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This Woman Lives Every Day Like It’s 1939
Anthony Pearce Blog via Yahoo News ^ | 2/29/16 | anthony robert pearce

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 Girl’s 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.

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To: dainbramaged
Does she also refuse modern medicine?

Everyone in England does.

81 posted on 03/20/2016 6:33:50 AM PDT by johniegrad
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