It’s a holiday in Thailand today, and it’s like a practice holiday before the biggest holiday of the year - Songkran, or Thai New Year....

That’s because we‘ve just planted another 118 trees to join our single eucalyptus!! And at the end of the weekend, standing on our soon...

Not our house, thankfully. But that was the message I saw this afternoon after asking our architect/builder for an update. As I said, the...

As the house makes good progress attention turns to getting the land ready. We’re coming to the peak of hot season when daily...

Argh! You know that thing where you write a blog post and then the site crashes and manages not to save your story? It was a piece about...

Strictly speaking our outside area isn’t a balcony is it, as that would mean it should be enclosed by a wall or railings, and typically...

Catching up with some photos from the weekend, so expecting another update by the end of the week with more work done on the roof....

After a wee break and switch of teams work started again on the house. If you’ve been keeping up with the project schedule, and I’ll be...

Google has all the answers, we are told, and we've been able to learn a ton of stuff online. But we've also turned to books for deeper...

As the house build moves on to the steel structure for the roof, attention now turns to our land. And the question may not be how does...

We are making progress. Had a little communication issue this week and this is not quite looking how we expected, but I guess...

Giving names can be a tough job. When you name people it identifies them for life. It must carry a huge amount of responsibility. But...

Been busy recently so haven‘t has much time to post, and also in the process of writing a couple of stories that need a little more...

As another day dawns work continues on the house, and good progress is being made. It's a little frustrating not being on the site, but...

It's been a whirlwind start to the year for us and we're really pleased about the progress made so far. We have an extremely long list of...

Skill level: Expert Task: get a digger onto a truck without using a ramp Warning: do not try this at home (pretty sure this warning is...

Supplying water and electricity to a house in a field

This morning we're getting ready to make our trip to the country, the site of our future home. Now I guess you may be wondering where...

Been waiting on these and they’ve just arrived. One week until the building begins. Getting excited. Travel restrictions permitting we...

Did I tell you we had a budget? We're going back to talk about the final house design today and the first thing we found out was kind of...