| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Lozzie |
"If I had the nerve, I would ... "Get rid of the television |
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| ButteryHOLsomeness |
run off and live in a cave somewhere and tell the world to f&ck off! | ||||
| ButteryHOLsomeness |
i'm in bit of a mood today, not that you could tell eh?  
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| Blacksmith |
Pack in full time work................................... then wait for the bailiffs | ||||
| oldhibberd |
Tell them where to shove this lousy job, the televison went years ago! | ||||
| culpepper |
buy a croft in the Scottish Isles. | ||||
| sally_in_wales |
be brave enough to say 'NO' when people ask me to make things for them and I know I don't really have the time to do it. | ||||
| Treacodactyl |
...give up work, complete the renovations and move to a small wooded farm near a coast somehwere. | ||||
| Bugs |
...give up work, learn something practical, then find a handsome chap to move to a small wooded farm near a coast somewhere...once installed, I would teach said handsome chap to spell wright like wot i cann... | ||||
| Mad Dad |
...give up work (seems to a popular wish) and wait for the divorce papers (two birds one stone). Just joking, OH not that bad... | ||||
| nettie |
Wander round the allotment in my swimsuit on a day like today and not give a stuff! | ||||
| mrsnesbitt |
cut my hair short | ||||
| Northern_Lad |
...ask for things I want rather than just dreaming of 'what if...' | ||||
| Nanny |
if i had the nervegive up work, get mr nanny to do the same, get rid of the haunted goldfish bowl, buy a house with some land somewhere probably in scotland and then spend the rest of my life really being eccentric instead of just half way like nowwe would probably end up going native and wearing really strange clothes made out of skins and nobody would come anywhere near the strange couple who own the hairy donkey and look like one themselves |
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| Behemoth |
...put my pants on my head and sing the French national anthem. It's very quiet in here today.
But generally it would be to pack this in and do something far more interesting instead - retraining in woodland management and or cabinet making, launching a sausage empire, wrting, doing the small holding thing... ...but mainly stop worrying about what might happen and make sure things we want to do, do happen. |
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| Andy B |
You dont want much do you! |
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| Treacodactyl |
Spelling has never been my strong point, and I also type with two left feet. 
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| Bugs |
Dahlinks, all the best people have higher ambitions 
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| Jonnyboy |
.....live on the beach in a hut made from driftwood, with a imaginary friend called wilson. | ||||
| tahir |
Fly to NZ to tell the Lions face to face how crap they're playing | ||||
| sean |
Fly? To New Zealand? Tsk tsk. | ||||
| Bugs |
You're like a good angel sitting on our shoulders, Sean
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| Nanny |
if i had the nervei doubt even tahir is good enough to walk on water............... |
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| tahir |
I'd sink like a stone | ||||
| Blue Peter |
Haven't we won all but one game? Peter. |
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| tahir |
Against out of season club sides, we've lost to the only decent side we've played |
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| Blue Peter |
Oh, I see. You don't reckon we'll beat the All Blacks, then?
Peter. P.S. Actually, isn't it the New Zealand winter? Don't they play rugby in the winter, then? |
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| Simon |
Good so did mine! 
... and I packed in full time work aswell, unless you count veg gardening. Hell June is a busy month! Not sure about the cave thing tho' Buttery - nice idea all the same
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| Andy B |
Sell the house, buy a wood in the middle of knowhere and keep contact with the outside world down to a minimum. Or buy a caravan and tour the world talking to people, because people dont sit down and talk enough. | ||||
| tahir |
Their Super 12 season finished in May? and the NPC doesn't start till sometime in July?? Something like that anyway |
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| Blue Peter |
If that's what you want, you could save the expense of a caravan and come and work in my office
Peter. |
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| Andy B |
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| wellington womble |
Move to devon anyway, and worry about the job later. Wonder how cheaply we could live if we didn't have mortgage? If we're going to be penniless, it might as well be somewhere nice! | ||||
| RoryD |
move to Spain to that lovely looking farm being advertised by the Vidaverde people.
