Townie Blog

About Me

Hi there and welcome to my blog…  

I live on the east coast of scotland, I’m married and have two teenage children, three dogs, two cats, two rescue rabbits and two  three five chickens

I grow my own vegetables and flowers, I cook all our food from scratch, I am doing my utmost to reduce my carbon footprint and live an organic life as is humaly possible.

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  • John Costigane // April 13, 2008 at 4:17 pm | Reply

    I am a newcomer to the web and would like to create a forum with people throughout the UK, including campaigning. How many people should be involved in the process, moderators, designers etc.? Your setup is excellent . I along with other like-minds would look to learn from you.

  • salobrena // June 9, 2008 at 11:53 am | Reply

    You might be interested in the BHWT.. it’s the battery hen welfare trust. You can see their site at http://www.bhwt.co.uk

    Cheers

  • omelay // September 20, 2008 at 6:20 pm | Reply

    just stumbled upon your pretty chickens taking dust baths all the way in Scotland! thanks for sharing…

    tabitha

  • townie // September 20, 2008 at 6:24 pm | Reply

    Hi Tabitha..

    Thankyou for visiting my blog and for your kind comments :-)

    Sounds like your quite a distance from me!

    Have a great weekend :-)

  • Angie // October 29, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Reply

    Thank you for posting your Dunfermline Glen memory lane story. I too love the glen and although i live in Yorkshire, my late father was a Scotsman, born and brought up in Rosyth and I have many many happy memories of visits to the park as a child. After Dad passed away in the summer of 2007 my brother and I made an emotional visit back to Dunfermline to scatter Dad’s ashes in Pittencrieff Park (we checked with the relevant authorities first re this though). We didn’t know what else to do for our Dad as he wasn’t really religious and it just felt like the right thing to do, to take him home, I took a trip back this summer on the first anniversary to lay flowers at the exact spot, play a couple of his favourite songs and read from Burns, “My Heart is in the Highlands”. I made a little vid, its on youtube, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mhtUn35LcSg
    might explain it better if you would like to take a look. Best wishes and thank you once again.

  • townie // October 29, 2008 at 10:58 pm | Reply

    Hi Angie…

    Thank you for dropping into my blog…

    What a lovely tribute to your late father, I think there will be a good few people around with fond memories of the glen..

    When I took a trip there during the summer with the kids, I was so disappointed to find out that they had removed all the animals and birds.. my late dad used to take me down the glen every weekend to feed the chickens, rabbits and the peacocks, I will need to sort out some old photographs of us down the glen and post them on here.

    Once again, thanks for visiting

    Take Care xx

  • Reggie Bibbs // December 26, 2008 at 7:45 pm | Reply

    Townie,
    Great blog. I just viewd your photos as well. I will visit often. All of the photos of the foods I spent most of my time on. Thank you.

  • townie // December 26, 2008 at 7:49 pm | Reply

    Thanks Reggie…

    I too visit your blog regularly, I have learned a lot about a condition that I never knew existed. Thankyou :o )

  • Kat // January 25, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Reply

    Hi Townie. I too live on the east of Fife. I’m about to embark on keeping chickens and saw a posting from you somewhere a long time ago. Did you find a local suppier of layers pellets and where did you get your lovely chickens from, may I ask?

  • michelle // April 23, 2009 at 3:04 am | Reply

    Hello Townie. My name is Michelle, I live in Tasmania. First time on your blog. Beautiful recipes. We to have pekin hens (7 of them). Tonight we are having your pineapple and apple sponge for tea. Thankyou.

  • Shirley // June 8, 2009 at 6:52 pm | Reply

    Hi Townie,

    I’ve been looking through your wonderful blog and have been completely inspired by all of your lovely recipes and your frugal buys. I also love your pekins; I currently have large fowl layers but pekins have always been my favourite.
    Hope you don’t mind but I’ve added you to my blog. Hope this is okay. I’m a complete newbie at all of this and not sure of the correct way of doing things.
    Keep up the fantastic blogging.

    Shirley

  • townie // June 8, 2009 at 7:46 pm | Reply

    Thanks for your visit Shirley, I have added you too so I can follow your progress :-)

    Take Care x

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