had 2 heads then comment what do u expect they kids , but the clincher to the move was having my dogs poisoned and losing the springer , i do miss my oldest daughter and granddaughter but i had to put the younger 3 first they are loving it here
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I would HATE to have to move back, this place has so much heart!!
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oh I'm defiantly not moving back to england have to make the round trip to Kent every summer so kids can spend a week with there dad but thats my lot I'm staying in Scotland its nicer , friendlier cleaner
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Never mind, Vicky, once they are old enough you can send them down on the train or plane on their own! ;D ;D ;D
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cant wait for that day would rather travel with the dog then the kids she better behaved and sleeps all the way ;D
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I cannot say enough good stuff about scotland, I understand why my relatives moved away WORK!!!! but it is so unspilt and so reall...I feel it will get spoilt the only reason it hasn't is the climate... long may the rain continue, with modern fabrics and loads of logs for an open fire..why worry?
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I'm sure when we,ve done a winter here we will get used to it , oh and when i move into a central heated house lol ;D and the distance my family wont travel to the top of Scotland to visit us , its too far from the shopping centres
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At my age..hot flushes come in handy in scotland ;D ;D
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im not quite there yet ;D so it going have to be extra clothes and more heating in doors for me
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It was strange...I hit 50 then they hit me!!! I wounder when they wil go away???
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Welcome vickylou , its great to hear you talk about all the same things that I love about Scotland. I came home 20 years ago to raise my family and they have had the best childhood - swimming in rivers, sledging, gathering berries - they all now want to move to London, My eldest daughter who is 18 is applying for universities there. I can only imagine that once they have had a taste of the greedy fast life they will want to come home because they know that its good. I have some good friends in Thurso - you have chosen a great place.
Kirsty