So there we were on our next adventure. A man, a woman, a teenage girl, two dogs, a caravan and a trailer; settle in the woods. Twenty acres of rolling forest, composed of hardwood and softwood trees, unfenced and with no immediate neighbors other than local wildlife. It was our little piece of rural paradise hidden from everyone, a blank canvas to create whatever we wanted. Living the “good life,” from our perspective and on a practical level, meant aiming for a simpler existence. To fulfill another of our goals, we wanted to pursue a version of “The Good Life,” inspired by the 1970s British sit-com of the same name. “The Good Life”, for those who don’t know his television. origins, centered on a suburban couple, Tom and Barbara Good, played by Felicity Kendall and Richard Briers. They gave up traditional suburban life when Tom reached his fortieth birthday and decided to quit his conformist office job as a draftsman. They embarked on a mission to achieve a simple but self-sufficient lifestyle while living in the suburbs. To achieve this, they transformed their conventional gardens into allotments, growing fruits and vegetables for their consumption and with which they could trade. Additionally, they acquired livestock, including chickens, pigs and a goat, much to the disgust of their neighbors. Over the years in the UK, in the various places we had lived, we tried our hand at growing vegetables and keeping chickens, whilst managing a large family and working full time. However, we never really thought of it in the context of being self-sufficient; it was more of a hobby. This time we were looking for a healthier and more independent lifestyle...... middle of paper ......us in December, for marriage, he then got his license from security in the UK. .After a few months we started having problems with renting our house in Ipswich. We decided not to continue down this path and that having made a lovely family home we had the perfect opportunity to have two properties that we could live between. This would give us the best of all worlds, city and country life. We decided that working out the logistics of this arrangement could wait until we returned from the UK in January, after Samantha's wedding. We remained confident that our Australian adventure in Queensland would continue and we were excited to establish our new five-year partnership. plan, in consultation with the children, during our visit to the United Kingdom where all the children would finally be together with us in the same place, at the same time.