The Grand Plan

January 27th, 2008 Fee

Last summer, we went to stay on Mullacott Farm in North Devon for a week, camping. While there we made a comment to Alison, who’s place it is, that we’d love to have all this, and she asked us about our plan. Well, we didn’t have a plan, it was just a shared dream.

Alison said that we needed a plan, and she was right. A dream is a dream until you make a plan, then it becomes a possibility. This was about half way through the week. By the end of the week, we were both really revved up about the future, we had a plan.

In fact, we were so revved up that we ended up leaving a day early to start work on it!

We worked out what our final plan was, then broke this down into realistic goals to be achieved in a certain time.

In Year 1: 2007 - 2008

Turn our garden into a productive, and nice, garden, which included:

  • Have a vegetable garden taking up over half of the garden;
  • Build a raised pond
  • Build a deck directly outside the back door, with seating and a little table for enjoying our summer evenings.

By 2012 (5 year plan)

By 2012, we will live in a house with a garden where we can grow all our own veg, and keep bees and chickens.

By 2022 (10-15 year plan)

Blimey, in 2022, in just 15 years time, Paul and I will both be in our mid-40’s. We’d like, by then, to have a smallholding of some kind. This smallholding varies from time to time, and we often chat about where it will be, but I reckon that’ll become apparent rearer the time ;)

NOW, I really might go to bed.

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