[Ina]

I feel a bit of a fraud - I could only, really, call myself a very, very small holder... The accident that could turn me into a proper one hasn't happened yet!

Anyway, I'm Ina - live in the southern part of Aberdeenshire, on the coast, with a small garden, a cat and a few house spiders. Would love to have some land and livestock - had a couple of goats in the past. but circumstances don't allow anything like that. Particularly hard to take at this time of the year, with lambing going on...

[Rosemary]

Hello and welcome from drizzly Carnoustie

Off to the dentist 

[plumseverywhere]

Hello Ina

we are in chilly Worcestershire and keep some goats (first ever kidding due in March, eek!) we are very new to sheep and have a few hens.

HOpe you enjoy TAS, its a lovely place to come and chat and I have my breakfast and lunch breaks here every day 

[Ina]

Thank you for your prompt welcome!

Hello and welcome from drizzly Carnoustie

Off to the dentist 

Hope the dentist goes well.

And it's drizzling here, too...

[in the hills]

Hello Ina and welcome from a grey and cloudy Powys

[chairmanphil]

hi Ina, cloudy and warmish in Oxford! welcome in!

[FiB]

Hi Ina , re smallholder - I think its an ethos rather than a number of acres!  You are here so you must be one!

[lill]

Hi Ina and welcome to the forum from central scotland

[Pel]

Hi, welcome from west-wales, I don't have a smallholding either, just occasionally breed rabbits and try to have a veg patch (I can grow seedlings well but the next stage is a bit harder esp. when my husband forgets to water them when i'm away).

[Ina]

Thanks for all your encouraging words!

Oh, and I'm good on the seedlings, too. Have already started some off.... And it's only February! But then I don't have a husband to blame for not watering them. 

[Lesley Silvester]

  Hi Ina and welcome from not so sunny Shropshire.  I'm a back garden smallholder.  What sort of goats did you have?  Mine are Sanaans. 

[Ina]

Cashmere. Had to give them up when I had to give up country job and the house that came with it. And I still have a few bags of the fibre in the cupboard somewhere, which isn't getting any better... One of these days - ha! - I'll have time, space and energy to do something with it! (So I've been saying for a few years now.)
 
I worked with dairy goats in the past, though (long time ago, in France). Would love to have some again and make my own cheese! Well, I'd love the full range of livestock, if possible... Hens, for a start.

[Lesley Silvester]

Hope it works out for you.  And try the spinning - it's very relaxing.

[bigchicken]

Hi Ina and welcome from Fife

[Mammyshaz]

Hi ina 
 welcome from Durham area.no smallholding either I rent allotments adjoining house as  i don't even have a garden but  permission from council allowed a few hens last year. It's a start but desperate to get my own land.
It seems on this great site that it doesn't matter whether you only own a single potted plant or a large farm everyone has the same interests,