Author Topic: Highland Life  (Read 10953 times)

bucketman

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Sutherland Scotland
Highland Life
« on: September 16, 2012, 07:04:26 pm »
Hi well we have been here a few weeks. The pub is open and people have been in. Our local's are game keepers and they bring there guest's I stand behind the bar and listern to all the fishing and shooting story's. Going out with them this week looking for foxes. the stuff we have had to learn is unreal. How to change water filters how to sort septic tanks and blocked drain's and how to pull a pint. The wife has been doing home made soup while I chop logs. It will go very quiet soon so will read we have not TV in a month. But one thing we know is where we can buy some nice pork from  ;)
rob
I am going to live the dream

deepinthewoods

  • Guest
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2012, 07:07:47 pm »
good stuff, keep learning, and u wont go far wrong. all the best. :thumbsup:

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2012, 07:09:02 pm »
sounds awesome good luck!!!

lachlanandmarcus

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2012, 07:14:57 pm »
hope it all goes really well and you are enjoying the challenges and beauties of rural life :-))) I certainly do!
 

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2012, 07:47:48 pm »
Good luck! Remind me where you are?

bucketman

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Sutherland Scotland
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2012, 08:06:02 pm »
Good luck! Remind me where you are?
We have just moved in Our post code is IV27 4HF where the pub not motel sadly the bank said no to both
if you get it up on google street view you can see our place
rob
« Last Edit: September 16, 2012, 08:08:01 pm by bucketman »
I am going to live the dream

luckylady

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Yorkshire
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2012, 09:52:40 pm »
So pleased its all going well for you.  You'll have to change your signature at the bottom of your posts to 'Now living the dream'  :thumbsup:
Doing that swan thing - cool and calm on the surface but paddling like crazy beneath.

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2012, 10:00:08 pm »
Glad it's going well  :thumbsup:  will pop in for a drink at some time  :D  if we are passing.

Sound like you are well in with the locals already  :sunshine:

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2012, 11:33:56 pm »
Good luck! Remind me where you are?
We have just moved in Our post code is IV27 4HF where the pub not motel sadly the bank said no to both
if you get it up on google street view you can see our place
rob

Just had a nose.  It looks lovely.  I also looked at the satellite view of the area.  It must be an amazing landscape.
 
It sounds like you are getting well settled.  Keep learning.  Like where to buy good lamb.    ;D

ppd

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Sutherland
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2012, 03:58:58 pm »
Thank you Rob and Les for the coffee and chat on Saturday after the Elphin Chicken Day :chook: How are the hens doing? Hope you will pop in and see us when you are next passing and let us return the highland hospitality :thumbsup:
Pauline

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2012, 08:26:39 pm »
Fantastic!  I'll be sure to introduce myself next time I'm in for my fishing permit then!  ;D
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
    • Facebook
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2012, 08:34:42 pm »
Sounds great Bucketman - had a wee spy and looks great too - and I thought I was rural .....
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2012, 10:32:29 am »
Looks brilliant - that's one of those single track A roads that are nothing like A roads around here, isnt' it?

Mmmmhhh, I've got a couple of weeks holidays coming up... :-\

bucketman

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Sutherland Scotland
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2012, 11:18:59 am »
Nice to have meet you ppd and we will call in and buy some pork dont forget to let me know how thats going. Ina the road is a single track road but we get 40ft wagons up and down it. The chuck are doing well we did think we had lost one the other day but a few hrs latter it turned up. The bar at the moment is covered in paper work Tuesday being office day so will get back to it
rob
I am going to live the dream

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Highland Life
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2012, 01:05:12 pm »
Nice to have meet you ppd and we will call in and buy some pork dont forget to let me know how thats going. Ina the road is a single track road but we get 40ft wagons up and down it.

I remember that from my last mini break in the Highlands - frightening when you aren't used to it... I just pulled over and let the locals pass whenever possible!

But the views... Wow.

 

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