Questions Answered: HOW MUCH We Paid For Our Derelict Farmhouse in Ireland - Q&A 

Thank you so much John. Your comments are always so nice and also encouraging, we do like to read them. If only one person see's what we have done and decides they can do it too, then our videos have been worth it. Fingers crossed our channel grows enough so we can have enough to manage. We don't need riches, just enough and we are happy. How is Canada at the moment? We have had a mix of sun and rain but it is still chilly at night. Have a good week John and thank you again :-)

Hi, guys, June 23rd is St John's night, just after Solstice. On John's night it is traditional to light a bonfire. Part of the Fire Spirit for the turn of the year. Bless you both, you are an In spiration to many. I wish you luck and joy and God health!

Hi Artistik World, how are you? Well it just so happens that we have been collecting bonfire material for St John's night in readiness, hopefully the rain won't dampen it down to much. I think having a pile collected and learning about St John's night about two months ago was a happy accident, don't you think ;-) Thank you very much indeed, that is a really nice thing for you to say and a very nice thing to read. Thank you so much for watching and commenting :-)

Hi, I'm well. Start a good fire with dry kindling,then add all the rest. Some of the dryworm timber will be fine for starting it. When I was a kid in the west of Ireland, Bonfire night was a big event. Thanks for all your vids I enjoy them..

Hopefully our bonfire will be a success and the pile a lot lower if not gone. Thanks for your help :-)

That is lovely Robyn, thank you so much for watching and writing such a lovely comment. Your Grandmother was right, as long as it is done in the end, it doesn't matter how we got there. We will get there in the end. Have a lovely rest of the day and thank you again.

Good evening Pat, how are you today and how has your week been? Thank you for your nice comments. We were fortunate. Everything just seemed to fall into place at the right time. The cottage we had our hearts set on soon fell by the wayside when we saw it in person. Believe it or not, it would have been too much for us to take on with no experience in building works or a trade. But The Corner House was the second place we looked at and we were so sure after an hour of being here, we even removed some of the ivy which had started to grow up the wall of the house, somehow knowing we would be back. Not sure we are doing everything right.... we are doing everything slowly hahahaha. We want to restore as much as we can, or recreate what we can, so keeping the brown, especially knowing how much you like it, is important haha. Thank you so much Pat for always watching and commenting :-)

Hahaha, the next one? We were shocked at how hard it was and we know the answers already. I think making it like we did made it harder though, but hopefully more interesting. Bees..... I did say to Dawn long ago about keeping bees but I am not a fan of them really so decided it probably wouldn't be a good move lol. Thanks Andrew for watching and commenting :-)

Hahahaha, never say never though, we may need one one day. We are proud too Janie but love how you are with us each step of the way. Determination is our middle name and we will have a go at pretty much anything. I will sort the last bits of Dawn finishing the first part of the wall so you can get to see it and not just a glimpse of it through a photo on the wall haha. I felt like we needed something a little different for our Q&A :-) Thank you as always, for always being here, even though you are all the way over there. (Lukas will be over there again in a month or so)

There has been plenty of rain hasn't there Thomas. Our water tanks are full so we never complain but a week of just sun would be nice. Thank you for the lovely comment and for watching. Have a nice weekend.

Thank you Wanda, what a lovely comment to read 🥰

Wow that is a coincidence isn't it, sounds like you had it all under control. You and Dawn sound alike, don't really need men lol. How long ago did you buy that? And depending on that answer, have you got it all finished and how you wanted it to be? 6 months every day was hard work but had to be done. This year, apart from soooo much digging, has been more relaxed, certainly now. Would you believe, apart from recording the video stuff yesterday, we are actually having the weekend off. Thank you so much for watching and commenting sharing your experience :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject As long as I can remember, I’ve taken on projects myself. I watched my mother wait for 20 years for my father to put up a metal backsplash behind the cook stove and I declared right then as a teenager that I would never ask a man to do something that I could do myself. Lived that truth since then. I’ve tackled things no other female friends of mine would ever attempt. Once I moved several railroad ties that were used to border flower beds to the curb for pickup. I’ve written down the “how I did it” and sealed it in an envelope to be opened after my death lol. Like Dawn, I also have an issue with my right shoulder not being 100% and that slows me down. I will tackle most anything but plumbing. Very interested in watching your workarounds.

