The Postlip Community celebrated its 40th birthday on July 3rd 2010, underlining our claim to be the oldest UK cohousing group. Postlippers old and new converged in brilliant sunshine on the tennis court glade and people who hadn’t seen one another for twenty years or more hugged and drank champagne. People who grew up here brought their children to play in the woods where they had played and the air was loud with “And do you remember when…? We drank to the absent friends around the world who couldn’t make it back, and to the next forty years.

We had a barn dance in the evening, with entertainments by Happenstance (three of whom are Postlippers), Kalki Hula Girl (who has married into Postlip) and Men in Coats (a Postlipper and his colleague). Everybody laughed a lot and it was a day of happy memories and cheerful meetings.

One of our long-term member families is leaving, so we’re looking for a new family to share some of the next forty years in this amazing, stretching and supporting, child-friendly place. Have a look at www.postliphall.org.uk/units_for_sale
to find out more about the big four-bed family home which needs new people.