A BIG mistake.. | Building our life off grid #15

[@soniacoleman5247]

I was hoping it was a pool you were digging. You have arranged your home, with a pool, perfectly in my opinion. Your renovation wont interfere in your family life at all, making it such an enjoyable project while having a lovely home life. Oh, and i think you're a natural gardener, it all looks lush. Clever people you

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

It was one of the biggest things for us, we wanted a comfortable living area that was separate from building work. So many couldn't understand why we were putting so much time into the decking and caravan but it has made such a difference. Especially with young children 😊

[@soniacoleman5247]

@@OffGridWithTheUdens yes sure, you have to live comfortable meanwhile. We'll done

[@eileendarbon5022]

Happy birthday Alex 🎉 what a wonderful little boy you are 😊

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you 🤗

[@elizabethdunn2992]

Fabulous video, love the sofas. Happy Birthday Alex! 🎂🥳

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you very much! They turned out so much better than we thought and are super comfy 😀

[@mariatsoneva4608]

Happy birthday Alex, you are such a lovely kid😊🎉🎉🎉

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thanks very much - he really is ❤️

[@guypettit9548]

Another great installment. I was going to say I love that you put feet on the braces because I would have done that too, but it did make me laugh when you owned up to the slight mis-measure :-) Happy Birthday to Alex, I'm sure he is going to ride the pedals off that bike. looking forward to the next installment already. Have a great week. I will be back home a week today... excited much!

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Haha yes they turned out good in the end but definitely a result of a mismeasure 🫣🤣 Alex has been non stop on his bike - it's so lovely to see 💕

[@writerlass5924]

Love you guys - Happy Birthday Alex, you superstar!🎉🤩 Thank you Phil for the carpentry lesson for my camper conversion seat with storage underneath!🪚🔨 - and Kayleigh those baby plants look amazing🪴🌻 - I wish I had your green fingers - when I get back to BG jungle-taming will be top of my to do list!! Amber reminds me so much of when my girls were little - they both loved eating soil too - and collecting snail shells 🫣😂❤️- looking forward to the next installment of your big Bulgarian adventure🤗x

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

The seating turned out SO much better than we had expected ☺️ Plants are doing well, lost a few due to Godzilla Ember sitting on them but other than that they are looking good!🤣 Thank you for your continued support ❤️

[@UKvet246]

OMG What a beautiful place.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Bulgaria is a beautiful country ❤️🇧🇬

[@Bulgaria_Bucharest]

Last spring i said exactly the same - ive done all 4 seasons. We aren't lucky enough to be able to live there yet but two years of visiting has been incredible.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

It really does get in your blood. We're the happiest we've ever been ❤️

[@Cathy-ty3fp]

Happy birthday little man 🥳🥳🥳🎈🎈🎈🎁🎁🎂

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Alex says thank you - he says he likes being 7! 🤣☺️

[@Mi-cljjj]

Everything you guys do always looks so nice even your stone plant labels! 🪴☺️

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Hehe I enjoyed making those - that's the primary teacher in me making an appearance 🤣

[@anthonytaylor1439]

Lovely!! Happy Birthday Alex 🎉x

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you 😊 Can't believe where those 7 years have gone!

[@nicky7elvis]

Happy birthday Alex, you are a amazing kid. Love you guys

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Alex says that's very kind and thank you ☺️

[@Plamen1980]

Happy Birthday Alex! Just follow your neighbor's baba advices about tomatoes plants and after two months you will be picking the tastiest tomatoes! :)

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Yes we have listened carefully and planted them as she instructed so hopefully for a yummy crop soon! 🍅

[@vladivladi6004]

Здравейте мили хора много харесвам да ви гледам у🙂😊 Прекрасни сте❤

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Благодаря ви, че гледахте ☺️

[@jacquelinesmyth3167]

Alex is such a joy to watch, happy birthday 🎂

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

We're very proud of the young man he is becoming 😊

[@helenbrooks8967]

