Introduction

[British Red]

Hi all,

My obligatory introduction <grin>

I found you guys via ludlowsurvivors website. I guess you could best describe me as "into all things country". I enjoy camping, brewing (wine, beer etc.) from scratch, forestry, shooting, hand loading, hunting, stick making, soap making, organic gardening, pickling and preserving, vinegar making, and....oh yeah...bushcraft

I live on the South Downs on a working farm and shoot - fairly isolated (no mains water, sewage or gas) and would love to call myself a country boy but have seen too many decades now for the boy bit (hmm not sure I deserve the "countryman" epithet though - sounds far too wise)

Anyway - I look forward to meeting you all

Red

 

[Doc]

Welcome aboard - sounds like a fair bit of handy experience there.

I made my own vinegar once - only trouble being I was trying to make beer.......

 

[wolf]

hiya mate..

 

[British Red]

Welcome aboard - sounds like a fair bit of handy experience there.

I made my own vinegar once - only trouble being I was trying to make beer.......

Doc - it was wine with me . Kind of saw it as an opportunity though - good vinegar is expensive to buy and cheap to make <g>

Red

 

[The Joker]

Hello Red and welcome

 

[rich59]

Hi from a fellow wine maker and organic gardener. Have you brewed anything in recent years?

 

[British Red]

Hi from a fellow wine maker and organic gardener. Have you brewed anything in recent years?

Hi mate,

Theres 10 gallons going in the kitchen as we speak (5 of Pinot Noir and 5 of home made metheglin). In terms of wild wines I specialise in:

Elderberry (weed trees abound round here)
Raspberry (home grown)
Strawberry (ditto)
Blackberry (wild harvest) - makes cracking port!
Dry Apple

Although I have experimented with many more! I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by commercial vineyards as well (grapes love the chalk downs), so can press my own grapes as well (have a few vines myself but not enough).

Red

 

[Abbe Osram]

Hi mate and welcome here!
cheers
Abbe

 

[Topcat02]

Hi Red, and a warm welcome

 

[rich59]

Hi mate,

Theres 10 gallons going in the kitchen as we speak (5 of Pinot Noir and 5 of home made metheglin). In terms of wild wines I specialise in:

Elderberry (weed trees abound round here)
Raspberry (home grown)
Strawberry (ditto)
Blackberry (wild harvest) - makes cracking port!
Dry Apple

Although I have experimented with many more! I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by commercial vineyards as well (grapes love the chalk downs), so can press my own grapes as well (have a few vines myself but not enough).

Red

Elderberry is what I try to make - both red and white. My allotment is devoted to the white elderberry as the bushes are otherwise too few and far between to ever get a gallon out of.

 

[Ogri the trog]

Welcome aboard Red,
Sounds as thought you're going to fit right in.

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[British Red]

Welcome aboard Red,
Sounds as thought you're going to fit right in.

ATB

Ogri the trog

Thanks mate - fitting in will be a first (well not quite, but I reckon I live out in the sticks and enjoy the wilds 'cos trees are smarter than a lot of city folk )

 

[Ogri the trog]

Thanks mate - fitting in will be a first (well not quite, but I reckon I live out in the sticks and enjoy the wilds 'cos trees are smarter than a lot of city folk )

Ha ha, ain't that the truth

Ogri the trog

 

[Stuart]

welcome Red

come on in and make yourself at home

 

[nooky]

Hello Red and welcome.
Andrew.

 

[British Red]

Hello Red and welcome.
Andrew.

Guys,

I'm overwhelmed by the warmth of the welcome shown on your forum - thank you all very much!

Red

 

[The Joker]

South Downs, prob not far from me!

 

[British Red]

South Downs, prob not far from me!

Hampshire side but not that far - Meon Valley

 

[The Joker]

Hampshire side but not that far - Meon Valley

Im about 8miles north of Petersfield.

If you want to, keep ya eye's peeled I often have little meets up my way.
Your more than welcome.

 

[stovie]

Hampshire side but not that far - Meon Valley

Hi Red.

Is it East Meon, or West Meon that has the Tournai font in it's church? I have pics of it somewhere, but it's a few years since I was there...too much beer

Anyway, welcome, and I'm not a million miles away either...physically that is