I Timothy, 6:7

[poliphilo]

I walk out into the field and think, "Very soon this will no longer be my responsibility- no more reinforcing of fences or picking up of sticks or fretting about ragwort or chopping back of brambles. It was fun while it lasted but I don't think I'll miss it.."

Or will I?

I've been saying I'd like to have a very small garden so I can continue to potter in a very small way, but is that really true? So long as I can walk on grass and loiter under trees I don't actually think I need to believe I own them. And after all it's a fiction that anyone can own land. (Or anything else for that matter.)

"For we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out."

And if I don't need a garden we could be looking at apartments as well as houses. In fact I'm starting to do just that. And I've found a very nice ground floor apartment in Rochester town centre which even has a strip of green stuff attached. Like the house I've taken a shine to it's been carved out of a former industrial premises- so it also has age and character...

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[cmcmck]

Our trick has been to have a reasonable sized garden but massive hill country and forest on the doorstep! :o)

[poliphilo]

We're looking beyond Rochester now- and have just stumbled on a 17th century property just a few yards from Tonbridge High Street...

[cmcmck]

We also ended up spreading the net pretty wide in Shropshire.

Wellington wasn't actually one of the towns we knew well.

There are some nice villages along the river towards Maidstone- Wouldham, Burham, Eccles, Aylesford and so on.

[poliphilo]

I know Wouldham- and my sis used to live in Aylesford.

But we've had our experience of country life and want to move back into an urban environment- and as close to a town or city centre as possible.