How did we get here?

This blog is a place to scribble down how we are getting on having moved down here a year ago, but somehow I wanted to set the scene of how we got here in the first place, so here goes.

Once upon a time, long long ago in the land of sunny Hertfordshire a young couple met in a pub and fell in love (well not immediately but it didn't take too long). They went on holiday to Scotland and fell in love again, this time with the country. They spent many holidays in Scotland and soon a plan started to emerge to leave the busy South East and move to Scotland to grow veggies and raise their own live stock.

After many years with the plan still in their minds; trying to work out how to make this move; their closest friends in the village suddenly announced that they were buying a smallholding in North West Devon, something our couple had never expected. After much discussion the couple's plans changed and 'The Plan to move to Scotland' evolved into 'The Plan to move to Devon'.

Two years ago our heroine left her job to start up her own training business and 8 months later our hero left his job. In November 2007 they packed up the house, packed up the cats, packed up the cars and headed west to start their new life in the country.