Welcome to Innisfree

Finally! Contracts are signed, finance is approved and so come the 19th of December we will taking ownership of our 38 acres of green patch of earth.

Moving to somewhere which has been known in the past as "Little Ireland" and living on a road with the good Irish name of "Kiely's" means that we have had to do some thinking about what we want to name our property. After a bit of thinking and a bit of searching, we've decided to stick with the Irish theme and we're calling our bit of land "Innisfree" after the William Butler Yeats poem the "Lake Isle of Innisfree".  I like the idea that he wrote this about a paradise, a utopia, where it is imagined that it is green all year round and the land will provide all that one needs. We may not have a lake but I'm hoping that we will have some peace there!
Here's the poem if you're not familiar with it:

Lake Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
                     - W.B. Yeats


Now we need to swing into full packing and organisation mode as we think about moving and saying goodbye to Bond Street. So many good memories are held in this house, including our surprise wedding! But almost 10 years after that wedding it seems like a nice bit of symmetry to embark on a new adventure and move into a new home.

We're looking forward to having you all part of it!