PJ article on going green / offgrid

[Starsailor]

Am not a big fan of labels, but they can call me what they like. I know what I am, I know what I do and why I do it - that's enough for me. I do get a lot of 'How can you be bothered making bread/growing carrots/making your own whatevers etc'. My reply is always along the lines of 'How can you not be bothered learning to do things like that?'
I find myself doing a lot of things my granny did - washing out polythene bags for re-using, wiping the inside of the egg shell to get every last bit out, not to mention the jam mountain.
Was brought up on home butchered sheep, old boiling hens, proper blankets, chanty under the bed, growing our own, picking brambles, fishing in the loch, field mushrooms, knitting and sewing, plucking and gutting, mending, brewing - you name it. It's stood me in very good stead in a lot of ways, and will continue to do so.
Not smug, just how it is and was and how I arrived here