Wow, what a
HUGE welcome - thank you!!
Let's see if I can answer all your questions!!
Firstly, we lived in Worthing West Sussex, then moved to London, then Edinburgh, and finally settled (for 6/7yrs) in a wee village called Carnbo near Dollar in Perthshire about 10miles from Gleneagles. Loved it. We also lived in Kuala Lumpur but at different times!
But... as we saw it.. the bloomin' housing developers were slowly swallowing up the British countryside - closely followed by golf courses - and then T***o's ...and it was doing our heads in. So sad to see our beautiful land smothered. Anyway, we decided the only way we'd get what we wanted was to move away from the UK.
We decided against Oz cos of the wildlife and insects (sorry to any Aussies - lovely country - but I'm just not good with things like that!!). We considered Canada but that was too close to America (again, love the States, just wouldn't live there). So, we settled on NZ as it ticked all the boxes and had no dangerous insects. Well, there's one now, which is an import from Oz
which is the white tail. But even the bite from that isn't going to kill you!! I digress.....
No, we don't grow the grapes commercially - having only been in this house since December we're still on a steep learning curve!! I've been told we'll get about 10 cases of wine from the stock we have - watch this space!!
I suspect I shall have lots of grapevine queries - do we have any vineyard owners/enthusiasts/experts out there in forumland??
Well Muddy, I'm not such a shrinking violet
assumedly he had a spare hand to write you an autograph??? Mind you, I would probably already have been arrested for being in the mens loo....
Either that or I'd have been more coy, as when I approached that Jonny Morris from Animal Magic for an autograph when out walking on Brighton beach (oops, showing my age!) he told me to bog off (or words to that effect
).
And what do I do all day? You mean apart from walking around and talking to (sorry, WATERING
) my plants and walking the dog and marvelling at the scenery?? I write. And write. And write! After a career in marketing I've given it all up and am in the middle of writing 2 books (one fiction, one non-fiction), I also write press releases, articles and am currently doing a Journalism course with the London School of Journalism via distance learning, plus a creative writing course...!! I hate to sit still!!
Right, better get back to my veggies.... poor things are crying out for water.. it's been in the 30's for the last couple of days
Cheers all, and thanks again for the great welcome! What a great bunch!
Moorf
