To begin at the beginning

We are nearing the end of six weeks of summer holidays and the reality of life back at work has firmly kicked in.
Trudging down the work path for another thirty plus years fills my husband and I with, well what can I say, a certain sense of depression and darkness! Our dreams of sustainable living, writing novels and making a living from art are well and truly being pushed into retirement.
Combine that with bottomed out bank accounts (all be it from a lovely three weeks in France) and another year in which we haven't managed to get it together to sort out our delapidated bathroom, damp cellar or tumbling down sheds and some Suffolk astrological alignment seems to have taken place with the time and motivation to act appearing from thin air.
From an afternoon of Googling, with only the Google patience that men have, the solutions to our financial crisis appeared.
Save yourself £30 a day and you will be mortgage free in five years
Seems like an impossible task, but the more we consider it the more we think that just maybe (and its one big maybe) it's do-able. Perhaps not the full £30 each day but we think we could get close and to start the challenge we've decided to see how little we can live off for one month. Thats Four week-ends, 30 days and 720 hours.