really old style living?

Gigervamp

ginnyknit wrote: »

Seasalt, there are many older Goths but by habit they usually congregate in their own clubs. We are basically just 'different' lots of us have different beliefs than most and you are 'goth to the heart' I guess most people think its a dress code more than anything but its more a way of identifying each other as well as a passion for beautiful flowing clothes - yes black but we do purple, red and silver too.

As Ginny says, it's more a lifestyle. I'm 47 and a goth. However, if you were to see me in the street, you probably wouldn't realise (unless you were close enough to see my rings which would give you a hint) as I tend to wear *practical* clothes for everyday and save my goth/cyber/industrial clothes for going out.

StoneyG welcome to the thread. I live not far from you in the Bridgend area.

NualaBuala

It's so interesting to hear about crofting and the laws. i've always had slightly romantic notions about it. So that's two things I know more about now, Goths and crofting!

We are blessed with lovely weather here today. We've had rain and wind - not too bad though - and now it is mild and sunny.

Has anyone here ever heard of a milk tart? I hadn't until just now when I got Allinson's newsletter with links to their recipes. They have a nice website and I'm thinking of trying their apple milk tart recipe. Sounds like comfort food! The only problem is I don't think it would keep well and there is only me here so either I will have to eat nothing but milk tart for 2 days or find a smaller dish and reduce the recipe!

http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/pies-and-tarts/just-milk-tart

RAS

NualaBuala wrote: »

Has anyone here ever heard of a milk tart? I hadn't until just now when I got Allinson's newsletter with links to their recipes. They have a nice website and I'm thinking of trying their apple milk tart recipe. Sounds like comfort food! The only problem is I don't think it would keep well and there is only me here so either I will have to eat nothing but milk tart for 2 days or find a smaller dish and reduce the recipe!

http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/pies-and-tarts/just-milk-tart

Hi it is basically a clafoutis made with apples rather than cherries or other stone fruit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2003/aug/02/foodanddrink.shopping3

You could certainly halve the recipe no problem, or even divide the Guardian recipe by 4.

Red_Doe

I rent a croft in the Highlands, we were lucky to get it. It`s tiny (about four acres) and I haven`t yet stocked it...we do keep hens though for eggs and meat (and hopefully chicks next year) and I`ve got a small veggie garden on the go, though have to compete with rabbits and deer. Crofting isn`t an easy life, and I do have another job, self employed, but we are still basically permanently skint! The crofting laws have changed recently too so that absentee landlords must prove they are working the crofts or that they have tenants who do so. Luckily, in the spring, we`re getting in lambs to breed on for meat and wool, so that counts.
Hard as the life is, I wouldn`t trade it for anything. The scenery can`t be rivalled, I like the peace and quiet and freedom, and the rhythm of this way of life is..well..soothing.

NualaBuala

RAS wrote: »

Hi it is basically a clafoutis made with apples rather than cherries or other stone fruit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2003/aug/02/foodanddrink.shopping3

You could certainly halve the recipe no problem, or even divide the Guardian recipe by 4.

Lovely, thanks RAS - clafoutis sounds much posher altogether, don't think I'd have dared try it! I don't mind making enough to have [STRIKE]seconds[/STRIKE] thirds!

zarazara

update on my sheep. Feet have been trimmed and sprayed. all seems to have settled well. will look into worming them next. might need an anti biotic spray from the vets if the foot-rot treatment hasnt worked ,will know in a bout a weeks time.
veg plot update, still growing due to mild weather .chinesegreens doing well as is the kale and parsley and the mint still is too. ground too wet to dig any potatoes. have decided only to grow new potatoes [earliers] for next year as a 20kg sack of local potaoes is only £4 in our supermarket. leeks seem to be doing ok. strawberries are healthy and lush and still getting the odd red berry! --if I can beat the slugs to it ,that is.

ceridwen

RAS wrote: »

Which is why you get English people thinking they have bought a croft when actually they have bought a croft house and have no title over the land around them which they hope to farm. Then they discover that the land could be assigned to someone else in the township and that even if the Crofting Commission assign it to them, other crofters may have rights of way over the land, as well the landlord retaining all sorts of feudal rights. Encountered a few shell-shocked people learning crofting law the hard way.

Regarding lets SS, my friend was looking to a year-round let, which was the problem. He could get a winter let but needed year round accomodation.

Crikey - it just gets worse. You mean people could start growing food on their (extended) garden as they KNOW it obviously comes with the house - and find someone else has the legal right to do so and they (the obvious owner) dont own it at all:eek:. NO wonder you get "shellshocked" people....its quite obvious to those of us who arent in Scotland that if a house has a garden (or more extended bit of land) that its "ours" and we wouldnt even think to ask if it was - as that fact would be so blindingly obvious to us.

zarazara

When we were farming [ England] the sporting and fishing rights were held by someone else.

NualaBuala

Gosh, I would struggle with that since I'm anti-hunting. The thought of it being done on land I'd bought would sicken me.

I don't think the laws are the same here but I have sort of given up my dream of living in the country anyway. I took it for granted I'd always be fit and well and now that I'm not I think I'd find it tricky. As it is, I have support nearby and plenty of hospitals, physios etc. So the revised dream involves a medium sized garden with lots of fruit and veggies and learning to forage better. I still want a multi-fuel burner so I could burn whatever I can scrounge but I'll look into all the options whenever I am settled in my own place.

ceridwen

NualaBuala wrote: »

Gosh, I would struggle with that since I'm anti-hunting. The thought of it being done on land I'd bought would sicken me.

I don't think the laws are the same here but I have sort of given up my dream of living in the country anyway. I took it for granted I'd always be fit and well and now that I'm not I think I'd find it tricky. As it is, I have support nearby and plenty of hospitals, physios etc. So the revised dream involves a medium sized garden with lots of fruit and veggies and learning to forage better. I still want a multi-fuel burner so I could burn whatever I can scrounge but I'll look into all the options whenever I am settled in my own place.

I wouldnt "struggle" - it just plain wouldnt happen. My land = my rules (even if I was told the land wasnt in my ownership after all). On my property hunting would be one of the things that simply wouldnt happen - end of...not unless they wanted to find that I'd decided to entertain all the anti-hunting people I could think of at once "by coincidence"........and turn a blind eye to whatever they decided to do to stop the hunt...

If a fox - or anything else - decides to "get a bit aggressive" with me - then I'll whack it one on the nose with a walking stick/hiking pole. But the idea of someone chasing an animal across my land for sport - they could forget it...