This book is hopefully an amusing and interesting account of how our mid life crisis turned into a life changing move from city strife to rural life in a remote Welsh valley. It follows the first few years spent working to create a smallholding and become as self sufficient as possible by adapting to life in a remote rural setting, far away from the street lights and urban life we left behind. It tells of learning to keep pigs and chickens, lambing, a never to be repeated attempt to artificially inseminate a very big and very indignant sow, almost flattening the cottage with an enormous felled oak tree and the joy of seeing our first born piglets happily suckling. Littered throughout with recipes for hedgerow wines and preserves for light relief Whether you read every page or skip to the alcohol I hope you enjoy the experience and don't get a headache