The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Tabbycat on December 04, 2010, 10:40:30 am
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Hello. For the past few decades I've been living in London, but my husband and I are now fulfilling a long-cherished dream and buying a place on the north Norfolk coast - an old house, beautiful but incredibly run down, in about 8 acres of land, complete with large barn, woodland (some neglected specimen planting, some just scruffy) and a pasture.
We have all sorts of plans, some practical and some probably mad - a little orchard of traditional fruit and nut trees, perhaps some bees, and a veg plot are at the relatively sensible end of the spectrum - but anyway, it's all very exciting. Having lurked around here for a while, I've already learned a lot, so it seemed a good time to introduce myself properly!
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hi i'm a newby too. i have found this to be not only a fun but also very informative forum :wave:
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Hi Tabbycat :wave: from West Norfolk :)
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Hello and welcome Tabbycat :wave:. I am originally from northish Norfolk but now live in glorious Scotland. I'm happy for you that you are at last realising your dreams. It's hard work but worth every moment :)
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Hello! Your plans sound perfect - and achievable with the usual quota of hard work and patience. :D Good luck with everything and welcome from north Wales. :wave:
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Hi welcome from South Suffolk
Rose
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Thanks, everyone - you really are a very friendly and encouraging bunch!
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Hello from Devon :wave: Good luck with your venture!
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How exciting for you :) You will have the most fantastic fun planning and doing everything I am sure, and you chosen spot sounds idyllic.
Welcome to the forum
Sue :wave:
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(http://bestsmileys.com/hello/7.gif) all the best for your new venture, sounds exciting!
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hi and welcome from moray :wave:
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hello and welcome :)
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Hello and welcome from Carnoustie :wave:
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Hi and welcome. Please tell us what your not so sensible ideas are they could be tomorrows cash crop ...
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Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire. :wave:
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Hi and welcome. Please tell us what your not so sensible ideas are they could be tomorrows cash crop ...
Thanks for the welcome!
As for a cash crop, though, LOL! At present the cash is all scheduled to go the other way - into fixing the roof, putting in new electricity, water, sewage, heating, just to name a few early priorities - so the struggle is really to convince my husband that the garden, orchard [which doesn't yet exist], bees [ditto] and so forth merit a bit of spending. Meanwhile our future neighbours in Blakeney have some beautiful rescue hens, which have made my son (6 years old) and me distinctly 'hen broody' - my son wants to create a pond - our neighbours want to borrow part of the pasture for sheep (note to self: must remember forgotten knitting skills) - while I want to explore my too-long-latent hippy tendencies by planting a wildflower meadow, the most obscure traditional species of fruit and nut trees I can find, ditto strange heritage vegetables galore - as well as replanting the climbing roses incredibly grubbed out by the vendor of the house when he was trying to sell it. After all that's done, we can get into the really strange stuff!
I have already learned such a lot from looking at previous discussions on this site, though - and it's great to know that there is a friendly place where I can ask questions next time I need a bit of help!
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Hello and welcome from the Scottish Borders