Sounds like you and Dawn are the very same person lol. Dawn has always been of the mindset of if she can do it, why shouldn't she.... so she does, so good for you too :-) With the new push fit fittings and plastic pipe, plumbing in general is quite easy. Plumbing in our range in the kitchen will be done by a professional due to the pressure of building water. Copper fixings and pipe needs to be used I believe, and it is the "I believe" which is why we will get a pro in. Other than that, I can make a workaround for most things haha. Thank you so much for your reply :-)

Of course we did Clive, you have been here from the start... I think you originally only came for the lighting of the fireplaces and then got hooked hahahahaha. We are looking forward to opening the chimney up too. Let's see how many worms are in that can once it is open lol. Thank you for being with us from the beginning Clive and always commenting :-)

Hi Andrea.. thank you so much for watching and commenting. I think there are more of us home bodies than we think and certainly a lot of people maybe regretting not going with a gut feeling and just going for something. We knew that if we didn't grab the bull by the horns when the time seemed right, we may not be here or ever done it. We are so pleased we did. We used to smoke but gave up and just vape now, been vaping far too long but a lot cheaper than smoking. Don't know about healthier yet, we will let you know lol. I like to potter and Dawn likes the big things when available to do, but this weekend, for the first time is a weekend off. Thanks for sharing our adventure, it is nice to know we are enjoyed :-)

It is certainly long enough to fill your evening Carol haha. Thank you for watching, commenting and being a channel member :-)

Pleased you enjoyed the video, we had plenty of questions hahahaha. It doesn't matter how long it was, as long as we answered most. I realised once it was edited we had missed some of your questions so we are sorry about that. Yes, the stove fun is building, thank you for asking that question, which is lovely and will help immensely and nice that we will always think about the people who supported us. The video was fun to make but did add a lot of hours to the editing time and the arm wrestle took ages as we kept laughing. Hopefully we will see some plums in the future but it isn't looking like we will get any this year. No rush, we can wait :-) Thank you as always for being so invested with us. Have a nice week :-)

Hi Elizabeth, thank you so much for watching and commenting. We thought we would keep it simple and get married the same day we officially started "dating", to the day was 17 years from "dating" to getting married haha. Are you Irish and moved away and came back or are you Australian and fancied a change of weather? Awww a farm sounds amazing. Are you having it as a working farm and if so, livestock or crops? (Not that I know anything about farming but do like to learn. Thank you again, have a lovely evening.

@@thecornerhouseproject I am Irish moved to Australia for 18 years. Lived in England for 3 years too. Always couldn't wait to get away from Ireland. The pandemic really made us look at life. My husband isnt Irish. Were aiming fot self sufficient, working farm making money would be the dream. We have a vegetable plot for ourselves but again if we could make money that would be amazing.

Australia must be lovely but coming home must have been nice too. You are right, Covid made a lot of people sit and think about things. Self sufficient would be lovely and Dawn would quite happily grow everything and live on it. I on the other hand would be missing the important part on the plate but wouldn't never be able to have animals to then eat as any animal we have will be come a pet. Fingers crossed you can make enough to be happy, that is all we are hoping for. Thank you so much for replying and wish you all the very best. Please do stay in touch as we sound quite similar.

Thank you so much and thank you for being hard core enough to stay to the end. Thanks for always joining us and commenting :-)

Hi Wendy, thank you for a great comment and of course for watching. We think it is like going back 40 years or so. Petrol pumps are still a single pump where the man MUST put the fuel in the car, you can buy coal and logs from everywhere and so many other things. Public transport for us is non existent where we are unless we go into a town or know the bus route. We need to find a good Chinese takeaway but we really don't miss anything except family. We love the way of life this area gives us. Thank you again for watching and commenting :-)

Very well done Christine as that is some hard watching at the beginning with the poor camera and then sound. Hopefully the new videos are more to peoples liking though haha. Thank you so much for going all the way back and going through them. We are quite pleased with our progress even though a little slow. With that said, we are in no rush :-) Thank you again :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject first you had all the ivy and brambles, you slogged away at them and now you are on top of them with your weekly mow. Now you have all the stones to be dealing with. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of stones in the future vlogs. Did ye get a chance yet to visit the famine village like another commentator suggested? I’d say someone there could know about the layout of the farm yard.

Well the weekly mow became a strim after 3 weeks and then the mow was yesterday..... 3 hours, it was a little bit long. Looks like it MUST be a weekly thing. I think Dawn dreams stones now lol. She is always chomping at the bit to get out and start again. Not as yet, sadly not. We are hoping that if we don't get out and about this year we will have a lot more time to relax next year. This year is more relaxed so far so fingers crossed. That is a good point with our farm yard bit out the back. Thank you very much for replying :-)

Thank you so much J, that is really nice of you to say so. One day we will be finished and can sit down and relax :-) Doesn't mean we aren't loving getting there though :-) Thank you for watching and commenting :-)

