Hello from new member!

Goodlife1970 · Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:04 pm

Hi Ina,Im afraid there isnt much arable farming that goes on in my neck of the wood,its sheep,sheep and more sheep! Not that Im complaining,I actually like sheep,pehaps thats because I dont have any.................... at the moment...................

Goodlife1970 · Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:08 pm

Hi Wombat,Im guessing that when they made NEW South Wales they ommitted the rain that we get in OLD South Wales??? Its comming down sideways at the moment!

Shelle · Post: # 11710Post **Shelle** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:35 am

Hiya Goodlife and welcome

Goodlife1970 · Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:29 pm

Its only taken me all night but Ive actually got my other two boys in on the act! Selfsufficientishers please meet Wallace and Scrat!

Millymollymandy · Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:03 am

Not Grommit?

Hello doggies!

woolcraft · Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:03 pm

Welcome to selfsufficientishness - sounds like you've already got your toes more than wet. Looking forward to reading all your adventures. Sue

diver · Post: # 12912Post **diver** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:27 pm

welcome to the site Goodlife....it sounds wet but fun down there, and you definitely can lose the ish

Goodlife1970 · Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:12 pm

Hi diver,doing my best to loose the ish but it seems to come down to lack of land,time,and at the moment energy (baby due in June and Im already tired and heavy!) Thinking of buying a small plot of scrubland to plant and coppice and trying to produce more food than ever this year now that the cottage is habitable! Had great fun finding recycled stuff to use in renovations. We are hoping that this year will be our best year ever in the ish stakes and that we can back off a bit more from "normal" society!

hedgewizard · Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:11 am

"Normal" society's loss, I'm sure! You should keep a weblog so we can all see what you're up to, particularly now you have all this time with your feet up

Goodlife1970 · Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:09 pm

Hey cheeky! Its just knowing how to fill those long days waiting for the baby to arrive!!!!! Did I mention this is number four and th eldest is only 5? Theres no rest for the wicked here!

hedgewizard · Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:46 pm

Write a blog. Seriously - the rest of us would love to see what you're up to. When you have time that is. Like, say, in another five years?

Wombat · Post: # 13173Post **Wombat** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:49 am

Goodlife1970 wrote:Hi Wombat,Im guessing that when they made NEW South Wales they ommitted the rain that we get in OLD South Wales??? Its comming down sideways at the moment!

Yes mate! but we have had a few showers lately................nice!

Nev

Goodlife1970 · Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:20 pm

hedgewizard wrote:Write a blog. Seriously - the rest of us would love to see what you're up to. When you have time that is. Like, say, in another five years?

I dont think my life would be interesting enough,especially as I only have hens at the moment,not as if I have the excitement of lambing or the like. I was actually thinking that your life is far more interesting,especially as you have acreage and therefore more scope,in real terms Im just a backyarder!

Wombat · Post: # 13255Post **Wombat** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:31 pm

Nothing wrong with that!

Goodlife1970 · Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:41 pm

Oh no,of course not,its just that its not very exciting reading is it? Its not as though I could say I had been up all night with a difficult calving,or had a major adventure on my x amount of acres,most of what I/we do is humdrum,theres the bread to be made daily,flour weekly,taking care of the kids ect,hardly entertaining! Having said that we do have weird things happen here,mountain fires (that was scary!) missing people,that happens a lot and of course the local "characters" of course wrinting about them would get me shot,or at least ex-communicated from village life!