It’s been a tough week on the farm. Temperatures have plummeted this week and without any type of in-house heating it’s meant wearing...

The family house is right in the centre of the nearby village. If you imagine a number 8, like you’d see on a digital watch, the house is...

The pace of life is different in the Northeast of Thailand, but it can be surprising. Often things tend to move very slowly, and then...

It's been a long time coming but we've finally devised something that approaches a plan. The thing with a plan, as with almost anything...

Like many small-scale farmers around the developing world, most farmers in Thailand live their life on a knife edge. A failed crop can...

Among our reasons for moving to the country was to have more time to do things we like doing. One thing Hana wanted to do more of is...

Over the last few years lot of attention has been given to reducing our use of plastic, and rightly so. Thailand‘s retailers have taken a...

Seeing the same things every day can make it hard to see progress, and you tend to focus on the things that annoy you or the things that...

It’s been a week dominated by animals, both inside and outside the house. From new-born babies and naughty teenagers, through to death,...

It’s a couple of months since we stopped the hustle and bustle of city life, although when we left lockdown curtailed any bustle or...

You could be forgiven for thinking althat almost as soon as one meal finishes, plans begin for the next feed. Food revolves around so...

When you build your house in a field the usual utilities are not a given, and it’s been no different for us. Water, gas, electricity and...

One the the biggest issues we face is deciding what we grow. In truth I think it's going to take a bit of time before we get it right....

As a kid I remember going to visit my gran. It was a two hour drive, mainly using single lane roads winding their way south from Glasgow....

Setting up to live in a completely new place is never easy, but having family in the area can help. We live about 2km away from where...

It’s hardly surprising we have rain at this time of year. It is rainy season after all. What can surprise is how much rain can fall....

We’ve posted quite a few of these before, but never together. A collection of our new house and some of the characters around. When we...

Over the last six months we’ve discussed a lot of things about how we want to live when we move, but whatever you plan, sometimes the...

I need a bit of help with this one, especially among the green-fingered among you readers. Now the dodgy scaffolding, tins of paint and...

About this time last year I remember suddenly thinking - what if I lose my job? I’d lost one at the end of 2019 and getting through that...