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hello :)
sat down at last ! so while i've got a spare 10 mins, thought i'd better say hello as i've been 'lurking' here for a few days  ;)

Hiya! Nice you've stopped lurkin'  8) And you've come at just the right time....winter silly season just about gone & we're all getting excited about growin stuff again......lottie or home plottie? What's your fave veg? Do you like squash ::) And do you have any pics?

Hope you have lots of fun here. Nice new friends to meet, great advice on growing edibles given - and then recipes for cooking them, too :)

Cheers, Lishka

Hi Laikadog
                 This is as good a place as any ;D
Glad you are joining us,
Again , like Lish , what you into ?fruit, veg,flowers, Chocolate ;D ;D ;D

        Sorry that last one slipped out (I'm on another diet) :o
(need to loose the baby belly) ;)

Roughly where are you?
I'm in N.Ireland but from Glasgow originally.

Hope you enjoy yourself on this site ;D

Hi there, Laikadog; glad you've de-cloaked. Lurking's ok but joining in is much more fun. Looking forward to hearing what you're growing...

Chocolate, scotch-mist? ;)
As in Chocolate Cosmos, or Galaxy runners? Mars pumpkins, perhaps (now there's a vision)  :o

Quote from: laikadog on April 02, 2007, 22:27:36
hello :)
sat down at last ! so while i've got a spare 10 mins, thought i'd better say hello as i've been 'lurking' here for a few days  ;)

You can get arrested for that you know. ;D ;D ;D

Welcome welcome and welcome.

Hi and welcome from me too you will find everyone really helpful, sometimes funny, sometimes confusing but all have a great sense of comradeship. 

It is great to be able to shat to others who love horse Pooh and muddy things  ;D when others at home and work think you are totally off your trolley

BB

welcme, laikadog, lots of lurkers out there, you're not on your own, welcome to the site, loads of lovely, laughing people on here, brightens my day up, every day  ;D

Hi there from us too........ ;D

Welcome to the madhouse laikadog.   :P :P :P :P :P ;D ;D ;D

Hey laikadog & welcome!  We're newbies to veggie growing too and have learned so much from the great peeps on this site, so i'd say you've found the right place for all those questions you're bound to have  ::)

Enjoy it & good luck, oh yeah & don't forget to take some pix to share with us x

Hello & welcome LD, nice you have stopped lurking out in the cold, you will really enjoy being on this site best there is bar none.  Rosebud. ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D
awww  thanks for such a nice welcome !
i'll give you a brief run down about me  ;D
i live in durham, have 4 kids, 2 horses, 25 hens , 5 cocks (!), 1 chick, 4 dogs, 6 puppies (4wk old mastiff x doberman), 1 cat, 1 rabbit, 8 acres of woodland, and i rent a private alotment/garden just round the corner.
on the lottie, i have a huge greenhouse,(it must be 60ft long but i aint measured it )but half is falling down, a big shed thats been taken over by the chickens (i did only have 8 but 5 were stolen a few weeks ago and when the police caught the ****, they found loads of chickens that no one has claimed yet so i said i would look after them)
theres also a poly tunnel with no poly (ha ha !),
i only started renting it in january, and the bloke that had it before hasn't touched it for about 4 yrs, so i have spent all my time trying to clear it, i have found rubarb, gooseberry bushes, cherry tree, blackberries, huge fuchia bush, and a big lump of fennel that absolutely stinks when you dig it up to move it !!
the whole place is full of victorian bottles too,as the blokes hobby was diggin em up somewhere and bringing em back to dump in plastic bags !
i have a really nice neighbour who also has a garden here and he has any tool you need, rotavators, etc and is always free to lend a hand, bless him ! he rotavated a big patch for me yesterday and has left it with me to do the rest.
well i'd bettr stop now before this becomes a novel, :o ha ha

Welcome! Hope you enjoy this forum as much as the rest of us ;D

cj :)

if you'd like to see our wood its here,
http://www.bugglegum.myby.co.uk/woodland.html
im on there somewhere , in the distance, with red hair (its now a mix of pink and purple ), look out for the real laikadog too
and if you like tattoos feel free to look at the rest of our web pages (index) as my husband has all his stuff on there too, stuff he's done as well as his own .
;D

Welcome from me too.  The wood looks idyllic - must have been wonderful living there.

Hi Laikadog and welcome to the madhouse.  :P

Hi Lakiadog welcome to the site what alot of animal's and children you have must keep you busy doing a those thing looking after all the animals children and an allotment i take my hat of to you

Quote from: Marymary on April 03, 2007, 22:24:35
Welcome from me too.  The wood looks idyllic - must have been wonderful living there.

in lots of ways it was! but  not having water on site was such a drag, especialy when we had to get rid of the discovery so had to push water carriers in a wheel barrow from the road, every day ! plus the husband really couldnt  let go of his electrical stuff, he's into music and computers so would have the generator running till 1am which kinda ruined the peace and quiet,
but it was scarey too, cos even in the summer once it went dark it REALLY went dark! so if we heard any noises it was a 10 minute dash to start the genn so we could put a light on , it makes you feel very vunerable  :o . if we'd have been more isolated it would have been better, as we were just too close to habitation so you never knew who was wandering about :o
but it was an experience !!!

Wow, laikadog... the wood looks absolutely beautiful on a sunny spring day, but as you say, at night I can see how weird it would feel with the possibility of wandering humans.
How long were you living there?

Welcome aboard...
;D