This is David a very interesting & eccentric neighbour.
When we were farming we once rounded up & penned a stray heifer off his land.
Ever since he has called on us with a Christmas present & card.
He lives on his own on the small family farm but as you can see he has an unusual lifestyle.
He has no heat in his house which is down a farm track.
He seems to live off tinned rice pudding which incidentally when I asked him what he was having tomorrow, he said tinned rice pudding!
He eats very little, walks all over the place, no heating & much meditating.
If you look at his trousers you can see he’s sewn a pocket on the legs. This was where he kept his mobile phone which he no longer uses so is now redundant.
When he got up to leave he put two woolly hats on his head which he has string attached that clips onto jacket with pegs so he doesn’t lose them.
Same with the gloves ….like our mothers did with ours to stop us loosing them.
He comes from a very well off family, estates & a house in Chelsea plus a famous niece in law but David is a very happy person.
These days we see him almost everyday in the village & walking past our house . I asked him this morning does he go for the company & he said yes.
I plied him with cake but he just ate one biscuit & a cup of tea.
Shows we don’t need much to keep us healthy ….he never goes to the doctor.
He always buys us a small useful present such as scissors or batteries. He visits many with a card & similar present.
Ooh! Pat, what an eccentric, "a one off" , a man strong enough to live and be happy in his own lifestyle , Thank you for sharing David with us. especially now at Christmas ! - Happy Christmas !
He seems to be quite a character. My David's family were all farmers and his Grandad had no electricity or running water on his farm in Wales. They did have a stream that ran on the property, and he always had a roaring fire in winter. He was a bit of an eccecntric too.
What a lovely story. He sounds such a character, and certainly eccentric. But if he is happy with how he lives, who are we to question. He looks as if he’s wearing plenty of layers …..
What a lovely story to read. Such contentment is quite rare I would think, but the very thought of no heating makes me feel like getting my hot water bottle out again.
But then we just had a coal fire in the sitting room when I was young, and a few small heaters I think. Thankfully Mum and Dad had central heating installed not long after I went to university.
January 8th, 2024
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Happy Christmas
But then we just had a coal fire in the sitting room when I was young, and a few small heaters I think. Thankfully Mum and Dad had central heating installed not long after I went to university.