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I've just got back from the longest, coldest walk...brrrrrr....scuse spelling, but fingers frozen....
I decided to treat kids and OH to a hot choc and piece of cake in town, went to my normal spit and sawdust cafe, and it was a tad spruced up, didn't really pay attention til the bill came....3 hot chocs, 1 coffee and 4 small pieces of cake..£18.90!!!!!  :o :o :o
Wandered home up my normal route, 3 shops I use, gone (bric and brac, ironmongers etc..) in their place? 3 Designer clothes shops.....a scarf? Only £93.....
I'm running away to live in the Outer Hebrides with 6 sheep and a bucket... my town will soon die, and there'll only be room for the very, very wealthy......Lord knows where my kids will live when they're grown.. :(

We need to club together, buy and island and set up the self sufficient A4A commune.  Might be a few arguements about how to grow stuff, dig/no dig, raised beds/sunken beds, organc/vegan organic. 

Blimey!  No ironmongers!!!  

Did you watch Castaway thing on the Beeb when all those peeps were abandoned on the western isle?  They all supposedly were singing from the same hymn sheet but it became glaringly obvious that some of em were poles apart.   More like Lord of the Flies .  Oh well it takes all sorts  :)

Next time they try it they should poll this board for people to take part - I'd be game.

I'd go for it like a shot!! As long as I can bring my new bucket...I'd like to be in the middle of nowhere, well it'd have to be somewhere, or I wouldn't be anywhere... ???
I'm easy going Wards, show me a field and I'll be happy in it..!

How much do islands go for nowadays?

Start shopping here http://www.privateislandsonline.com/

Shall we get 3 then??  ;D ;D ;D Fancy Fiji meself...

Would be fine if we all had our computers... but could we cope with no internet?

LOL!! Well, we could all try talking to each other??? Or perhaps we'd all have to sit in our shacks firing off emails..... ;D

Talking?  Did you say talking to each other?!   Whats that then.....  :P

Not sure, Icy, I'll google it and email you.....  ;D

RC Wonder why I can't get in to that link. I was just about to announce to my friends on here I am that 15million winner from Sat. I was looking for a nice little island to share with friends.(Don't be misled by the pics on TV that was my brother and sister-in-law.. just to put people off)

Quote from: wardy on December 29, 2005, 16:47:10
Did you watch Castaway thing on the Beeb when all those peeps were abandoned on the western isle?  They all supposedly were singing from the same hymn sheet but it became glaringly obvious that some of em were poles apart.   More like Lord of the Flies .  Oh well it takes all sorts  :)

I remember that programme well. I suspect that the Beeb put together people who they thought wouldn't get on just to make it a bit more interesting ie the gay bloke and the Jehovah's Witnesses

  Mean this in a good way folks..(Honest I do) but you folks from south of the
  border would not last with the weather we get up here...and the further
  north you go the worse it becomes...summer is a walk in the park...this ones
for lottie.....in the hebrides wind in winter is salt laden...and you don't have
£18.90 Cafes...to take refuge in ...ehhhhhhh 4-3 I believe  ;D ;D

Jaggy. Ah so we can call you a hardy type can we? ::)

Nar Jaggy is not hardy, he lives on the sheltered East coast near the sea.  He didnt get a temperature of -12 today.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'm originally from as far north in Scotland as you can go without falling off the maindland edge but no I'll keep my life here in Edinburgh with my beloved lottie, Arthurs Seat, plenty of parks and Portobello/Cramond 15 mins either way - best of both worlds I reckon........ except that 2 tiny cups of coffee were £3 and 2 tiny icecreams £4 at theatre this afternoon - but the show was wonderful and I wouldn't have got that up north!!

Tst Jags......4-5, I do believe and didn't lift a finger....or pee off half of the UK.... ;D ;D ;D  :-* :-* :-*
I'm beginning to think that it's not going to shows that is expensive, it's the mortgage you need to buy the sweets...though I do import them now... ;D

Don't live on an island if you want to live cheaply. I cost me £45 every time I want to go anywhere. Still on the bright side it keeps the riff-raff off. Unfortunatley a certain Essex girl slipped through the net earlier this year. ;D

Keep your eyes open in may as there is likely to be great garden show over here on the south island if I can get off of this forum and start organising it.

Think you need smaller holes in your net.. ;) and what show? Where? When? How?

 :o Ace!  And I only had nice things to say about your Island!

This thread could really get me ranting and raving but I will refrain coz its late .......................................... my sister in law and her clan live on Isle of Man, it has its commercial areas mainly around Douglas, but get onto the west coast and it is my idea of heaven.................................................must visit again soon :)

Tis very expensive though to get on and off the island!