www.vidaverde.co.uk/Farm.html |
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| Bugs |
Oooh, I saw that, looks lovely doesn't it? | ||||
| Andy B |
£92,000 !!!!!!!!!!!! i think i gonna cry. | ||||
| RoryD |
Its been the discussion point of the week in our house. Have agreed that its too selfish to take our son away from both sets of Grandparents. A least I think that was our excuse..... | ||||
| jocorless |
Oooh I hadn't seen that sounds wonderful - and at £20,000 less than our property here an absolute bargain - the only trouble is what I do to pay for it all !!! | ||||
| RoryD |
Vida Verde's idea seemed really sound. Something unique and light to post that you can send back to the UK. If you assume that you grow 80% of your food, then you perhaps only need a small internet business to get you off and running. myspanishdeli.co.uk anyone? | ||||
| tahir |
Small and light? I can only think of Saffron that you might want to buy from Spain that's small and light. |
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| Andy B |
Take them with you |
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| ButteryHOLsomeness |
how do you know he didn't mean fly as in using all the feathers left over by now deceased (and eaten) chickens then lovingly handcrafting them into wings and somehow miraculously achieving flight? hmmmmmm
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| Bugs |
Tsssk, you can get saffron from Wales (and Surrey ). Surely a range of herbs grows better in Spain than the UK? And the paprika we bought was Spanish.
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| moogie |
I've given up the job, sold the telly ages ago, generally try and live my dreams, but I'd love to go and do it all in India. So if I had the nerve, I'd sell up and move to India and get a cow. | ||||
| moogie |
Oh, or buy a bike and easy rider around America for a year. | ||||
| Simon |
Sorry Buttery ... but I much preffered the fireplace! |
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| hils |
...rent the house out and buy an old static caravan and move onto the site of my derelict ruins and get renovating slowly!
oh and ditch the OH who can't seem to put his beer bottles and cans in to the recycling drawers next to the bin (actually touching the bin) because it requires too much energy for him to do it, but to spite me he will then venture outside to put the bin bag into the wheelie bin and who is going to buy a gps device instead of putting the money into the mortgage which is due tomorrow:evil:
I'm ready to blow up |
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| Behemoth |
I didn't realise that Nottingham was so remote that you'd need a gps. If he does get it you could invite him to 'get lost' and kick him out of the door with his precious gadget.
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| Lozzie |
Buttery I LOVE your avatar - I have been trying to get my prescription for that remedy filled for the loooooongest time
What else would I do? Even simple stuff eludes me sometimes. If I had the nerve I would brave the basics of soap-making, or cheese-making. I need to ditch the procrastination and just bloody get on wiv' it |
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| Nanny |
if i had the nerveyou will find lozzie that with all these people behind you , youwill soon have all the support you need to "get on wiv it" |
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| hils |
Now it would be worth it if I could do that! |
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| Bugs |
We've done simple soft cheeses but yet to try anything involving pressing, partly because finding a surface that isn't already being used is near impossible in this static-renovation-greenhouse-chickenhouse-toolshed-cellar-office-naturereserve-brewery-bakery-library that we call home
But I'm going to place another order at Suma soon which will involve some cheapish olive oil, and I fancy a go at Sally's basic soap recipe, want to join me if I revive the Downsizer Challenge idea Lozzie? I'm sure we can lure some other beginners in too! |
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
If I had the nerve, I'd take all family ie Himself, kids, cats and chickens and move to our own desert island somewhere.
If just me, well I'd either like to write a book or failing that I'd like a go at presenting Gardeners World!! 
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| Bugs |
Hurray, let's have a Gardeners World viewers vote...I bet you know and care more about practical gardening than all of the current lot put together
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| homeonthehill |
Just do it! It grows back if you don't like it and short, low maintenance hair is brilliant to look after! |
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| judyofthewoods |
now find your beach... |
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| judyofthewoods |
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has magic, genius and power in it. Begin it now! | ||||
| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
I'm going to put that on my fridge! Thats wonderful, thank you!!
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