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. 

​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 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 ...

 HYPERLINK >>> HOW IT ALL BEGAN

Off-grid includes  off-grid-catering  ...   And of course ... you may  hyperlink into the Galley chapter of  Muddy Brown Water  for more off-grid culinary stuff.  Only in-season whole food is consumed on board  and the boat has pressure cookers, clam-pans and an Icelandic griddle for use on the gas-hobs which came with the boat. 

Stop Press: a 13kg bottle of gas is £47.50 this year. It was £13 when I went afloat and £29 when I last got a refill a year ago.

​Buying in-season vegetables (at throw-away prices) is as near as I can get to the ways of my forebears before we had tarred roads or electricity and when water sprang from a well in a field below the road. 

Below is stuff that happens
on-board
off-grid
where a £2.31 lunch
​magically becomes
​a 69p lunch

71p of double discounted food from Trashco.  I also use Waitrose.  It is important to know the value of everything.  Most people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.  The off-grid-catering stuff pictured above was excellent value.

​​Survival at All Costs
Or at No Cost At All
​© MMXXIV