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THE LAND 2
So as time has marched on nature has reclaimed the land again and it is almost as over grown as it was before, which is to be honest more than heartbreaking as before we literally spent every spare minute getting it cleared the first time……… So we start trimming, chopping, strimming again and remember what bought us here in the first place – tantalising glimpses of the view that caught us last time! ……. but time has indeed marched on and we are not as young or as healthy as we were and cannot work as we once did so Jamie [our 18 year old and much more energetic son!!…
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Step 1 – FIND YOUR LAND……..
Now this part of our story actually has nothing to do with shipping containers – it is just here so you can see how we came to this point – so feel free to skip it if you are just here for research on shipping containers as your home…….this is also a very emotional write for me as this story actually started way over 10 years ago and to suddenly see some movement again is raising all sorts of emotions in me……. So as the years rolled along [we arrived in Corfu in 1989] my parents realised we were not coming back and thought we should start looking for something…
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ONWARDS AND UPWARDS…..
So as I mentioned before – I am new to this and after a very very long night where I suddenly realised I was just going round in circles trying to work out something on the site and it was WAY past midnight [ gone are the years when I am even remotely useful after 12pm!] I gave up and crashed …….. today a day of very large frappes [Cold coffee here in Greece and the staple of my day!] again banging my head against the hard drive and trying to call people to talk me through it and trying to read what looked like a recipe in Chinese on…
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GETTING STARTED……
So – …. here we go. First off you need to know that I have never considered myself a super smart person nor a total idiot – mind you I have done some pretty stupid things in my life but usually that was the alcohols fault, not mine! And I am SOOO glad social media was not around then! So basically I am trying to let you know that I am not great with technology – I have set this site up pretty much on my own and you will have to bear with me if photos etc do not work so well – I will no doubt have the…