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Tabitha
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
Sharon
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
3 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 12:24:46 PM
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Hi,
I came across MaryJane's book on a blog I read regularly and just had to buy a copy  I am so glad I did, it's a lovely book even though I do not live on a farm nor am I likely to do so. However, I am looking at ways to simplify the way I and my family live, even here in the small market town in which we live ~ about 35 miles north of London. I am so tired of the fast pace of life all around me ~ it doesn't seem natural somehow 
I have been married to Adrian for 23 years and we have 16 year old twins, a boy and a girl. We also have a somewhat loopy rescued greyhound and four new additions to the household just a week ago ~ four Black Rock hens I am a SAHM
I'm looking forward to getting to know you 
Tabi
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination ~
John Schaar |
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MustangSuzie
True Blue Farmgirl
634 Posts
Sarah
New London
Missouri
USA
634 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 12:44:22 PM
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Welcome Tabi!! So glad you could join us. I am sure you will find lots of useful information here and make some great new friends!
Blessings....
Sarah
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." -From The Great Law Of The Iroquois Confederacy.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!!!!
http://mustangsuzie.wordpress.com
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 12:52:10 PM
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Welcome Tabi! So glad you found us! You will find lots of useful information on simple living on this site, as well as some wonderful women.
I got to spend three weeks in the UK last year- in Ipswich, Suffolk. I can close my eyes and see it every time I wash the dishes with Fairy Liquid! I cannot wait to get back! Look forward to hearing more from you. :)
Karin
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Patsy
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Illinois
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 2:36:46 PM
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Hi Tabi,
Welcome. I have never been to Britain but when I picture the countryside, I picture quaint cottages and barns and lots of long haired sheep and farmers dressed it tweed. I may have been watching too many English movies. Ha.
Blessed are those who love the soil,
Patsy
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 3:10:02 PM
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WElcome to the group! It will sure be fun to get to know you. After my kids are grown I have thought that I would like to adopt a greyhound. I like them alot. You will love having the hens...I can't imagine life without chickens any more!
Anyway..welcome!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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newheart
True Blue Farmgirl
471 Posts
Margie
Owings Mills
Maryland
USA
471 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 3:15:24 PM
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Welcome Tabi, You will love these ladies.. They are funny,warm and compassionate. You will learn alot from them, so scan the sites and jump in where you are comfortable or even where you are not..Makes no difference....
NewHeart
Love of friends and family makes the world go round..and always a little Chocolate.
margie
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 4:06:06 PM
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Welcome Tabitha!
Living in the UK, what a lucky farmgirl!
I've just come back from my very first trip to england (almost 3 weeks away) and just loved it. I visited around Bath, London, and Cornwall. It is so beautiful there with all the old buildings, green rolling hills, and stone walls. And all those farm shops!
Enjoy the forums, can't wait to hear more about your new additions 
Cheers -meg
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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vintagechica
True Blue Farmgirl
438 Posts
Eren
Poolville
TX
USA
438 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 4:08:02 PM
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Welcome to the farm!!! Cant wait to learn more about you.
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A sure way to avoid housework...live outdoors.
Visit me anytime at my blog:
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shelle
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Shelle
oklahoma
USA
404 Posts |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4828 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4828 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 11:20:28 AM
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Welcome Tabi! I was in London 6 years ago and just loved it. The city was beautiful. I was there during a very warm spring and all the daffodils were blooming in the parks. I ventured out to the country too & it was just breathtaking. I hope you keep us posted on life there & add lots of pictures!
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 12:03:42 PM
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Welome Tabi! My husband lived in St. Albans almost all his life. Small world! This is a wonderful community of women and we're all happy you're with us!
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically! |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 2:54:27 PM
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Welcome Tabi!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Debs
True Blue Farmgirl
100 Posts
Debs
Wellington
New Zealand
100 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 11:58:50 PM
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Hi Tabi and welcome - I lived in London for 7 1/2 years. There are some great public walkways in the countryside outside London - over stiles and through meadows and paddocks. I also loved going to the Farmer's Markets there - do they have one where you are?
