Adventure time
Saturday, August 15, 2009
A quick post on the eve of my leaving our home in Worcs/Herefordshire to live with several other families in North Cornwall on a 30 acre smallholding with the long term aim of becoming as self-sufficient as possible.
We’re all very excited but also sad to be saying farewell to some of the most lovely people we have had in our lives since moving here just 9 months ago. In some ways our move here was necessary for us to realise that the rural life was something we wanted long-term. The people we have mixed with here are all people who have livestock and a deep love of country ways.
My poor eldest daughter has sobbed herself to sleep tonight so very sad about leaving the nextdoor neighbour’s cat behind so I have said to her that she may have a pet rabbit when we get the keys to the cottage we will be living in.
I am going down to the farm without Bealers but with the three children and will be staying in our caravan which is all rigged up and ready to be stayed in (washbags, toys, books, cot, pushchair etc all there and waiting for us). Next week the cottage which we are to live in will stop being rented out to holiday makers and so we will be able to walk across the courtyard and start sleeping in it. I have a little sketch on squared paper of where I think some of our furniture will fit when it eventually finds its way down to Cornwall but I suspect I have been over ambitious and will need to revise these plans a little.
I’m so excited about having so many interesting new projects to get involved in (permaculture design and the soon to be launched LAND initiative, seed saving and swapping, building projects, insulation projects, reed-bed water cleansing, rain water harvesting, The Soil Association’s Community Supported Agriculture program) and of course a ready made new community to enjoy.
One member of the community – Steve happened to be in our existing neighbourhood this week and came over for a brief cup of coffee. He is lovely and funny. It was great to see him but also for him to see where we currently are and see what kind of place we are moving from to be members of the farm community.
Very happy to be starting yet another adventure with my lovely husband and my three special littles and hope to keep people updated with interesting nuggets from time to time.
Posted in Cathie's Blog | Comments (5)
Tags: eco-village | intentional communities
raker says:
August 16, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Good luck with the move and the future!
Kat Goodwin says:
August 17, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Good luck with it all. We’ll be following you with interest!
Jo says:
August 18, 2009 at 10:48 am
Just come across your blog, and wanted to wish you all the best in the coming months with your new enterprise! I’ll be following closely and linking to anything relevant from my
blog
Cassandra Castle says:
August 19, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I discovered your previous blog recently and have tried the FANTASTIC play dough recipe – thank you for a non cook option!!! I have plugged the recipe on my own blog today –
http://www.jacobwrestling.blogspot.com
And I will be following this blog avidly, too.
Best wishes and good luck…
Carrie says:
August 22, 2009 at 12:09 am
I found your other blog a while back and have been reading it off and on. I live in the US and I think it’s great what you guys are doing for your family. We have always had some land for our garden and my kids have always looked forward to the planting and harvesting(but not so much the weeding and watering).
We have “unplugged” a little- no tv, grow our own food and not a lot of processed foods. Hope things work out great for you, sounds like a lot of work, but worth it! I look forward to reading more!
~Carrie