PollyPooFace
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Living life to the full in a frugal sustainable way in a semi ruined 250 year old farmhouse in the Portuguese hills.
learning to grow our food, rebuild our home and make a new life for ourselves in the timeless traditional way .
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A Frugal dream in Portugal 3
Thursday 25th June. Hey it’s Summer . Thank you for continuing to read this and keep up with the trials and tribulations of our frugal life . We've had some great luck ( that means some money!) and Ricks’ off to price up the tyres for the van, they are really expensive out here but hopefully within the next few days we'll get on the road again. It's been quite a while and my inflamed coccyx really protests at all the time spent on the back of the bike. I'm just learning to live with it and sitting 'differently' bending over weeding also puts pressure on but stopping that just isn't an option at the moment. The anti-inflammatories upset my stomach so it seems I'm stuck with ‘ dealing’ with it for the time being. Luckily I seem to have a reasonably moderate case as it's definitely uncomfortable but not the agonising pain I have heard some folk get with it.
By PollyPooFace4 years ago in Journal
A Frugal dream in Portugal 2.
Thursday 26th March Spring!!! The weather is still absolutely gorgeous, Spring has sprung and I heard my first Cuckoo on Tuesday and almost everyday since. The woodpeckers are hard at it and we have butterflies everywhere. It's wonderful, just as if summer has come three months early. One of the many many things we find so incredible about living here in the forest away from other people is the vast amount of wildlife we see or hear everyday. Wild boar, pine marten and so many varieties of birds and insects are all around us.
By PollyPooFace4 years ago in Earth
A Frugal dream in Portugal.
Introduction This diary is all about what we are trying to do here on our land. We came to Portugal to find peace, tranquility, and a healthier, better life. To get away from the violent, dirty and stressful lifestyle of the UK. We are Rick & Pat, we moved out to Portugal to live a frugal but better, simpler and peaceful life Our house is a very basic, semi ruin, up in the hills and forest outside Figueiro Dos Vinhos, where we work our land, enjoy life with each other and our dogs, and hope to make the smallest carbon footprint we can, We live our lives as simply as we can, we enjoy working out a frugal yet happy lifestyle, we're renovating our home as we go, we have a miniscule amount of money, we feed ourselves from the land and tend to live as frugally as possible, make our own wine, olive oil and drink water from our well. That doesn't mean we go without... we have a far richer, more varied lifestyle than ever before, it's all about real quality of life... and we have that in buckets full!!
By PollyPooFace4 years ago in Earth
