Day 3
I will have to rechristen the cottage. Life her has a remarkably naval feel, very like the routine on the tall ships I was sailing 3 years ago.
7am - hammocks up, fire lit, all decks swept and swabbed, heads cleaned, wooding and watering, captain swabbed in a bucket, breakfast (tea and hard tack).
I will have to install a ship's bell, and a bosun's call to pipe visitors aboard hms Stone Sloop.
An account of life in a Northumbrian Croft
In November 2006 I was offered the chance to take on a three room cottage with no road, electricity, or mains water - the "Stone Caravan" of the title.
As I don't have an ounce of sense I said yes, and this is the journal of my attempt to live in the wood...
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