Map yourself

[cat]

Hello! I've just mapped myself and I'm all alone in Italy

[ina]

Hi Cat, and welcome to the site! I'd already noticed we suddenly had a lone voice from Italy... Don't worry, there's only one from Poland, one from Bulgaria, one from Haiti - you are not the only loner! Just do a bit of advertising amongst your friends, and persuade them to join!

What do you do in Italy? Expat? Smallholding/garden/allotment?

(Sorry, we are notoriously nosey!)

[cat]

Hi Ina! I'm married to an Italian and have 3 children. We're looking for a house with a bigger garden at the moment as the tiny one we have is only big enough for herbs, strawberries and the like. Luckily we have a lovely neighbour with a great allotment
I try to reuse and recycle as much as i can and minimise my negative environmental impact teaching my children to do the same The schools here are really quite good at that too.

[ina]

Sounds good! I'd heard a lot about the phantastic school meals they have in Italy... Lots of local and fresh food. Is that true?

And so they have allotments in Italy, too. And friendly neighbours who grow too much...

There are a lot of Italians in Scotland (which is why Scots eat an awful lot of icecream, more than the rest of the UK, despite the low temperatures). Would you believe it, I was once given a lift by a Ferrari - no, no, not in a Ferrari, the elderly gentleman who drove it and spoke perfect Scots was an Italian who'd been here since the war, and his name happened to be Ferrari! My dentist has an Italian name, too (and is dark and handsome, just as all Italian men are said to be ). Don't know why they all ended up around here, the climate couldn't be more different.

[cat]

In my area the school meals are made almost exclusively of organically produced foods and there is a committee of parents to test the meals every now and again. We're in a fruit and vegetable producing area so there's an abundance of good local produce a lot of it is exported to England.
I get given a lot of potatoes, apples, pears, apricots, peaches etc

[ina]

Wow - the UK is lightyears away from that... Just now they are planning to ban turkey twizzlers from the menue. Great progress.

[gideon1]

A friend told me about your site-great. Have always been into organic gardening and tend to be very self-sufficent. We have range chickens that keep our grass mowed(most of the time) and the bug population down. Two small ponds provide protein occasionally. I harvest 2-3 deer and process them for my carniverous needs but other than that am satisfied with lots of veggies. I move houses/buildings/and occasionally mobile homes(when absolutely necessary). Nearing retirement age-finally. Plan to do some mission work in disaster areas in my spare time. Basically an outdoorsman-love to camp,hike,and just sit overlooking a multi horizoned vista and watch the clouds roll by. Good to be here and look forward to getting to know you "fereners". Oh wait-that is me!!! -----------------------------edited to add-the pic on the left is not me-my chest is quite flatter-but not as nice looking.

[Andy Hamilton]

hello there gideon and welcome to the forum, what is ferener?

[ina]

what is ferener?

Andy, you should know, with your imaginative spelling mistakes... Foreigner. I probably only know because I'm one myself!

Anyway, Gideon - welcome. We've not had that many from the States so far!

[Muddypause]

Yeah, we don't have any fereners around here - we seem to be a pretty multi-national forum now. Some of us are even from the UK.

However, I have to concede to being stumped as to where 'NC' is.

[ina]

However, I have to concede to being stumped as to where 'NC' is.

So was I until I happened to read the post subject...

[Muddypause]

Ah! Right, yeah. OK.

How come we can change the thread title half way through? Tha's jus' plain confusing to people like me. Especially as it's in small print.

[Andy Hamilton]

Ah! Right, yeah. OK.

How come we can change the thread title half way through? Tha's jus' plain confusing to people like me. Especially as it's in small print.

here you go, I think they will suit you too.

[Muddypause]

Or maybe...

[gideon1]

Thanks for the warm welcome folks(that is southern slang for good people). North Carolina is halfway up/down the East coast of the US. One of the original 13 and used to go to the Mississippi river taking in South Carolina,Tennessee,and Kentucky. The weather is moderate(most of the time) with winter temps averaging 30 nights/50 days. Summer normally only gets into the low 90s day and 50/60 nights. We live in the piedmont region(rolling hills) between the Appalachian Mts(@ 4 hrs) and the Atlantic(again @ a 4 hour drive). Used to be in the Gideons International(Bible folks) hence my name. Met folks from all over and some from "down under". My best buddy and I considered moving to Australia right after we got out of the Marine Corps. Met a pretty young "filly" and settled down to rear four children. Just put in a new orchard much closer to our home. We took out four large Oaks on the North East end so we could still use the shade on the SW sides. Need some place to hang my hammock you know. Love gardening and just got a very pleasant surprise. Planted an experimental self polinating corn crop of three year old seeds and they all came up. Will finish planting the rest in three week increments. We plan to put up(can)many jars of "Sucatash"(corn/okra/tomato) for the winter's enjoyment. We normally dry lots of fruits and will do some veggies this year also. Black berries are ripening and we have "cultivated" a large patch--aw, blackberry cobbler.