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Thank you :)

Thank you 😀

Thank you! 🙂

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much for both of your very supportive comments. They mean a lot to us and I'm sure we'd benefit from further moral support down the road as we keep trying to build our new home :)

Thank you so much, that's so kind! ❤️

Thanks :)

Love to get a tractor one day. We are being careful about the big purchases we buy right now to try to stretch the money we have as far into the build as possible. For this first part of land a strimmer was, although slow, what we thought would be the best tool as far as price as well as we were constantly finding rocks, roof tiles, and other things that might have ruined a ride on mower or tractor attachment. Plus we have a lot to learn about tractors before we will feel comfortable enough to put that much money towards one :) Thank you so much for your support, we look forward to sharing more videos soon! 😁

We're very familiar with the Brighton area! It's very beautiful over there too. The seagulls there are particularly good at stealing chips :P

Thank you! We are considering that, or solutions to deal with the hydrostatic pressure and water ingress. If we did go down the route of digging the barn away from the hill slightly it does involve getting planning permission first though.

Almost done right? 🤣 We are pretty sure the barn is at least 200 years old and might be as much as 300 years! We would love to find out for sure some day.

@@abetterwayforus 😎

Absolutely! We have hired a structural engineer to work with us from the start. They are looking into everything from foundations to supporting walls to steel beams and everything in between. Not taking any chances there!

Thank you so much! Yes we did :) It turns out a single farmer owns the land on both sides of us and the cows had jumped a short portion of fence we share. I'm happy to report the cows were returned safely to their proper field :D While we were fixing the fence the cows decided to walk towards us so we opened the gate and they just calmly walked through on their own :p

​@@abetterwayforus cows are clever like that. If they like you they will visit again

We would love to get some experience like that, there are also some free classes in our area but the classes didn't run until later in the year and we needed the wall up asap. We did watch a bunch of RUclips to learn about the batter (req'd lean) of a wall and things like that.

You should be a motivational speaker 🤣

We'd love some goats! And they'd get through these weeds in no time! 😁

Haha! Thank you 🥰 We will need to meet up again soon and swap more stories about how little we are all getting finished 🤣

Thank you so much! Lofty goals is a very good term for what we've signed ourselves up for 🤣

Thank you! A few people have asked for some longer videos so I'll see what I can do. They won't all be longer but maybe every now and again we can manage one :)

I don't think you can isolate the music so the only thing I can think of is for you to turn down the volume on your device during those times. We generally don't speak over the music (except for that herding bit) so without the music the time lapses would be pretty dull 😆

Cows can't read :)

Thank you! Glad you survived too :)

Would love a trailer and ATV! Unfortunately starting a build means you need everything so we're trying to buy things as becomes absolutely necessary. One day I imagine it will become priority! Yes, we are pretty close to it, we're in mid-west Wales :)

Thank you! We actually found our place on Rightmove. I did have a list of places we were checking though. I'll see about digging them out to share the details :)

@abetterwayforus Thank you ☺️ Yes I discovered the land filter on rightmove today!

Hi. I've found a few adverts for land in south wales but they all seem to be agricultural with no planning permission. Do you know if you can get around this if you were to live in a movable structure like a tiny home on a trailer chassis or is it best to find land with given planning permission? Thanks again ☺️

You probably won't be given planning permission for building a house on agricultural land, it would first have to (at least part of it) be officially reclassified as 'residential'. A way around this is if there is already an existing structure on the land, like a barn, you can apply for 'change of use' for the building to be classified as a 'dwelling'. Instead of searching for just land on Rightmove, try a regular search but including keywords like 'barn' or 'acre' and it should find you listings that have more of what you're looking for.

@abetterwayforus That's really useful and good to know! Thanks for getting back to me.

Thank you so much! We really appreciate the support! 🥰

I'm not very familiar with cows but these ones were equal parts terrifying and adorable 😆

You don't know many cows. I grew up next to a dairy farm, and my uncle had cows. They are just like big, well giant puppies and very loyal to those they see as herd

They are not! They are lovely mothers and have a high loyalty to their herd and people who treat them right. They can differentiate between strangers and people they see often, even neighbors or regular dog walkers.

@@LittleChena Exactly

Thank you! There's a few people asking for longer videos so I'll see what I can do 🙂

😱 Ok well thanks for letting me know. I survived this time but I know what farmer to call if it happens again! 🤣

Thank you! 🥰

Thank you for joining us on our journey! More to come soon 😁

It's cool seeing the barn from that view isn't it! We love our little drone :)

Thank you!

Yes drainage is going to be a big task here! So much water running down from the hills above. Luckily most of the land is on a good slope so as long as we do the drainage right it will run off the land rather than creating huge boggy puddles!

Thank you so much! More coming soon! :)

Very good advice! And thank you for joining us on our journey :D

That's very helpful advice, thank you for sharing all of that! We will definitely check out some farm auctions and the courses!

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Thank you! I've been trying to keep them short to avoid boring everyone 🤣 Really nice to know they could maybe be a bit longer ❤️

Thank you. So much work! Lots of things (like getting power and water sorted) to finish before we can start on the barn but we're hoping to get there soon enough :)

@ Whereabouts in Wales are you? Looks a bit like the Brecon Beacons (I used to live in Swansea and walked there lots) ☺️

It's so beautiful there too! We're further up, in mid-west Wales :)

I subscribed when you said that the field to the tree line was yours. Smart to go with solar and stay off grid. Hope you have ample clean groundwater for a well. Looks like you might have sheltered southern exposure microclimate in front of the barn which is ideal. Very exciting to follow your progress! 🇨🇦

Yea we are pretty close to the mach loop. We'd love a tractor, and a digger! We need to learn more about them first so we don't buy a dud :)

Thank you and good luck with your own project! 🙂 We have more to share soon!

Thank you so much! It's nice to hear from others who have been in a similar situation 🙂 And it was lovely to hear you enjoyed watching our first days as they brought back memories of your first experiences 🥰 I hope your planning permission is granted soon and you can start on your own project. We would love to hear how it goes. ❤️

Thank you! Dan would have loved to hire a ride on mower but there were lots of hidden rocks and dips that would have done some damage to the mower, and the weeds were so long we think it might have tangled up in the blades and caused all sorts of different problems 🤣

Thank you! More to come very soon! 🙂

Thank you 😀

Hi Yuni, thank you :)

@abetterwayforus you are welcome friends 😊🙏

Thanks 😊

Thank you!