Dirty Sabotage!

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...

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...

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...

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...