 | | 21/04/2017 18:02
Sur le blog The Clothes Horse
The Cottage Life
I was reading recently about a Northern Irish lady who lives in a 280 year old cottage without running water or electricity. She grew up in the cottage and still lives much in the way her grandfather did when he bought it in 1887. She cooks her bread on the open fireplace and hauls water from a nearby spring well for washing. I don't want to romanticize her lifestyle to a flowery fiction, rather than the hard-working reality it is; even she says in the article that Americans visit and expect her to be walking to the well in a long black skirt, but she's more practical in trousers. And I don't know what I would do without my Internet or the ease of modern electricity,...
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