A field called home..

After our meeting with Simon about the static home, he said we didn't need the hard standing and that the field itself would be fine. So, in anticipation of our new home arriving, we marked out a spot in the field, strimmed it down and waited.

At 7am the following morning the phone rang - Simon was waiting with Aspen in the field:

We showed him the spot and he backed her up - our new home was literally falling off the back of a truck! 

After an unusually long while levelling the van 
(that hill in Clayhill is really dramatic in places!) we were up and ready to go. 

Well, almost...

Next we needed to attach water, gas, electric and drainage. Water and electric was fine - we could run this over from the pig stys. For gas supply, it was a quick visit back to Simon for the bottles:

and a borrowing of the paving slabs from the patio to level them:

Then it was an afternoon's ring round for certified engineers to check the gas for safety and for available plumbers to connect the van for service:

We then needed to address access through the meadow:

secure the pipework and lay an accessible lawn:

Mike got to work building some steps from old pallets: 

And by the end of the week it was home with hot and flushable water home!

Hooray! 

The sunset's not bad:

And the morning is even better!

So I think we could be quite happy here for a while now...