Well, Delilah, I have it all sorted, I won't have to get off the island, cos I'll be completely self sufficient..... ;D

Ofcourse ;D

You got any sheep shears? Oooo and I need a fawcet.....apparently....shrugs shoulders......quite a list here actually....udder washer, dehorner, pig saddle ( ???) and lots and lots of newspaper.... :-X

Don't forget your 25 hour day.

and my 25 hr day....thank you ACE.....still, they'd be happy days, I like to think anyway.... :)

tis good dreaming aint it :)

UC Don't forget the injection equipment, the best sort is an automatic one. You have to inject the baby piglets at a few days old, otherwise they will get iron deficiency. (Unless things have changed since I had the job).Baby piglets are oh so cute.

Aha!! See, I can surprise you now Lorna.....I used to cut the piglets teeth for dad on his pig farm!  ;D ;D ;D Can hurl straw bales, drive a tractor slowly and badly, row...erm.....feed calves....so on the livestock front I should be OK...it's this fawcet business concerning me at the min and I still haven't located my pigs saddle...and yes, I did.....used to sit on them and ride them.....but shhhhhh.... :-X
Delilah dreams....gotta have 'em!!  ;D

UC My sincere apologies, I forgot for the minute that you are of farming stock. ;D
We were real amateurs but Charlie so loved animals that when we had a bit of land and buildings it gave him the opportunity to house, sheep, bullocks, pigs,ponies, calves, chickens.Only thing was he was an old softy and when it came to sell the bullocks he conveniently had to be elsewhere when the cattle truck came!!!! So when I win the lottery will you came and be my manager on the farm??

Oooooerrrrr Lorna!! YES!! ;D ;D ;D
I was desperate to study agriculture at Uni, but my dad, bless him, was a bit old fashioned, so I wasn't allowed....being a gal and all.. :'(
He has since held his hands up and said he made a mistake, so I thwacked him, and let him off with a stern finger waggling....after all, I have my plot and now your farm to manage!!! Thanks chuck! Speaking of which, can we have chooks?

gota have chooks Lottie and goats :)

uc & Delilah Definitely chooks not sure about goats. Memories of cousins goat butting me up the but if you  know what I mean., poor thing was tethered in her back garden I only wanted to stroke it!!

I read in the paper this morning, that Thursday was the coldest day for 19 years.
And didn't I know it, with having no heating.
:-\

Whippet. I bet you felt it. I consider my central heating very good but I found myself checking all the radiator to see if they were functioning correctly. Much warmer for you today. :)

its Ok Lorna I'll go near the goats you just concentrate on the piggies .................................coz believe it or not I can milk a goat

poor you Whippet, lots a layers I think ;)

Well, if we're all on the island....sorted, I think....I can also chew grass in a country-like manner.. ;D

Can I look after the cattle, think they have eyes to kill for.

                    ;)

Richard. As I am going to be the owner of the farm, of course you can. Did I type OK just got back from party and not focusing very well. Night Night!!

Right, I'm up and ready, Lorna!! Wellies on, cap..ish, grass being chewed as I speak....Wake up!!! Goodness sake.....I'll start with the milking then... ::)

Lottie. Put your wellies away mate, gotta wait 'till next week. I never went to bed until 2.30am then read for an hour and you are trying to wake me!!!! I did surface at 9am, bl**dy phone, sister in Kent wishing me happy New Year. Gotta go next door bit later help Lorna with veg etc. She has invited six of us to dinner.(mad thing bless her).

I'll come.  I want ducks and geese and pigmy goats as they are cute.  And a weasel - don't ask ......

Sigh... I'll just go and water the chooks then Lorna....and Baggy, geese hate me!! They smell my fear a mile away.... I had a boyfriend once (yes, it's true  ::)) lived with his gran, and whenever I showed up at the farm, I had to make a very ungirlie like dash for the door, leaping a gate, brilliant guard dogs though....should have listened to them....said boyfriend is now ex husband!!  ;D ;)

 ;D  Sorry Lots, but had to laugh  :)

Baggy You are also employed, this is going to be best farm ever ;D That's if we ever get any work done ::)


Wardy and Lottie. I keep telling you. Both of you should be on the stage, perhaps a double act??

Is OK Wards....I do too, cos shootings illegal apparently.... ::) ;)
Lorna, think there may be a problem with that plan, or two actally, one Wardy is going to seal me inside my conservatory and fumigate..and two think of what Russ would get up to whilst she was on stage.. :o ;D