Hello world!!! Welcome!!!
If you've come looking for home decorating advice ... sorry, no can do. If you've come looking for a house or flat to buy/rent in Australia or New Zealand, see the real estate link to the left. No the other left! So, what is this new blog all about then?
This blog is about the only subject that I am the only world expert on. Me!!! Or rather, me and the things I'm doing. A 'journal' recording my journey.
I have a plan! I want to get out of the big city (Brisbane) and eventually own (and live on) a smallish piece of land near a small city, maybe Armidale, Grafton, Gympie or Maryborough. I am intending to make this a record of the journey, from my small 2 bedroom inner-Brisbane flat less than 20 metres from the main highway out of Brisbane, to my small, quiet bit of ground with a cob, mudbrick, strawbale or rammed earth home and a bit of garden, with chooks and a wormfarm. (Emphasis on quiet, as another semi roars past shaking the windows.)
To get from here to there will take a lot of changes and new skills and knowledge I don't have yet. One of the major parts of my plan is the exploration phase, where I intend to spend a few months travelling in a campervan to the various areas of interest, looking for land and visiting family. During this time I won't have a permanent address and will be out of phone range for some of the time. So this blog will also be a way to keep in touch with family, so they won't think I've disappeared and get the police looking for me.
The Plan - in summary
Downsize my life / possessions. I don't want to carry too much 'stuff' with me from now on. Also I want to become accustomed to the simpler types of meals and living standards I'll be experiencing during the 'exploration' and 'building the homestead' phases.
Quit my job. it's taking too much time and energy at this time. Once I decide which place to settle down again, I'll look for a part-time job to pay expences. Don't worry, I've got savings.
Buy a campervan - or a second-hand van and throw a small mattress in the back and put a solar panel on the roof to run the laptop, phone and lights.
Leave Brisbane.
Explore. Looking for a home territory and visiting family.
Decide what area to live in.
Find a part-time job and accommodation. I might stay in the camper van to save costs. Depends on if I can keep up the standards of grooming necessary in the campervan, to hold down a paid job.
Find and buy the land. Plan any large permaculture earthworks, like swales, dams, bore or contour plowing and get them done. Plan where the house goes and the attendent trenches and drainage ditches, then plant the food forest and the kitchen garden.
Build the house. Why not find a piece of land with a house already on it? I'd have to win $200 000 minimum on a lottery. I don't have that much money and I am reluctant to take on a mortgage.
Find Home!
