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20-05-2007, 05:11 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: May 2007
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| | | Hello from Colin
Hi, pleased to meet you all.
First of all, I am not a puppy. Max is my GSD and one of my best friends. I borrowed his name. I am a fifty-year old, bearded gentleman from Rochester in Kent. Glad we got that cleared up. (Woof!) I am married with two grown up kids, Max and two collies, (Tilly and Bess).
My wife and I are in the process of buying a small plot of woodland just across the border in East Sussex. Speaking dryly, it's an investment, something to sell when we are old and feeble. It is also a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary present for a couple of old nature lovers who need a project. I am looking forward to the learning experience and also to sharing and learning from you.
Although it is not ours yet, we visited this morning and were very lucky to see two Adders within half an hour. There are also suposed to be Wild Boar, Badgers and Roe deer and lets not get started on the birds, I like birds. I cant wait to spend the night there and rise before dawn.
And then there is the bussiness of woodland management. Big project.
I look forward to posting and I will figure out how to do pics soon.
See Ya, Colin  |
20-05-2007, 05:38 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: My head's in a lush, isolated valley, but I can't seem to escape Reading!
Posts: 1,525
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Welcome to the site Colin. It's always been mine and the hubby's ambition to own some woodland so I am extremely jealous  And having a pup called Max myself your name caught my eye!
Hope you enjoy the site, I know I do! 
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20-05-2007, 05:58 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
Posts: 2,383
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Hello Colin
Welcome to WAB.
Owning your very own nature reserve? .... WOW! .... WAB membership carries a mandatory requirement to submit a diary and trip reports .
You enjoy the website .... we will enjoy hearing more about your project.
Richard |
20-05-2007, 06:00 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lancashire.
Posts: 1,012
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Hi Colin,
A warm welcome to WAB, sounds like you've got a big project ahead, hope all goes well and we get to read and see photos of your progress.
Carol. 
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20-05-2007, 06:08 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lancashire
Posts: 2,542
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Hello Colin and welcome to WAB. Wow, your own woodland area, sounds great. I would love that for myself some day. You're very lucky and I'm really looking forward to reading your posts and hearing all about your project. |
20-05-2007, 06:13 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ijmuiden, Holland
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Hi Colin, it sounds as if you have a wonderful future ahead, to own your own bit of woodland must be a great prospect. Great news is that its gone to someone who cares and not developers. Welcome to WAB and good luck with your new venture . |
20-05-2007, 06:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New Milton, Hampshire
Posts: 2,981
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Hi Colin.
Your own woodland, lucky you. |
20-05-2007, 06:36 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Lincolnshire
Posts: 6,419
| | | Re: Hello from Colin
A warm welcome Colin, sounds like you are going to be pretty busy. Make sure you get time to keep up with WAB the best wildlife site on the net
Roger |
20-05-2007, 08:14 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oxfordshire
Posts: 317
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hi colin welcome to WAB. Looking forward to some pics of the woodland and its wildlife. |
20-05-2007, 11:34 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
Posts: 4,838
| | | Re: Hello from Colin
Hi Colin and a very warm welcome to WAB from me too. I think you are going to be very busy from now on ... one way or another
John |
21-05-2007, 05:33 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
Posts: 6,099
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Welcome from another Kent person! We live about 8 mins down the A2 from Rochester.
Sounds like you have an enviable project on your hands.
Hope you enjoy the forums and post pictures too.
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21-05-2007, 06:35 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,328
| | | Re: Hello from Colin
What a super introduction Colin. Nice to have you with us. You will enjoy your time with WAB |
21-05-2007, 07:12 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 2
| | | Re: Hello from Colin
Thank you all for the welcome. I look forward to becoming part of this community, I am sure that I can learn a lot from you.
I had started a blog about the wood. It was intended for my family and is a bit light hearted. Maybe I will create something more grown up now.
I need to apologise in advance for the quality of the pictures, I don't own a camera and all the pics are from my mobile phone. I know how disapointed some of you will be, that I encountered Adders and didn't have a camera with me. I will sort this out. I never expected to find them.
And I would like to know more about these little beasties, I was actually worried about Max meeting Wild Boar.
See you later
and thanks for the warm welcome.
Colin
And PS
I can't post as often as I would like to. I like to get up at four am and spend a couple of hours with my dogs before work. Quality time. By the time I get home from work I am pretty whacked. So if I take a few days off please don't think that I am being rude. Sometimes I don't look at the computator for days.
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