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Title: City-dweller says hi
Post by: markp on October 04, 2011, 08:55:49 pm

Currently living in Birmingham, but desperate to get out! Had chickens (yet to replace them after a visit from the fox) and grow a lot of veg, love cooking, and take every opportunity to get out camping.

cmorrell suggested I join the site, so you can blame him :)

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: faith0504 on October 04, 2011, 08:58:35 pm

hi and welcome from moray  :wave:

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 04, 2011, 11:31:39 pm

 :wave:Greetings from sunny Shropshire.  You're not far from me and I'm in a big town (Telford) but keeps goats and grow fruit and veg in my garden.  :goat: :brocolli: :apple:

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 05, 2011, 12:02:42 am

Hi there, I'm farming in north Cumbria now but West Midlands born and bred.  (So you see it is possible to get out!  :D)

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: Rosemary on October 05, 2011, 08:07:20 am

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: plumseverywhere on October 05, 2011, 08:32:08 am

Hello  :wave:  just down the road in Worcestershire/cotswold borders  :) welcome to TAS!!

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Post by: Hazelwood Flock on October 06, 2011, 03:20:09 pm

Hi from Darzet! :wave:

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: FiB on October 13, 2011, 05:41:35 pm

Hi from Bala via Birmingham (moved from Sutton Colfield 6 months ago and its been worth waiting for!!!!)  If you want to come and visit look up Bala in campinmygarden.com (a great camping community).  Good luck!

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 13, 2011, 06:02:38 pm

Just tried looking it up and, according the the site, there are no campistes in Bala.  ???

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: FiB on October 13, 2011, 06:12:14 pm

oops - its changed a bit - you have to search by location and then zoom out!!!!  Here its is http://campinmygarden.com/campsites/253 (http://campinmygarden.com/campsites/253) - there are quite a few other smallholdings offering camping on there, we loved welcoming our first campers over the summer.

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: tizaala on October 13, 2011, 07:16:53 pm

living in brum ? how can you call that Living, come on now do get a grip. and welcome from an ex Wolfrunian.

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: FiB on October 13, 2011, 08:43:25 pm

25 years (for me) in Wolverhampton and Birmingham only make the move sweeter when it comes!  (and I'm not knocking the midlands either - great place to live and work, just a little limited for acreage and animal rearing opportunities!!).  hope the forum is as useful to you as me Mark, 'tarar a bit'

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 13, 2011, 11:57:43 pm

Well aren't we a bunch of Enoch and Elis?!  (Born, bred and dragged up in Walsall.)

It's a funny thing, but all my life I've been able to answer the question, "Where's Walsall?", with "About halfway down the 3rd division" - just the divisions have different names now, currently it's called League One.  ::)

Title: Re: City-dweller says hi
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 14, 2011, 12:08:58 am

And there'sme moving into the West Midlands (Telford) as everyone else is moving out.  My OH is a real townie though.  He didn't like it when we lived n a market town, population 25,000.