Living off grid

[Reality Jones]

(17 February 2012, 11:53)bigpaul Wrote:

(17 February 2012, 07:22)Reality Jones Wrote:

(16 February 2012, 15:36)mikebratcher69 Wrote: Yep but the trouble is we live in thieving england... would your tent n stuff still be there when you got home from work?

On my journey to work in the mornings I take junction 23 off the M5, just as you drive up the hill there's a guy who has been living on his own bit of land on the right and slowly working it with a digger, over the winter I have seen the arrival of pigs and chickens on the land as well.
The fella lives in a caravan on site while doing his bit to live off grid.
It's all coming along rather nicely... Or was until a couple of weeks ago when I drove past and noticed that his caravan had been burned down.
Now there are no pigs and no chickens and I haven't seen the bloke out there once in his digger. Accident or attack? I don't know, but it shows how easy it is to lose all you have worked for very very quickly.

up around Puriton eh! i know that area fairly well, may even know the field you mention, i expect it was some thieving git out of Bridgwater torched the caravan, not my idea of "keeping my head down", i would prefer somewhere within 20 miles of here, i know quite a few areas right out in the middle of nowhere, thats where i would go off grid if i had the chance.

Yeh that's it 1/2 a mile from Puriton, maybe he wasn't trying to keep his head down, just do his own thing.
It wasn't what I would consider an ideal location either but maybe beggars can't be choosers and that was his only chance?
At the moment I'm working on a housing estate next to that lovely little Morissons depot.