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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