About the Project
Dave and Tess at Limpets Folly
Limpets Folly - no one knows why.
Limpets Folly is the name of a small wooden bungalow in Ferryside, a small village at the mouth of the Towy estuary in southwest Wales. Dave and Tess bought the property in December 2008 in pursuit of The Good Life: home grown veg, chickens, and a more rewarding lifestyle.
Tess, for it is herself
Dave trying to look serious and respectable
Back in the big smoke, Dave used to be an academic working on satellite radar altimetry, until the funding mysteriously ran out for his postdoc position after he fell out with his supervisor. Tess was both a software developer and later an oil market analyst for Merrill Lynch but quit just before the bank was forced to sell itself to Bank of America. These latter two events are unrelated. Honest.
Both Dave and Tess used to live on narrowboats based in Northolt, NW London, which is where they met in Spring 2007. You might consider that the narrowboat lifestyle was in itself a neophyte effort at downshifting, but proximity to London and the lack of even a stamp sized morsel of terra firma to call our own encouraged a move to more distant shores and we headed into the West like every good dropout before us.
This blogcast will be a record of our attempt to live a gentle and sustainable community-oriented life. No more rat race. No more running to stand still. The time has come to reclaim our lives from civilisation’s relentless machine.
Dave takes his leap of faith