Well I hope to be leaving for Old Blighty next Monday...

[Jena]

lol... English Chick, you are real close but in the UK nowhere is very far really. Not compared to America.
Greyfields,
Hereford is good, just up the road from me really, I am in old Monmouthshire. Not far from Cardiff.

Nice people up there I am sure they brought out the genetic farmer in you, and the yorkshire moors are stunning and perfect for your dream place.

Enjoy your trip, it has been cold here so you will need those woolies, but nothing like someplaces over there have had.

Jena.

 

[English Chick]

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Hi Jena,

Cardiff is the other end of the world to me.......you can see I don't get out much! Maybe next summer we can meet half way and have lunch....I don't like to drive too far these days, going from Tarporley to Liverpool (70 mile round trip) exhausts me! There is now so much traffic on the road my concentration levels go out the roof (only because I have one good eye and it has to do the work of two)..but lets see what next years brings...

 

[greyfields]

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Every Sunday Caroline phones her mam. I lose her for about 1/2 hour and have no idea what she's saying. They're probably talking about me, but I haven't a clue.

 

[Mahonri]

I love it!!

Your pic reminds me of my nephew... (minus the goose of course) We have lots of ancestors from England...

 

[greyfields]

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As Bill Bryson put it, most Americans would drive 150 miles for a good taco. I'm pretty sure I have, too.

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My nanna always loved Washingtong because it reminded her so much of home with a nearly identical climate. I don't recall it every being this cold on this side of the mountains, though! Haying and watering the animals has been a real chore. But, I get the last laugh as I'll eat them eventually.

We got snowed-in at a country pub on our honeymoon and caught the River Cottage marathon of season 1. I think that probably planted a seed, too, for the whole smallholding thing. I was intent on raising my own pigs after seeing that.

 

[greyfields]

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I just google map'd that right as a portishead song came on. That'd be right across the Severn from you. :0

 

[Jena]

Yes indeed, Portishead is not far at all. I was brough up on the moors along the edge of the River Severn, my father came down from Scotland to work on the Uskmouth Power Station, and we started with a small holding there. So at a grand old age I am also going backwards to my roots so to speak. lol.... new career maybe.

and English Chick, I can travel don't worry. I am also careful of roads as I have one poor eye too, but I used to travel regularly up to Wrexham, so your way would be fine for me Let's see what spring brings. lol.... would be good to say Hi! I love getting around the country, have been stuck at home for so long now becaue of arthritis in my neck, but good weather will see me on the road again. (or the train)

Jena.

 

[English Chick]

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Jen Wrexham is very very close...see ya in the Spring!! understand about the neck same here and the spine..its a bummer.

 

[Jena]

Ohhh and River Cottage is a religion in my house.

My son is just waiting to be able to start. lol...

He is starting the veg garden in the Spring, and I am knitting Arran Sweaters, and hoping to get back into the argyles and fairisle knits my aunt was an expert at. She did fairisle and I do arran. So if you get your farm in Yorkshire you will have one buyer for any wool you have over.

The christmas specials of River Cottage are running at the moment,

Great stuff..

Jena.

 

[greyfields]

I have 2.5 years of Time Team to catch up on. I can see some serious tea drinking and kit-kat eating for me next week.