our cottage

Hello...welcome to our blog. We just arrived over a month ago in the UK and have moved into our new home for the next three years. It is a tucked-away little cottage that we fell in love with immediately. It has the cutest spiders (many of you know Ashley loves spiders), a nice bath (sans shower), no room to store anything, and best of all the air conditioner well, there isn't one. But, this isn't our first rodeo. It may sound like we hate it because Jordan was up front with the challenges (notice he didn't even mention that we have a pint sized washing machine, no dryer, and no dishwasher) we can call them, but we adore it. It is in a row of cottages that date to at least the early 19th century, and our house is 1 Auckland Cottages. Pictures are worth a thousand words, according to someone, so we'll include plenty. The adjustment has been one adventure after another but as Thomas Jafferson said "Adventure is to some as family is to others" or something like that. We will have to include stories sometime of trying to find the dump, walking for hours, driving on the wrong side of the road, not knowing how to work roughly 85% of all the things in our home, etc. But that should probably wait as I have to kill this spider that is crawling up my leg, maybe I will just drown it in the bathtub.