13th
This green and pleasant land
To quote a certain Hobbit, well, I’m back.
I decided not to log in while I was visiting the Haven site, because there was too much risk some troublemaker might zero my signal and spoil everything. Better safe than sorry.
And yes, I did just refer to it as the Haven site.
It’s perfect. A little tricky to get to, but that’s sort of the point - we’ll need to set up a quarantine ring if we want to keep ReDs out, so the harder the site is to breach the better.
It’s actually really pretty there - all green hills and sandy beaches. The plans shouldn’t make too much of an ugly dent in the natural environment there, so it’ll stay a beautiful place to live.
And there’s so much space! We’re figuring on a population of a hundred, so we’d need about a hundred acres for crops and livestock, plus space for living and infrastructure; the site’s a little over 2000acres. Even if only half of it’s useful, that’s more than enough room for all our needs. The wilder half will stay a little bit of wilderness on our doorsteps.
Even BigDamnHero admitted that the place is beautiful, and he’s a real urbanite so he’s been tough to convince that the plan’s the best course. He says he could see himself living at Haven. I can see it too.
So, I got on to Mongoose as soon as we were home yesterday and showed her the photos and a local map I’d managed to source. She agrees that it looks ideal. So, time to start making proper plans. The site’s officially actually owned by the government, which is perfect - no private owners to fight it out with. The idea of pitching it as a social experiment is definitely the best route, I think. If we can show the brass that we’re doing this for the betterment of blah blah blah - to test whether self-sufficient communities are sustainable. For England, James.
So, we have to figure out exactly how to pitch it to the .gov
Actually, I should talk to rhizomorphic - he’s a prof in London now, sow getting an accademic’s name on the paperwork might give it some extra force.
I need to run to the plots - they’ve been neglected for a few days - but then I’ll get down to work.
Project Haven is a go.
