So this is our new home for the year - we have a small mobile caravan as well - however the yurt is a more pleasant alternative as it has a woodburning stove and is significantly warmer with it's thick wool walls. Another bonus of living away from the main building site itself is that we have seen a lot of wildlife, so far the list includes a male red deer (about 6 years old with impressive antlers), red kite, green finch (and lots of other birds of which I am ignorant), have heard curlews, nightingale, cuckoo and woodpeckers.
We have been working too and in our first two weeks we have created the yurt and yurt decking, the compost loo, a rain water collection system for washing us and our plates, knocked down the brick wall which had to come down according to our planning permission and we've employed someone to sort out the drainage on the drive and the drive itself. The site looks different already.
After a farce with BT we are no longer bothering with a landline which is frustrating but not as frustrating as spending our lives explaining that we don't have a house number, getting lost on the line and finally being told that we can't have internet after all as the line is too old and BT aren't going to invest in the work which is needed!
In short being able to live and work in this place is blissful, even with issues about communication and we are already enjoying having people dropping by, so we get to proudly show the place off again and again.
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