OldMcDonald
Platinum Member
I have not posted for quite a long time because I have had nothing of interest to say. I do lurk from time to time though.
I have been slowing down for a couple of years due getting older (74 now) and some old rugby and horse related injuries - I can remember some of them and where it hurt at the time, but when you are young you just get on with life. Now I realise that damage was caused. I had a very bad fall last winter walking down a steep street in a town. Never did like towns. This has made things worse and so I now need help with some of the heavier tasks about the place. I do not like that, my wife and I have always managed apart from when our son was at school and some of his mates used to come and "help out" on Saturday afternoons. We knopw we are going to need help with the olive harvest in Oct/Nov.
So we decided we will offer the place for sale and retire. The details are on my website Old Mcdonald's Farm if anybody wants to see where I live, and a little bit of the countryside around about just click on the Google map. We intend to go to the Azores where I will do lots of sea fishing (I hope) and some fruit and veg gardening. Not decided which island yet, but they are all frost-free and not too hot so the opportunity will be there to grow some things I have never grown before. My wife likes plenty of ornamental gardens so she will be able to do the same.
I am not into big game fishing where it costs you a lot of money to go out on a boat and you have to put back what you catch. Not much point in that as far as I can see. Instead I will be looking for easy access fishing from harbour walls, jetties, beaches and rocks and just aiming to catch things we can eat. We already eat a fair bit of fish - often twice a week for dinner and maybe the same at lunch so we can use quite a lot.
We had three estate agents come to view and none of them had any idea about selling a working farm. A house and amenity land yes, but our place is run on commercial lines, so we are selling it ourselves. Obviously we want as much exposure as possible in places where there might be interested buyers. I am doubtful whether there would be interest from USA, but all you folks will know better than me. Do any of you think there might be and should we try to have it known over there that we are selling?
Obviously just by posting here it will reach TBNers so I already have that exposure, but I wondered about a wider audience.
I have been slowing down for a couple of years due getting older (74 now) and some old rugby and horse related injuries - I can remember some of them and where it hurt at the time, but when you are young you just get on with life. Now I realise that damage was caused. I had a very bad fall last winter walking down a steep street in a town. Never did like towns. This has made things worse and so I now need help with some of the heavier tasks about the place. I do not like that, my wife and I have always managed apart from when our son was at school and some of his mates used to come and "help out" on Saturday afternoons. We knopw we are going to need help with the olive harvest in Oct/Nov.
So we decided we will offer the place for sale and retire. The details are on my website Old Mcdonald's Farm if anybody wants to see where I live, and a little bit of the countryside around about just click on the Google map. We intend to go to the Azores where I will do lots of sea fishing (I hope) and some fruit and veg gardening. Not decided which island yet, but they are all frost-free and not too hot so the opportunity will be there to grow some things I have never grown before. My wife likes plenty of ornamental gardens so she will be able to do the same.
I am not into big game fishing where it costs you a lot of money to go out on a boat and you have to put back what you catch. Not much point in that as far as I can see. Instead I will be looking for easy access fishing from harbour walls, jetties, beaches and rocks and just aiming to catch things we can eat. We already eat a fair bit of fish - often twice a week for dinner and maybe the same at lunch so we can use quite a lot.
We had three estate agents come to view and none of them had any idea about selling a working farm. A house and amenity land yes, but our place is run on commercial lines, so we are selling it ourselves. Obviously we want as much exposure as possible in places where there might be interested buyers. I am doubtful whether there would be interest from USA, but all you folks will know better than me. Do any of you think there might be and should we try to have it known over there that we are selling?
Obviously just by posting here it will reach TBNers so I already have that exposure, but I wondered about a wider audience.