Rimu & Rain
Simple living in the bush
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Hello, We’re Fiona and Mike and this is the story of our journey turning the dream of living in a cabin in the bush into reality.
Category: A Simple Life
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“The smell of wood smoke… the taste of food that has been cooked over a fire… these things are embedded in our DNA. They take us back to a time when we sat around a fire and told stories, and looked at the stars.”— Mark Hix, Chef Being outdoors, slow cooking over a fire, sitting under…
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We pretty much take water for granted in our everyday life. It lives at the end of the tap and we turn it on and off at will. On the West Coast water is plentiful with an average rainfall of 3000mm to 6000mm each year. The bush block we bought is covered in rain forest…
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At around $250 per night a Beachfront Motel room in Hokitika was a luxury we couldn’t afford to repeat too often. On top of this was the added cost of petrol driving too and from the land and our hospitality expenses staying in Hokitika with its abundance of good restaurants, pubs and cafes. The realisation…
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