It took a pandemic and work-from-home order to convince me it’s possible to keep working and live where you want to live
I have spent a lot of time picking up rocks. This is not what I dreamed about doing as we sat in Melbourne during the city’s sixth lockdown and waited out the three-month settlement period to move to our new farm in central Victoria. That time was spent on cottagecore fantasies and planning out wildly unrealistic renovation schedules.
Then we took possession in October and I’ve been picking up rocks ever since. Rocks and sticks and, for one particularly disgusting week before we had scrubbed down the house, a series of dead starlings that had become stuck in the fireplace and under the oven.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/18/before-covid-moving-to-the-country-to-get-a-horse-felt-like-a-career-killing-move
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