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Green Energy from Insects – The Carnivorous Clock

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:09:24 +0000

Okay so killing insects is somewhat of an odd “green” thing. But the other night we just wanted to zonk out in front of the TV. An episode of “Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention” was on. I have to admit I was pretty skeptical about stop motion animation trying to be educational. But I was wrong. We were

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Starting the Olive Harvest

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:40:14 +0000

I don’t know how many olives we will be able to harvest this year. Time is not something we seem to have enough of at the moment and other things are just more important. It’s a shame seeing olives going to waste but such a low price commodity often rots on the floor I guess. We will do some though not the 150+ trees that we

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The Most Important Frugal Living Tip You’ll Ever Need

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:17:18 +0000

Or why window shopping is bad for you, oh and magazines, the internet and tv! The most simple and straightforward way to save money and live frugally is just to avoid shops. Hardly a jaw-dropping surprise that one is it? But it is true that window shopping whilst relaxing and an excuse for a coffee with friends, is also totally detrimental

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Living off Grid but no Longer Under the Radar

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:58:34 +0000

Living off the grid and under the radar has been fun and easy. Just the initial round of registering on arrival in Spain for personal numbers to allow us to buy the house and get residency cards, but not too much interaction with officialdom the rest of the time. There wasn’t much point in announcing ourselves too much, we had nothing

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Frugal Living & Self Sufficiency Keep You Fit

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:35:00 +0000

Last weekend I realised how much more fit we were when everything was about frugal living and self sufficiency. You see, from part time olive farmers, part time vegetable growers, part time builders and full time “never really go anywhere as there is no money for fuel” type folks, we have moved “up” in the world, to

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Eco Homes and Not Going Green on Holiday

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:13:09 +0000

We have an old home, a run of the mill rural home, not an Eco home. But still we think we are a little bit Green. But take me on holiday and it all comes tumbling down. I confess my sins for a total disregard for Eco tourism or green vacations. I just cannot be self sufficient away from home! Being Green at Home Right then, firstly I am

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A Different Kind of Self Sufficient Life

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:39:25 +0000

So, for any regular readers left from when we were regular writers here at A Self Sufficient Life, breaking news… Well not so much breaking news as – time for a change. The site has been neglected whilst we have been doing things to earn a little money. It seems frugal living on a mountain is all well and good, but you do need

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A Year (and a bit) in the Self Sufficient Life

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:53:49 +0000

Okay, Mrs Dirty Boots here, Madam of this Self Sufficient homestead. Yep, I know I have been missing in action from this site. Rest assured I have been doing my bit though (just ran out of words to ramble about it all really!). Any-hoo, it suddenly dawned on me (over a bowl of barely simmering lemon curd no less) that a whole year (and a

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Make Money Writing Online

Mr.Dirty Boots — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:26:03 +0000

Or, how to stop working for the man. Updated 16th Sept 09 and again Oct 9th 09 and Nov 21 How To Make Money Writing Online Not so long ago I told you that, in an effort to be able to continue our self sufficient life I decided to see if I could learn how to make money online. We had no work and things were beginning to get very serious, money

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More Blogs on the Roll

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:00:20 +0000

The blogroll has been updated by his good self. He’s added some links of blogs he enjoys reading at the moment. Check them out, there are some great sites on the blogroll. If we’ve missed you but are visiting your site let me apologise. Having two people reading blogs and writing this one means we do, just occasionally, forget

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