Surviving our first winter off-grid | Building a tiny home & homestead in Wales with EcoFlow
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Surviving our first winter off-grid! Getting ready to build our tiny home & homestead.
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About us: We're Jon & Emilie, a husband and wife living in West-Wales with our dog Maggie. It's always been our goal to live within our means and be mortgage free, so we’ve just sold our house on Instagram and used all of our life savings to buy a 3 acre abandoned caravan park, so we can self build a tiny home.
In todays video we share our first update in 2 months! We talk about what life's been like surviving winter in our tiny caravan on our land and get to work breaking down another abandoned caravan, ready to start our tiny house build.
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Just a piece of advice. Don't wait so long to make a video. Let people know what your doing even if it's a small video. That way you don't lose your subscribers. Use that styrofoam to put around your tub and then cut some more boards to put around that to look better. Will help hold in that heat. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Phyllis, we've been busy spending our time trying to make money, online sales on the platforms we sell on we're down 70% across the board and our usual money we make over the xmas period was almost non existent online, this meant us physically going to christmas markets all over the place to try and sell our goods in person which was more time consuming. We will be posting more regularly now as we actually have updates worth sharing, didn't feel the need to make a video to say we were busy working but i understand your logic in regards to losing subscribers. We're mainly doing youtube as a means to document what we are doing so we can look back on it in years to come see what we've achieved, if people enjoy it and want to subscribe and stick around that's great but that's not our main focus. Thanks for your comment 😀 PS: Great idea with the insulation.
You do what you feel is right for you I follow lots of RUclipsrs if life gets hard do what you have to do never worry about your subscribers once we get notification that you’re up and running have no fear we will be because we are so nosey … you’re doing an amazing job ❤
This outdated advise the more as long as you produce quality videos then don't worry about taking breaks.
Your back yea!!
Hi from Australia
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Old lady here who enjoys seeing a young couple making their own way. You are working hard and building wonderful memories to recall over the years. All the best to you both and much success!
Yay, they’re back! It’s weird to miss someone you’ve never met in your life, but I so hope that these two succeed with this gorgeous project that I felt a bit nervous not hearing from them for weeks. Looking forward to everything that’s coming! Yay, again!
Thanks Lo, we are glad to be back at it, it's been hard doing our jobs knowing all the work is just there each day but not having the time available to tackle it. More video's soon, thanks for your patience.
@@CampOutWest Always!
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Honestly having the beach and sea so close is a winning asset for your venture 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks Monica, it's our favourite part of where we live 😊
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I do not envy how cold you must be! Continue smashing it guys 💕 PS. Love your dungarees Emilie!!
Thanks guys! We loved watching your first video this week, can't wait to watch it unfold! Oh I got the dungarees off eBay, they are just a men's workwear brand! (The mens ones were so much cheaper than the women 🤣) I'll send you the link on Instagram) but they are so handy, as we can't fit many clothes in the caravan, I know have some dedicated workwear 😅 xxx
@@CampOutWest Thankyou so much 💕😭Oh please do send me that link, I ruin so many items of clothing doing DIY/gardening 😂
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I don't mind waiting for videos. I check my list of subscriptions every couple of months and just continue watching.
I actually prefer these kind of realistic projects where people have to earn money to finance their dream without all the hype and pressure you see with some you tubers 'having' to produce a video. I'm glad you're not financially dependent on you tube and I ❤️ the way you work, explain and film.
Thanks Marianne, that's nice to hear 😊
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You are such hard grafters, and brave, so brave to tackle this project. I am in awe.
I can't imagine how you will be able to get rid of all the debris that comes from these static caravans, but I am confident that you will.
Hats off to you. 🙂
Thanks Patricia, its either bravery or stupidity 🤣 we haven't decided on which one it is yet. We will get rid of the waste at our local recycling centre using our van, quite alot of sorting and loading but it's the cheapest way for us to do it.
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We have been binge watching you all day, hubby and I. We are new subscribers and have enjoyed our day thoroughly! We watched several out of sequence but we are all straightened out with your wonderful plans! Maggie is so special and I think you look adorable in all of your hats!
