Author Topic: Hello from Northants!  (Read 4216 times)

Mel

  • Guest
Hello from Northants!
« on: October 16, 2010, 10:56:31 pm »
Just wish to say hello  :wave: to you all,my hubs and I have a rented paddock of just over one acre,we have some 60+ :chook:chickens now and grow our own veg with moderate success,we are just contemplating having some pigs! We have been at our current location 4 years a love the smallholding if that is what you can call us! We are green as can be,all organic,free range and endeavour for frugal living..or maybe we are just peasants :o!


piggy

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 11:35:03 pm »
Hi and welcome from Suffolk. :wave:

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2010, 08:34:54 am »
Hi and welcome from beautiful, sunny Carnoustie  :wave:

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2010, 08:55:58 am »
Hello and welcome  :wave:  I too love being a peasant - nothing derogatory about it.  I work on the land and come from a long line of others who also worked the land.  Enjoy it  :farmer:

Did you see a tv prog a while back where John Prescott was travelling Britain talking to 'working class' people?  He spoke with some unemployed young women, one of whom said she wasn't working class because she didn't have a job.  To her being working class was something to aspire to, which Prescott missed.  She hit on a fundamental truth there. 

We are all so lucky to have access to land and be able to work it.
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

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Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2010, 09:54:41 am »
Welcome from Clackmannan, the Wee county in the middle of Scotland.  Not a smallholder as such, just got ducks and hens and loads of dogs, but I also have an acre - just garden but trying to muss it up a bit, not having a lot of success with veg but I have THREE apples!  Am I chuffed!  I'm down your way three times a year at our dog club events. At Catthorpe Manor for our Le Weekend in September.  Weather was lovely.
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2010, 11:57:33 am »
Hi smallholders or peasants still very welcome.   :wave:  What type of pigs are you considering?

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2010, 02:23:08 pm »

hi and welcome from the Scottish borders  :wave:
Anne

faith0504

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Cairngorms
  • take it easy and chill
    • blaemuir cottage
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2010, 03:58:00 pm »
hi and welcome from moray  :wave:

carrie

  • Joined Jun 2009
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2010, 07:31:16 pm »
hi, welcome from southern ireland. we had a smallhalding in northants about 10 years ago. it's a lovely county. you're not peasants, just enjoy what you have.

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2010, 08:56:48 am »
Hello, it's fun being a peasant isn't it :)

morri2

  • Joined Jun 2008
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2010, 05:11:20 pm »
Hi!  Nothing like frugal living - best way to be.   Welcome to the site. :wave:

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Hello from Northants!
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2010, 07:49:48 pm »
hello and welcome :wave:
Little Blue

 

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