It's been a while since the last blog. Why? Well, time moves on, days roll buy, the buds of spring have sprung and are now winding their way towards Autumn.
We are now, as the blog says Living in a Caravan. What started out as an adventure, a holiday, has now become life, this is our home now, and looks like it will be for the forseeable future.
We have had a busy summer, we got married (on a campsite), we honeymooned (on campsites) and come back home here to live. We are camped out!
We have had the luxury of flat sitting a luxury flat with hot running water, comfy double bed, en suite shower and toilet, microwave, television and all the mod cons we have left behind.
Its been nice to have those luxuries now and again and I admit to feeling a little worried about going for showers here in the winter, washing up outside in the freezing cold and dark, filling our time on those short winter days, without the distraction of tele etc.
This weekend we are preparing to kit the carvan and awning out to try and help us stay warm, and dry in winter. This involves fitting a floor made out of pallets, to get us off the damp and wet ground below. We were on the verge of stealing 14 pallets the other night, but we were disturbed by a fellow skip looter so we bottled it.
We'll be out tonight no doubt, cruising the streets, looking for a suitable stack of pallets to procrure. We are after fourteen, so its no easy mission.
The ducklings have grown. The tadpoles turned to tiny frogs and in turn into bigger frogs. They will be back in spring to start the cycle again. Our neighbours now are less friendly. We are currently sharing our awning with slugs, earwigs, moths, daddy long legs, spiders big and small. We are part of their enviroment and they now part of ours.
The nights are already drawing in, in a few days it will be September and Autumn will arrive, dropping its leaves, green will turn to brown, and eventually all around us will change for the winter.
We are planning to install a wood burning stove into our awning, not only to provide warmth but also comfort and cosyness. Despite trawling through the internet trying to find others who have done it, we can't, so we are going blindly into this, hoping that not only will we get warmth and cosyness but that we also remain safe and don't burn down!
There has been no fishing, my conscience hasn't allowed me to go back pondside. I feel like I have missed something, my interaction with nature has changed, and although I am no longer leaving hooks in fishes mouths, I have also missed out on the treats of nature you get when you are on the banks of the pond.
But until the next blog, a special mention goes out to our little cat Luke.
He has settled in. He loves it here, he's always off exploring and hunting and alas fighting. He has a daily run in with the other cats, but I think slowly he has defined his territories and is defending them well. He's still cuddly and cute, but now he has a wild look in his eye.
We have definatley tasted living in an alternative way, and our now looking at yurts, tipees, barges, earthouses, buses, mobile librarys. There is some fantastic nstuff on the net.
Check out this link and video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lQBu84DZ4
http://www.simondale.net/house/
We are now, as the blog says Living in a Caravan. What started out as an adventure, a holiday, has now become life, this is our home now, and looks like it will be for the forseeable future.
We have had a busy summer, we got married (on a campsite), we honeymooned (on campsites) and come back home here to live. We are camped out!
We have had the luxury of flat sitting a luxury flat with hot running water, comfy double bed, en suite shower and toilet, microwave, television and all the mod cons we have left behind.
Its been nice to have those luxuries now and again and I admit to feeling a little worried about going for showers here in the winter, washing up outside in the freezing cold and dark, filling our time on those short winter days, without the distraction of tele etc.
This weekend we are preparing to kit the carvan and awning out to try and help us stay warm, and dry in winter. This involves fitting a floor made out of pallets, to get us off the damp and wet ground below. We were on the verge of stealing 14 pallets the other night, but we were disturbed by a fellow skip looter so we bottled it.
We'll be out tonight no doubt, cruising the streets, looking for a suitable stack of pallets to procrure. We are after fourteen, so its no easy mission.
The ducklings have grown. The tadpoles turned to tiny frogs and in turn into bigger frogs. They will be back in spring to start the cycle again. Our neighbours now are less friendly. We are currently sharing our awning with slugs, earwigs, moths, daddy long legs, spiders big and small. We are part of their enviroment and they now part of ours.
The nights are already drawing in, in a few days it will be September and Autumn will arrive, dropping its leaves, green will turn to brown, and eventually all around us will change for the winter.
We are planning to install a wood burning stove into our awning, not only to provide warmth but also comfort and cosyness. Despite trawling through the internet trying to find others who have done it, we can't, so we are going blindly into this, hoping that not only will we get warmth and cosyness but that we also remain safe and don't burn down!
There has been no fishing, my conscience hasn't allowed me to go back pondside. I feel like I have missed something, my interaction with nature has changed, and although I am no longer leaving hooks in fishes mouths, I have also missed out on the treats of nature you get when you are on the banks of the pond.
But until the next blog, a special mention goes out to our little cat Luke.
He has settled in. He loves it here, he's always off exploring and hunting and alas fighting. He has a daily run in with the other cats, but I think slowly he has defined his territories and is defending them well. He's still cuddly and cute, but now he has a wild look in his eye.
We have definatley tasted living in an alternative way, and our now looking at yurts, tipees, barges, earthouses, buses, mobile librarys. There is some fantastic nstuff on the net.
Check out this link and video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lQBu84DZ4
http://www.simondale.net/house/