Belated happy birthday Alex. Xx You’re doing so well. Love the veg patch. You will need something for your cucumbers to climb and lots of water don’t transplant them I’ve had disasters transplanting just go with it. Love Helen and Steve x

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Yes luckily the patch is right near one of our hose tap junctions so not too far to get water. Cucumbers are interesting - I've got three different varieties so interested to see how they turn out 🥒🍅🌱

[@emiliyaruskova8644]

Честит рожден ден , Алекс ! 🎉 Happy Birthday Alex . I love watching your videos . I’m Bulgarian but I do live in Kent, UK 😊

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you very much! Oh wow - where abouts in Kent are you from? We lived in Ashford for a while 😊

[@emiliyaruskova8644]

@@OffGridWithTheUdens Maidstone, not far away from Ashford 😊

[@janeturnbull]

Happy birthday Alex

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you. He had such a lovely day - the mountain drive was his idea and it was such a great trip!

[@julielaxen9520]

Happy Birthday Alex❤

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you - he is enjoying being 7!

[@dirtyleeds1088]

Great video guys look forward to next week

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thanks very much - so much to get done before the summer heat kicks in!

[@NewBulgarians]

The sofa looks neat - well done. Looks like Alex had a fabulous birthday 🎉 lovely trip to the Arda valley. Did you see the Griffon vultures, also Egyptian vultures at Madzharevo? There's a little cafe over the bridge and a vulture visitor centre, if it's still there. Lovely neighbour. Love the plant name rocks! You're doing great in the garden Kayleigh - can't wait to do ours next season. Some marshmallows would have been great with that fire lol.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Yes there is a lovely visitor center there but Ember was due a nap so we had to miss visiting this time. We will be sure to take some binoculars next time we visit 🙂

[@Rob-100]

Another lovely video of your life there. And that canopy over the caravan is really working well. You will have to find a farm to pick up some manure for the plants to thrive in. Cannot wait to see the pool you are building there.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thanks. The shade over the caravan has made a huge difference to us all and it feels like home. It might look like we are building a pool but we are just flattening the area for the pop up pool we bought last year - we didn't have a flat space for it last year. ☺️

[@Leed216]

Happiest of birthdays Alex. I loved Play Doh when it was a kid too.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

He's got such a big imagination that the possibilities are endless with it! (I'm just pleased I don't have a carpet to worry about anymore) 😊

[@Cathy-ty3fp]

Great video xx

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you for your continued support ❤️

[@Mi-cljjj]

A retaining wall will look really pretty anyway!

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Yeah we actually think this could be the dream area we had never planned for 👍😊

[@marianamanolova6461]

Happy birthday♥♥♥ Alex!

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you! He is over the moon with all these lovely messages 💘

[@Malta2024]

Happy birthday 🎂 well done 👍

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Thank you 😊🎉

[@jeanettebarns1024]

Happy birthday alex you are a lovely young man and mummy and daddy should be proud of you great video always look forward to your videos .hope you don't mind me asking what area are you in and are you near shops xx❤

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

He says thank you very much. Such a lovely comment to leave - we appreciate it ❤️ We live in the Haskovo region and have a shop in our village. We are about 20 minutes from the nearest supermarket and even closer to the local city with shops and weekly market.

[@Firebreath1988]

What i loved seeing how happy alex was on his birthday :) and the very beatifull vieuws you all got to enjoy that day, And Phil my god the moment the digger arrived with the correct one must have been the day you been waiting for along time ;) i can imagine the struggles with the language barrier. And for the retainer wall i mean you have stones enough or not? Would be awesome iff you upped the level and made a diving board on it? haha just an idea but with a big enough stone ontop, u could anker it in. And Kayleigh me as a starting gardener aswel, only tip i know is you learn by just trying.. Tomato plants often need a Roofing tho as the tomato themself dont like raindrops often they will rot on the points that get to wet. For myself this year probably wil be a strugle again, to wet. to much slugs all over its just a nightmare cant grow anything atm :( Love to see you soon Untill next time :)

