Dirty Sabotage!
Weird things happen here all the time, in fact, weirdness is becoming quite normal. We're currently filling the swimming pool which means our water line from the catch pit (a pit that catches spring water and then feeds it to our house via an alkathene pipe) has been...
Meeting the Neighbours
I say neighbours but you can't actually see them from our house (unless you include there sheep which reside in the fields between their house and ours). To see the human neighbours and their farm house you have to walk down a steep hill through four fields, a mass of...
Celebrating the ordinary
Listening to the radio the other, I heard the presenter read out a piece from one of the listeners on what wonderful a thing it is to celebrate Christmas and all of life's festivities like weddings, birthdays, new jobs, babies and all the other delightful and...
Fencing work begins 2021
Despite the dreaded lurgy catching up with us in August we did get some fencing done, during the first few early days of the month, and we even managed a bit of socialising with close friends that came to stay. Said friends had bought themselves a fabulous new...
Life in Wales 2yrs 7months in
At the beginning of this year, I made a few promises to myself, adjustments, and enhancements if you like, to my daily life and one of those promises to myself along with less caffeine and time spent sucked into Instagram scrolling was to actually start writing and...
Taking down the ceiling
Taking Down the Ceiling We have a rat infestation, dodgy electrics and a leaking ceiling roof. Additionally, the ceiling has a foot wide patch of mould stretching the whole length of the kitchen where the leak has been unchecked for the last couple of years. We...
Small holding
The move stage 1- Two and a half weeks into the move onto our smallholding and it still feels like there’s an enormous mountain to go, to be fair there is. We are however climbing it, albeit with a lot of perseverance (and currently no wine as my 13 year old had...
Day1 Still moving and cleaning Cleaning livingroom - rat Cleaning false widow cupboard Smokey escaped Trailer bearing broke Own 2 houses but living in a bongo - mental!
Bridging Finance
Following my own experience, the first thing to say is if there is any way you can avoid bridging finance...do it! It's a very uncertain route and is unbelievably expensive...in addition, you should be aware that, certainly in my experience, salespeople will not...
Buying the House
After 20 amazing years firmly rooted in Winchester, we have finally begun to realised our much talked about dream of moving far far away from it all. Yesterday it got a bit real as we braved the trip from Winchester to Swansea to take part in a property auction...