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Irish Blowin

  • Joined Dec 2011
New to your forum
« on: December 08, 2011, 04:00:56 pm »
Hi
I live in the West of Ireland. I was originally from Hounslow Middlesex which is right next to Heathrow Airport. I never had any farming experience until one mad day we bought 2 Landrace sows to turn over our veggie plot. That was 10 years ago. We have kept Gloucester Old Spot, Tamworth and Saddleback pigs. Done AI, bred them the natural way, made salami, sausage, ham, bacon the lot! Looking forward to sharing my experiences with you all and I'm sure I can learn something new along the way.  :wave:
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 04:49:34 pm »
Hello and welcome from a rather breezy Carnoustie  :wave:
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melodrama

  • Joined Jun 2011
    • Forfar
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 05:08:52 pm »
Hello from very windy Forfar  :wave:
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doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2011, 05:27:35 pm »
Welcome from wet and windy Clackmannan.  Hope it's not too bad over the sea.  Don't try to make sense of the Bawbag thread, it'll do your head in!  ;D ;D ;D
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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

DeeDee

  • Joined Jan 2010
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2011, 06:30:41 pm »
Hello and welcome!

Windy and rainy weather has made it's way to Northumberland, so it may be on it's way to you - good luck!

Dee  :wave:


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plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2011, 06:45:46 pm »
Hello from WOrcestershire  :wave:

I used to be a nursing sister on the Gynae ward at Hillingdon hospital just up the road from Hounslow!!! small world  :D
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Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
    • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
    • Facebook
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2011, 07:15:14 pm »
Hi from a very windy Aberdeenshire and it's due to get worse!!! Hope your not too bad where you are
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Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

Miss Piggy

  • Joined Mar 2011
    • Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2011, 09:19:06 pm »
Hi warm welcome from Wild West Wales, very wet windy and cold at the moment.  :wave:
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ramblerskitchen

  • Joined Nov 2010
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2011, 11:04:50 pm »
Hi from Dorset.

My OH was from Hounslow also.  When we first met (we worked together) he was forever taking the P@@@ out of my living "in the sticks" and saying that although he had moved to Dorset he would never be seen dead in wellies.............roll on 6 years   we now rent 2 acres...have 7 pigs 8 sheep and 30 odd chicken.  Have made our own sausages, make chutnies, pickles etc. together to sell. 

He still has a normal job... I am luckier and work for myself as a gardener and accident investigator........The animals and simple things are the best.  Good Luck and this site is brilliant.

Sarah x

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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2011, 11:09:16 pm »
As warm a welcome as I can manage in these gales from north Cumbria  :wave:

Finally got my breeding sow after wanting my own for thirty-odd years.  Still very much a novice on the pig front, so your experience will be welcome!
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Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: New to your forum
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2011, 11:48:32 pm »
 :wave: Hi and welcome from windy Shropshire.
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