[lewis6563]

Hi there, I'm Tina, and have recently found this fab site.  I live in a farmhouse smack bang in the middle of a new estate overlooking the Ochills here in Scotland!!! Haven't got much land unfortunately but a big enough garden to be coping with.  We are animal & children mad here;we are a family of 5 and we have a choccy lab pup, 3 cats, 1 kitten, fish, rabbits, guinea pig, rats, degu, multi mammats, snakes and a veg patch lol.  In the process of getting some chucks, I would so love to be self sufficient one day in the future but for now I'm enjoying the little bits that I can do. 

I look forward to joining in on this fab forum xxx

[ukag0972]

Hi, from sunny argyll!

[doganjo]

Welcome from Clackmannan - I'm a bit like you, have 5 dogs, a cat, 3 ducks, a cockerel and 8 hens , a big garden with fruit and veg and shrubs and weeds .  Would love more land but not possible here and not likely to moev.  Hope you enjoy our company1

[Sandy]

Hello from Clackmannan too!!! You shall have to pup into the meetings here for the Smallholders, great lot and some benifits too!! I just have a garden and some chilckens, a pair of DUcks (poor lilly is getting far too much attention from Charlie!!!) 2 adult Black Labs, a yellow lab 5 mth old pup from our own litter and a 5mth chocolate bought in to complete out "famiy" so we have a common chocie dog!!! I run a Bed and Breakfast too so am at home more often than not, usualy cleaning!!!

[jameslindsay]

Hi Tina, I hope you achieve your ambitions.

[lewis6563]

Hello from Clackmannan too!!! You shall have to pup into the meetings here for the Smallholders, great lot and some benifits too!! I just have a garden and some chilckens, a pair of DUcks (poor lilly is getting far too much attention from Charlie!!!) 2 adult Black Labs, a yellow lab 5 mth old pup from our own litter and a 5mth chocolate bought in to complete out "famiy" so we have a common chocie dog!!! I run a Bed and Breakfast too so am at home more often than not, usualy cleaning!!!

Thankyou for the lovely warm welcomes. 

Sandy we will have to meet up for a doggy walk, my friend has a black lab, could be the labs day out lol.  When and where is the small holders meetings held, sounds good to me? 

Tina x

[lewis6563]

Welcome from Clackmannan - I'm a bit like you, have 5 dogs, a cat, 3 ducks, a cockerel and 8 hens , a big garden with fruit and veg and shrubs and weeds .  Would love more land but not possible here and not likely to moev.  Hope you enjoy our company1

A large dog walk then lol, ive only been here in tullibody for 2 years, clackmannan is the place where you have the man and woman holding hands on the roundabout?

[doganjo]

Sure have - Sandy likes it I don't!  Could have spent the money on better things for the community.

[lewis6563]

lol I agree, ive got a metal man holding some leaves too on our roundabout, actually i think its similar to your man, and down near fishcross its the woman!  But the council are closing public loos because they have no money left in the pot lol i wonder why!!!!   Oooh the debate lol

[Daisys Mum]

Hi and welcome from me too, no labs here but my daughter has a choccy one. I just have a Jack Russell and 2 Chihuahuas, a rapidly increasing flock of sheep, hens and ducks just now. 4 pigs at the end of June.A veg patch with no veg planted yet, a greenhouse waiting on the tomatoes etc being put into the growbags and I am ashamed to say I am having the rest of the garden sorted out by a professional as I have let the shrubs etc get too big and it was a total mess.

[Rosemary]

The money for public art tends to be specific grant not from the revenue grant, so art work doesn't substitute for loos, in any sense.

Check out the CSSA website www.smallholders.info

[doganjo]

I think we all know about budgets and ring fencing and pots of money for specific projects, Rosemary.  Doesn't stop us wanting things differently!  Still think they're a waste of money and resources.

[Sandy]

I love public art, especially all the foil people on the roundabouts in Clackmannanshire!!!!!  Art is very important to me, adding to the natural environment and so its like not having pictures or flowers in your house!! I went into ALloa with Steve to see the new sculptures in the center but they were wrapped up. I know we are not getting hanging baskets in Clackmannan this year and I am not putting window box's up!!! Psychologically, nice surroundings create an environment that is less lightly to be vandalised!! in simple terms, if the place is cared for then most people respect that!!

[Daisys Mum]

Again I agree with you Sandy, I love the Angel of the North at Gateshead, hubby always says what a waste of money when we pass it ,guaranteed to keep us arguing for the next 20 miles or so.

[Rosemary]

Yep, I love it too even if I don't particularly like each art work. It would be a dull world if we only dealt with the functional. The man and child at the station in Alloa is beautiful and always brings a lump to my throat.

Hoping to get to the Glasgow Boys exhibition at Kelvingrove soon. Saw "Monet in the 21st Century" at the Royal Academy some years ago - couldn't get that at all, but went to an exhibition of work by Ingres at the National Portrait Gallery and was, literally, moved to tears by his work. Mind you, I AM a big softy. Sorry - gone off topic.