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Off Grid Living, 1945 to 1953

21st February 2017 GrumpyAngler 0

I lived for the first seven years of my life in a hamlet on the western fringe of Salisbury Plain. At about  six hundred and sixty feet above sea level it was a fairly bleak [more…]

20th Century

Foraging for food in the Fifties

11th February 2017 GrumpyAngler 0

I was born in 1945, the war had just ended, the world was a very different place then. As a child food was one of my primary concerns, it was difficult to find enough fuel [more…]

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