My memories of October are mostly of torrential downpours every time we needed to move our belongings from house to van and van to new house. The trips we did on our own in the campervan, we were able to wait for it to ease off a bit, but the two days we hired a …
It happened at last! After 1 year, 9 weeks and 6 days of housesitting, campervanning and renting; on the 14th September, we got the keys to a home that we own. It is an eclectic mix of 18th century shepherd’s cottage and 1980’s additions, but it was the 2 acres of garden, woodland and scrubby …
Another tardy monthly update. I am running late this month because we decided to take advantage of the sunny start to September with a spontaneous trip to the Isle of Arran in the campervan. I did take the laptop, but was far too busy enjoying the amazing weather and scenery to actually turn it on. …
July marked one year since I last spent a day in the office, and one year since we moved out of our home in the East of England. We have certainly had an adventure since then, and have no regrets whatsoever about packing in a conventional 9-5 type lifestyle. When I sat down to write …
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 …
Finding Enough 