Thought you may want to see how we are doing with our new home? It's so very different to Swift Cottage, lots of space, big windows, heaps of light and high ceilings, some of our English furniture looks small here.......... Most of the pictures are of the outside, as you can see we have a lot of landscaping to do. Our home is on a corner and we've had a low wall built which will have wooden horizontal slats to finish it. The house is designed to take account of the breezes, solar panels heat our water, a large in-ground concrete tank captures rain water and this is used for the washing machine, toilets and watering the garden. There is no water shortage here, recently we had a week of heavy rain, 6 inches fell in
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