July 2, 2007: Cave cottage - Page 3

xoxoxoBruce · 07-11-2007, 08:10 AM

Yes. I wouldn't call it desirable but certainly doable.
My grandparents didn't get electricity or an indoor toilet until I was 4 and had gotten along fine for 50 odd years.
My folks got along with a pitcher pump and outhouse for a year... and kerosene lamps for a couple months.
Anything more than a cave and a brontosaurus bone to gnaw, is luxury.

Coign · 07-11-2007, 11:58 AM

If you didn't have electricity where did you plug in your PC? I freak out when my Internet goes down. I could not live without electricity.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-11-2007, 03:11 PM

I guess Red Dawn wasn't about you.

CzinZumerzet · 07-12-2007, 05:11 PM

The house I grew up in, two up two down, had neither electricity, gas, sewerage services or water. We had a 'wash-house' in the back garden with a hand water pump delivering cold hard water, and a 'privy' at the end of the garden shared by three other cottages. The wash house also housed a copper, literall a big water boiloer which we lit a fire underneath on washday in order to boil wash the whites.
My mother cooked on a range fuelled by coal and wood and we used oil lamps, candles and later, gas mantles for lighting. That's coal gas not the sort cars run on. We had a pressed earth floor which I recall being so cold in winter... And no we didn't glow with rude good health, I seem to think we had perpetual runny noses and chilblains.
Makes you think about how very many advances there've been of the purely domestic variety which are now commonplace. I don't want to be without my satellite link or my wireless internet but things like hot water and phones and a flushing indoor loo are just basic aren't they.

SPUCK · 07-13-2007, 04:59 AM

CzinZumerzet: Interesting story! Where did you grow up?

Coign · 07-13-2007, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SPUCK

CzinZumerzet: Interesting story! Where did you grow up?

I am guessing in a cave hiding from dinosaurs.

07-11-2007, 08:10 AM	#31
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yes. I wouldn't call it desirable but certainly doable. My grandparents didn't get electricity or an indoor toilet until I was 4 and had gotten along fine for 50 odd years. My folks got along with a pitcher pump and outhouse for a year... and kerosene lamps for a couple months. Anything more than a cave and a brontosaurus bone to gnaw, is luxury. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-11-2007, 11:58 AM	#32
Coign Wanted Driver Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vail, CO Posts: 279	If you didn't have electricity where did you plug in your PC? I freak out when my Internet goes down. I could not live without electricity. __________________ Quoting yourself is the height of hubris. -Coign

07-11-2007, 03:11 PM	#33
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I guess Red Dawn wasn't about you. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-12-2007, 05:11 PM	#34
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	The house I grew up in, two up two down, had neither electricity, gas, sewerage services or water. We had a 'wash-house' in the back garden with a hand water pump delivering cold hard water, and a 'privy' at the end of the garden shared by three other cottages. The wash house also housed a copper, literall a big water boiloer which we lit a fire underneath on washday in order to boil wash the whites. My mother cooked on a range fuelled by coal and wood and we used oil lamps, candles and later, gas mantles for lighting. That's coal gas not the sort cars run on. We had a pressed earth floor which I recall being so cold in winter... And no we didn't glow with rude good health, I seem to think we had perpetual runny noses and chilblains. Makes you think about how very many advances there've been of the purely domestic variety which are now commonplace. I don't want to be without my satellite link or my wireless internet but things like hot water and phones and a flushing indoor loo are just basic aren't they. __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

07-13-2007, 04:59 AM	#35
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	CzinZumerzet: Interesting story! Where did you grow up?

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