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Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 09 9:37 pm Post subject:
Hello and welcome. More south east downsizers is always good.

BadgerFace

Joined: 25 Mar 2009
Posts: 915
Location: Sussex

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 09 9:31 am Post subject:
Welcome Pigeonpease, from an Essex girl living in Sussex (i've been here 25 years but I still don't count as a local !! ) I also found white stiletto's are not practical footwear about the smallholding

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 09 10:14 am Post subject:
I've only been in Sussex for two and half years (Londoner not Essex girl), but since moving here I found out that I had family in the area beween 1656 (and probably earlier) and somewhere between 1861 and 1871 so I'm claiming ancestral rights

kate23

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 2

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 09 2:59 am Post subject:
Hello everyone! New here in this forum i am Kate from Toronto Canada... and i'm 25 years old.. i am glad that i join here.. Have a nice day!

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 09 11:55 am Post subject:
Hi Kate23. Welcome to Downsizer. How did you find your way here?

Muppet

Joined: 03 Aug 2009
Posts: 7

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 09 9:11 am Post subject:

I'm Sarah, married to Simon, 4 children, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 8 chickens & a small veg plot.

I've lived in Suffolk since I married 15 years ago (was Norfolk born & bred) & have had plans for keeping chickens (& maybe geese) & growing our own veg for years. We've grown dribs & drabs for a while, but this year finally got an area of garden cleared to grow our own veg. As to chickens...we built a chicken house & run around 6 years ago, Simon toddled off to get us 4 hens & came back with 4 cockerels (there followed a surreal conversation about how if cockerels laid eggs than he'd be the 1 who was currently heavily pregnant...). After that 1st foray into chicken keeping Simon lost enthusiasm & I had my hands full with baby #3 then baby #4.

This year everything seems to have happened at once - we finally got an area of garden properly cleared of tree roots & stumps (we live in woodland) so we could start our veg garden & 8 homeless chickens found there way to us via a friend of a friend who didn't have the room for them.

It's been a bit of a steep learning curve...not so much keeping the chickens, but sorting the veg garden. As a tractor driver Simon can only see the more intensive cram as much as possible into every square inch way where there's literally no room to get between beds/rows to weed, hoe, etc so there's lots of tweaking & learning we're both going to be doing over the coming seasons & years.

Oh & something else about me you may not have noticed...I do tend to waffle & ramble a tad...

jamanda
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 09 9:15 am Post subject:
Hi there Muppet! welcome to the site.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 09 9:18 am Post subject:
Welcome Muppet. Feel free to ramble as much as you like!

Bodmegsson

Joined: 29 Jul 2009
Posts: 9
Location: South-West Herefordshire

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 09 9:20 pm Post subject:

Hello. Herefordshire calling. This forum looks like it might be a source of answers to the heap of questions I have about a whole range of topics. I'm new to the forum culture and I expect I'm doing something wrong already. Fairly new also to smallholding and I guess I need to toughen-up a bit on the business side of things otherwise I'll be carted off to the poorhouse along with my few sheep, geese and pigs.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 09 9:22 pm Post subject:
Waves Mother is in Herefordshire - I am in Suffolk mind

Islay

Joined: 11 Aug 2009
Posts: 38
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 09 3:18 pm Post subject:

Hello from West Sussex!

I live in a teeny tiny rented 2 bedroom terrace in the middle of a city with my boyfriend and baby, so we couldn't exactly downsize much more, but we do try to be as self sufficient as possible in those fairly narrow confines.

We have a five year plan (doesn't everyone?!) to rent/buy a bigger place with more space to grow our own veg and be as self sufficient as we can - blog address is (theoretically, this is my first post so it might not work) in my signature.

gil
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18409

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 09 3:21 pm Post subject:
Hello and welcome to Downsizer, Islay !

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 09 7:01 am Post subject:
Hello Islay - nice to see another West Sussex member . I'm looking forward to having a browse through your blog later...

resistance is fertile

Joined: 24 Oct 2008
Posts: 1534
Location: The heart of North Devon

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 09 8:15 am Post subject:
Hello! Where abouts are you in W Sussex?

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 09 8:42 am Post subject:
Hello to all you lovely newbies from a wet ( again!) North Herefordshire.

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