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Blue Sky



Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France
PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 07 7:08 pm    Post subject: Re: jus bought our dream small farm... Reply with quote
    

suomi wrote:
its minus 27oc here at the moment, but oh so beautiful


Ooooooooooooooooooh Noooooooooooooooooo!

Congratulations on the farm mate

and comiserations on the temp. I certainly couldn't live there. -20 is the worst we have had and that was far too bad.

Blue Sky



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 07 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Suomi

Stick your pin in the Downsizer Atlas so that we can see where you have settled.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 07 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sounds absolutely fabulous, one of my wife's cousins lives over there and he loves it too. Good luck.

MarkS



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 07 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Congratulations.

Sounds wonderful. Do keep us all updated on how things are going.

What constitutes a native breed ? Are we talking Reindeer ?

suomi



Joined: 10 Oct 2006
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Location: Finland
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 07 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No reindeer for us!!! we will however have a Finnish cow, they tend to be quite a bit smaller than the usual cow, also they are a pale brown and white, very beautiful, they dont produce as much milk as the real farmed milking cows but enough for a calf and ourselves.
Also we will have Finish Landrace sheep and goats, a couple of pigs and chickens, enough to keep us going!
when we get ourselves sorted out I ll post a couple of photos.
We are waiting for the snow to melt, which could take a couple of months! then we can get going.... yipppeee......

suomi



Joined: 10 Oct 2006
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Location: Finland
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 07 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Mark, just realised you are in North Yorkshire! we moved from Bentham ( near clapham,on the edge of the forest of Bowland) last may!
couldnt afford a property in the are so here we are! and we are loving it

@Calli



Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 1682
Location: Galway
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 07 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We left Uk for Ireland but how did you come to settle in Finland? A real change - not just the language and climate

suomi



Joined: 10 Oct 2006
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Location: Finland
PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 07 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I lived on the outskirts of Dublin, Wicklow hills side for some years, then moved to north yorkshire and then to Finland last may.
I worked in switzerland for a number of years beore that and my best friend was a Finn so naturally I visited here a number of times and just fell in love with the place and vowed that one day I would move here.... and thats just what Ive done...at last....
We are going to Finnish classes to improve our language skills,but luckily for us my best friend lives in Savonlinna and most people have good english. WE work hard at making contacts, there arent very many english couåples living here so we are quite an oddity
Its a great place to live, we love it
Good luck in Galway, its a beautiful part of the country.
do you have any rare breeds?

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 07 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i like arctic
if you need help next autum/ winter pm me im game for a couple of weeks clean air and hard work
well done

suomi



Joined: 10 Oct 2006
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Location: Finland
PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 07 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack, welcome any time
an extra pair of hands.. yiiipppeeee.. seriously we will be here so come on out, and yes I will PM you to remind you that you volunteered!!
where in yorkshire are you? we lived in Bentham for a while.

dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 07 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

im in the worsted town

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 07 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:
im in the worsted town


it's not that bad

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