Just a quick introduction - me and my partner live in Stornoway (Outer Hebrides) and have an allotment, plots in a polytunnel and 4 chicken. We will eventually buy a house and obtain a croft here, but until then we're experimenting with growing veg & fruit in this climate.
We've moved up here over a year ago from a hectic life in London, and loving it. The weather doesn't put us off (on the contrary, we much much MUCH prefer the climate here), the people are fantastic and I love the community feel. I'm a member of the board of the Lewis & Harris Horticultural Society and a Power Lifter, as well as a keen hiker and very much into archaeology (of which there is plenty here).
I grew up in rural Austria and moved to London when I was 25, but after 14 years in London I had enough of the big stink. Luckily my partner thought the same and so we decided to start a new, more simple life.