Mmm watching this drinking my Coaltown coffee. 😁
The perfect combination 😍
❤such a hard-working couple....wish you the very best
Ah it's great to see you guys back again! Always so impressed with how careful you are in your demolition/deconstruction
Thanks, we just know if we smashed everything down or set fire to it like some people suggest it would probably be even more work in the longterm trying to sort out the different materials. As we are taking the materials to our local council recycling centre they require all the different waste separated so it saves us time sorting it in the first place 😀
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Change your reciprocating saw to a wood blade (wide teeth) and it’ll cut through that wood ‘like butter’❤️✨
Just subscribed and I'm watching your videos as I write this comment. You both are doing a really good job and working very hard. I bet that place was an eyesore to a lot of people in your community. It's so nice to see young people cleaning up these areas and making it their home. Great job! Can't wait to watch all the videos.
Stay safe
God Bless🙏🏻
Thanks so much Susan 😊 yes the people in the local village have been so supportive, they are so pleased it's being cleaned up xx
As a Park Home caravan resident here in the Cotswolds on the banks of the River Avon, I can fully appreciate what it's like with frozen water.
It was five days last month with no water, no showers, etc because or -9 to -10 !!
Buying litres and litres of still water from the supermarket to keep going.
Even with proper double external lagging, pipes still froze, only other option is trace heating which for the limited times this happens, it's not really worth installing.
Thankfully the gas central heating inside kept me warm along with a ceramic fan heater.
Roll on the spring !! 👍
Thanks for the reply Richard, i've looked into trace wiring as something for the future caravan build, i've seen the youtube couple "Van Wives" using it on their pluming for the winter in their cabin in Novascotia, I've been thinking about also building a tube/box from 100mm + pir insulation like celotex or kingspan to go from the water in the ground from about a foot underground all the way up to the bottom of the caravan floor and filling with more insulation. Our water pipe currently is only about two foot an i've also double lagged it and made a sleeve to go over the top of it from reflectics/foil bubble wrap and even with that the tap froze rock solid. Glad to hear you've managed to keep warm, any idea how much you've spent on gas per month to keep warm?
Two 47kg LPG bottles are what we use, sited in a metal container with an automatic valve to switch over from one to the other. In the cold months of Dec, Jan, Feb, I would say at least one bottle a month costing £74 delivered, that also included the gas cooker, hot water and central heating.
It's balanced by the warm months were one bottle can last 2-3 months.
@@CampOutWest check out Tyler and Todd also in Nova Scotia off grid
@@haw_n_thorne thanks for the tip! We will check them out
@@richardthomson203 Thanks for the breakdown Richard, that's not to bad at all!
Until you have broken a caravan down you don't appreciate the effort involved never mind all the waste you get and maybe upgrade the grinder to a 9" more power and can cut deeper and easier.
My dad (Jon here) has just given me an old black and decker grinder made in italy from the 90's to use that was my great uncles, going to give that a go, feel alot heavier and more sturdy. I've looked at the 9 inch grinders and like that they have much more powerful motors so shouldn't get bogged down so much, do you think they also work alright with smaller disks? Just for future jobs i've got quite a few flap disks and grinding disks and wondered do they work on the bigger tools.
@@CampOutWest Personally I use both on the 9" depending what discs I have at the time but I also remove the guard which people won't like it just means you can get into smaller spaces and can use a little more of the disc but again that is down to personal preference like I say plenty of people will say to leave the guard on
@@CampOutWest are you using cutting discs or grinding discs? The cutting discs are usually a lot thinner.
@@vespavbb5838 We are using cutting discs :)
@@CampOutWest oh dear :-) looks like it may take some time to work through the other caravans. Love that you are trying to recycle so much, keep moving forwards all three of you are doing a great job.
You should be able to recycle the aluminum and get some $ for it as well, also all the wiring from the campers.
