Pen To Paper, As It Were, or The First Post

Welcome to my First Post!

I live with my husband David in a little house which stands a few hundred yards from the cliffs which overlook the Irish Sea in the North West of England, in the county which used to be called Cumberland.

David was born in a little town a few miles up the coast, and we moved here from The Wicked South in 2008 when he felt the urge to return to his roots. Happily, this was the only part of the country in which we could afford a house of our own, albeit a tumbledown 1930s house in need of renovation and improvement (little things like modern heating and plumbing!), so we upped sticks and came North.

The timing was such that, within a year or so of our relocating, our circumstances changed meaning that our household income fell to about one-third of what it was five years ago. Fortunate then, that we have always preferred Life to Lifestyle, and have relished pitting our wits against the movers and shakers in the Marketplace to embrace this new frugality! It has meant rethinking old habits and learning new ones, and remembering that we came here to enjoy the beauty that is all around us in this part of the world, and enjoying living One Simple Life.

Castlerigg Stone Circle

I hope to use this blog to chronicle our Simple Life, and I hope you will follow our simple adventures!