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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: scotelf on August 05, 2010, 02:41:02 pm

Title: hello from a newbie
Post by: scotelf on August 05, 2010, 02:41:02 pm

Hello, I was recommended this forum by a friend on another.  :wave:

I don't have a smallholding yet, but I've just put my house up for sale, and I'm enjoying searching for one! I have horses at the moment, but would like some chooks too, and to grow some food. I've had a little go on my patio with blueberries, strawbs, and gooseberries, and I didn't kill them  ;D

So hello from me, and I'm off to enjoy reading more of your forum.

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: piggy on August 05, 2010, 02:45:45 pm

Hi and welcome from Suffolk.

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: kelloggs on August 05, 2010, 02:54:12 pm

A big welcome from Norfolk :wave:

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: jameslindsay on August 05, 2010, 03:30:57 pm

Hello and welcome, where about are you looking for your new venture?

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: scotelf on August 05, 2010, 03:40:41 pm

Thanks for the welcome.

I'm looking in Central Scotland. I'd have like to have gone a little further north, but OH's job is in Cumbernauld and no transfers to suitable areas have come up for him.

Only skimmed the surface so far, but it seems planning permission for buildings for horse stabling is one of the most tricky to gain? I have a few more business ideas, but don't know if having the horses on the land will compromise me in the planning stakes.

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: Rosemary on August 05, 2010, 04:33:35 pm

Our house is for sale - we're about 40 minutes from Cumbernauld. Not really enough room for horses though. We're on Baird Lumsden - www.dmhbl.co.uk - we're the only property in Clackmannanshire!

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: Cinderhills on August 05, 2010, 05:36:55 pm

Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire.  :wave:

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: Sandy on August 06, 2010, 12:16:20 am

Hi and welcome, you only have one chance in live so take it!!! Welcome from clackmannan

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Post by: Mickyork on August 06, 2010, 12:34:39 am

Hello from North Yorkshire.  8) 8) 8) 8)

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: Hilarysmum on August 06, 2010, 09:42:20 am

Hi welcome, good luck with your search, the right property will turn up.

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: scotelf on August 06, 2010, 10:24:42 am

I do hope so, but I am enjoying the hunt looking for land or property with land. My mother thinks I'm nuts, but my father thinks it's great (his father was a smallholder, and he grew up with chooks, goats, sheep, horses, geese.........). Think I've inherited my grandfathers genes for animal collecting!
I keep panicking wondering if I'm doing the right thing, but then I agree Sandy, you are only here once  :D

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: sheardale on August 07, 2010, 04:23:35 pm

Hello from Sunny Dollar                    :chook: :chook: :chook: :chook:

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: little blue on August 07, 2010, 08:05:33 pm

hello and welcome

Title: Re: hello from a newbie
Post by: cairnhill on August 07, 2010, 08:18:36 pm

Hello from Turriff, Aberdeenshire  :wave: