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Rhyan & Melissa

  • Joined Dec 2008
  • Lincolnshire
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2009, 06:37:40 pm »
This is so cool - everyone is really diverse. I love it!!

Suppose I had better bore you with what we do.............

I started out as a music photographer and set designer for nightclubs. Moved to Miami, where I spent 7 sun drenched (and maybe alcohol drenched!!) years setting up & clubs, club visual design, managing DJs and events and DJing my own events!
Came back to the UK to manage Goldie and his Metalheadz record labels, toured with Goldie for 3 years then moved to Ibiza to take the post of marketing director at Amnesia for a year.
Life is a little calmer now! Still manage Goldie, still working on an album I started 3 years ago, still involved in the DnB scene, but I also have a property development business with my Father ( never work with family or friends????) Problem is there is no money in the music industry anymore and even less in property! >:(

Melissa is head of marketing at Box TV, a channel 4 thingy. She looks after 4 Music, Magic, Kerrang and all the other fun music TV channels. She has to travel to London each day still, so its a bit of a shlep - but she is coping well (and has learnt to sleep on trains like a pro!)

So, on top of all this we are trying to start a smallholding. We have a 250m2 plot for veg and the polytunnel (if we every get it built!!) and plan to fetch chickens for the back garden in the next few weeks. We also have a cat (so livestock on a small scale!) I go shooting most weekends for Rabbits and anything else (within reason) thats edible and Melissa bakes amazing cakes!!

Plan is to move out a little closer to Nottingham, maybe in the Vale of Belvoir (pronounced beever apparently!) get 3 acres or so and take it from there. Thats assuming we ever get the house finished to sell!
 
Now, assuming I haven't bored you all into a small coma............................ ;D
Rhyan & Melissa

Pea Pod Burgundy Ltd

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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2009, 07:23:47 pm »
Wow, Rhyan - all sounds very glamorous!

Lubob

  • Guest
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2009, 07:28:21 pm »
I am not going to bother now ...  mine is way too dull!!!

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2009, 07:33:49 pm »
Come on, Lu - they wear wellies like the rest of us!

Rhyan & Melissa

  • Joined Dec 2008
  • Lincolnshire
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2009, 07:45:34 pm »
LUBOB!

Don't be soft! 

I love nothing more than going shooting on a Saturday morning or going to the allotment with Melissa and crying quietly at the amount of work that need doing!  Its not all sex, drugs and sausage rolls!

I don't even own a suit - except the one I got married in, but I have a sneaking suspicion I left that at the hotel on purpose!!!


I wanna wear wellies all the time and be self sufficient and everything!

Tell us
Tell us
Tell us

(Am i being annoying yet?)

Its not what you do or don't - its who you are and so far everyone on here has been way cooler than me and super friendly.





Rhyan & Melissa

Pea Pod Burgundy Ltd

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Lubob

  • Guest
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2009, 08:16:47 pm »
okay okay ...

I work in a School Office and Bob works for Cable and Wireless.  We would both love to spend more time living the 'Good Life' but that doesn't pay the bills, anyway we are just starting out and who says were going to be any good at it?!  I am chitting enough potatoes to feed Scotland, where I am going to plant my other veggies I have no idea!!!  Anyway, not going to sleep tonight, collecting my Black Rocks tomorrow - hooray!  Everyone at work thinks I've gone mad!!

OK we have all got wellies ....

 :D

Rhyan & Melissa

  • Joined Dec 2008
  • Lincolnshire
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2009, 08:24:50 pm »
So lets see:

Your getting your chickens tomorrow - we are getting ours ASAP

You have no idea whether you will be any good at being Barbara and Tom - neither do we!

Not enough land - nope us too!

Wear wellies way too much?  Yep!!

Everyone thinks your mad - Yeah, sounds familiar!!

Think we are all very alike!!  :o
Rhyan & Melissa

Pea Pod Burgundy Ltd

Blog:      www.peapodburgundy.blogspot.com/
Twitter:   www.twitter.com/peapodburgundy
Web:      www.peapodburgundy.co.uk

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garden cottage

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • forest of dean
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2009, 09:42:43 pm »
crikey not quite the rock star lifestyle here. Im now a surveyer for the gas industry been in it for 20yrs plus,started out on the gangs putting in mains and services to houses also on 24hr standby for leaks which thank god im out of now. Anns a community nursery nurse ie going round checking on new babies dangling them by there feet and weighing them or something like that. Eldest daughter is at harpury college doing veterinary nurse course works down the local pub waitress......................neil

gavo

  • Joined Aug 2008
  • Belcoo, Enniskillen, N.Ireland
  • Crazy Pig Lover
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2009, 10:15:05 pm »
I'm an IT Geek (networks & telephony systems) for an Insurance Company. The boss is a Nurse in the local NHS Hospital, she works two 12 hr shifts a week and so is effectively the farm manager as well (I'm the weekend & evening farmer).
I worked for BT in England and took redundancy in 1998. We swapped our 3 bed semi in Croydon opposite a bus stop for a farm outside Enniskillen in N.I. - there's still a bus but only once a week !

Cheers

Gavin

Crofter

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Isle of Lewis
  • We'll get there!
    • Ravenstar
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2009, 11:22:48 pm »
Gosh!  What a lot of diversity.
I am a Blacksmith when there is time and work enough.  Like to do more artistic stuff but Gates and Railings pay the bills.
Jane is a Complimentary Therapist and does relief catering work for the local council.
We both run the Croft (4.5 acres) and in the summer run our house as a 3 bedroom B&B too.

Busy Busy

Dave
Comfortable B&B on a working Croft on the Isle of Lewis. www.Ravenstar.co.uk

hexhammeasure

  • Joined Jun 2008
    • golocal food
    • Facebook
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2009, 11:29:28 pm »
I'm a self employed smallholder... no really... I'm paid to run a smallholding... **smug smug**
Paid to look after ducks, hens, sheep, 3 acres garden, 30 acres woodland, 30 acres grassland

Its a tough life

**smug smug**
Ian

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
    • ABERDON GUNDOGS for work and show
    • Facebook
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2009, 11:31:21 pm »
We all hate you! :P

No we don't, but we are all very envious! :-[
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: What does everyone.....
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2009, 07:54:12 am »
So hex tell us more

(Dan where is the green smiley???)

Rhyan & Melissa

  • Joined Dec 2008
  • Lincolnshire
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2009, 08:23:12 am »
30 acres of wood and grassland. Sounds like you need a pest control officer.

Let me present - Myself!!!!!!  ;D
Rhyan & Melissa

Pea Pod Burgundy Ltd

Blog:      www.peapodburgundy.blogspot.com/
Twitter:   www.twitter.com/peapodburgundy
Web:      www.peapodburgundy.co.uk

You can also find us on Facebook and Myspace!

pierre

  • Joined Feb 2009
  • Deep in The Trossachs....
Re: What does everyone.....
« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2009, 08:38:39 am »
... hey up ....

I'm a Landscape Gardener ...(seems to be alot around, huh....!!!) and have a small nursery, specialising in plants that will survive in the Highlands... (I'm deep in the Trossachs.... beautiful...) and in the wet weather I do some Picture Framing.... and carpentry projects...

.... enough to keep me out of mischief...  ;D ;D ;D

Polly.... my significant other half.... is a District Nurse... and hates this cold and snowy/icy conditions, as she works in a rural area...

 :) :) :) :)

 

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