New loft ladder
+ = Yep that’s right, our nice looking loft ladder wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and a step broke on it almost leading to an accident 🙁 Beth’s …
A feng shui emergency!
Living in a tiny house makes you think carefully about what things you really need, and helps you to lead a much more minimalist and organised lifestyle. In a tiny …
The awesome power of gambiarra
Now that we’re on a daily schedule we seem to be getting a lot more done on the land even though we have so much meditation to do each day! …
Collecting rain water
Beth bought some large diameter PVC pipe that we could chop in half and use as a gutter and was much cheaper than buying the proper material. Last week I …
The new bathroom
For some reason our awesome natural forest toilet isn’t very popular with the guests and Beth’s parents are coming to stay next week! so we’ve decided it’s time to make …
Week fifty two
This is the last week of our first year living on the land, and our two-year anniversary of living in Brazil! and what an intense day it’s been – it’s …
Week fifty one
Tomorrow is 11/11/2013, our two year anniversary here in Brazil! we’re going in to Canela the next day to celebrate (there’s no buses on Monday so we have to wait …
Week fifty
This week Beth went to Porto Alegre and I stayed at the land by myself. She went to do a course at the Buddhist centre there and I would have …
Week forty seven
It’s Tuesday now and we’re back in Canela to collect the replacement solar panel, and take everything back to the land. But unbelievably the replacement panel is also broken!!! again …
Week forty three
It’s been a very busy week as we needed to get all the window frames finished to measure them so we can order the glass. We’ve been at the land …