The small (micro small) scale lifestyle here on the organic eco micro smallholding can though be effective in lowering living costs and keeping seemingly ever-rising costs at bay (in today's paper: ' so-called 'ordinary' people owe trillions'). This year's crops have generally been ok/good, the onions having recovered from their early setback, potatoes proving to be disappointing in the end, but beans and full-of-taste tomatoes cropping profusely. The new mini hen flock is also doing its stuff, averaging an egg per bird per day and the post summer season is now here, with maintenance work such as hedging the order of the day.
The culture currently in place cannot/does not suit everyone , and is often only actively supported by a minority of the population, presumably then rendering democracy at best only partial - ? The Scots are about to vote as to whether they want to change such a situation and be masters of their own ship. People though without such an 'independence option' may well have to take their own lawful 'counter' measures to deflect/ avoid any undue perceived negative effects (eg. loss/diminishment of cherished values etc. ). Besides helping to deflect unwanted higher cost levels, the semi self-sufficient eco micro-holder lifestyle can help to bolster any desired independent spirit, for those ('freerangers') who want to think things out for themselves and generate their own beliefs and values. Times seem to be changing with an increasing number of practices being counted 'out of bounds', and at least there seems to be a little less danger of independent thinkers being pilloried - ?