Cheers Jim, yes we are taking the Alu tomorrow in the van to be weighed in, i think it's £0.70p a kilo at the moment, no idea how much weight we have, we've got a copper tanks, pipes and the wiring to take aswell then i think we'll try and get a grab lorry to come and get the steel and general scrap
inspirational motivated hard working couple
I think your doing an amazing job I know how you feel living in a caravan in minus degrees. I can wait to see more progress, remember that end goal. It will be amazing.
The end goal is what keeps us motivated 🙌
So good to have all three of you back!
Thanks Don 😀😀😀
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Celebrate the Hard Work of real-life heroes. The world owes a debt of gratitude to the dedication of individuals who built our infrastructure.
Excellent, that was really good. You got a lot done in this video. It makes me even more eager to visit, that is when you are ready for visitors. 👍👍👍👍👍
Yes we've been getting as much into the days as we can as its dark by 5pm, look forward to having visitors and getting to have a sit down and a chat 😀
Y'all are two of the hardest working people I have ever seen. Wow!
ah good, you survived then. I was wondering.
Bob Flowerdew used to use old tyres in piles of 4 or 5 high to grow potatoes.
Lots of bad chemicals in tyres
i might keep the wheels to make some sort of cart for wheeling things around on the land, not quite sure yet.
They have a secret ingredient.
They both have a passion to live amidst nature and above all stick by and work towards a unified decesion.The doggy is the icing on the cake.
To sum it up,a perfect life !
So glad to see you back. Understandable that you had to take some time to concentrate on your day jobs to get the resources to fund this HUGE project. Such hard work. It will be worth it in the end. All the best. 🙂🍁 From BC, Canada.
Thanks Barbara, we know it'll be worth it in the end, just have to keep looking forward to the end goal 😀
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MaggieVision is ALWAYS appreciated!
yay! we LOVE Maggie!
What a daunting task but you pushed through. Keep on, keeping on!
Thanks Judy, we as ourselves most days what have we done, then we think how good it will be in the future and it's all good 😂
It's good to see you back. I'll be watching your progress with interest.
Thanks Martyn
Love hearing Maggie sing! 😊❤🎶🎵
I can see you two are going to be millionaires in the not too distant future you both have what it takes well done and I love Wales happy days.
Fab to see you back. Glad to see you cracking on. Can't wait for future projects. xx
Thanks Mandy, we're excited we're back to work.
Sleeping an RV in the rain is awesome
We like it but not hail stones at 3am haha
Whack a bit of copper pipe into the willow tree,that’ll do the trick!,
🤣
I live in Covina just outside Los Angeles. I no longer work that hard! I am retired! My wife and I were watching. We have rebuilt three trashed homes and Wow! It takes a-lot out of you physically! You have youth on your side!
Glad to see you back! Perhaps you could get a secondhand awning for the caravan, then you could use it as a boot room to save you going inside with all you wet clothes on..
Thanks Ian! Actually the caravan came with an awning when we bought it second hand off Facebook - we haven't tried it yet as it gets pretty windy here but I think it's worth a shot! Thanks for reminding us 👍😊
Woot woot welcome back from south wales
Diolch Karen 🥳🥳🥳
i had a caravan for many years and i never slept better than when it rained the noise just sent me to the land of nod
Good to see you again. Can't wait to see what you get onto next!
Thanks Suze :)
Love what you are doing here. I just finished watching your whole series. That’s a lot to take on ! 😀 Please consider wearing ear protection when using the power tools , I ruined my hearing by not doing so. It’s no fun dealing with hearing loss. 👍 Eric.
Thanks for the tip Eric, hadn't thought about ear protection, but that's a great suggestion 🙂
So happy to see you back 👏
Thanks Kim :)
Glad to see your starting to get back to enjoy your projects
Thanks CB - so happy to be back and have time to focus on it for the next few months 🥰
Love watching what you are doing.. Maggie absolutely loved her beach run that’s for sure..Thankyou for sharing 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
You guys are amazing. What an undertaking.
