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Penelope Anderson
Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 326 Location: london
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koshka
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 33
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Posted: Sat May 13, 06 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Well, with me my parents always grew their own veg, herbs & fruit, kept chickens & brewed beer & wine, so I grew up with as much fresh food as possible and at least a vague idea of what to do with it. It kinda shocked me when I wandered off to university and realised just how many people had never even scrambled an egg, much less extracted it from a hen house!
Don't really have the space or time at the moment to do as much from scratch as my folks did, but am determined to get the best from what I've got and it's cool to find somewhere people can swap ideas (ok, I admit it, somewhere I can pinch the ideas of people that have more experience ).
Interesting how many of us seem to be following kind of a hereditary path, I think. |
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2steps
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 5349 Location: Surrey
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pumpkin
Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 19
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Posted: Sun May 14, 06 10:17 am Post subject: |
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laura ingalls wilder started me off too.....it was the bit where they make the molasses sticks for christmas, then the house under plum creek, the smell of the wood smoker, and the preparations for christmas visitors...actually it was all just so beautifully written that you could really picture yourself living Laura's life. So simple,and so in touch with the seasons and the land.
I still have the set, my aunt Mitzi bought it for me for christmas in 1968! and it's the only thing I have kept from my childhood!
More recently, having spent so many years as an 'army wife' (didn't really feel I belonged in that world), we ended up living on the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire, and I started walking the hills, and the more I walked, the more I wanted to get back to living a less complicated life.......If I could be anyone I wanted, at any time in history, I think I'd like to be a Native North America Indian, or maybe a Mongolian nomad (but only if I had good blood circulation!)
In the mean time, I'm inspired by the people who have already been living the life we now lead, and who are happy to share their knowlege freely with anyone who wants to learn. |
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sunpuppy
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 169 Location: Exeter, Devon
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Posted: Sun May 14, 06 11:01 am Post subject: |
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I grew up in a countryside environment and and always loved making things out seemingly useless bits of stuff, even as a child. My mum was, and still is, very into crafts and gardening so I guess it was hereditary for me too. John Seymour's self-sufficiency book, discovered when I was in my teens and living on the edge of Bodmin Moor was probably the biggest inspiration. I think the original copy was from the library, but I never forgot it and it's now the most treasured item on my bookshelf, along with a myriad of similar tomes.
Haven't quite got to where I want to be yet (having a small-holding) but HAVE finally moved back to Cornwall (major part of downsizing plan!), and meeting people like Stacey has been a massive inspiration to me, as has this site. Pumpkin's comment :
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...I'm inspired by the people who have already been living the life we now lead, and who are happy to share their knowlege freely with anyone who wants to learn. |
is so true. |
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