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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Dan on August 18, 2015, 02:02:26 pm
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I know we've done this before (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=22188.120 (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=22188.120)) but it was a few years ago and we've got many new members who may not have seen it.
So, what's the story behind your username? Don't worry if you've told us before, I'll have forgotten by now anyway.
I'll go first, My name's Dan, and I have no imagination. :D
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My username reflects how I felt when we moved into our little smallholding. When we viewed the place we knew there was an orchard but as the land was so over grown, no-one had been to it to find out what was growing (the house was practically abandoned for 3 years before we moved in). I had visions of a lovely mixed fruit type orchard and dreamt of apples, plums, cherries.
No, 70 plum trees and 10 damsons. The one fruit I never really bought when I was shopping ::)
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My username comes from my alterego (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/aerie-peak/Thyme/simple) 8)
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My first name is stu and FE35 is the model of the tractor I learned to drive on when I was eleven...it was 22 years old and knackered. Now im 47 years old and knackered...I still own the FE35 it is now 58 years old and gleams like a shiny new pin after I did it up.....oh my goodness in 2003...12 years ago now ! (OK on reflection I guess its quite shiny almost like a new pin)
Heres a picture from a couple of weeks back...you can vote on shininess.......of the tractor not my head !
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Me? Even less imagination than Dan
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I'm nutterly_uts (or versions of) in several places. Its a spoonerism of utterly nuts which was (and is) apt for several reasons :roflanim:
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I'm very boring - dog is very obvious if you read any of my posts. an - is half of my real name; jo is half of my dear late husbands name - thus ................... doganjo
I have been replied to as 'Doganjo'; 'Dog'; 'Anne'; 'Annie'; and 'Jo'
I don't mind any of them so long as you all understand I am a boring old wysiwyg :innocent:
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I had just bought a sheep called Buttermilk when I joined the forum.
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I'm married to Dan and I have no imagination either ;D
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Pha because I spent my career in drug R & D and have a place in Crete (not all that far from the land of the pharoahs) and North because I live on North farm. Although most of you are way north of me.
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Used to be just Shep (cos my surname was Shepherd before I got married). I noticed that there's a Shep 53 so changed mine to Old Shep to avoid confusion ( I remember listening to the Elvis song of that name with my Mum on our old radiogram - when we looked at each other we were both crying at the end!)
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Years ago I had a car accident and had several metal plates put into my legs (removed long ago) so everyone was calling me the bionic woman. Easy really ;D
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After 21 years teaching agriculture and in wellies daily , I was made redundant and spent 5 years indoors in a college teaching basic skills ....... now guess what I'm 'back in wellies' on our small holding. :)
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I'm certainly no housewife but I love all things fleecey. Happily shortened to FW, and then there's Mr FW :love:
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Requests: [member=2128]Womble[/member] [member=24813]Foobar[/member] [member=16228]pgkevet[/member] [member=74562]Fruity[/member] [member=26799]fsmnutter[/member] [member=29516]Cactus Jack[/member] :)
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sorry, not in response to a request but here I is anyway.
My name is Kim and for as long as I can remember people have called me Kimbo. So I answer to Kimbo quite naturally and that's my name on everything that needs a username.
Id like to request replies from verdifish, Victorian Farmer and Clansman please.
Bionic, I kind of figured your name was somehow surgically related! But I thought it was something like an artificial heart valve!
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My name is Clare but my mum has always called me Belle. I'm not sure why, she just always has!
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Mine's simple... my initials are pgk and I used to run a vet's website called e-vet. I still run the discussion list but it's quietened down from it's hayday since I retired, have none of my own clinical material etc. I used to tax deduct the running costs through the practice under the CPD heading (with accountant approval) but that's gone.
I've been messing about on t'internet from before it was.. the old dial-up bulletin board days. Heck, I even had a rotation as emergency vet help on compuserv for anyone old enough to remember that...
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Id like to request replies from verdifish, Victorian Farmer and Clansman please.
drive-by links :
[member=27351]verdifish[/member] [member=15578]Victorian Farmer[/member] [member=28933]Clansman[/member]
and a couple of my own requests [member=11700]Tiva Diva[/member] [member=2642]clydesdaleclopper[/member]
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Buffy the eggs layer is the name of one of my hens. I got so fed up trying to find a user name for different sites especially as anything relating to my name had be taken so I chose one that I thought would be original. I'm Buffy in lots of online circles now and I happily answer to it. :eyelashes:
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Oh, and my name's Sally and I moved 'oop north' and thought it witty to say "in't'north" - but of course I'm still only half way up the country! lol. Never mind, SalllyintNorthofEngland would've been too much of a mouthful.