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

☺️we look forward to seeing your comment every week, thank you for watching! Yes, it was a stunning day and Alex loved exploring the waterfall and beautiful mountain region. Yes, we are building a retaining wall so that it will keep the caravan and decking secure. The ground will then be prepared so we can put our swimming pool up - we are NOT building a pool 🫣 it was supposed to be a simple flattened area to pop the pool up in time for Alex's birthday and it just escalated quickly 🫣 The summer has kicked in here so not much chance of rain damaging the tomatoes 🍅

[@Firebreath1988]

@@OffGridWithTheUdens Very beautifull region indeed :) And didnt expect you building a pool but thought it was a huge circle one premade. And lucky you with summer haha, we stil mostly have rain only over here in NL. bad weather sadly :( Hope the crops may grow good for you, mine are all eaten moslty by slugs so i keep regrowing in the hopes sometime they can live haha

[@bhawnanegig]

наистина чакахме новото ви качване на видео.. благодаря.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

ще се опитаме да правим ново видео всяка неделя ❤️

[@Gallivantinggriffiths]

Imagine the size of the clearance if the big digger did turn up….. love the Pansie bag 🤣

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

🫣🫣 it could still happen yet!

[@ManInBlack44]

Hi guys totally love what you are doing but tell me mr off grid....why have you not got a water tank and harvesting beautiful rainwater from the new you beaut roof you built? What a waste of water.....naughty boy.....keep up the good work...❤...Ric....ManInBlack.😁

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Haha we absolutely will be harvesting the rainwater. We had to leave quite quickly after installing the roof and on our return we quickly had to play the priority shuffle game. Soo many things to do and the priority keeps changing 😀

[@owenoneill5955]

The digger driver got it right....bulking up of the soil as dug and then trying to compsct it level would be a real ball ache, as it is it will make for a better job in the end.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Yes absolutely - we don't think he got it wrong, it just wasn't what we had planned for. It's going to look amazing though 😊

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

Happy Birthday,from Plovdiv.Can give you idea-check what ecopond is,if you dont know and use water,from him for plants is verry good,,as hydropontic sistem.I made my pond, by myself,15 cub.meters,180sm. deep,cost me 200 euro,dig a hole,cover with pond isolation,i get my,from Sofia,bauhaus i think was the shop and 20 wat fountain pomp,wich work non stop 5 years now hihi,but you can use vacuum suck water ,with 1 barel and few pipes,fill with pebles for filter and waterfal,put water lilyes,iris and so on inside,flowers and trees aroud pond fishes and river crabs ,Koi if you want and can swim inside and is so beautyfull.Plants clean water very nice.Just use shade place,not in the sun is better and i use stones,from garden,for dekoration hihiAnd where are potatos and beans in the garden :).Healt and happynes,from Plovdiv

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

That sounds wonderful! We have lots of plans for the rest of the land 😀 This is just a flattened area for our pop up swimming pool ☺️👍

[@FreeSpeech-q7v]

Happy birthday - wish I was 7 again

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

☺️don't we all

[@TurkiyeBulgaria]

What a great birthday. Wish I was 7 again. Do you both work in Bulgaria or is your home renovation your job? Is summer really hot this year?

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

The temperatures are starting to hit the 30s as of this weekend we think. We both work remotely, Kayleigh full time. We do the work as and when we can in-between family time.

[@boyanmetodiev6878]

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[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

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[@paulinestevens9351]

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[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

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[@Jesus-Histler]

First

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

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[@donkihotes4816]

That hole for real could be dangerous from the rains. You should do a really stable wall there with those stones! Cheers mate.

[@OffGridWithTheUdens]

Yes - you can see why this has turned from a simple project into a much more complicated one! We have already started working on the retaining wall 👍🙂

[@interfacesolutions]

Bet Phil didn’t know what to do with him self, watching another man with a digger in his land!