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Tabitha
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
Sharon
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
3 Posts |
Posted - Feb 23 2007 : 03:28:52 AM
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Originally posted by Utahfarmgirl
Welome Tabi! My husband lived in St. Albans almost all his life. Small world! This is a wonderful community of women and we're all happy you're with us!
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically!
Gosh, what a coincidence ~ St. Albans is only about half an hour from here!
Thank you all for such a lovely warm welcome, I am really looking forward to spending time here
Tabi
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination ~
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Edited by - Tabitha on Feb 23 2007 03:30:04 AM |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17453 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17453 Posts |
Posted - Feb 23 2007 : 5:53:41 PM
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Hi Sharon,
Welcome to this wonderful group of ladies.
By the by,,,I love the quote by John Schaar...so true!
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Feb 24 2007 : 11:34:00 AM
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Tabi, the world is getting smaller by the minute. If you're ever by St. Albans, we'd be interested to know what happened to the property. Stu had 19 acres with a brook and his house, of course, and he sold it to some kind of developer (which broke his heart) about 7 years ago. Are there any newish commercial or residential developments up now? Thanks. Don't make a special trip - just if you happen to see any.
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Farmgirls do it organically! |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
2804 Posts |
Posted - Feb 25 2007 : 3:45:01 PM
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Welcome Tabi
I am so excited to learn more about where you live - the lifestyle, the day to day and what your interests are. I have a farm of 35 acres and raise fiber producing animals. I am so interested in possibly moving overseas at some point and I am gleaming every bit I can from others. Share often Please!
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
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beckels
True Blue Farmgirl
237 Posts
becky
warrington
pa
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - Mar 04 2007 : 4:29:52 PM
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Welcome to the Farmgirl world Tabi
beckels
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
4877 Posts
Wendy
Utah
USA
4877 Posts |
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cinnamongirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1682 Posts
Carrie
Canada
1682 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2007 : 11:18:50 PM
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| Welcome,welcome ,welcome ,sit down ,stay awhile, glad you are here!! |
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
1681 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 05:04:35 AM
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so glad your here. You are going to love it!
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 10:56:37 AM
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Can't wait to hear more about the small towns of England. It seems so idyllic in my mind's eye. Welcome, and share with us what it is like to live in Britain!
Ephesians 1:17 |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2007 : 11:01:54 AM
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Hi Tabi,
Welcome to the forum. Glad to meet you. Tell us more about the things you enjoy doing.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2007 : 12:07:50 AM
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Hello!
And welcome! I am also a SAHM, I have twins (however they are girls and are 6) and am ready for a more simple slower life! Right now I am in Japan but hope to one day soon be on a small bit of land in the USA where I can have a hobby farmette. I am glad you found us and the book (its awsome isnt it?!) and hope you enjoy it here with us! I look forward to getting to know you as I see you 'round!
Hugz,
Talitha
PS I love your quote!
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Mar 15 2007 : 1:07:16 PM
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Welcome Tabi! Glad you found us, hope you drop in often and share yourself with us!
with a happy heart |
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Tabitha
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
Sharon
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
3 Posts |
Posted - Mar 26 2007 : 12:40:58 AM
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Thank you once again for such a lovely warm welcome 
So sorry that I haven't made any posts as yet but I will now be endeavouring to get to know you and bore you to pieces with snippets of my life over here 
Sadly, we have been dealing with some very tragic news which to be honest has knocked us all for six. A school-friend of my children, who my husband and I first "met" when he and his twin sister were a pregnant "bump" at the new parents-to-be class, passed away on 16th March. Joe had been in remission from leukemia for nine months but it returned, and unfortunately everything that could be done had already been done; he was given just two weeks  Even though we all knew that his death was imminent, when he did pass away, it was still a terrible shock and many tears have been shed. I am sure you can imagine what a toll this has taken on everyone here ~ Joe himself, his family, friends and the school community as a whole. His funeral is taking place tomorrow.
I have also had the shock of finding out that a very dear friend has an ovarian tumour, and has a more than 50% chance that it is cancerous. She goes for a full body scan today to check things out; she will have to have a radical hysterectomy and possibly chemotherapy too
All in all, life has been a little bleak here recently. But, on a somewhat brighter note, I have made a fresh start with a new Blog and am also in the process of setting up an Ebay shop
Tabi
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination ~
John Schaar
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