Kingfisher Cottage - part 5, 4 years on...
Kingfisher Cottage - Part Five, 4 years on April 2020 and Kingfisher Cottage is in a bubble. The COVID-19 virus has caused a world-wide Pandemic. We are 'locked down' on our land and in our third week of isolation to prevent spread of the virus. This is not much different for life here. In fact, this is what we have been planning and developing for...we haven't quite got there yet but we are doing fine. Four years ago in June, we moved onto our land an into our new home with a dream of building self- reliance through sustainability. It was a 10 year plan and we are coming up to 4 years in 2020. We were lucky. A brain tumour and subsequent loss of work and all income devastated us for two years after 2007. We were in rental properties and chewing through our savings very quickly. As new work developed and John started to make some money through trading on the share market, we managed to put a deposit down on...