Well we don't know why Clare but your comment was put in the naughty box for some reason, so sorry for the late reply. They were both great questions and both deserved thoughtful answers, I am not sure who had the most air time in the end though between you, call it a draw :-) It is the dream that keeps you going isn't it. To look around and know that one day it will all be amazing and worth every cut, bump, bruise, ache, oooh, ahh and grunt! (We seem to be having more ooohs, ahh and grunts lately). The cats on the table were a happy accident. Peaches is just nosey and Alan was busy sleeping to care. Oh yes, it had to be Steve and then Alan for exactly that reason. We have never had human names for any of our cats but always liked them, so these gingers were the first. Goats are just ar**holes which is why we love watching the videos and can't wait to get some in the future. Have a great week both of you :-)

Good evening Colettee, how are you? That's good, I am pleased you enjoyed it, we wanted it to be a little different. Up until now, we have never really spoken much about "Us" so it was nice to share the information people are interested in. Thank you so much, have a lovely week and we will see you soon :-)

It just had to be done Laurie. We collected Peaches and the at the time, the no named Steve first and left Alan behind. Within a week we were back and collecting him and of course when you have a Steve, you must have an Alan hahaha. Thank you for watching and commenting :-)

Ahh yes! I hadn’t thought of that and you actually could be right, it is very ceramicy (is that a word?!) sounding. It’s a very very smooth surface. Thanks for that 😊

In that case keep it w 5:56 6:03 here you can. It was used only in the best houses. Needed skilled tradespeople to do it as it went hard very fast. Lot of things about your farmhouse point to a wealthy owner. The design of the culvert, the quality of stone work particularly at the corners and door openings in the out buildings, the door and window detail. Certainly not a average farmhouse of its time. Enjoy..

Well the door is open when you return and you know where the kettle is by now hahaha. Seriously though, we do gravitate to our most suited jobs even if the rolls are reversed sometimes. The roof beam will go up using the scaffold, we should have plenty to have two towers one at each end. I won't say it will be easy but hopefully we will manage it OK between us. It is easy to see "Why Ireland" isn't it, really easy. We used to get quite excited when we saw the tractor in the field which used to be behind our house at harvest time, now we have tractors passing the front door, being on cow directing duty and having to walk down the country lane with our rubbish bins every other Sunday. It really is a beautiful place. As I said in the video, we think The Corner House found us and we feel very fortunate it did. We are always here for a chat, normally on a Saturday hahahaha. Thank you so much Josefina and thank you for being a channel member :-)

We always say Hi to the cattens Anna every time you ask us to. Thank you so much for joining us and commenting :-)

Is your flight booked? I am sure we could find you an old cottage close by to us. No problem at all, but without the questions there wouldn't have been a video, so thank you very much indeed :-) As always, thank you for always being here :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject I wish! Someday I’ll be over, but it’ll have to wait a few years for my funds to change. I’m definitely going to bring my daughter with me, and share with her the beauty of Ireland. We have friends in Dublin, so we’d land there and visit them for a bit, but it would be really lovely to go on a driving trip to see you guys in the countryside! 💚😊

You will be most welcome and no matter when it is, we will probably be here :-)

I hope you made yourself a drink and got comfy :-) Although the voice over said about me doing something clever with the Pinterest board, that was Dawn's idea with the ipad and scrolling through it, the cats were an added bonus though. I am sure Dawn will have the place looking great by the time she has finished. A few things to do between now and then, but one day it will look great. Have a lovely week Josefina and thank you so much as always :-)

Cheers Rob. I get bored doing the same things in a video so thought I would try and mix it up a bit. Not perfect but something to work on and took a tonne of editing. Well I think Dawn is going to throw both of your questions right back at you for your journey in the car tomorrow, but for the first time in 12 months, she is actually sat watching something on the TV in the living room so don't think she has got round to it yet. You two sat at the kitchen table in your first video made us realise we would not be alone in our journey we were just starting. You seem to have a more experience in building / framing or at least some insight where we don't but we knew we could do it and your table talk just reinforced it. Have a good day out tomorrow :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject nah it's great to try new things keep it up 👍 don't worry car ride was today nobody wanted to ask us anything so we'll postpone till next year!! Few months needed to think up answers to our tough Q's 🤣🤣

Ah bugger, I thought Dawn said it was Tomorrow :-( I missed a trick there then as I would have made up some real nasty ones hahaha. Well hope you had a good journey anyway. Keep up the great work you two.

Thank you very much, we will have a watch. It is always nice to see the experiences of others :-) Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

Lots of dreams Ed and they are slowly becoming reality. I think you did a great job of not asking all those questions but getting others to do it for you hahaha. Thank you for watching, commenting and of course being one of our valued channel members :-)

Aww thank you Annie. We wanted a Q&A video which was a little different, it lost it's way in the second half but there is only so many times I could talk to a picture and sit there on the sofa on my own hahaha. There will be the remaining part of the hole in the wall being finished so don't think you have missed Dawn doing the last bits. She has done a great job, strong enough for another 200 years. There are so many RU-vid channels renovating, all different but all following the same dream I think. RU-vid is great. Thank you so much for a love comment Annie, have a nice evening :-)

Thank you Babs and thank you so much for being one of our much valued channel members :-) How has your weather been? Our water tanks are full although it has been sunny on and off.

