Taking stock

I’ve just managed to get back into my email & on 24th May while many other things were happening I received an email prompting me to renew the moorjoy domain. That means it’s been one full year since we started down this road so it seems like a good time to review where we are and where we wanted to be.

One year ago we were feeling the pressure & the need to somehow ‘get out’; the main pressure to remove was the house, with its attendant commuting, mortgage and upkeep. Rather than simply move we thought living on a boat would be a good idea since it was something we’ve wanted to do for some time and would give us breathing space and an adventure. Along with that I’d get a new toy and would have to solve all sorts of IT & media issues. I’d get to buy a new Mac & install all sorts of fun infrastructure while sticking two fingers up at ‘The Man’. I naively thought that we’d just ‘sell the house’, free up the cash & buy a boat to live on with enough time before the kids moved school to spend a year afloat before taking whatever the next step was.

The reality of course was somewhat different; It took nine months to sell the house & in the current climate I’d say we were lucky to manage that. We’re free of the house and the commute, and are currently in a ‘limbo’ situation of being primarily land based with the floating option at weekends & maybe one night during the week.