I get called Sally, SITN and sometimes SIN. I prefer SITN to SIN!
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I have been a fan of Four Star Mary since their appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (FSM)
After striking up a friendly rapport after their first UK tour, I have been known to travel around the UK to as many gigs as possible. (Nutter)
So I've used the fsmnutter in multiple places since as its not usually taken!
Ps I am not a pastafarian, #fsm also refers to the flying spaghetti monster, no relation to the band!
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does as it says on the tin and my croft number :wave:
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Quite simple really, Verdi is a shortening of my surname that became my nick name in the Army, actually I was little Verdi as I served with my older brotherhood who is 6" shorter than myself so for a while it was big little verdifish but that got complicated the fish part is a reflexion of my hobby, sea angling!!!
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Mine is because I used to have a Clydesdale horse and my friend used to call riding clopping.
Now I have no Clydie and I can't clop because my pelvis falls apart :(
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Mine is because I used to have a Clydesdale horse and my friend used to call riding clopping.
Now I have no Clydie and I can't clop because my pelvis falls apart :(
I'll be putting some new clip clops on the boy Friday!!!
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Mine is because I used to have a Clydesdale horse and my friend used to call riding clopping.
Now I have no Clydie and I can't clop because my pelvis falls apart :(
I'll be putting some new clip clops on the boy Friday!!!
give him a kiss from me :horse:
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Its my name and I look like a bear, err that's it
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my mum called me john and helens mum called her helen…we have been told our fathers had nothing to do with the naming……apart from my stupid middle name :-\
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Most of my online pixel names begin with a Q because it is a more rarely used letter.
It amuses me ( far more than it should) that I will one day impart some stunning insightful knowledge to which someone will reply with - Thank you Q. (hasn't happened yet :'( )
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We moved to the Carse of Gowrie - and hence the Carse bit.
Goodlifers - we finally had a garden - could grow our f+v again having given up the allotment and hoped to get a bit of land near our house for other stuff - hens, perhaps sheep. Despite trying and asking the question, this hasn't happened (yet).
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We were working on dive boats in Sudan and I bought a Honda Pan European motorbike on Ebay - rather liked the marriage of Sudan and Pan......
I'll get me coat......
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Sorry had no imagination when I joined, just used my name
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Most of my online pixel names begin with a Q because it is a more rarely used letter.
It amuses me ( far more than it should) that I will one day impart some stunning insightful knowledge to which someone will reply with - Thank you Q. (hasn't happened yet :'( )
well that just ruined the James Bond connection !
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Flynn is my dog's name and he's quite posh.
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My "day job" is as a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care: TIVA is Total Intra-Venous Anaesthesia, an anaesthetic technique that I am a particular advocate of. Tiva Diva was a nickname given to me by the American Operating Theatre team that I worked with in the British Field Hospital at Camp Bastion: we all had khaki T-shirts with our nicknames on the sleeve. It stuck, (the nickname, not the T-shirt!) I like it and use it in a few other internet forums as well as this one ;D
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……apart from my stupid middle name :-\
What? "And" ? :D
I'm Womble just because I'm a Womble, and that's a good thing to remember ;).
I'm quite a resourceful chap, I'd rather make something I need than buy something I don't, and quite often that's done by utilising the stuff that the everyday folks leave behind..... or flytip ;D
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I'm a woman who keeps goats in her back garden and lives in Madeley. Every time I talked about keeping goats to my mum, she says, "You must be mad." I answer to MGM as the rest is a bit of a mouthful.
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My "day job" is as a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care: TIVA is Total Intra-Venous Anaesthesia, an anaesthetic technique that I am a particular advocate of. Tiva Diva was a nickname given to me by the American Operating Theatre team that I worked with in the British Field Hospital at Camp Bastion: we all had khaki T-shirts with our nicknames on the sleeve. It stuck, (the nickname, not the T-shirt!) I like it and use it in a few other internet forums as well as this one ;D
Glad I asked! ;D
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OK, what about Coximus and Big Light?
And kingnigel - hope it's nothing to do with 'aagh I just tripped over the 'king cat'. Sorry :cat:
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No imagination here either, my Jack Russell is called Daisy :dog:
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One of my llamas came with the name Nimbus!
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Totally unoriginal, it's the name of our farm. I believe it was once, many moons ago, the richest farm in Scotland, on the back of wool sales, sadly not any more!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowhaugh
My real name is Louise.