@@thecornerhouseproject Your welcome, I do so love to watch your progress. As for the weather it's pretty much the same as yours lol. I loved your story of how you meet, it was so sweet. I meet my hubby more than 42 years ago and we have been married for 41 years in October. Love and blessings to you both from raining Scotland xx

Well today was forcaste a little sun and some cloud, no rain.... so it rained while I was strimming. The years fly by Babs don't they, we can't believe we have been together 22 years already. Happy for another 22 too. Have a lovely week Babs, see you soon :-)

We really do think it was Jan. The house for sale for so so long and had a lot of people look at it, but it seemed to have waited for us. We are thankful it did. Thank you for watching and commenting :-)

Hi Debbie awww thank you so much and thanks for watching. That sounds really exciting, hopefully you will be as happy as we are. Eslin Bridge isn't too far away from us so expect plenty of rain and four seasons in one day moments lol. Let us know via email when you move over, if you haven't already or don't already live here lol, I am sure we can sort out meeting up. Good luck with everything and speak soon.

Hi Helen, you are most welcome but thank you for always watching and commenting on our videos. 32 days of daily videos, seven days a week were hard work but if nothing else it showed us that I can make videos every day in a few hours and Dawn can reply to no end of comments. It did take pretty much every waking hour to do, but we did it. As a result, everyone got to see what we were up against with the land and share our pleasure when it was finally "finished" so it was worth it. We have met Becky from Irish Homestead and hope one day we will get to meet Rob and Clare as they are our hero's really. Those two can really work and that was with full time jobs! We are not a patch on them. We will show the first fixed part of the wall Dawn has been working on properly as it would be a shame no to share the last few bits being done. It was going to be the intro for this video but I felt it deserved more than to be just a few minutes before Q&As. Thanks so much for being with us all of this time. Still so much to do, but you know us, slowly but surely we will get there. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

Hi Tango It is a thought but we wouldn't want to put him in a position where he felt obliged to say yes if there is a reason he shouldn't do it. We are doing well on the rain water harvesting at the moment and have all the filters and UV light in place making sure the water is clean, germ and bacteria free. We can always add chlorine to the tanks if we wanted to go down that route. Dawn is pleased with the fact that in 12 months, she hasn't had to use hair conditioner as there is no additives in the water. Thanks for your input and thoughts. Something we will keep in mind.

Hi Simon. We do tend to hold our cards quite close to our chest, I think that is because we are not the most outgoing of people. RU-vid is probably the biggest thing we have ever done and shared our lives with. Yep, house, garden, shed, no rush and lets just enjoy the journey of it all, it is all getting there slowly. Yep, any videos to amuse the cats are welcome :-) Thanks Simon.

Thanks Dish and you are most welcome. Thanks for always joining us and being a channel member :-)

Thanks Sissy, it was nice to share :-)

Our pleasure Andie, pleased you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching and commenting :-)

Thank you very much indeed Danielle, you have a nice evening and rest of your weekend :-)

Good evening Inge, we are going to pronounce that "In-Ga" or maybe even "En-Ga" (I cheated and used Google hahaha). Awww that is sad with your cat, it is heart breaking losing pets, it doesn't matter what pet it is, they are family. No, thank you for your Question, sorry I completely messed up your nickname haha. Thank you for watching and commenting. See you soon :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject Actually, it is ing like in going, and the last e like the i in sir. If that makes sense 🙂

So I wasn't too far away lol. Makes perfect sense, thank you for replying :-)

I don't know about scrub up Scott, we just changed our clothes, no soap was used in the making of this video hahaha. Sorry to hear that Covid changed things for you, we were very fortunate in our families. We didn't need a pandemic, we have always liked to be away from crowds and people unless we know them so moving to where we are now was an easy decision, apart from being further away from our families. Thank you for watching and commenting tonight. Have a nice rest of the weekend :)

❤️🥹 we’re so glad you did, it was definitely a long one, so good going to get through it all! 😂 but thank you for sticking with it 😉❤️❤️

Thanks ML. We will get there, a bit like everything with us, bit by bit, slowly but surely :-) Thanks for watching and commenting and of course being a channel Member :-)

Ooh yes we realise just how lucky we were now when we see what prices the houses are now. We adore how quiet this area is, every place we found I looked on Google earth to see where and what type of roads just because we didn’t want to be near to any busy roads after living on or very close to main roads in the past. One place the single glazed windows used to rattle when a lorry went by! 🤣

