[melodrama]

Hey everyone, I am finally back on the site - we have now moved to Canada and are living on an acreage in rural Alberta and loving it!!  We have around 20 acres and are now looking to start over again with our smallholding.  Hoping everyone is well.  Wish me luck.
Melanie xx

[Bionic]

Wow, what a change. Sounds like a good one though 

[melodrama]

It has been a great experience.  We have only been here for about 6 weeks but we are loving it already and have settled well thankfully. Now ready to get back to work on raising some good healthy food for my table.  It is damn near impossible to get good lamb (or any lamb) here so am thinking I may venture into that but still have a lot of research to do first x

[Clarebelle]

wow, that sounds amazing! You must take some pictures. Canada is one of those places I would love to visit and one of the very few places outside the UK that i would ever consider moving to.

Are you going to do a blog or anything? I would love to hear about how you build up your holding coping with the weather and stuff up there. It sounds fab!

[shygirl]

that sounds amazing. I did wonder how you were. did your husband have a new job or was it emigration?

fab news

[mojocafa]

Hi

Glad you have finally settled,  I  have your eglu, love it btw

  wishing you lots of luck

Mojo

[Womble]

Yes, I was in Alberta last year and meat was almost exclusively beef. The steaks were amazing of course, but it did make me wonder whether this was supplier or customer driven?
 
All the best with your new venture! 

[Rosemary]

Wow, how wonderful!!! There are a few Canadians on here I think, although the chances of you being neighbours is pretty slim, I suppose 

Photos os the new place as soon as, please.

[goosepimple]

Ah yes melodrama, I remember you!  Well that's great, yes I'd love to read a blog too, it's something so many of us think about doing and never do.  Tell us all about it!

[benandjerry]

Hello    Where did you leave from?  Sounds well exciting. 

[Anke]

Wow, hope you have the thermals with you!

Any goats/cows in the pipeline too?

[Daisys Mum]

Welcome back, that's a bit of a change from Forfar but I must say if I was emigrating Canada would be my first choice, weren't you planning on going to oz at one point?

[SallyintNorth]

Great to 'see' you again ! 

Congratulations on the new place, and yes please please please either blog or write about it here.

I like Canada too, been a few times.  Love the sense of humour   And as others have said, if I'd ever emigrated, Canada would have been one of the places I'd have looked at.  I even got some info about it once, a long time ago.

Yes, it would be very interesting to know more about why there are so few sheep - do tell if/when you work it out.

[Lesley Silvester]

  Welcome back.

[melodrama]

aw thanks everyone, I am feeling the love.  I hadn't thought about doing a blog and really wouldn't know where to start!  I'll give it some thought.  Yes we had originally thought about Oz but finally decided on Canada and are really glad we did.  It has been extreme to say the least with temps of -42 on the coldest day.  I never knew how many nose hairs I had until they started freezing when I walked outside! 


Anke, I have sourced some in kid does not far from here that I am going to look at in the next week or so.  As you know though, my girl didn't kid whilst in my care so that would be a new experience - a little scary!


Mojo - hey you!  Glad the eglu worked out for you - it was fab for the period we had it.  They don't sell them here as far as I can tell.


I can't tell you guys how happy I am to be back and seeing how you are all doing.  Rosemary, have read your details on sheep which are stellar as usual. 


Big kisses - pics to follow as soon as I can.
Melanie xx