Background

Take 1x Wife and add in 4x Children age 4 and under and install them into a smallish 3 bed semi in the rural English countryside. Ensure that this location is a long way from any direct family and after a while it all becomes too much for those occupants and it becomes apparent that changes are going to be necessary.

A bigger house is out of the question for financial reasons (have you seen the house prices in Kent ?) and basic reasons (we'd still be miles from family)

Moving to a different part of the country would just result in the same pressures coming to bear down the line.

Then a suggestion was made that I never thought I'd hear..."maybe we should move back to Ireland .... " (this being Caoilfhionn's home turf, but one place she never seemed to want to head back to in a hurry!)

After a tense conversation with my work we got the green light to up sticks and move over to Ireland whilst keeping my job. A definite win-win situation for us. That just left the physical act of moving which took some time between making that decision and finally getting the house sold (about 6 months all told).

So now we're here in Donegal, living with family looking to put down roots again. And that's what got me around to thinking about a blog. After our first house purchase ending up going down a big hole, we've now gone for a new build. About 3 miles outside Buncrana on the Inishowen peninsula the new house and our new home, is slowly emerging out of the ground.

I intend to use this blog to chart the progress and development of the house from now to the point we move in... I may go off on tangents if the mood takes me, but essentially this will hopefully help people see what's happening to us here over the coming months.

Feel free to comment and question, or even tell me to stop rambling on aimlessly.. pardon ? Oh ok, on with the show...