Hello from Finland !

Jackie · Post: # 83123Post **Jackie** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:57 pm

Hi all,

I found your website while I was looking for something I had seen in that British TV-Show "Outragous Wasters". I didn't find what I was looking for, but I tought that your forum is very interesting.

I am certainly not what you call " self-sufficient 'ish' ". I am working for salary and I am living in a rented place.

Anyway, I want to learn about energy saving, waste saving and I am interested in organic products and in gardening too.

Shirley · Post: # 83141Post **Shirley** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:14 pm

Hi Jackie

Welcome to the site.... You will be more selfsufficient-ISH than you think

Looking forward to learning more about life in your part of the world.

Wombat · Post: # 83145Post **Wombat** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:36 am

Hi Jackie, Welcome to SSish!

Nev

Jackie · Post: # 83147Post **Jackie** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:04 am

Thank you both!

PS: Wombats are my absolute favourite living creatures!

Millymollymandy · Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:40 am

Hi Jackie and welcome!

ina · Post: # 83156Post **ina** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:38 am

Jackie wrote: PS: Wombats are my absolute favourite living creatures!

Hiya Jackie, and welcome to the Ishers! Don't worry - most of us need to work for a salalry to pay the bills... ANd it's amazing what you can do to be more SSish in a rented flat: start with growing herbs in a poit on a windowsill, maybe?

Anyway, as to wombats: Do you know the brilliant picture book "Diary of a Wombat"? (I think I reviewed it once in the appropriate section.) My favourite picture book!

hamster · Post: # 83160Post **hamster** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:13 am

Hi Jackie! Welcome to the forum. Don't worry, I have to work for a living and live in a rented place too! (At the moment....)

Where abouts in Finland do you live? I visited a few years ago and absolutely loved it. It's definitely one of my favourite countries.

red · Post: # 83163Post **red** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:45 am

welcome

gigglybug · Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:10 pm

Hello and welcome Jackie

Amanda

Jackie · Post: # 83187Post **Jackie** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:28 pm

Hei & thank you all!

ina wrote: start with growing herbs in a poit on a windowsill, maybe?

Sure, I am growing herbs in summer. In winter we don't have enough light. Herbs don't like it.

ina wrote: Do you know the brilliant picture book "Diary of a Wombat"? (I think I reviewed it once in the appropriate section.) My favourite picture book!

How cool is that!! I didn't know it. I just looked it up on Amazon bookshop.
(PS: One one the author's name is Jackie.

)

hamster wrote:Where abouts in Finland do you live? I visited a few years ago and absolutely loved it. It's definitely one of my favourite countries

Oh that's nice to hear. Where did you visit? I live 50 km north of Helsinki, but summer vacation I like to spend up north (motorhome).

old tree man · Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:31 pm

Hi jackie
there are plenty of people here to learn from, So many people with different types of knowledge,
hope you enjoy

Russ

Jackie · Post: # 83189Post **Jackie** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:36 pm

Yes Russ, I noticed that. That's why I registered myself to this forum.

What are these huge leaves on your photo? Wow.

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Heh, what do I have to do to get that spell check working?
And how can I upload a photo (other than the avatar)?

old tree man · Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:03 pm

they are called Gunnera manicata, its the same family as the ruhbarb it thrives well in very wet conditions, my favourite plant

Russ

Jackie · Post: # 83200Post **Jackie** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:09 pm

Can you eat it?

old tree man · Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:35 pm

unfortunatley not its only ornamental but beautiful, in the right conditions the leaves can get 8 feet across
i'm still learning about computers didnt have much use for a computer in the forests, but if you go onto our computer forum it explains how to upload photos, i asked the same thing not long ago.

Russ