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 It has been a long time since I last wrote for Hearthstone. To anyone still dropping by now and then that remember those days, Hi and thanks for sticking around : )
A lot has happened to us, our adventures have taken us to France and back... It has been very exciting, but to be honest not exactly easy. Various ideas have come... and gone, and there is a certain amount of waiting with bated breathe to see where Fate will take us next.
Hearthstone has endured through all this, thank goodness, largely due to Scott's efforts, and (at one point) my stubborn decision not to sell the name to a very interested individual. Funny, but I guess websites are a bit like pets, it just felt wrong : D!
We have decided to take a slightly different direction from before, with more home based stuff added, like recipes and ideas for healthy living and so on. In these uncertain times it seems in keeping with Hearthstone that we get right back to the hearth and to simple living ideas. So much of our modern lifestyles seem to be becoming unaffordable, the boom feels very much over, at least for now, so Hearthstone seems a good space to revamp some older methods of making do. However we haven't lost our Celtic soul and articles and recipes will still contain our own peculiar twist on things!
Well the kettle is singing on the fire, (well..., OK, the electric one has just finished boiling : )) so time for a cuppa.
Best wishes
Sandy
Photo by anadelmann
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We have added a gardening section, there is only one article at the moment, we hope to add our gardening adventures to the site as they happen. |
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Friday, 10 July 2009 19:01 |
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Spent the day adding more stuff, trying to get the information transfered from our old site, thank you for your patience.
Lots of love
Scott |
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Hi
We have just added a blog to our site so pop over and have a look, if you can please leave us some feedback.
Many thanks
Sandy and Scott |
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We have been absent from our website for a while now! A year has passed and we have been very busy, we now live in the middle of France atop the central massive, a plateau on average five hundred and fifty meters above sea level.
So why the move? We needed a larger house with loads more land, Sandy and I have always wanted to be as self sufficient as possible and grow our own food.
We live in a very run down old house in a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere! The nearest village is about ten kilometers away and has very few facilities the nearest town is twenty kilometers away and has all of the usual shopping facilities including supermarkets.
For the past year we have been settling in, learning French and adapting to a culture and way of life very far removed from the hustle and bustle of life in Britain.
Our main priorities have been to establish a garden to produce food, back breaking work, digging and moving mountains of soil. Repairing the house to make it as comfortable as possible, learning French, much harder than we thought and adapting every area of our lives to living in a very quite rural hamlet.
Over the past few weeks we have been building our new website, hopefully it will grow with us and provide lots of information about our family lives |
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