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Hi Ryan, thanks for your thoughts. We appreciate that you advocate for less plastic use and supporting local, we agree that we should all make more mindful choices. We do find plastic use is very high here and we’ve found ourselves using more than we’d like at times, it’s something we want to work on. We also do shop at our local markets whenever we can. Right now though while we are building, we’re working with a super small temporary kitchen, so prepping food is tricky, and sometimes the big grocery stores are more convenient having all the other essential household items. We’re definitely not perfect, but we’re trying our best. Once we have a proper kitchen set up, the plan is to buy in bulk from our local markets and we are also planting plenty of our own fruit and vegetables. We’re always working on doing better and sustainability will be a big focus for us.

Thank you so much, it means a lot to hear your kind words. We are thinking to show more vlogs of us visiting different venues around Bohol, we like the idea of early morning takeaway coffee and music for the car ride! Thank you for the suggestion :)

Haha thanks mate 👍

Thank you so much! Yes all the bread is too sweet here! We agree, we actually just bought a bread maker so we can make our own gluten free bread :)

🤣 do we agree

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Thanks for your comment! Yes our buildings we made sure are built strong, we are still learning about coconut lumber and hearing everyone’s advice we will be sourcing different wood in the future, we have used solignum on all coconut timber to get some longer life 👍

Thanks for the comment! The bamboo pieces are flat (not whole bamboo) we got them in slats so luckily no water can get in :)

Thanks heaps!! :)

Thanks for the advice, appreciate it! We actually have a big bottle of neem oil around so we will do that and get some more. Definitely would want longer than a year out of it if we can

Haha we teach our boys, John and I have a bit of experience and knowledge in building and landscaping so it definitely helps but we’re lucky with him he is good with detail and finishing

Thanks a lot! Very true, gives vacation vibes 🙌

Oh that’s sad! They are a pest. Thanks for the reminder, we’ve tried to use solignum on all the timber and a few traps

Thanks a lot for the comment! I can definitely show more on this, we always forget to show our meals or speak about our health - funny because it’s actually something really important in our life. I do eat quite a lot of rice, mainly because I have a gluten allergy and I can’t eat bread or anything with flour (keeps me healthy though) but Bridget also cooks me a lot of gluten free recipes for pancakes, bread, cakes etc. We both stay away from refined sugar and use alternatives like stevia, coconut sugar and muscovado. I drink a lot of matcha these days instead of coffee and we only eat chicken, eggs, fish, beans as our protein and try to add different vegetables and fruits. That would be awesome, siargao would be a great island for it. We’ve still got a long way to go with this project and our plans for it but maybe one day we could look at the possibility of siargao 👍

@@Bridgeandjosh Good onya replacing coffee, its really bad for the liver and your food replacmenst alternatives are great. Keep up the great work guys, and hit me up if in the future when your ready to expand in Siargao. I see Philippines economy improving so I think your in the right place at the right time, things will get expensive there in the next 5-10 years I would think as tourism grows and a great demand for development and business. Good onya. ❤❤👌

Thanks so much for following along and your kind words!! We would love to see you here one day. We’ve only showed a few clips of the curve but happy to explain how we did it, we will try and show more when we do another curved wall. We started off with square beams and then we used a grinder to grind the edges down then render to make it more round, then painted it. Hopefully that makes sense :)

@ yes! It actually does!!! Thanks so much!

It’s been a journey with the staircase, thank god it’s finished just needs some rendering. Yeah I thought that, we didn’t really plan for the bamboo fence to be a long term thing. We just wanted to get something up quick and cheap to give some privacy, we’re sure there’s a few areas that will need an upgrade down the track

spray that fence all down and the support coco lumber with neem oil one good soak and you can save it for years. "sustainenvironres.biomedcentral" <-- google this and you can learn how to make your own and use it. or buy some, that was a lot of work to waste on a fence that will last less than a year before deteriorating.

Thanks a lot!

Yeah you’re right! The amount of blocks, ribar and cement that goes into our buildings they aren’t going anywhere haha

Yes that’s very smart it’s not fun in the rain but atleast it cools the weather down 😅

Yesss agave are the type of plants we were looking for! Love the look of them especially big ones, we got a few little ones but not many stalls were open that day :(

Thank you, I always try to make time for exercise even how tired I am 😂

Thank you!! We are feeling much better now after a good few days rest. We are ready to get back into things 🫶

Thanks for the comment! We own a marketing/social media agency in Australia, we offer businesses support with their online presence, we also have an ecommerce store selling hats and accessories online. We will talk more about it if people are interested :)

Thank you! Means a lot, glad to have you here watching for uk!! 😊

Thank you! I’m feeling much better now, ready to keep going and leave bed 😆

Haha yeah it’s definitely getting smaller the dirt pile and I would love to buy a bob cat to help the boys out :)

Thanks so much I will look into that product 👍👍

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Thank you!! 😊

Thank you! We love this part but we are also looking forward to moving onto the next stage :)

Thanks Jack! We’re pretty happy with how they turned out, yeah we need to do a lot more planting especially with all the rain is peak time

Thank you! Yes they say more cats will keep them away

Yes absolutely we use Davies rubber floor coating in clear, it has great stain resistance, looks really nice and very easy to clean but we wouldn’t recommend it if you are looking for something very durable. This was our biggest challenge to find something both stain resistant and then also chip resistant. If you drop something sharp and heavy it can chip, we did use white skim coat underneath in case this did happen so the chip isn’t too obvious. We also used it with a reducer as it is quite thick and be sure to use a foam roller as a normal roller will cause fibers to be stuck in your floor. Hope this helps 👍

Thank you very much, oh that is very exciting for you. Where are you thinking to build in Bohol?

@@Bridgeandjosh we have two parcels of land in Duero. One is beach front and the other is ocean view. I know you guys are somewhere in Sikatuna, right?

Yes, oh that sounds amazing - ocean is always nice. We would love a place on the beach one day

Thanks for letting me know! Sometimes I don’t realise so it is good to know, I am always in a rush and thinking of many things at a time but I will definitely try to move slower 😆

@@Bridgeandjosh a tripod would do😊

@@Beachbuko thanks a lot, we are hoping by the end of this year. The main thing we are waiting on is for our power to be upgraded so it can support all the rooms. We will let you know, we’d love to host you 😊

Hi there, thanks for the question. We don’t have a video that specially explains it, Bridget and her mum are Filipino

Oh thanks a lot- that’s so kind. I do my best to stay fit, it’s a bit hard without a gym here but really helps me mentally to exercise regularly

Thanks a lot! Nearly finished this section so we will do a proper walk through soon 😊

😂 Josh’s favourite words

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Thanks a lot! we did send quite a few tools from Australia, wish we had more. We sent a few boxes with LBC everytime we go back

@@Bridgeandjosh Thanks for that. Yea. We think we will do the same eventually

Thank you! We hope to show more of our lifestyle on the vlogs soon, our day to day routine

Yes we’re loving the look that the bamboo and cogon grass is giving the place 🌴

Thanks a lot!