PJ article on going green / offgrid

[NorthernRaider]

Just been having that conversation again by e mail about how we in the west during the cold war used to laugh at and ridicule those poor oppressed eastern Europeans who had to drive horses and carts or little rugged 4x4 Ladas, they had to heat their homes with wood and coal burning stoves etc. How we chortled about them having wells, keeping chickens and goats and pigs and rabbits. Hh the mirth when we heard how one of them being interviewed when asked what would he like if he could have anything in the world and he said " one of those western chainsaws and a new shotgun" cos his old one was a hundred years old. The outright smug mirth at seeing their gardens used to grow food not nice rimmed lawns like we had.

Not bloody laughing now.