Hi Everyone.

Lou8 · Post: # 15821Post **Lou8** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:03 pm

Hi there.
I am new. I chat on Dave Gorman's Forum and know Wormella from there so she recommended this site to me.
Have been having a browse around - such a great resource.
I live in Aberdeenshire and have recently just moved into a house with my very own garden for the first time. I have just started getting veg boxes delivered, we recycle as much as we can and today I planted my first quince tree. Yes, I know it might not do so well in these conditions but it was a housewarming from my friend and I really fancied giving it a try.
I have a fairly big bit of garden - well especially for someone totally new to it. There is a plot at the bottom which is currently a dump for huge boulders and stuff but I have drawn out plans to get it converted into a veg plot. I am waiting for the mannie who said he would come round and give me a quote to take away the boulders and build a fence for me - but he has a lot of work on just now having just started out on his own.
My big dream is to eventually get an AGA. I need to save my pennies.

woolcraft · Post: # 15823Post **woolcraft** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:26 pm

Hiya Lou, Yeah this is a great site with a lot of useful down-to-earth information. Welcome and looking forward to hearing more from you, Sue

Andy Hamilton · Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:31 pm

People buy boulders perhaps rather than pay a man to remove them you could sell them on ebay or something and get someone to pay you to remove them. Just a thought.

Anyway hello and welcome to our forum.

hedgewitch · Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:54 pm

hello and welcome to the forum

hedgewizard · Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:45 pm

Yeah, or post a card in the nearest corner shop. "Rockery materials, all reasonable offers considered. Buyer collects" 8)

Welcome!

Lou8 · Post: # 15852Post **Lou8** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:10 pm

Hi. Thanks for the replies.

The problem with the boulders is that we have already used any nice bits of stone for rockeries so what's left isn't particularly nice.

I really just want it gone now.

Shirley · Post: # 15853Post **Shirley** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:12 pm

YAY - another from Aberdeenshire. Whereabouts are you Lou??
We are near Alford.

Looking forward to getting to know you better.

Millymollymandy · Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:09 am

Hi Lou and welcome to the site. Be interesting to hear how your quince tree does - we've been discussing quinces quite a bit on this forum!

Lou8 · Post: # 15974Post **Lou8** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:12 am

Hi I'm near New Deer.
I will keep you updated about my quinces.
Am away to plant a second today (there was a mix up with the delivery so I got two). The first one I have put up against a wall and today's one I will have as a free-standing tree so I can do a comparison.

ina · Post: # 15992Post **ina** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:15 pm

Hiya Lou

I'm the third from Aberdeenshire! Further south, though (but probably no warmer, because I'm a bit up in the hills!). I'm about 30 miles south of Aberdeen (historic Kincardineshire).

Yes, quinces... You are touching a sore spot there. I've done a bit of research on that and decided I wouldn't chance it - they don't seem to like it windy and cold. Can't do anything about the wind up here - but maybe you have a more sheltered spot. Anyway, if you end up with a glut, I'll take them off your hands!

Lou8 · Post: # 16002Post **Lou8** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:26 pm

Hi Ina,
Ha ha - no I live in the windiest bit in the world. Gales every day - urghhhh. My quinces will just have to learn to be very hardy.

I love Kincardineshire. I went to school in Portlethen, and did my driving test in Stonehaven. My boyfrend at school lived in Stonehaven so we used to spend a lot of time at Dunnottar and that monument on the hill - what's it called? That was our favourite romantic spot.

Unsurprisingly, Sunset Song is my favourite book. I have the same conflict as Chris between academia and the land.

Libby · Post: # 16013Post **Libby** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:23 pm

Hiya Lou

Wombat · Post: # 16070Post **Wombat** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:05 am

G'DAy Lou8 & welconme to the site!

Nev

ina · Post: # 16093Post **ina** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:59 am

Lou8 wrote: Unsurprisingly, Sunset Song is my favourite book. I have the same conflict as Chris between academia and the land.

Yes, I've read it a couple of times, too! It's funny to read about so many places you recognise - and then pick out what had been added! Never made it to the Grassic Gibbon centre, though - not yet.

I'm lucky as I work in research (very much at the practical and mucky end), but in the country! Lambing just now - better get out and see what my two little orphan lambs are up to...

Lou8 · Post: # 16148Post **Lou8** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:37 pm

Hi All. Thanks for the welcome.

I love lambies. My husband Steve gets fed up with me stopping the car to take photos when I see little lambs. I am very lucky here just now as I see loads of lambs every day n my way to and from work.