What Goes Around

 A circle has been navigated, and I find myself very much in a similar place to where I was when I jumped off this roundabout some years ago, so I thought I would quietly jump back onto it.

I am 62 years old, and about to begin a new work from home job, because of the cost of living situation here in the UK, after a self employed hiatus of eighteen months.

I live in a tiny, mid terrace house with my husband of a quarter of a century, and one of our two daughters, who plans to marry and leave us in October.

We rent ten acres, two miles away, and we keep sheep, goats, hens, ducks and a retired pony, and grow vegetables.

Until recently the vegetable growing was a commercial enterprise, but it was failing to provide me with an income, so it is now back to being a self sufficiency project.

My dream is to own a house (as tiny as this one is fine) on a small plot of land ( a couple of acres would be nice, but half an acre would do) which we can call our own smallholding to retire to, after so many years of tenancies and travelling between plots.

I also dream of living a slower, simpler life where we provide almost everything for ourselves, and don't trade so much of our time for the money to cover our costs. If you look back, you'll find my dreams haven't changed much over the years! We've been closer, and further, further and closer from them like a tide. 

I do my best to live the simple life, while acknowledging that in order to get there, there are still things we have to do, which we'd rather not.

I will slowly update the links, and try to keep up to date with posting.