[supplies for smallholders]

Hi,

Found this link to an article on a software forum, whilst it relates mainly to software, there are a few interesting points for those who ask questions, and those who answer them.......

http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/

Enjoy

[pikilily]

So SfS,
Do you think we need a self help group?
Do we need to grow a small TASH ?
Are you a Vincent Price or a Robert Pattinson type!
ET 

[Norfolk Newby]

Perhaps it depends on where you are living.

Here in Norfolk people are pretty independent and are more keen to offer help than accept it.

I live in a little town where there is a high proportion of elderly people. Neighbours maintain their independence as long as they can but most of us eventually need and appreciate a bit of help. Mostly little things like getting to a hospital appointment, collecting oversize shopping when without a car, changing a blown fuse etc. And the help is appreciated.

I haven't seen anyone here who fits the title of help vampire. Perhaps that's part of why I am happy living where I am.

[Fleecewife]

Very interesting SfS - I hadn't thought of things like that before.

[bazzais]

Can you tell me how to start a successful smallholding?

[pikilily]

 

[supplies for smallholders]

Can you tell me how to start a successful smallholding?

Oh thats an easy one - Just a few simple steps......

1) Give up all thoughts of normality
2) Watch your bank balance dwindle
3) Look after the photos from your last holiday - you wont get another for 74 years!
4) Ponder how excited you get when you make 5p profit on selling 3 butchered pigs
5) Dont settle for one species of livestock - get them all!!
6) Keep telling yourself you enjoy it!

Simples........

[pikilily]

You forgot the plug SfS....

7. Instead of scouring magazines for your next purchace of perfume/aftershave and house freshener;
                                                   be prepared to study catalogues for wormers/flysprays and dissinfectants!!!

Emma T 

[supplies for smallholders]

A Plug?? I don't possibly know what you could mean.... 

[ellisr]

or....

A good day out is a 20% off sale at the feed merchants

[supplies for smallholders]

A Day out ?? But the pigs / sheep / cattle may escape.

I had a day out once, went to the livestock auction, neighbours called me to tell me my pigs were out - They opened a gate themselves ! - Found my car and trailer blocked in at the car park - by the time I got home pigs were all asleep back in their pen - but my Lawn had gone!!!

[ellisr]

sounds like me last year, I couldn't work out how the sheep were escaping until I found the local council had put another gate in the top field for the public footpath and the gate doesn't shut securely.

[pikilily]

SfS, I think you missheard your neighbours that day.

The message was "your piggin' lawn's escaped, again!!!"

ET x

[waterhouse]

When we had the wider family around a couple of weeks ago the fact that my wife was measuring something with an NSA sheep testicle tape was commented upon.

[SallyintNorth]

When we had the wider family around a couple of weeks ago the fact that my wife was measuring something with an NSA sheep testicle tape was commented upon.