Do it in the summer and get a nice big tent lol. We looked at containers so many times for storage but it is highly unlikely they would have been able to manoeuvre it on to the land due to the size without having to do a load of gravel driveways so we just moved stuff around the house time after time. Are you pleased with your decision with what you bought and how you are getting on? Thank you so much for watching and commenting :-)

Good evening Ellen, how are you? We have always worked well together, always done DIY together and repaired and did up the old, 30 year old caravan together. Somewhere we have a little sign which reads "You and I are more than friends, we are like a really small gang" and it is true. We are the best of friends and work well together. Fingers crossed, as time goes on, we will have more done and we will be able to spend more time relaxing. Once Dawn has of course done her research lol, Goats will happen, I think even if we have to change the entire place to allow for them, goats will happen. A sheep is just something I think would be fun. Like the cats come for a walk with us, the sheep would too. (In my minds eye anyway) Thank you so much for always watching and commenting Ellen.

I think if your land supports it, you would love a pig or two. They are very clever and I know you wouldn’t butcher them.😊❤

Oooooh no, we could never butcher them, they would instantly be pets. I like pigs but never read into them. What happens when they have destroyed the current plot they were on? Do you just keep moving them or can they stay in the one area? We know as soon as we get animals the nice green patch won't be green anymore, but wonder if pigs would make it a huge mud area. Off Grid Bruce has 8 acres I think and moves his pigs around to clear the land they are on. That is what makes me wonder what we would do with them. Thank you so much for watching and commenting :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject I don't know about pigs at all. But didn't Mossey Bottom have at least one Kune Kune pig? He only had an acre. People seem to do better with pigs rather than goats. But then it might be a matter of the type of goat and what you are willing to put into them?

Awwww thank you so much, that is lovely.

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Awww thank you so much, that is really kind of you to say so.

I know what you mean... we had a lorra lorra laughs making the video as well as a lot of head scratching on how we would actually execute my brain wave ideas of a moving photo and a bloody arm wrestle lol. Keep an eye or for the last bits of Dawn finishing the first stage of the repairs to the hole in the wall. We haven't left it out. Ta ra :)

Hi Catherine. Oooh we won't be jumping in feet first, have you met Dawn, Research is her second, third and fourth name haha. We would also ask the advice and input from farmers who have sheep / goats too. The land is in need of drainage channels in several places and we wouldn't get animals until we were ready for them. We would have loved to have had animals this year but the time isn't right and the place isn't ready. Chickens we could do, but larger livestock will have to wait for now. Thank you so much for your input and thank you for watching :-)

I watch a lot of vlogs with people like your selves. (Particularly in Portugal). Anyone that has had goats has had to sell them. (Except for Tiny Shiny home) who have just built a goat barn. The goats have eaten the bark off the fruit tress and ignored the brambles in Nick and Andreas farm from Project Portugal. Luke and Sarah (Luke and Sarah’s off grid life) had to sell their goats because they needed, but couldn’t afford the infrastructure for all the milk the goats produced. They had too much cheese and yoghurt.

Oooh we would only have a couple / few pigmy goats and not for food or milk. The plan is to have electric fences around the entire plot to keep all animals in and others out, and then once they have learned what the nice white ribbon does we will then put it around the areas we want protected such as around the trees. We will keep the entrance where the badgers come in free from the fence though as it is there home too :-) Did you see Clarkson's Farm when they trained those new goats what the electric fence did? There were so many OW noises before they all gathered in the middle of the plot out the way of the fence lol. Poor little buggers. Thanks so much for sharing what you have watched :-)

Thanks Rob. Thanks for also being a valuable channel member :-)

You are most welcome David, thank you for watching and for commenting :-)

Ooh no unpacking! That’s an awful job….probably worse than packing 😂 Yes for many many years while Ben was poorly we didn’t think we would ever get to live this. Luckily the last operation Ben had in 2013 has transformed our lives enough to help make this happen for us. We know crohns may strike again but for now he is doing really well. As for sun? Hmm…we had a beautiful day yesterday a balmy 19c! Today not so much..very overcast again and only highs of 16. Haha yes it is very old school tv! 📺 Ben likes to give new things a go here and there lol

Thank you very much Julia. We thought something a little bit different than the usual Q&A but it goes on for soooo long. See you soon and thank you for watching and commenting :-)

Sounds like a good idea, it is a long one and will keep you out of trouble :-) Cheers Mitch.

