Rob's Blog
Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches…
Jul 14th 2008 17:07
Well... that's it. It's official, we've signed and completed a 5-way (!!!) house exchange.
On Saturday we moved out of the flat in Taunton, and into our wonderfully amazing house in a picturesque village in the countryside. The process of the swap has landed us with:
- friendly neighbours who won't steal the sparkplugs from my motorbike
- a huge back garden with room for a shed, green house, vegetable patch and rockery...
- utility room with plumbing so we have space in the kitchen for a dishwasher
- a seperate living room and dining room
- ... space to breathe ...
- an enormous bedroom so we actually have room for Ange's studio
- real coal burning fires throughout... and a coal store.
- a water heater capable of drawing more than one bath a day
- a loft that the previous tennants actually emptied out
- our very own large front lawn
- stairs! (okay, it was only Amy who really cared about them)
- views of fields, horses and hills
- proper back door with a cat flap
- a proper local country pub
- less than a 15 minute ride to the office
... reading back through that list it's strange to see some of the things that make a difference. But I still think it was a
ridiculously benificial swap!
