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TheSmilingSheep

  • Joined May 2013
moved to the west country and loving it!
« on: June 25, 2013, 08:42:44 am »
We've escaped from London, left behind legal careers, found a thatched cottage in Devon, and are now learning, far too rapidly, about chickens, pigs and sheep..... and strimmers, mowers, tractors & chainsaws... electric fences.... names of birds... wood burners.... chopping wood.... growing vegetables... - no time left for a PROPER job at all!
This site has been brilliant - it may even make me break my personal rule of NO smiley faces!
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 09:09:47 am »
 ;D :excited: :thumbsup: :wave:  ;)
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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

TheSmilingSheep

  • Joined May 2013
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2013, 09:47:03 am »
I'm still fighting it....
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2013, 09:48:42 am »
Come on now Brendon, you know you want to  :excited:
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Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

TheSmilingSheep

  • Joined May 2013
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2013, 10:06:56 am »
stop it stop it stop it

(in fact, cruelly, my first post on the pig forum had me inadvertently putting in a face due to my excessive use of punctuation.... but I'm sure that 'mistake' is a full defence....)
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2013, 10:10:45 am »
Quote from: Brendon21 on June 25, 2013, 10:06:56 am

but I'm sure that 'mistake' is a full defence....)

I thought you had left your legal career behind you  ;D
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Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
    • S W northumberland
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2013, 10:11:24 am »
Welcome to the crazy world of smallholding  ::) Belive me the smilies will start coming  :roflanim: I never used to use them when I fist started on forums  ::)
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Graham

TheSmilingSheep

  • Joined May 2013
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2013, 10:12:12 am »
Bionic,  I'm marking your card......
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Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Somerset
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2013, 10:32:12 am »
Hi Brendon


We are escapees from London as well (via Oxfordshire). Moved to Somerset a year ago and have not regretted it for a moment. Your learning process sounds very similar to ours. The best bit was the chainsaw. I'm almost looking forward to winter again so that I can do some more coppicing.


Am trying very hard not to use a smiley............
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plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2013, 12:28:07 pm »
Hello Brendan

I was born in London - never go there now - too noisy (london, not me)

The smileys....they'll get you in the end, y'know  :raining:
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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...

Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Somerset
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2013, 01:05:07 pm »
Oh goodness! It's not raining in Worcestshire is it?
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plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2013, 03:56:22 pm »
Its trying to! Always when its goat milking time...school run time or hay time!!
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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...

Possum

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Somerset
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2013, 08:27:45 pm »
Sorry to hear that. Somerset is currently enjoying fabulous warm and sunny weather. Will try and send some in your direction. :sunshine:
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AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
    • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2013, 08:56:21 pm »
Always sunny in Dawlish, we had to pump water out of the tanks in February, the tanks are completely dry now. :sunshine:
Brendon, log cutting for the burner is brilliant :farmer:  great exercise and its free, we cut everything over 10mm dia just use it as kindling.
We have 7 cubic metres ready for this winter
Preparation is the key, bought 10kg of rat poison yesterday ready for September, starting to plan our planting program ready for next year, rotovated next years veggie plot today. :thumbsup:
collect as many anti vermin containers as you can, collect wooden pallets for kindling and making things compost bins, fences, log stores etc :relief:
Have you been to rendells at Newton Abbot yet, worth a visit. :idea:
Good luck, keep smiling  :hug:
 :wave: :thumbsup: :eyelashes: :fc: :excited: :thinking: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :dunce:
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: moved to the west country and loving it!
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2013, 10:41:59 pm »
 :wave: welcome from  :sunshine: Cambridge although I actually live in dqually  :sunshine: Shropshire. Persoanlly I  :love: :) ;) :D ;D faces.  :-J :innocent: sure you will begin to soon.  :eyelashes:
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