To all readers, followers, dreamers, realists, builders, environmentalist, littlegreen men and all the generally good people of this planet, I wish you a good, healthy, funny, active and eventful 2009. There, got it covered, I hope.

Anyhoo. Just wanted to post a happy new year message and put our plans for 2009 on paper (or on the web).

Plans

First thing will be finishing up on the land purchase. Although everything is OK and signed, the land still isn’t officially ours.
Then for the first half of the year Lotte (our awesome architect) will graduate in which time the design of the house will be done. This in itself is quite a challenge and will be quite an achievement. But we’ll get there!
That’s the first huge step, the second huge step has to be the building permit. Although we do not foresee problems, one can never now. As soon as we have the necessary drawings we’ll apply. We hope to finish this around 1st October, at the latest.
In the meantime we’ll continue to learn french and find suppliers for our building materials. This includes everything from wooden beams, stone for the walls, rooftiles, solarpanels, windmill, etc.

You are reading correctly, there will be no house building this year.
2010 will be the year for that.
And what a year that’s going to be, can’t wait.