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So this is it - home.

Truly a smaller and simpler life. 

Just a girl, a Pug dog, a small car, a tiny garden and a van ... a caravan ... but she will always be 'the van' for short.
Four hundred and thirty two square feet of living space, plus a small outside decking area.  

Tiny living ... something I have always, always wanted :-)

Set out something like this.

Well almost exactly the same as this except for the en-suite in the main bedroom ... which in my vans case is in the opposite corner. With the tiny en-suite being in the top left corner (as you look into the bedroom from the doorway) and the fitted wardrobe adjacent to it.   I will show you photos of the actual rooms as they are now on a future post.  But I have some changes in mind and things may not stay exactly as they are pictured for long.

I gave a massive clue away almost a year ago, when I published THIS post shortly after starting this blog.  The photo actually showed the brochure photo of the kitchen area of our new second home.  Over the last year we have worked hard remodelling the outside space to make it work for us and the dogs.

And now this is to become my home for the majority of the time. 

 I'll be growing herbs and planting some edibles in the tiny garden, along with the flowers and shrubs we have already put in.  Shopping in the nearby village and nearest towns, and generally taking a step back and away from the hustle, stress and hard work of the last few years.  Self sufficiency on a large scale is not for me.  I don't want to own land, raise animals or hatch birds, I don't want to have so much relying on me ... I feel the weight of the responsibility of all that far too much.

And that I think is it, I don't need much and I don't want much.  I don't want a life of striving to make things work.  I want to take what I've learnt about me, my life over these last few intensive years, about my relationships with others and I want to make things better for me and the people I love.  And when I'm a happier and calmer person that works so much better for everyone.  And most of all I do realise completely that I am married to the most special of men that is willing to allow me to do just that.

And to make things crystal clear, we are not splitting up, we are not divorcing and we are not having a trial separation ... we are simply living the lives we each want to live for a few days each week and getting back together every weekend.  Exactly as we used to do when we first met and for the first few years of our marriage.  To enjoy each others company when we are not busy working at our individual choices and jobs.  Most of the time Suky will be with me and Mavis will be with Alan, as sometimes Mavis and Ginger like to snuggle up at bedtime and it would be cruel to separate them.  And of course we will all be together at weekends.

So come with me through a country gate, to a calmer, smaller and much simpler life.


Sue xx