New Beginnings

New Beginnings

In the Autumn of 2022, my husband and I finally picked up the keys to our forever home. A stone-built farmhouse with a few acres of land in the North Pennines AONB, Weardale, to be precise.


Getting to this point has been a long and somewhat stressful road involving structural surveys deeming the property unmortgageable, our own home in the South taking a while to sell and eventually taking less than we needed, and finally having to pack up our lives and move into rented accommodation. No mean feat with a 3-year-old, two dogs, two cats, four chickens, and a horse already in tow!

Thankfully, the stars seemed to aline in our favor. We found out, while in Isreal for a wedding, we would be completed on the house the day after we landed back in the UK - queue many international calls to our solicitors to ensure everything was in order as well as lining up buildings insurance for completion day (again more complex than expected thanks to our contents being in the rented house and a stream that runs through the fields to the front of the house! After much stress, we finally collected the keys on 26th Sept 2022.


A lot has happened in that time, and we’ve enjoyed every step of the process so far. I’m excited to share this journey and everything we learn along the way through this new blog!

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