DREAMERS AND ESCAPERS

'I don't know whether we've gone mad or if we're having a mutual mid-life crisis. I m the freelance journalist/hobby farmer; he s the business/handy man. I do animal things; he makes and mends things Suddenly, Van straightened up and said, This place can t support both of us, right? With our mortgage? Right. Right, so let s sell up and buy bigger but down market, eh? Eh? Oh, okay, dear. And, just like that, the dream, the escape, the adventure began.