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Started by: priscus (inactive)

Just wondered if any WW members are off-gridders?

Do any of you live (as your main residence) bowt mains gas, leccy, water and sewers?

Started: 3rd Sep 2018 at 10:22

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15382)

Would that be realistically feasible in this country?

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 11:29

Posted by: tonker (27928) 

I'm off-grid for all except water, in Spain !

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 11:35

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15382)

Kool

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 13:24

Posted by: PeterP (11304)

The cottage I was born in had no elect,gas was for lights only down stairs candles for upstairs .Outside toilet was at the bottom of the garden ash pit then chemical toilet I was about 7/8 when we moved and had all the supplies but must have been in my late teens before we got central heating

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 14:57

Posted by: tomplum (12487) 

I'll be off grid this coming weekend, goin fly fishing up t' lakes, making camp in a farmers field then using the ole push iron to go trout fishing in remote places, rivers and lakes, I'll be releasing them if I catch any and living off tinned beanz and packet mash,

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 15:02

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Wilt bih tiklin um, tom?
(I once lived by the side of the River Rothay) Chef used to say, "A customer has ordered trout. Quick, go and grab one!"

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 15:11
Last edited by priscus: 3rd Sep 2018 at 15:17:44

Posted by: tonker (27928) 

I can imagine Tom, shitting in the woods like a bear, then wiping his arse with a pine cone ! 😂

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 15:26

Posted by: builderboy (2350)

Oddly enough Tonker I didn't imagine anything remotely like that

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 15:32

Posted by: tomplum (12487) 

priscus, no, I'll be catching by the J.R Hartley method,
Tonker, I'll be seeking out a local hostilely and in return for sampling his/her finest draught beer, they won't mind me using the gents, and the only bear in the woods up T'lakes will be me, bear grills plum, the rod tottin' push iron riding woodsman of the North,

Replied: 3rd Sep 2018 at 16:56

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Bear Grylls - Bear grills - always makes me think of the revolting putrefied bears' paw, served as a Chinese delicacy in parts of South-East Asia!

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 16:07

Posted by: tonker (27928) 

Tom. An Bottom Inspector will be round later, to examine your bottom for evidence of inadequate wiping due to the use of inappropriate vegetation. Penalties are issued on a sliding scale for over-enthusiastic use of pine cones or leaves, up to a maximum of 48 hours in Mac's 'bottom-correction centre'!

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 17:10

Posted by: tomplum (12487) 

Tonks enought already with the bottomage, the site had ample toilet facilities

campsite,fishery and bottomage clips

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 18:44

Posted by: tonker (27928) 

You said you were going River Fishing in the Lake District!?

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 20:05

Posted by: tomplum (12487) 

I said trout fishing, same thing innit,

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 20:10

Posted by: tonker (27928) 

Ney., cos' it's not the Lake District an' tha' cotched nowt.
Tha'd just as well say tha's bin Shark fishin' and cotched nowt!

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 20:18

Posted by: tomplum (12487) 

fair point Tonks,

stay tuned, next week I'm gooin shark fishing

Replied: 9th Sep 2018 at 20:31

 

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