Thank you Brenda and thanks for your question too. We’re glad that we did it as we had realised that we don’t always give too much away about how we got here or our plans for the place, so it was a great way to be able to get it all out there 😊 Aww no, sorry to hear that you’ve been in hospital, hope you are on the mend and feel better very soon. It was a great idea of Bens with the picture and worked really well, he likes trying new things and pushing himself to see what else he can do. See you soon for the next one 😘

Thank you! Ben does like a bit of a challenge when it comes to the editing, always on the look out for new things to have a go at and see if he can do it or not! 🤣❤️

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching and commenting. It was nice to share how we met as not many people actually knew, even the people we know personally. Now they do lol. We are so pleased with it all and will be great when, one day, will all be finished. Thank you again :-)

That's good Tom, pleased you liked it :-)

Hi Del. That is weird as we were only talking about Big cook Little cook the other day for some reason. Yes, I suppose it did have that sort of feel to it. They did the effects a little better than I did though, maybe I need some more practice. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject Maybe you were subconsciously inspired by the the special effects in that show - don’t make them like that anymore 😀

No they certainly don't make them like that anymore. We wonder if it was from Harry Potter and the moving paintings. I must have been inspired by something I have seen. Thanks for the reply :-)

Our pleasure, thank you so much for watching and commenting :-)

Thanks Pa, yeah we hope so too. It’s nice to think that we might help in some way to help others realise they might be able to do it too. You’re absolutely right and it’s definitely been hard going along the way but all worth it too. ❤️❤️

Thank you Aunite Chris 🥰🥰

Glad you think so and glad you liked it. Thank you Andie :-)

Exactly Rebecca, it didn't take much arm twisting for us to be drawn to the place. When we viewed the house, there was no estate agent or "current" owner, just myself and Dawn. We spent about 90 minutes here, chatting, looking, thinking, chatting some more. We didn't even get to see the land as it was too overgrown. We have probably never been so certain about something in our life as when we came to view here. Thank you for watching and commenting :-)

Your channel is one of my fav and I so enjoyed your discussion today. You two are such positive ppl and so lucky to have found each other. Excited to see all the next steps in the Reno journey forward. Best wishes

Aww, that is lovely, thank you, that makes us really happy. We were lucky, a bit like the house, things just happened all at the right time for us. We aren't normally lucky, but two massive bits of luck have us here together, today. Have a lovely week.

You are most welcome Tracy. Thank you for always watching and commenting :-) Hope all is good :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject All is boring but all is good haha. Give my boy Alan a squeeze from me.

Alan is always getting squeezed as I think he is the favourite as he looks so grumpy and even complains when he is purring by constantly meowing. Consider him squeezed :-) I like boring :-)

When you hear people say they are living the dream, it is usually said ironically. In our case we really are living our dream. I am pleased it shows we are happy in what we film as what you see really is us. Thanks for joining us and commenting again :-)

Haha that’s exactly why….and then to find you’ve moved to the US 😮😉

Hahahaha, I had to refresh my memory of that sketch but yes, from Cats, Rats, Ducks and Dogs to a Lion, or maybe a giraffe hahaha. Yes, an acre isn't a lot but we won't be going mad with animals, just enough to keep us occupied. Thank you as always for watching and commenting Louise and of course being a channel member.

We love this Kathleen. It is true though as it is usually sunny when it rains haha. Thank you for always being with us :-)

Aww how we love you and your perseverance with watching us! Haha as soon as I saw your question I just knew you would love how we met! It was a channel just dedicated to chatting with others, I don’t know if back when you were younger there used to be like a information service on the tv that told you things like the weather or the news via just text on the screen? We used to have something called ceefax in England and that’s what the channel sort of looked like that me and Ben met via. It was just called Txtme I think. Oh yes I do love a puzzle, not particularly jigsaw puzzles but definitely mind puzzles! I used to play a lot of PlayStation and n64 games and I prefer the platform games where you have to figure out a puzzle to unlock something else. He did a great job with that extra screen didn’t he? He is a computer geek through and through and loves learning new things to do. Editing is pretty new to him but because of how his brain works he picks it up pretty well, I’m not sure I could do what he does. That would be amazing if RU-vid gave us that little boost! But I do wonder if we need to go back to doing more than one video a week, we will see what happens but until then we shall see you soonish 😊 Thanks again for your question and lovely to be in the gang of “odd relationship meetings!”

@@thecornerhouseproject oh yes, I am old enough to remember those type of programs. I remember when we walked on the moon for the first time…I was quite young but I remember the party my mom had. She completely thought it was a hoax at the time. I am actually a twitch streamer, not under this, my name, but I play mystery puzzle games and cozy farming games…it definitely keeps my mind going

Thanks for replying Dory and always always being with us but wait just a minute here...... You are a Twitch Streamer and we are just finding this out now? This should have been how you introduced yourself... "Hi, my name is Dory Gean Cunningham and I am a twitch streamer" haha So come on, you can't tell us that and not let us know how we get to watch you. All three of us were like "Wooooooooah" Joking aside, we would love to see your Twitch stream so please do share your username on there so we can watch. Send it in an email if you don't want to reply with it in here. thecornerhouseproject23@gmail.com Speak soon. Oh, When we are talking about you, as we often do with people who comment, we call your Dory. Now is it just Dory, or is it Dory Gean?

