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12:15 pm
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Tue 11-Jan-11
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Hi Everyone!
This looks like a very nice community and I'm happy to be a part of it 🙂
I recently decided to set up my own little small holding in Portugal and am totally new to the whole thing! I have been working on yachts my whole life and decided it was time for a change!!
I'm looking forward to learning from you wonderful people and contributing anything of value that I learn.
Nice to meet you all!
Emma 🙂
Keep up to date with my adventures on my blog! :-)
2:16 pm
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Tue 20-Apr-10
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Hi Emma, welcome and particularly so if you could send us some cheerful weather !!
I have only been on the Forum for a short while but the help and knowledge base here is really great and if you find it as helpful as I have and do then you are quids in.
I have reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me...
3:07 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Welcome, welcome Emma! So glad you've joined in, we'll need to know all about you so fire away...
I'll try that again!
3:13 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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Hi Emma and welcome to the Forum. I am sure you will enjoy being here. I'd like some nice weather too of you can spare it.
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
4:41 pm
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Tue 11-Jan-11
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Oh Gosh you guys, I wish I had some good weather to send... kind of cloudy and cold today, have had the fire going all day! Soon as we get some, it's yours!
All about me?! Goodness... long story short... grew up in Devon, UK... left on a boat in '98... travelled and worked on boats as anything from deckhand, slave, chef, captain... decided I'd had enough and bought my property June last year... I'm 28 years old.
I plan (dream?!) is to grow veg, keep chickens, bees, horses, dogs, cats, sheep or goats (undecided).
Still in the process of setting it up and building fences etc... chicken run almost done... horse paddock almost done... vege patch cleared ready for whatever it needs next... herbs planted... bees arrive next month (a very nice local man is building me 3 hives)... lots of almost!! Have rescued 2 horses, 2 dogs and 1 cat... another cat came with the house and I already had a little dog.
Am totally off-grid - systems not all that different from a yacht!
Keep up to date with my adventures on my blog! :-)
4:50 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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I get the feeling that you have gone from being totally free to being tethered by land and animals. We'd be agog to hear how things proceed for you " we are incurably nosey ( I mean, inquisitive of course¦).
I'll try that again!
5:03 pm
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Tue 11-Jan-11
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I certainly feel like there's a lot more to worry about - like I just entered 'real life' complete with responsibilities! 
It's funny really, I didn't really mean to buy a house, I was offered this place at a great price and 30 minutes later I'm making a bank transfer! It just felt like the right thing to do!
Thank you for the warm welcome... I'll be sticking around here sharing the highs and lows of it all (and probably begging for advice from time to time - eventually giving advice too!!) 
Keep up to date with my adventures on my blog! :-)
5:07 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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You'd certainly have known if it was the wrong thing to do; it's all give and take here so please stick around.
I'll try that again!
5:27 pm
Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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Ha ha TA, I just wondered what incuably meant:
incuably is not a word in English
incuably
could be a spelling mistake of incurably
incuably
is 8 letters long
incuably is not a palindrome
Using
all the letters in incuably would yield a minimum scrabble score
of: 15
There now - all the better for knowing that, ay?
7:17 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Have a bit of time with nothing to do Val?
I'll try that again!
10:04 pm
Knowledegable
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Sun 5-Sep-10
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Hi Emma, and welcome. I have fond memories of Portugal (just holidays) - especially the markets and the cakes! I hope you settle in well and have enormous fun on your new venture. Lots of hard work, but it will be worth it if you can make your dream happen. I'm hoping to learn a bit about bees this year, so I'll be interested to hear how you get on.
Gone crazy. Back soon.
12:38 pm
Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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Toffeeapple said:
Have a bit of time with nothing to do Val?
Don't know what you mean, TA ......... 
12:51 pm
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Tue 11-Jan-11
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Heather E said:
Hi Heather... Oh my yes the cakes.. they take a lot of resisiting!
Thank you, it will be an huge learning curve and I'm looking forward to the challenge... I was just talking to the shepheard who is walking 200 sheep around the countryside and passes by my place and he's giving me a lot of great tips.
Bees are of great interest to me and I can't wait to share my experiences with them. The 'bee man' from the market says next month is the best time to buy.
See you around!
Keep up to date with my adventures on my blog! :-)
2:06 pm
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Wed 12-May-10
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Hi Emma
you sound as mad as a box of smiling frogs ,you will fit in well here .
cant wait to hear about your animal collecting and plant murdering exploits .
keep us informed .i think you could be on a par with scarecrow the way you are going ,i sincerely hope so ,it makes our boring existance seem a bit tame by comparison .
good luck Emma ,it sounds like you have an adventure ahead of you and we would love to be a part of it if you will let us .MOS
sit down with a cupa and the urge will subside
4:05 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Hello for Oregon Emma!
Welcome, and please join in! I'd love to hear about Portugal, and your time on the boats/ships/things that float.
New perspectives always welcome, and no question too silly, because one of us have probably asked it all ready....
If you can't be a shining example, be a terrible warning!
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