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Juke is my youngest spaniel....and a proud mum I am too- this weekend he qualified for the World Series Gundog finals :thumbsup:
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I went to buy some barley straw for my donkeys........!
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Just my initials HB
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Tamsaddle because I used to breed Tamworths and Saddlebacks, which I miss dreadfully now that I have given up keeping pigs. For some unknown reason, I always imagined "Daisy", as in Daisy's Mum, was a pig, not a jack russell!
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Foobar - means absolutely nothing at all. It even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar)
I work in computing, and understanding the risks of the internet and for the sake of privacy I chose this name so that it in no way reflects or suggests any information about my actual self. Sorry to be so dull. :)
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Mine's fairly straight forward, when I got my first 'proper' user account at the start of my PhD on a cluster of old Dec Alphas and Sun Ultras, the usual naming convention was first name+initial of surname, but some one decided I wouldn't want to be called 'bent' so stuck my middle initial in there and I've been benkt online ever since.
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I'm Scottish and I have a clan ;D
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I was totally unoriginal and now I realise, a bit formal using both my first and surname. My Ravelry name is Knotsonsticks, as that is what my family call my knitting, so with Dan's permission, I think I might can age in here as well to Knotsonsticks.
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Victorian farmer the name is about me. When I started farming I liked the old way of farming. So when some one said you're like the victorians I used the name.. I think the victorians were the best farmers after the war farmers kept the country going. Whot they would make of the EU I don't no.
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Foobar - means absolutely nothing at all. It even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar)
I work in computing, and understanding the risks of the internet and for the sake of privacy I chose this name so that it in no way reflects or suggests any information about my actual self. Sorry to be so dull. :)
It doesn't mean nothing at all; I'm afraid on this occasion Wiki is wrong!
In the 70s and 80s it was widely used in computing and derived from FUBAR, which I think we pinched from the army, and meant F**d Up Beyond All Recognition (or Repair)
So I've always wondered why you'd chosen it as a username :-J
The one we used to really mean nothing was 'xyzzy', which was one of the magic words in the orginal (and in my view, still the best) text-based Adventure game. (Called ADVENT because we only had 6 charcacters for file names. And no lowercase. lol)
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OK, what about Coximus and Big Light?
And kingnigel - hope it's nothing to do with 'aagh I just tripped over the 'king cat'. Sorry :cat:
drive-by linkies [member=91599]Coximus[/member] [member=16566]Big Light[/member] [member=2435]kingnigel[/member]
And we should hear from [member=25919]HappyHippy[/member] too :)
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just because really, no other reason, when i joined this forum i needed a name and earlier that day a guy from work called me "the king" because i own a small amount of land. i think the nigel bit is obvious.
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I was totally unoriginal and now I realise, a bit formal using both my first and surname. My Ravelry name is Knotsonsticks, as that is what my family call my knitting, so with Dan's permission, I think I might can age in here as well to Knotsonsticks.
You (or any other member) don't need my permission! You can change your display name here, but please bear in mind the disorientation it will cause some other members: :)
http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=account (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=account)
Your username (i.e. the name you sign in with) can't be easily changed.
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My father's nickname for me when I was a child. (He was brought up in New Zealand) :)
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Ghdp. Oh dear how dull. They are my initials. I think I am going to say it is now 'great handsome daring person' but Mrs ghdp would never let me get away with that.
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I used to own an FJ 1200 which i called Paddy, ( it's a motorbike )
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Foobar - means absolutely nothing at all. It even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar)
I work in computing, and understanding the risks of the internet and for the sake of privacy I chose this name so that it in no way reflects or suggests any information about my actual self. Sorry to be so dull. :)
It doesn't mean nothing at all; I'm afraid on this occasion Wiki is wrong!
In the 70s and 80s it was widely used in computing and derived from FUBAR, which I think we pinched from the army, and meant F**d Up Beyond All Recognition (or Repair)
In this case it means nothing at all, regardless of the derivation of the word. If I was fubar I would have spelt it correctly.
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It's always been spelled foobar in computing, because we used to have to have exactly 6 characters!
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Simply the name of my farm....or alternatively cos more is better! :roflanim: .
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I live in Devon and am a lady (well a female anyway!)
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:'( No sign of NigelsLiveOutLover yet?
Surely theres a story behind that!!
