Posted on 02/29/2016 8:25:56 AM PST by Kartographer
For the last decade, Joanne Frances has been living life as if the Second World War has just broken out.
The 41-year-old has eschewed modern life and technology in favour an authentic wartime existence.
She no computer, washing machine, television or car instead cycling to work on an 80-year-old pedal bike.
Living most days in an authentic Land Girls uniform, she sometimes spends the evening in an air-raid shelter she built in the garden.
The woman, who works as a cleaner, has committed to the austere life of the 1940s having ditched central heating for coal fires and using an outside toilet.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
She’s a settler! She settles for things.
This is exactly how the totalitarian communists want all of us to live. They want to drag the USA down to the level of the rest of the world so that we can then become part of the New World Order.
She doesn’t have anything on the muslims. They are still living like it is 20 B. C.
No, but I did skip over the part where this woman lives in England. It’s a lot easier to ride bikes in many towns there. Nonetheless, people did drive cars there in 1939. Of course my mother was born in 1915 and never had a driver’s license, so...
I have to admit the chamber pot is a bridge too far for me but the right guy probably could talk her into a true to period water closet.
Sadly most of them also enjoy toilets and central heating.
Sitting at my desk, fielding the Monday-morning password (and other technical) calls, her choice looks pretty good to me! ;-)
There’s a couple in Washington State who have been living a Victorian lifestyle for a long time; they get around on very old fashioned bicycles:
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9275611/victorian-era-life
-JT
Retroculture is really a thing.
Does she also refuse modern medicine?
Does she have a victory garden in her back yard?
And someone should tell her that they did have indoor plumbing in the cities in the 1930s.
If she’s going to stick to the theme, she wouldn’t have pets. Remember the government sponsored extermination of cats and dogs in England in 1939:
“As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week.”
‘The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull’
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24478532
Lakenheath or Upper Heyford?
I have a 40 plus year old jeep and it has routine challenges.
As a recovering Young Fogey, I totally agree with this.
I didn’t know about the great UK pet massacre.
More fun to live like it is 8,000 BC.
I can highly recommend the entire series for foodies, history buffs and just those looking for a little off-beat entertainment.
I sense some deep rooted relationship issues from failures.
Just remember - Hitler loved his dogs. Churchill had hundreds of thousands of dogs slaughtered.
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