I‘ve just finished (rather belatedly) watching How to Live a Simple Life. It’s been stacked up in my iPlayer for more than a month, waiting for the book to be written, the holiday to be taken and life to get a little less hectic.
What an inspiring series.
The idea, like its title, is simple. Vicar Peter Owen-Jones vowed to give up money for almost a year – from one spring until the next new year. Instead of relying on cash he’d swap his time and skills for food, he raised chickens for their eggs and grew his own veg, and it very, very nearly worked.
Whether it meant to or not, the series – just three one-hour programmes that are still available to UK readers on the iPlayer if you’re quick – proved two things.
First, that it really isn’t money that makes you happy. It may make you feel secure and give you the opportunity to buy shiny things, but that’s not really happiness.
And second, in today’s world it really isn’t possible to live without at least some money. It was perhaps naive to ever think that you could outside of the confines of a TV programme construct, but that doesn’t make the series’ ultimate conclusion any less dispiriting.
Well worth a watch if you’re living in the UK.
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very good programme and have really enjoyed it but could u tell me the name of the place in devon u visited please in the woods how lovely was that many thanks