January 6, 2010

Saved by the neighbours

An off-grid equestrian and her family had their Christmas dinner delivered by a Welsh police mountain rescue helicopter today.

The family was stranded for two weeks by snow at their hilltop home  in the UK, as the country ground to a halt because of a freak snow flurry. BBC News carried a story about the mercy mission near Knighton, Mid-Wales after worried neighbours called local cops.

The BBC PM show interviewed Annette Potter, 39, who appears in the book  HOW TO LIVE OFF-GRID,  and runs a stud farm and horse training grounds on her isolated mountainside. She shares their tiny cottage with her mother and her 14-year-old daughter.  …

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