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We are about a mile and a half from Albrighton, previously i had been a bit of a nomad and my partner comes from Fife.

I watched a Stoat jump about 5 foot into a hole in a stack of bales just last week, it failed on the first attempt backed off had another go and made it. The best thing is to shut the chickens in, you can get automatic battery operated doors that open and shut on a light sensor if you are unable to ...

Between Telford and Wolverhampton, lucky you living in Ornkney I did a couple months work for Scottish water surveying the boreholes on the islands in 2007.
We have a dream to buy smallholding there sometime.

Be carefull with the birch wood, it burns very hot very fast. when we first used it in our wood burner the hotplates were glowing cherry red within 20 minutes of lighting it.
Re buying wood the local national trust estate here is selling seasoned hardwood for £45 a pickup load.

Hi everyone, What a great forum, well where to start? Packed up my job as a geologist a couple of years ago and we decided to try and be as self suffient as we could. Got about two acres plus a large garden so we grow our own veg and some fruit. Two goats provide milk any spare is made into cheese a...