Meet Easter Shian
Having been in this delightful Glen since August 2020 has given us much joy. The renovation story has been an ….well adventure, to say the least (read more). So I thought I would give you a guided video tour of our beautiful home and where we are 19 months later!
The video is a sped up walk around the house, I am thinking of doing room by room updates- if that’s interesting maybe it would be good for me. These rooms change as much as the nature around us. Shifting, moving art around, chairs, and colours make it feel different yet the same!
The joy I get from the house (hoose) is one only matched by the feeling we had in the Mallorca house. It’s home. It’s ours. It’s our combined life and personalities and matches us perfectly. It has the yin and yang of Dave and me in it in every room- my presence is the overload of books everywhere, the continuous learning seeping into every room and each having relevance to the moment- once read they are allowed to go into the library, so each book pile is ever-changing. Dave is in the token bike, travel novelties and quirk that resides throughout the house. We are surrounded by nature and undisturbed views.
I feel the most surprising part of living so off-grid has been the sense of community we have; nowhere we have lived have we experienced the “neighbourly” relationships. Helpful, friendly, fun, not invasive yet welcoming, and we have been embraced in a community that matches the location. Happy.
Nature is a wonder, and I have always been aware of it yet never experienced it properly - half a century late, and I am. Each day is a new outside change; something new is happening, constant changes in sounds, movement, colours, growth, life and death, cycles and progression. It’s cathartic, healing real, and you never ever get an ego or above your place in the world living off-grid.
