Well, we're three and half months out. With no mains electricity anywhere. And we are both sitting working on our laptops and listening to music. This life is typified by the photographs - fog (August!!) and rainbows. The weather has been awful (really awful), but we so love this life.We love having dinner with food from different villages where we went shopping. (Potatoes, Napton; sausages, organic from Cropredy; salad bits, Jericho, Oxford; beans, Fenny Compton). We are beginning to loose track of just where we bought which thing we use or consume. And we love the idea that we live all over the place. One day we live in Berkhamsted, another, Lower Heyford, another somewhere between Kings Sutton and Adderbury, where we are living at the moment. We are getting to different churches, some wonderful, others bearable. We are finding different pubs, some wonderful, others bearable. We have become fans of Co-op, often finding local, organic or fair trade goods in the tiniest of village stores. We giggle at the hunt for a Guardian in the countryside which prefers the Telegraph or the Sun. We truly wish we had more of a summer where we could have enjoyed sitting out on deck, but we are no different from anyone else watching their garden decks from inside a window drizzled with rain. We are still working on how to make getting our post easier, but Elizabeth has taken to letter writing in a big way. We find we are not desperate for internet connection in the way we thought we would be and each day confirms our deep joy in this choice of life. We enjoy meeting others in this linear community (thanks, Kate, for that phrase) and enjoy helping where we can. And of course, we still have all our work, with Elizabeth's growing to include much more artwork. Pete is photographing like crazy, with subscribers of Flickr saving many of his as their favourites.
So have we made the right decision? Oh yes.
