New Direction

Without the ability to Camp I am going to write about another passion of mine Living ecologically sustainable.
I have dreamed about buying a piece of land and setting up a Yurt Camp-site to work in through the summer with the meals being provide from our own garden.Jan is a keen gardener so she is well impressed with this idea. Ideally we would have a house to restore when we were not busy.I wanted to build a straw bale building and a compost toilet. A earth oven to slow cook pizzas. I love the idea of making pizza with our own home made bases with home produced mozzarella cheese, topped with onions tomatoes mushrooms from our garden baked in a home-made oven,And let the kids make there own lovely.This was to be all started last year we had bought our place started buying the lawn strimmer and gardening gear but when we were due to move in we found that the house had been ransacked. We were gutted they took everything the kitchen units the lights the contents of the loft the insulating board they even sawed and took the staircase.To be honest the loss was not that great but the fact that it was done meant that we would not dare leave the place. So back to the drawing board Iam a believer in fate everything happens for a reason and maybe it is just as well because i am in not fit state at the moment to do up a farm.

No Camping this year yet ?

Well this did not last very long one brief couple of heated months in the south of France and my camping blog stalled.
There is to be limited camping this year if any at all!!
Twenty years at the Coal Face have taken their toll and for the last six months I have been crippled.That is arthritis for you Ankylosing Spondylitis to be exact the medicine that they gave me to stop the inflammation have knackered up my kidneys ! so I was taken off that until a new drug could be found. so the months of pain have been endured by me and my long suffering partner Jan.Thanks Jan I be it has been difficult for you too.
With new medication on the arrival promising me a pain free life(ill believe it when I see it.).
So Camping is off the menu until the medication is successful .We had a job offer with Happy camp a Italian company that recruited from a pub in Doncaster ? they promised no cleaning the customers had to clean for themselves absolute heaven.We could then charge for cleaning if it was not up to our standard. it looked like a cushy number but its now on hold ,the manager did say there may be a place for us for half a season if I am ok.

Dreams Broken

It has been a while since I wrote on here this will put that straight.We finished our work in the south of france to go up to the centre and sign for our house.When we arrived we discovered that the house had been broken into they had stolen everything the kitchen the wall lights the furniture the electric consumer unit and the even took the stair case B......s we were heart broken and as the plan was to work there in the summer and leave it locked up in the winter we felt that we could not dare leave it. So with great reluctance we pulled out of the sale.This is not normally allowed in France but we had added a clause to the contract (to protect us in case there was more roof damage) this clause said we would only accept the house in the same condition as we seen it.As this was not the case we pulled out and only lost the notary fees about 150 euros.The seller did offer to reduce the price but we could not risk that when we were away it would be ransacked again.