This is the Lifestyle

This is the Lifestyle I want to live, here.
Its a home from the Channel 4 series Grand Designs. They Guy who built it is a woodsman, he lives and works on the land and has built what I would consider the ideal sustainable life. There is no talk of composting toilets or heat exchangers. It is a simple harvesting life, using the woodland that surrounds him, the support of friends and like minded people. He has solar power and there must be a septic tank but I want to live that life. As we move to ever more impossible economics, the simplicity of providing for your family without undue dependence on external sources or people becomes more attractive.

If you want to read about Ben and is lifestyle then click here.

Today Becca the kids and I had what I'd call an Epicurean lunch. A simple cheese, olive oil, some local tomatoes and lettuce. With some fresh baked bread. It was delightful. The Children loved it, simple tasty and local. Epicurus was a philosopher, mis understood and wrongly dubbed the father of hedonism, he once said bring me a pot of cheese and I will have a feast for life. He meant that with only the simple things coupled with good company one would want for no more. That's the life I want! It would matter not if it was based in Cambridge or New Zealand, there has to and is going to, be another way.