For over a year I have been occupied with a business venture which has failed to fly. The time has come to make decisions, extremely painful decisions.I am having to put it to sleep. The knock on effect  has resulted in huge personal upheavals in my family's lives.At least three of us will be moving.. Paul and I are downsizing in a big way ( that sounds like an oxymoron). But we have plans to shed much of what we own and fill our five bedroomed home with, to move into a 12' by 37' static caravan

This is no easy task especially as I own an extraordinary amount of art and craft equipment/materials. But having been through the initial deeply upsetting time of coming to terms with what must be done for our survival we are now looking forward to coming out the other side. Living in the caravan will go a long way to our long held desire to live a simpler more sustainable lifestyle. Lower fuel consumption generally will be assisted by our fitting a small wood burning stove to make the most of beach combing and skip diving. We will live no further from the coast than before: within five minutes we can be walking in the dunes looking across to Liverpool t othe right and Wales to the left..

We have been given the chance to start again, to radically change our lives in a way we may never have done without the shove that life has given us.. Due to personalities, dynamics and other factors it is my life that will change the most-for the better I hasten to add. I look forward to being settled in, no longer burdened by the responsibilities of a large property, but free physically and emotionally to be more creative and in tune with myself.