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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: hardtop4x4 on October 22, 2014, 10:02:44 am

Title: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: hardtop4x4 on October 22, 2014, 10:02:44 am
Hi, I own, with my wife, a smallholding in Cumbria. Sheep farming predominantly in our area with miles and miles of dry stone walling - a subject I have become obsessed with. I can spot a good topping or coping stone from 50 yards now! Anyhow, glad I found the site and hope to contribute in time, but will be sucking you all dry to begin with! Lots o' questions need answering! Cheers, Jon
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: Rosemary on October 22, 2014, 11:12:14 am
Hello and welcome from Carnoustie :wave:

Our vet's from Cumbria and loves dry stone walling - I guess it's one of those things local lads learn to do without thinking about it. You can take the boy out of Cumbria but you can't take Cumbria out of the boy  ;D
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: Womble on October 22, 2014, 11:40:42 am
 
Hello from Central Scotland. We have a very similar looking hardtop, and I suspect much worse looking dry stone walls!  :wave:
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: Treud na Mara on October 22, 2014, 01:25:48 pm
Hello and welcome from Caithness. My BH and I did a dry stone walling course at Tamarak Outdoors about five years ago and are finally using the knowledge to wall a roundhouse here. I say we but it's almost entirely his work.  :wave:
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: plumseverywhere on October 22, 2014, 04:52:00 pm
My grandad was from Cumbria - Walney Island? and Barrow in furness? not sure if its one and the same place, my geography not that good.
welcome to TAS. I love looking at stone walls but sadly we have none here.
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: Rosemary on October 22, 2014, 05:05:50 pm
Hello and welcome from Caithness. My BH and I did a dry stone walling course at Tamarak Outdoors about five years ago and are finally using the knowledge to wall a roundhouse here. I say we but it's almost entirely his work.  :wave:

Ah, but you're the supervisor and supervising's important  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: Hamish Crofter on October 22, 2014, 07:25:56 pm
 Hello from Skye, spent 8 happy years in Cumbria, it's second only to Scotland!
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 22, 2014, 11:36:28 pm
 :wave: and welcome from Shropshire. I love to see the dry stone walls disappearing up the hills and into the valleys.
Title: Re: Hi - New to TAS
Post by: mojocafa on October 23, 2014, 06:24:35 am
 :wave: from arbroath