Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world and I am Brooke McCallory.

My name is Ben McCallery and welcome to episode 215. We've got a hostful.

We do.

Coming up. Coming at you.

Coming at you fast in a slow, mindful way.

So this is a bit of a follow-on hostful from one that we recorded way back in September.

And it's the check-in episode of what's happening in our life at the moment well it is yeah

I mean back in September we we sort of shared our plans for 2018 and that we were heading off

and doing maybe a year of slow travel with the kids. And I can't remember what number

episode that was, but I think it was the 7th of September that we published it. We spoke about,

I guess, what those plans look like and what we thought we had to do between then and January.

And this is all about the reality of that

and how it was very different.

Yeah.

So look, a lot's changed,

which we're going to get into.

But yeah,

it's like the follow-on episode from that.

And I think we should just probably just get straight into it.

Okay.

Yeah. I think we should just probably just get straight into it. Okay. So let's look at the big things that have changed and go through and unpick what those are.

But way back in September, we were talking about renting the house, getting that sort of ready and all the things that we would need to do to make that happen.

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