@@thecornerhouseproject well as a girl of southern ancestry, the middle name is always put with the first, but I really don’t care. Dory as a name is unique enough…lol. I am “The Hemyngton” on twitch. You are probably asleep when I stream. I usually don’t push myself on people. If you ever have insomnia, I try and stream 3 times a week around 7:30 or 8 pm eastern time.

Well you have always been Dory and you shall remain Dory in that case :-) The Hemyngton - we can't wait to see you in action.

That is quite a bit of knowledge you have there tucked away, thank you. We plan of having the no go areas taped off once they learn what the electric fence does. Like the farmers around here use the white tape over drive ways and things so the cows don't go past it, that is our plan too. We have cuttings of willow and black currents but didn't take any of the apples once we saw they were starting to show signs of life again. Each apple tree has some fruit growing so we are hoping we can grow from seed and now have to use root stock. Although have fruit available is nice, it will be nice to try and grow from apple seeds to reproduce the same tree. Any animals we get will basically become pets, so we would more than likely have a couple of Does to avoid the urine issue with the Billys as eating them won't happen. We may look at milk at a later stage but not initially. Sounds like we have found the right person to ask about chicken and coops. It wouldn't be many to start with as we want to find our feet with them first and learn as we go. Too many might take the fun out of it. Thank you so much for all of your information, it is a brilliant read. Thank you for always watching and commenting, it really is appreciated :-)

Thank you Marcus, we wanted it to be a little different, it wouldn't be us otherwise would. 50 is the start for us and being out of the rat race makes the world of difference. We feel like we can achieve anything, but we will do it slowly and bit by bit haha. Thanks as always Marcus for joining us and commenting :-) Hope you have had a productive week.

@@thecornerhouseproject between looking after kids and the day job and rain I git 4 hours work in just this week. But I got 5 meters of resting wall done to about 1 meter high so there’s progress. Running out of sand now so must organise a 16t load for this week plus need drainage stones too. It’s planning where to put it all. I see u use the 1ton bags. If u find a local sand and gravel quarry it would be cheaper for u to get a load or part load delivered. Looking forward to seeing ur progress next week

A day job... ewwwww hahaha. Kids are a job in their own right aren't they. Sounds like you made more progress than us. It really would be cheaper delivered by the half load and I think Dawn is going to need a fair amount. Maybe I will have a look or ask to see what is about. I think that one bag was about €23 delivered (I think) not sure how that compares. Have a good week Marcus.

Hola Mario 😊 Primero que nada, muchas gracias por tu encantador y bien pensado comentario ❤️ y también gracias por tus amables pensamientos sobre mi reconstrucción de esa parte del muro. El libro es muy útil y creo que eso se debe a la forma en que Pat Mcafee explica que todo el proceso es simple pero muy profundo. Se lo recomendaría de todo corazón a cualquiera que quiera hacer algún trabajo en piedra. Creo que Ben tiene talento para la carpintería, no es que esté de acuerdo jajaja. Su padre era carpintero y ebanista, por lo que siente que tiene grandes botas que llenar. Sin embargo, hizo un muy buen trabajo en todas las puertas y ¡se ven preciosas! Desde Wexford estamos a unas 3 horas y media. Estamos en el condado de Leitrim. La ciudad más cercana, la que clasificaríamos como nuestra más grande, es Carrick on Shannon. ¡Oh, vaya! ¡Sí, no habíamos pensado en el desmonte del terreno! El cambio desde que nos mudamos aquí por primera vez es realmente un logro y requiere mucho trabajo para lograrlo. ¡Gracias por recordárnoslo y tienes razón en que realmente debería haber estado entre los mayores logros! Estamos totalmente de acuerdo con su razonamiento de no esperar para acumular más ahorros porque lo más probable es que nos hubiera costado más poder hacer lo que estamos haciendo ahora y donde lo estamos haciendo. Todo sucede por una razón y sucede como debe, ¡realmente creo en el destino! Además, nuestra edad, como usted dice, habría jugado un papel importante: ¡cuanto más envejecemos, más nos duele y menos resistencia hay! 🤣 Gracias de nuevo por el encantador comentario encantador --------------------------------------- Hi Mario 😊 First of all thank you so much for your lovely and well thought out comment ❤️ and also thank you for kind thoughts on my rebuild of that portion of the wall. The book is so very helpful and I think that’s down to the way Pat Mcafee explains the whole process is such a simple but very in depth way. I’d wholeheartedly recommend that to anyone if they are looking at wanting to do any stone work. I think Ben has a talent for carpentry, not that he would agree lol His dad was a carpenter and joiner so he feels like he has big boots to fill. He did a really good job on all of the doors though and they look blooming lovely! 🥰 From Wexford we are about 3 and half hours away. We’re in County Leitrim our nearest, what we would class as our biggest town, is Carrick on Shannon. Oh wow! Yes we had not thought about the clearing of the land! The change in that from when we first moved here really is an achievement and so much work to get it done. Thank you for reminding us and you’re right that really should have been up there with biggest achievement! We wholeheartedly agree with your reasoning behind not waiting to build up some more savings because we most likely would have been out priced to be able to do what we are doing now and where we are doing it. Everything happens for a reason and happens the way it should, I truly believe in fate! Also our age, like you say would have played a big part, the older we get the more we ache and the less stamina there is! 🤣 Thank you again for lovely lovely comment 🥰

