Is there a prize ?
Washing would be a pain (but it would motivate me to get on with restoring the large mangle) and there would be a two to three day massive workload whilst I canned the contents of the freezers.
Power cut, get in the way of my Sunday roast?
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Is there a prize ?
Washing would be a pain (but it would motivate me to get on with restoring the large mangle) and there would be a two to three day massive workload whilst I canned the contents of the freezers.
He he, 2 minutes after posting above the power goes out
Is it back or does your router have a battery??
Is there a prize ?
Washing would be a pain (but it would motivate me to get on with restoring the large mangle) and there would be a two to three day massive workload whilst I canned the contents of the freezers.
A prize? The undying admiration of the rest of the forum....
As valuable as that is.......
I have often thought it would make a good TV series though - off grid for a year (properly offgrid, not just buying in a solar set up)
I have often thought it would make a good TV series though - off grid for a year (properly offgrid, not just buying in a solar set up)
As valuable as that is.......
I have often thought it would make a good TV series though - off grid for a year (properly offgrid, not just buying in a solar set up)
Definitely - you'd need to be setup for it though. We don't have a chimney so we couldn't do it without some major changes to the home. Also you've got to factor in how you work - it'd be easier if you weren't working 9-5 in an office and had a pile of cash as a safety net.
Oh yeah - I was thinking more "castaway".
Offgrid is different than "powercut". Offgrid to me means no mains water, sewage, bought in goods etc.
Offgrid is different than "powercut". Offgrid to me means no mains water, sewage, bought in goods etc.
Didn't they do that in one of those American Frontier documentaries? 3 Families living the lives of people in the old west?
Anyhow - I think it'd be interesting TV if you plunge someone in a modern house into those conditions....
little house on the prairie
You just want me in Pigtails running through a meadow Tony
Now there is a vision demanding eye bleach !
He he, indeed
We often watch it, the kids love it and i read the book sot them as well, a hard life that's for sure but one filled with fulfilment
We often watch it, the kids love it and i read the book sot them as well, a hard life that's for sure but one filled with fulfilment
The books are good for sure - much grittier and more down to earth than the TV series I thought when reading them to my lass. As you say a tough life, but I often think we have lost something in a world where there are few frontiers left where a family can build a life for themselves in that way.
I strongly recommend "Alaska - the last frontier" to you and your kids if you haven't tried it (available on the internet if you have good broadband). A modern day family living a pioneer life and not at all "fake" or over dramatised
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/alaska-the-last-frontier
Red
I strongly recommend "Alaska - the last frontier" to you and your kids if you haven't tried it (available on the internet if you have good broadband). A modern day family living a pioneer life and not at all "fake" or over dramatised
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/alaska-the-last-frontier
Red
The one with Otz in it? two brothers and they're kids (living with wives etc) if that's the one, it's cool, very easy to sit back and say why don't you do this or that but I think in reality they do amazingly well. I think they made 3 series but i've only watched one...
Yep - about as close as you can get to a frontier life these days I expect - wish I had tried it when I was younger!