Our first week in our van has been full of ups and downs as we have worked out teething problems - literal and metaphorically! We have done so much in the first week that i can hardly remember where we have been and when. We spent a lovely long weekend at Greenbelt Festival in kettering. There we saw and listened to many inspirational people and…

So it was 10 days until we set off on our grand adventure. 10 days to convert the whole back of the van, and so it began... This is our van before we began work: Stage one was to take everything out, Now we had our blank canvas and we could start to re-shape the space... First up, to clad the walls... On goes the…

Driving back from collecting our new home on Monday, I sat in the passenger seat looking out the window and smiled. Relief and a sense of peace came over me. It was blissful that drive home, watching the sun soaked fields blowing in the wind and listening to the archers on the radio I turned to Tom and said ‘this is alright isn’t it’ and…

Yesterday we went to collect our van, who we now affectionately know as Elsie! She is all parked up and ready for her major surgery! Let the fun begin!

The last few weeks, to bridge the gap between our house and buying our van we have been living back where we started our marriage, in my parents beach hut by the sea. This place we love beyond words and feels more like home to us than any house we have lived in. Spending 6 weeks here is just the perfect time to plan our…

So a couple of months back now we were out on a family walk one morning and i was complaining about the mundaneness of ‘normal’ life. It just all seems so pointless to me - you go to work for far too many hours per week to pay for a house that you’re never in and go out every weekend to buy stuff you don’t…

I am able to write this as my baby has an afternoon sleep on the bed at our hut situated at Thorness Bay on the North Coast of the Isle of Wight, sitting on the veranda in the sunshine inspires me to start to write. I thought I would start by introducing ourselves. I am Hollie, wife to Tom and have a baby boy -…