Phew, what a scorcher! June was very atypically hot and dry in S W Scotland, we even hit 30 degrees for a couple of days. I am not sure our friends and family really believed it was 10 degrees hotter here than down south at the start of the month, but we made the most …
May was a VERY expensive month!! We do now have somewhere to call home, if only temporarily. We had already signed up to a couple of house sits before we knew that would happen, so 10 days of May were spent the other side of Scotland. This coupled with several trips down south in a …
March was a little unusual in that we spent most of it based in one place. We finished February at the house of friends in rural Northumberland, and spent most of March there too, while they were away. We made the most of the beautiful surroundings and took to taking evening walks just before sunset …
We started February in Norfolk, but soon ventured north again for a couple of dog sits. We hoped that the approach of spring would bring some new property to the market, so wanted to be in striking distance if anything interesting came up.
The first week of 2023 was a bit of a non-event, being spent recovering from the lurgy with my in-laws. Luckily, both Mr W and I tested negative in time to head off to our next house sit, eliminating the need to have any difficult conversations with the homeowners. As we had written off December …
I conceived this blog at the end of 2019, when we had just hit our FIRE number. Back then, it would have been very easy to keep plodding along as before for fear of making a change and getting it wrong. I didn’t want that to happen. What’s the point of all that saving and …
Having accepted not much was going to happen on the property front for the next few months, December was partly spent with family and partly spent in a rather palatial (but very cold) house sit in Suffolk. Sadly, having seemingly outrun CoVid for nearly 3 years, it caught up with us just in time for …
Thankfully there is no new Prime Minister to talk about this month, but plenty of cost of living doom and gloom. The outlook for our planned property purchase is sadly not much more cheerful than the current UK economic outlook. Having started November hopeful that we might be in before Christmas, with our seller agreeing …
Another month and another UK Prime Minister! The idea would have been ridiculous not long ago, but now anything seems plausible. It’s at times like this I’m quite glad I am not working with colleagues around the world anymore. It was embarrassing enough having blustering Boris representing the UK, but the antics of the last …
The UK saw a lot of change in September with a new Prime Minister followed quickly by a new Monarch and then an interesting ‘mini-budget’ that was really anything but mini. While the world was changing around us, we remained in limbo regarding the property we want to purchase in Scotland, so carried on with …
Finding Enough 