I do like keeping records and spreadsheets. It gives the power to record and measure progress. I keep a spreadsheet for just about everything.

Since we moved to our rural location we have made good progress on food production, reducing costs and debt, and to some extent travel.

Travel is tricky as we now live so far from shops, but we have offset that to some extent by shopping online or not shopping at all. The shopping online bit does present some dilemmas v supporting local businesses. But when those businesses are an hour's drive away...

Water is an easy one for us. In wet Wales with our own springs and our own sewerage system it is not a problem.

Electricity is our biggest issue. I work from home on computers in a dark old farmhouse. The lights have to be on all the time.

My big goal for next year is to install some PV to produce our own electricity. And also, if we can afford it, to build a small extension with lots of windows to work in with natural light.