Hi Everyone.
Hi Everyone.
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.
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.
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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.
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YAY - another from Aberdeenshire. Whereabouts are you Lou??
We are near Alford.
Looking forward to getting to know you better.
We are near Alford.
Looking forward to getting to know you better.
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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!
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!
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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.
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.
G'DAy Lou8 & welconme to the site!
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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.Lou8 wrote: Unsurprisingly, Sunset Song is my favourite book. I have the same conflict as Chris between academia and the land.
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...
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