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Life without electric
9 January 2013, 23:45, (This post was last modified: 9 January 2013, 23:46 by Highlander.)
#11
RE: Life without electric
(9 January 2013, 23:39)BeardyMan Wrote: I've been searching for a house like that for ages now. Real back to basics type place. Can't find anything anywhere Sad

Heres a nice cheap place, just down the road from me.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-...31200.html

Its got electric and all mod cons though,.. but still, cant have everything
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9 January 2013, 23:53,
#12
RE: Life without electric
(9 January 2013, 23:45)Highlander Wrote:
(9 January 2013, 23:39)BeardyMan Wrote: I've been searching for a house like that for ages now. Real back to basics type place. Can't find anything anywhere Sad

Heres a nice cheap place, just down the road from me.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-...31200.html

Its got electric and all mod cons though,.. but still, cant have everything

It's nice, but unfortunately too modern for me. Ideally I'm after stone walled place. Or a cob house.

Looks like a wonderful part of the world though - shame I'd struggle to find work up there.
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9 January 2013, 23:57,
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RE: Life without electric
(9 January 2013, 23:53)BeardyMan Wrote:
(9 January 2013, 23:45)Highlander Wrote:
(9 January 2013, 23:39)BeardyMan Wrote: I've been searching for a house like that for ages now. Real back to basics type place. Can't find anything anywhere Sad

Heres a nice cheap place, just down the road from me.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-...31200.html

Its got electric and all mod cons though,.. but still, cant have everything

It's nice, but unfortunately too modern for me. Ideally I'm after stone walled place. Or a cob house.

Looks like a wonderful part of the world though - shame I'd struggle to find work up there.

This is what you need I bet

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-...31200.html
A major part of survival is invisibility.
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9 January 2013, 23:59,
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RE: Life without electric
(9 January 2013, 23:57)Highlander Wrote:
(9 January 2013, 23:53)BeardyMan Wrote:
(9 January 2013, 23:45)Highlander Wrote:
(9 January 2013, 23:39)BeardyMan Wrote: I've been searching for a house like that for ages now. Real back to basics type place. Can't find anything anywhere Sad

Heres a nice cheap place, just down the road from me.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-...31200.html

Its got electric and all mod cons though,.. but still, cant have everything

It's nice, but unfortunately too modern for me. Ideally I'm after stone walled place. Or a cob house.

Looks like a wonderful part of the world though - shame I'd struggle to find work up there.

This is what you need I bet

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-...31200.html

Is that not the same one? Big Grin
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10 January 2013, 00:00,
#15
RE: Life without electric
This is what you want I bet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8949...-sale.html
Sorry I realised my mistake... then rectified it
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10 January 2013, 00:03,
#16
RE: Life without electric
(10 January 2013, 00:00)Highlander Wrote: This is what you want I bet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8949...-sale.html
Sorry I realised my mistake... then rectified it

PERFECT!!

That's superb. Dream property right there.

Just need £200k now!
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10 January 2013, 03:52,
#17
RE: Life without electric
Highlander, Your post reminded me of how my extended family lived. One of my uncles lived in a one room shack. Very few possessions but a huge Grandfather clock in one corner. No electric. An aunt of mine we used to visit had hurricane lamps for lighting and a stove, very little apart from that. We had a Larbert range in the kitchen and electricity! My father was in the Navy but his brothers were all shepherds. If I had to go back in time and had to live like that, it would be hard but I am sure I could do it. Nil Desperandum. Kenneth Eames.
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10 January 2013, 08:48,
#18
RE: Life without electric
I should have mentioned our Oil lamps,.. we had some huge ones, a real fire hazzard, ...Oh, and our Grandfather clock,.. I hoped I would never remember that again... I could hear it from the landing where I slept,.. I hated every tick of that thing,... Smile
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10 January 2013, 09:32,
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RE: Life without electric
My job on a sat morn was to carry 2 acumalators" batteries" for the wireless down the mountain to the mill ( they used to charge them up via a water wheel) drop 2 in and take 2 back up the mountain back to the small holding 4 miles round trip .....then muck out the hens ...ducks.........gran loved the archers...got arms like an gorilla i wonder why?
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10 January 2013, 10:59,
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RE: Life without electric
wife was brought up in a house with no mains electric, no running water and not on main drains, cooking on a wood stove, water HAND pumped from a well, oil lamps for lighting, drainage was a "soak away", then when she started work she went into farming, no farms were on the national grid, the most they had was a generator. i would have LOVED to live like that and i still do!Big Grin
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