​@@thecornerhouseproject Muchas gracias Dawn por tu amable y acogedora respuesta, siempre agradeceré el tiempo que dedican a esto. Thank you so much Dawn for your kind and welcoming response, I will always appreciate the time you put into this.

Thank you for binge watching to catch up because that’s a mean feat in itself! 🥳 Aww we loved the land clearing too and finding what we did was so unexpected but so amazing to see it appear more and more over the days and weeks. lol yes, we’re curious to see how a goat would work too. We just have long wanted to have Pygmy goats as pets more than anything so we shall see how and if we manage to contain them on the land. We have looked into how we will do it, just need to hope that our plans work 😂

Haha no it wasn’t crap at all. Ben said he responded personally via WhatsApp ❤️ wow occasionally getting up to make tea…that’s more than I get! 🤣😉

@thecornerhouseproject he did WhatsApp. His tea making was only occasionally, I made the majority of it!

Good evening Alan, Happy Saturday to you. How has your week been?

Hi Mark, how's things? I have just been to check I replied to your email only to find I haven't, not even started a reply so will get on to that. I do love our chipper but not so sure it loves the abuse I give it, but it is doing well. I saw you had gone for a 3", this will be a monster and eat pretty much most things, lovely. Yeah I can imagine that was a bit of a surprise after being told it is all good. At least we knew what we were going to find when we got here lol. Thanks Mark for watching and commenting :-)

It’ll be just paint, well lime wash really, you can get pigments for lime wash so we’ll either stick to white everywhere or get some colour added here and there. 😊

Hi Jane, thanks for watching, commenting and asking. Hopefully we didn't miss this question if you asked it before and it should have been in the video? We have no plans to ever move from here, of course we don't know what the future years hold for us, but the house and land is perfect for us. As for selling high and buying low.... buying low sounds like a lot of work would be involved again and I am not sure how our bodies would take that news hahaha. If you guessed at us staying for good, you were right lol. Thank you so much again.

@@thecornerhouseproject I guessed as much.. I hadn’t left a question before for the vlog so appreciate you answering here Love the channel Enjoy the rest of the w/e ☘️

That's OK then. You are welcome. You too.

We started out using a really really bad cheap camera, progressed onto our phones and now we use a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 which is pretty good for what we need. Ben does all the editing and he uses a bit of software called VSDC 😊

Good evening The Roberts :-) We didn't know that about plum trees so thank you very much. We wouldn't be removing them though even if they had no fruit as they look nice. We would only add to them. France will be dryer than here I bet, probably warmer too. The night times are still dropping to as low as 8 degrees some nights. Good luck with it all and hope you find your dream home as we have. I think it it Non Brits as we haven't experienced any negativity from anyone we have met. Thanks for watching and commenting and keep us updated with your future.

Hi, no we are in south County Leitrim, not far from Carrick on Shannon 😊

It’s the only way! If you waited for a non rainy day you’d need a combine harvester every time you needed to mow! 🤣🤣🤣

We have thought about it and most likely we will, just need a bit more free time to devote to getting and having one as we’d prefer a pup so that it grows up with the cats. 🐈

Hi Sheila Lukas is our son. It is very rare you see him. He was in Canada when we first moved over for 5 months and I think he has maybe been seen three times on video. Georgia is our daughter who stayed in the UK dues to work etc. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

@@thecornerhouseproject thanks I’m still watching the video and just heard you mention your children ,really enjoying your videos

Thank you Sheila :-)

Hi Tom We are getting there. Nearly 12 months, surely a 12 month recap is due soon. We do love Steve & Alan Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

Thank you Gerry, pleased you liked it. Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

Love you Cynthia :-)