we are now entering our fourth winter in the yurt, I think if we’d known that we would be in it still we would have run away. The reality, however, is that the yurt is lovely to live in, though we do face far more challenges than in a house.
It’s funny, everyone worries about us being cold in winter, the true difficulty though is frozen water; whilst we remain cosy in our toasty yurt our water pipes solidify. If we’d known just how long we’d been here we would have sorted out something more permanent and buried the pipe in the ground.
The other difficulty in the depths of winter is the darkness. Our solar panel, which is great spring through to autumn, fails us on the short dark winter days. Even when we get a bright day we barely get enough energy to keep a single bulb lit. We have again failed to sort anything out permanently simply because the future has been so uncertain. We have talked about wind turbines or wires across the field. All solutions present their difficulties however and we still haven’t come up with an answer.
Now winter is peering over the horizon again and we won’t be out of the yurt for it. But don’t worry about us being cold in here, we’ll be down to our teeshirts when it’s ~16 outside. We will be bemoaning the fact we can’t see and we have no water however.