Author Topic: Hi from Tyneside  (Read 12058 times)

Micko

  • Joined Jan 2010
Hi from Tyneside
« on: January 06, 2010, 12:52:49 pm »
New to this smallholding malarky and got to make a go of it here in Tyneside. Me and the Mrs are planning to move onto our land (by whatever means possible), get the polytunnel up, collect loads of rainwater and try and clear some land.......anyone got a pig or 2 to help??

Cheers for now
Micko and Dee Dee

ballingall

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 01:06:58 pm »
Hi Micko and welcome!



Beth

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2010, 02:33:16 pm »
Welcome, Micko and Dee Dee - if you see a Brittany with a long tail going about near Newcastle - I bred him - name's Ranger - just hope he doesn't live up to it!
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

JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 02:41:18 pm »
Hello Micko and Dee Dee and welcome from Devon.  :)
Pedigree GOS Pigs and Butchery for Smallholders.

Micko

  • Joined Jan 2010
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 02:53:15 pm »
Annie....We've got a couple of muts....Chas looks like a thug but would probaly lick you to death. Sure he's going to love the pigs when they arrive...especially the pigs lugs.

What's it like down Devon way JulieS?? My sprogg is trying to get back down to Plymouth today from Newcastle here and looks like all planes are off. Mad up here...had the dogs on the 'big' garden (soon to be cultivated and stuff) and they almost dissapeared.

Cheers - micko


sandy

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 05:34:03 pm »
Micko and Dee Dee, Hello and welcome...I love the Teeside accent and in my head I am reading like Jimmy Nail!!!!

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2010, 05:38:54 pm »
Hello and welcome from me in Lanarkshire  ;D
Look forward to hearing how you get on.

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 05:47:29 pm »
Micko and Dee Dee, Hello and welcome...I love the Teeside accent and in my head I am reading like Jimmy Nail!!!!

Me too, if a gentleman appeared on my doorstep with that accent I'd fall in love all over again - oops, I did, but he was 30 years too young :-[ ;D
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

CameronS

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • North East Fife
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2010, 07:36:29 pm »
Welcome from fife

Micko

  • Joined Jan 2010
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2010, 08:17:50 pm »
sorry to disappoint.......lived up here for many years but not orginally from Geordieland but our lass is a Shields lass and she looks a bit like Jimmy Nail!!

Great to hear from you all and thanks loads for a dead warm welcome. All really into your smallholding stuff ain't yer. Been having a good look through and there's loads of good gen to be had.

Micko

sandy

  • Guest
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2010, 09:47:57 pm »
 ;D hope she is not going to read that!!! Now I don't know what accent, maybe you come originaly from Londonshire????? I detect a bit of cockney ;) ;) Oh, I am not a Scottie although often have a bit of Scotch inside me...the drink that is my OH is a midlander like me......anyway, you sound fun and I carn't   spell....  especialy when I have had Scottish water diluted with Whiskey!!! water is strong up here. ;)   

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2010, 10:27:02 pm »
Hi, Micko and welcome from icy Alloa.

What kind of mutts do you have?

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2010, 06:43:54 am »
Hi and welcome, borrowing a couple of pigs is a great idea for clearing ground.  In our experience tamworths did the best clearing job.  Of course if you bought a couple of neutered males, you could put them in the freezer when they had cleared the ground.

Micko

  • Joined Jan 2010
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2010, 08:05:02 am »
Nah...she's champion with it. Got odd taste in blokes though, fav ever male is Michael Stipe of REM....WEIRD! Me..I've lived on Tyneside for 20 odd years now so gradually get into the Georgie ways but come from Chester originally. Absolutely love it here though.

Got a couple of rescue dogs who needed feeding up when we got them, poor souls. Now thriving but just had to spend just over a grand to fix big whippets lugs. So now having to scrimp and save to buy buy seeds, fencing materials, timber for compost area and ten thousand other stuff.

Lyla is a bit of a whippet cross (fat one) and is a bolshy bitch and total dominates Charlie who must have some Staffy in him but with bigger legs. He loves little dogs and reckon he'd love one for a pet. The lass wants loads more dogs when eventually get the caravan on the land, espec ex-racing greyhounds which should be fun with all the rabbits about and sheep in next field.

Aye...definitely thinking about the pig clearance technique. Will definitely have to be living there though as there's plently of nutters around. Tamworth are supposed to be cunning escape artists aren't they? Love the look of them though and it's all about the taste at the end of the day. We're keen to get some Middle Whites (remember she likes Michael Stipe!) and also some Mangalitzas, who must be doing well in this freezing weather. No doubt she'll tempt them into the bed to keep warm though along with the freeky dogs!


Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: Hi from Tyneside
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2010, 05:41:42 pm »
Having once shared a bed with a pig (not going there) strongly recommend you dont let them past the bedroom door!!!

If you are seriously interested in mangalitsas (wonderful pigs especially when crossed with a tamworth) talk to Smithy on this site hers are gorgeous, and she had some for sale recently.

 

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