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Not very exciting but I've always kept big light sussex :chook:
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Not very exciting but I've always kept big light sussex :chook:
Ooooohhhh!! :idea:
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Oh Big Light, you've let us down. I thought it was a Peter Kay reference! ( but then Im a northerner so that says a lot!!)
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Oh Big Light, you've let us down. I thought it was a Peter Kay reference! ( but then Im a northerner so that says a lot!!)
I think of him every night when I turn out the big light in my bedroom :D
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I'm a working shepherd and 1953 was a good year to be born :sheep:
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I'm worried now lol
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I'm worried now lol
lol, I think of Peter Kay, not you! Although now you've put the idea in my head... :thinking: :roflanim:
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My username refers to some therapy which is very taboo, but please don't close your mind to it straight away.
Orin I the name given to the watery part of your blood after it has been filtered by your kidneys. Your blood without the four primary components which are red blood cell, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. Take these away and you are left with very pure distilled water 95% and a long list of amino acids and hormones that sound like a mixture of the best health food supplements ever 5%.
You are what you eat, your orin is what you eat and drink. If you eat crap you will not produce orin, you will produce urine. Urine is yellow and yuck, do not loop it. If you eat mostly plants then you pee out orin which is clear, and sweet. It is like clear coconut water.
Looping means you pee into a bottle and drink it back again and again. Every time you drink it, it gets more pure as the liver and kidneys filter and clean it every time you loop it.
So this is my username orin looper.
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:surrender: lol
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Just seen [member=29168]doricdragons[/member]. ?Poultry breeder from Aberdeenshire?
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Hi, I do have poultry, not sure if I would go as far as to call myself a breeder ;D
My username is from my business name as an artist. I have always painted and a few years ago, when I was seriously ill, I couldn't stand up to paint at my easel. I received some polymer clay to play with and the first thing that I created was a dragon and , because I am in Aberdeenshire, he spoke Doric, the local dialect. :)
When I subsequently went self employed, I took the name Doric Dragons for my business: https://doricdragons.wordpress.com/
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I got the Doric bit, but I didn't dare hope for REAL dragons - I love dragons :yippee: (see my Latin quote at the bottom of this message ;D)
I love your painting, especially 'Year of the Dragon' :thumbsup:
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Haha! My knowledge of latin is not very good but I am guessing something like "don't tickle a sleeping dragon"?
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'Don't disturb a sleeping dragon', as in 'let sleeping dogs lie'. I like 'tickle' though - they might love it 8)
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I, too, am distinctly lacking in the imagination department!
:dunce:
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The surnames Cox, And Coximus was just a typo nickname I've had when I used to programme databases "Coximus bastardised this code" is a common usage :)
That and it sounds cool :)
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Once upon a time, I was an actual, grown up Midwife. Delivered many, many babies and enjoyed it enormously. I think it's why lambing and calving don't phase me?
Whilst I loved midwifery, I hated the NHS - the beaurocracy, the nepotism, the bullying and in-fighting. It quite wore me down to a frazzle and I got out a decade ago. Just as happy now as I ever have been.
Saint Nonnatus was the Patron Saint of Midwives, so I've often used Nonnatus as a Forum name because it's quite unique.
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I wasnt going to post on this thread as I thought my name was a bit obvious, but it was interesting reading other's stories so thought I would.
My name came from when I was breeding for dark brown eggs, and kept a flock of English Cuckoo Marans. I must admit I was really pleased with my flock by the time I packed everything up, and I do mean quite literally packed everything up: in that I sold my house and all my possessions, except my library of books, bought an American RV and took to the roads with Phoebe my Great Dane as a travelling companion
That was at the end of 2013 and since then I have been to the north of north Shetland, down the west coast of the Highlands all down the Outer Hebrides, Lands End, nearly across to Lowestoft Ness - the easternmost, and was going to Ireland this spring, but my lovely old girl was ill, and I finally lost her in June :(
But the night she died Little Miss Phoebe was born and she is helping to ease the sorrow of losing Phoebe
I had though to changing my user name but its nice when I log in to be reminded of my flock, but I am loving my new life, and can't see me wanting to stop travelling anytime soon:)
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Listening to The Lurchers one wet Sunday morning , many years ago, we decided Nigel needed a live out lover. That was before he slipped off the roof neglecting to observe health and safety risk assessment advice.
My husband of myriad years did ask a few probing questions about my name , strangely ......... :hug:
My previous suggestions for names were taken but this one worked...
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I was in such a panic when I joined this forum to get some advice on mastitis I think, that I just used my name and I live on a farm!! not very exciting but I was in a major panic at the time over one of my ewes!!!