Yes, @eznomada, I am still on the land. Someone anonymous who lives in the village or who is connected to the village (there are many who moved to France to work but who return each summer to the village) bought me a small caravan to replace the lovely Tabbert Contessa gypsy caravan I used to live in. There was so much love and support after the fire - one of the advantages of living in a small village where everyone knows you.
I have abandoned most of the land for now, until friends come who can help to manage and develop it. A scrap merchant has taken some of the metal - the remains of the caravans and their sheds and contents - and promises to return for the rest when the fire risk subsides enough for them to cut up the large remaining pieces. I have water reconnected to the land - not abundant yet but enough for domestic purposes and we hope next year for there to be enough for irrigation too. If I can keep the land watered and green around this terrace where I live that should help to prevent such destruction when the next fire comes, which it inevitably will, probably in the next 8 to 10 years. I have solar power back, though battery storage is limited. It is enough for now, so long as I remember to turn my fridge off at night. We will have to see how we manage over the winter. The fridge will not be used but the diesel heater (which I have but is not installed yet) will want the power the fridge was using in the summer.
I am sorry to reply in English - you would have thought that after all this time living here my Portuguese would be fluent by now but I am an old man and it's not so easy to learn languages as it once was and you must know how difficult it is to learn Portuguese - I heard that Portuguese students often do better at their English exams than they do at the Portuguese ones.
Thank you again for your concern and your very kind zap.
Soham
🌿🙏🧡
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