Hello World!

Hi, I am Sandra. Siobhan and Alex invited me to write a guest- post in their blog… I met the two when I was wwoofing all over Ireland 4 years ago and since then I keep coming back every time I am in Ireland – kind of every year for some weeks. This time it will be the longest though that I stayed, like over 1 ½ months. Although I have to admit that I really enjoy the cabin. It’s such a nice and cosy place, totally independent with its own stove & cooker. And now Alex and I even installed a shower out there. For sure I really enjoyed building the shower with the little house around and continuing the decking going to the shower, like I really enjoy carpentry work , but also in general I find they have really nice and interesting projects, like building a hot tub for example, but also meaning the whole idea: living of the grid, putting up mobile homes and then build all the necessities around it, like getting a well for example and a water tower and then mainly use the height for the water pressure for the house. Another example having a compost toilet and therefore not having to flush and wasting tons of water, and even use the compost later for feeding trees for example. I think there are so many simple principles, like using the raising of hot water for radiators for example, but you have to know them first place and I think it’s really cool to see Siobhan and Alex using a lot of these principles and so getting a chance to learn about them… Yeah, I guess I am just really excited about all of this and I would totally do the same thing if I would have a piece of land and I definitely want to build a natural house for myself maybe not even so far in the future…

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