The word-picture above illustrates off-grid living as perceived by those who do not live on a boat or, if they do, have not yet cruised the placid inland waterways of England without a shower and without a care ... ​I lounge lazily on the grassy towpath fingering my battered old Fuji ...  A cottage much older than the camera and maybe older than the canal nestles on a timeless hill ... ​The sky above is clear, the wispy cloud is non-threatening.  See the gaggle of Canadas in the shadowed foreground!  ​Breathe the serenity, the calm, the peace ... this is off-grid living ... bedtime is when the sun goes down ...  morning coffee in the dawnglow with Farming Today on the radio ... ​Join me as an off-grid nomad living without any of the facilities without which your life would fall apart ... but which stitch mine together ... and consider whether you might like to try it out
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Off-grid includes  off-grid-catering  ...  hyperdive into the galley of  Muddy Brown Water for off-grid culinary stuff.  Only in-season whole food is consumed on board.  Buying in-season vegetables (at throw-away prices) is as near as I can get to the ways of my forebears before tarred roads or electricity and when water sprang from a well in a field below the road ... Pentargon has pressure cookers, clam-pans and an Icelandic griddle for the gas-hobs which come with the boat  ... a 13kg bottle of gas is £47.50 this year.  It was £13 when I went afloat and £29 when I refilled a year ago ... ​ Do I care?  On my own on board a bottle lasts about a year so think of it as £1 a week and even if you double or even treble that you still have it for less than a latte in Starbucks ...
Below is stuff that happens on-board off-grid
A £2.31 lunch ​magically becomes ​a 69p lunch
71p of double discounted food from Treshco ...  I also use Waitrose ... discounted ... and ASDA ... and four flavours of Co-Op ... so long as you know the value of everything ...  and where today's value is ... and at what time ... most people know the price of everything and the value of nothing ...  the off-grid-catering stuff pictured above was excellent value ...
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