When I used to take my dog to the beach I let him run free. They love that. ❤️
She loves being off lead but she's currently in season, so needs to stay on the lead, as she's actively looking for boys 😂 if she was off lead in season she'd be off making puppies 😂
@@CampOutWest I understand 😆
Welcome back!!! So glad you made it through the (hopefully) worst of the winter weather. Another fab video - well done with knocking down the caravan. Crazy to see how minimal the framing is 😮 looking forward to seeing all the progress ❤
Thanks Sam, yeah its crazy how strong they actually are considering the timber is tin in them, Reassures us that ours is going to be solid as we will be building with 2x4 timbers lite traditional timber framing.
Well done guys.. There's no more motavating thing in the world than Cold Weather to get you going .. Proper impressed ..
Cheers Jay 😃
I’ve got lots of willow here as well. A good method to kill them off and avoid new sprouts also from the roots has been brine from pickled herring - eg. salt and vinegar solution - in a drilled hole in the stump. Nothing spectacular and dangerous for nature around
Sounds like a good idea, maybe we'll try a few different option on the different stumps and see what works the best and report back.
I am so happy, haven't started watching yet and I am already in a good mood. I have missed these videos. I am going to enjoy this.
Thanks for the support Andrew, enjoy 🤙
Pembrey Park is one of the UKs hidden treasures, it’s such a beautiful place, you’re so lucky to live so close. We used to go camping there as kids, I loved to swim in the ponds as well as the sea… ah happy times.
We feel SO lucky to leave here, we love it so much! Jon's been coming since he was a little boy!
💕ITS FREE grown on your own land💕Willow branches & twiggy parts are brilliant for weaving fences out of💕Put in your uprights every 3’ then weave the branches through it💕
Wet n Windy Wales! I find the thrum of rain on the caravan roof quite soothing it sends me right off to sleep but no good if you're wanting to hear anything else but quite good if you're wanting to disguise other noises! 😉😉Thanks for the video. Good luck!
The rain and hail on the caravan roof is pure bliss..White noise it's called..I lived in a caravan for 6 months, through winter too...Good Times..
Liked this video. 💯👍💯
Great to see you guys back again, onward and upwards !
Thanks Andrew 😊glad to be back
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It's good to see you both back and Maggie of course, your making good progress, it will feel great when you get to place your new chassis down and start building.
It's great to see John's skills coming on great .
All the best Martin 👍
Thanks Martin, yes we are looking forward to the day we can get building 🤞
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Welcome back 🎉
Thanks Debbie!! 🥳
Have you checked out he tiny house Kris Harbor built from sand bags?
His Chanel is called “ Kris Harbor Natural Building”
He lives in Wales as well.
He fitted a wood burning oven, connected a copper pipe to it and a boiler to heat water for the shower.
Glad to see you back. Love to Maggie. She's beautiful. Hope your weather warms some. Maybe the next rain you could just go outside and have a heavenly shower. 😆
Thanks Valerie 🥰 Maggie is our absolute dream girl! I'll let you know how the heavenly shower goes haha!
Ah, there you are, thank goodness, I was hoping to see you continue your journey but feared you had given up. Will look forward to seeing your future videos watching you restoring your piece of land back into a beautiful piece of the Welsh countryside and home. Bravo for taking it on and having the vision. ❤️❤️
Thanks so much Linda 😊❤
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I love your style Emilie! I’m definitely going to be getting my hands on some of your merch when I’m able to do so! Keep up the good work guys, you’re such hard grafters and Maggie is such a cutie! All the adventures the three of you are going to have on your new land must be so exciting to look forward to! Sending big love! #teamcampoutwest
Thanks so much! I'm so excited for the summer for when I can start wearing my non waterproof work wear again haha!
@@CampOutWest omg I’m living for this!🤣 I can’t wait to see! (Don’t worry you deffo pull off the waterproofs girl!) x
Beautiful day for a walk on the beach.
