theAbsurd.co.uk

TheAbsurd began life back in 2008 as an alternative online culture magazine for north Wales and by 2010 had become regular evenings of spoken word and music at venues across north Wales. We’ve kept the name because for us, it’s a symbol of what we’ve accomplished together over the years and we like that it continues to evolve to reflect our slow unfolding. Our life with the hounds is quite absurd, but on another level TheAbsurd (in all its incarnations) has always been about us managing the creep of existential angst by working to create meaning in our lives.

We have plans to fully embrace vanlife in the nearish future (May 2018) by selling up and hitting the road fulltime in a VW Crafter that we’ll modify ourselves. This current van (the VW long-wheelbase T5) is our test phase, where we’re figuring out how we can live on the road while still working to pay for it all through Sophie’s writing & poetry performances and Andy’s graphic design. The plan is that this will encourage us to tread more softly on the earth, forcing us to examine exactly we need to live with, and what we can do without. The latter is growing with each trip.

We want to live by the seasons, not deadlines; eat when we’re hungry, not at mealtimes. We want to ride when we’re filled with energy and swim in the mornings because it’s all there waiting for us. We’ll figure out the rest as we go along.