Have you never heard of “clothing optional “?

So many people here have been shocked (I choose this word “shocked” to cover some of the reactions) that my grandparents have no problem with us not bothering with swimwear in the pools, or while sunbathing in the garden.

There are quite a few of us here, over time most of the upstairs rooms of all the outbuildings have been converted for human habitation, from their having been for several generations just left for the spiders and beetles.

Each of the buildings if it has a secondary use downstairs has been left to that. The goat shed is one such building. The floor above the goats is solid stone and there is no noise, odour or anything else apparent upstairs, where there are three bedrooms and a bathroom.

The rooms that were created from moving the tractors 🚜 to the barn has contributed to my grandparents having ten bedrooms available outside the main house. The farmhouse has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, on three levels above the grand salon, the music room, library, kitchen, dining room and storage rooms.

It isn’t a small place! The pools outside if they were reconfigured would give the area of one and a half Olympic swimming pools. The immediate area around the house is about a quarter hectare. In this there are orchards and vegetable gardens so that my grandparents can enjoy a self-sufficiency if they wanted. Lots of what they grow is used in the town for those least able to afford today’s prices.

The thing that gets me about people on here is their closed minds, and incapacity to thinking that there are people very different from them who do not live in (not want to live in) America. Yes it is usually Americans here who are truly blinkered to the rest of the world. The only Americans I feel happy to speak with here are veterans who have served in overseas wars and have lost a lot of the inability of seeing that the world is not America!