Brrrrrrr. Great to see you back. Please please don’t let Maggie have branches/sticks or any wooden items, my dad lost a German shepherd as he chewed the branch, a tiny piece got wedged in his throat, he didn’t eat for a couple of days, a trip to the vets etc revealed a nasty infection that had spread just that short time too which sadly took his life 😢😢
Thanks for the tip Crissy! Maggie is our dream girl, so we wouldn't want that to happen to her 😢
Great to catch up on what you have been doing and what you plan to do. I know what it’s like to caravan in winter but caravans 20 years ago weren’t the warmest - I don’t envy that part of your journey. Great progress made over the few days back - Emily you rock with the hazmat suit lol. 😂. Hope john’s back recovers. It’s great to see how much care you both put into recycling all the materials from the old caravans and not just arranging for them to be taken away and dumped. You are both blessed with Maggie, 🐕 she is adorable. You’ll soon be away from the “destruction” and into the “construction” of your new home. What a wonderful spot you have chosen. You can look forward to seeing the sunsets from the warmth of your new home. Good luck. Dave Birmingham. 👍
Thanks David, glad you love Maggie too 😍
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Perhaps a scrap metal man could come to you. Might not get much for it but would save you cutting it up so small and you wouldn’t have to take it away yourself.. probably be better if you waited until you had all metal waste ready instead of one chassis at a time. Nice vid. Thanks for sharing.
We are going to take the aluminium and copper ourselves as these are the high value metals, the chassis and our pile of random metal items we will have collected as one of the scrap.firms around us has a grab lorry to collect in bulk
I love your dog's winter bumper ❤
Still binging... still enjoying your progress. 😊❤
I think we all wanted to see more Maggie
couldn't agree me :)
Welcome back, I missed you. Glad you are both OK. Barbara from Worksop,notts.
Thank you Barbara 🥰
Absolutely beautiful guys! So happy you back! Hope you guys know we love your videos!!! From South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤️
ahhh thank you so much! So grateful for your support. Also can't believe you're watching from South Africa! So cool! xxx
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Nice work chaps good to see you back at it team work makes that dream work happy days x
So glad to be back 🥳
You need to get a bonfore going. Not only only will it get rid of a lot of rubbish you've got on site, it will warm you up.
So nice to see you back. Maggie is so lovely xx
Thanks Gerry, we love her 😁
Great to have you back! Looking forward to your new adventures and projects!
Thanks so much Laurie 😊
Yay! You're back.
Hi Mikee, thanks for watching 😃
Love what you guys are doing, but I'm mainly here for your dog 😊❤
She is the best 😊❤
Great video so good to see you both back 👍
Thanks Richard 🥰
Just binge watched all your videos. I'm hooked. I watch the portugal and arizona off griders. You are a nice change of view of living within your means
Thanks so much Elaine! So pleased you have enjoyed 😊
Maggie is such a pretty girl! So glad u took time to enjoy the beach!
You guys are lucky these are not new caravans as they are made way more solid and they have more tech and stuff good job!
Wow, it's been a while, :D great to see another video and looking forward to the next.
Thanks for the support Mark
Good to see you back, lots of subscribers waited for you,
Dont let those scrap and wood piles get too big, otherwise a daunting task to clear.
All the best for future endeavors from Kelowna BC
Thank you ❤ very grateful. It's amazing how many people we get to share this journey with! thanks so much for the support! We started clearing the scrap and wood today, very satisfying
After you've cut the scrub and trees down to the ground , paint straight glyphosate onto the exposed ends and it'll kill them off .
If you have a lot of stumps you can put some food colouring into the glyphosate so you can see where you've been.
Using glyphosate this way is best way as it's used directly and not used indiscriminately.
Get a Makita grinder it's not worth buying cheap one's, use the scrap money for one.
Thanks so much for the type Hammy. Will look into the Makita grinder too :)
Re rain on your caravan roof - try hanging a tarpaulin over a stretched line over the top of your caravan...like a ittle tent - should help
Thanks so much for the tip Joe :)
Absolutely incredible ❤❤ well done guys. Can’t wait to watch more progress. It will be totally worth it for the end product xxx
Thanks so much Gemma 🥰 we've had the best first week doing camp out west full time, now we have some time off work 🙏 can't wait to show you what we're up to next week 🎉🥰 xxx
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If you haven't already, you should definitely look at workaway/woofing, just ask for people who have their own vans etc. Get in them extra bodies :D! good luck
oh thanks so much for the suggestion! We will look into that 🙂
That is a lot of Work! Maybe a Tractor to smash those Trailers up and put in dumpsters to go to recycling!
