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pricey
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keithatbeaugut
Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Posts: 16 Location: Puy-De-Dôme, Auvergne, France
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45612 Location: Essex
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Bobkitten
Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Pas de Calais, France
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
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pricey
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Green Rosie
Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 10498 Location: Calvados, France
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jan66
Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 4
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Hello everyone, my name is Janet. As a little girl I lived in Colchester, Kilmarnock and then spent the rest of my childhood in the Hague Holland where I met an Australian. We moved to Australia, back to Holland and finally settled in Ostfriesland in Germany.
We bought an old farm with 10.000 m2 of land and have just finished our first year of downsizing. It has been a very exciting but also difficult year and there is still so far to go. We do love living here, the neighbours are brilliant, the country side beautiful and living off the land is better than I anticipated. So no complaints there. BUT on the other hand, the house is cold, old, damp. It needs lots of work and there is never the money or the time.
Then you think back of your warm, insulated terrace house that you left behind where all the work had virtually been done. The house I could not wait to get out of but that did look nice and that was comfortable and warm. Where your washing would dry overnight instead of the 4 days it takes and then still needs to go into the dryer to finish it off.
We have 4 boys 13, 11, 10 and 5 who are all in different schools here. One goes to the regular high school, one to a Steiner / Waldorf school, one to primary and one to kindergarten. It keeps you pretty busy all round. Getting kids to school buses (the first one leaves before 7 the last drop off is 8.30), looking after animals and the garden, processing food.
My husband works 3 days a week in Holland. I give courses 3 evenings a week and occasionally work free lance for an interior design firm.
I have been reading here for quite a while now and really enjoy the posts, we learn from them, they inspire us and at times help you through insecurities. |
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Bobkitten
Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Pas de Calais, France
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ChrisUhu
Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 71 Location: Northern Germany
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Hi everyone, my name is Christina, I am new to the forum having stumbled across it on my husband's laptop - so you are the guys he's been talking to .
I am the OH to Kevin who told you all about moving to Niedersachsen at the beginning of 2006. I work in the automotive industry which is cut-throat and horrible, making me appreciate coming home to our house and garden, in the midst of one of the valleys of the Weserbergland, all the more
After 20 years in Norn Irn, living in Germany (again, in my case, as I grew up near Paderborn and left when I finished school) has come as quite a shock.
Germany is still in the dark ages as far as providing good, fresh food (never mind organic!) to the general public is concerned, and I can't wait for next summer when we will hopefully get our first home-grown fruit and veg in. I MISS the wonderful farm shop in Northern Ireland I used to go to!
The good thing, however, about moving to Germany is that it has given us the opportunity to start downsizing - one job instead of two, living in the lovely green countryside instead of town, the kids running wild in the woods and fields, stuffing themselves full of fruit, nuts and berries instead of having to be kept indoors for fear of being mown down by traffic...
I enjoy reading the posts on this forum and will "pop in" during my lunch break whenever I can. |
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tim_and_nicky
Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 261 Location: Beautiful Galicia, NW Spain
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jamanda Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 35056 Location: Devon
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Went
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6968
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Graham Hyde
Joined: 03 Apr 2011 Posts: 365
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 14 8:34 pm Post subject: Hi |
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Hi, I've been a member for a few years but have not had internet available until recently. I'm Graham, joined whilst I was living in Abu Dhabi but retired to the Philippines 3 years ago. I have plot on the beach in a remote location with beautiful views across San Miguel Bay to the Pacific ocean.
I grow mainly coconuts, harvesting 1,000 nuts every 45 days, papaya, mangoes and pineapples. I keep chickens, ducks, geese and pigs.
The region is third world standard, the majority of the houses in the two villages on either side are bamboo frame with nappa thatch. None have running water, most have electric, none have glass in the windows. All cooking is on open fires or over charcoal.
I have enjoyed reading the old posts and have been inspired by Sally in Wales and have begun soap making.
Great site. |
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Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9782 Location: Devon, uk
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