So glad you are back. Love being part of your journey. Keep up the hard work and look forward to the next video.
Thanks Gareth! Can't wait to share with you next weeks video 🎉
Smashing it guys! If you ever need a plumber on site then you know where I am 👀
Cheers Chris, we will need a plumber at some point and you are our guy 🤙
Right at the end whilst you were both talking to us, a tiny little Robin hopped across and stopped right in between you two and had a look at the camera and face bombed 😊. I stumbled on this collection of videos, watched quite a few, well done on all your hard work..! interested if there is any footage showing what happened to the cars that were left behind..? Looking forward to see the next episode…😊
That looked hard work great to see you back
Thanks Colin! One caravan down, 3 more to go 😂
So glad to see the 3 of you safe and well , I understand you've been busy trying to get things sorted so i hope it all went well, carnt wait to see what you achieve in your few months off looking forward to whatever you want to share good luck
Thank you so much! We are so glad to be back 😊
Glad to see you guys back 🙏
So glad to be back too 🥰
Well done guys. Back breaking work but very rewarding.
My back can confirm this 🤣 but we love working outside, so much more than sat at a computer and we sleep much better too.
Keep up the good work
Take all comments in good spirit
Good evening from New Zealand.
I was suggested your video that you did 9 days ago
by YT as it came up in my suggested viewing.
I watched that, and thought this is the type of new
channel to my repertoire that am sub'd to that I may
enjoy. So this evening I have gone back to the beginning
am now am binge watching all your videos to date, with the
mind to catch up to where you are at today.
I wasn't going to actually comment until I reached the end that
I hadn't seen.
However, as I'm watching this one, and you describe how it
is very loud in the caravan in a hail storm or heavy rainfall.
I thought to make a suggestion, I hope that you don't mind.
> With all those excess building materials that you have,
aluminum siding, 4x2's and the like.
My suggestion to you would be to make a Carport type
cover over your caravan. This would not only reduce the noise
of the heavy rain on your caravan roof, but it would also
give a level of some insulation both in Winter and Summer.
No Ice on the roof in winter - lowing the heating/gas/diesel
requirements over the cooler months, and likewise will
reduce the direct heat from the hot summer sun on the
roof over the warmer months. You could also even,
add your shower under that roof, near the rear of the caravan
and closer to the home you're currently living in within your
caravan until you have built your tiny home.
This is just something I know from experience when in the past
living in a caravan myself as temporary digs.
It proved to be quite a good idea.
I hope that idea may help you going forward.
You have yourselves a new subscriber.
I like what you are doing, have done similar myself with a
rough piece of land and developing it in my younger yrs.
Living as you are is a lifestyle many would enjoy.
All the best going forward, I'll watch with intrigue as you
develop your land. Cheers from NZ 🇳🇿 😎 Mike.
Great to see you back on our screens and back on the project. I’m looking forwards to seeing what you do next with your land.
Thank you 😃
Hi from Australia
I just read your comment and thought you would to look at my camp set up, Australian locations and camp cook ups.
Cheers and safe travels
Out There Touring
Great to see your progress again. Look forward to your next video
Thanks for watching Joanne
Your getting there
Thanks Jamie 😀
Thought you had both given up already. So glad to hear you’re both well and still eager to get on with things. Good luck with your venture and next time a wee video update wouldn’t go amiss next time you go M.I.A. ❤
Hi, we don't give up on things easily 😃Just had a flat out few months of work to try and fund our project, didn't do an update video as we didn't have time plus didn't think anyone would want to hear that we'd be busy working (whenever we mention working, selling products of making money on here people seem to get the hump)
So lovely to see you back! X
Thanks so much Andrea
Amazing work, happy you now can start the project, very wise how you are organizing evertthing, happy to see the walk on the beach👏👏👏
Thanks Lutgarde, we love our local beaches around here, one of the main reasons we wanted to move to the area in the first place.