Living A simple green Life: Snowflakes and Evil ,whispers in the dark

Welcome

Welcome to my wee blog.My name is Andy ( The Dafthermit ) . For the last 20 odd years i have ben trying to get back to a simpler way of life and finally in my old bus up here in the Scottish mountains i am finally getting there. My time now is spent taking pictures of the highlands ,making films to show the world the beauty all around and writing something that has surprised me having had a few of my stories published , Having picked up a camera and laptop in 2008 i have really enjoyeed the journey the camera has taken me on again having had a couple of pictures in national magazines, last year three of ,my films where shown at the Loch Ness film festival. anyway i hope you enjoy your visit to my wee blog

love and light

Andy

Monday, 30 November 2009

Snowflakes and Evil ,whispers in the dark

Sitting here in my old bus high in the mountains..

The snow is gently falling so much beauty all around the mountains tower around us and my heart soars with the sheer beauty of my homeland.

But listening to another story on the radio this one called tarred and feathered a story from Ireland and what they call the troubles

My heart sinks and then a news flash someone planted a bomb on a train in Russian killing over twenty people then another bomb goes off just as the emergency crews arrive.

Evil slithers across the earth yet again..

Under the cover of darkness the evil emerges and someone somewhere will pay the price

The cowards with their f**ked up beliefs Have struck again then scurried off into the darkness of the night no doubt to sit around a fire and pat themselves on the back

how brave were we lads !!!!! didn’t we do well..

As a traveller i have often come across this sort of thing but thankfully not to the extreme i mention above

But being parked up somewhere out of the way and a van pulls up and out comes 8 to 10 guys (police officers without their numbers )

Or the countless drive bye’s sometimes it is just a horn blasted at you .other occasions a brick or some object is hurled at your home.

The fear that grips you and the disbelief as you try to explain to people what happened only to be dismissed as a liar or worse ..

During my time in the army we were faced with these faceless attacks but usually they targeted the NAFFI or soft targets as the saying goes..

This evil is only allowed to fester and continue to grow because off silence

We all must come together and say sod you and your sick minds

The courage to stand up to these scum in the face off their cowardly acts is what will one day i pray win through

my prayers and hope go out to anyone having to face these cowards and my prayer is that one day we will all come together and say NO MORE

Peace and light

andy the dafthermit

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A wee film about us on STVs the HOUR SHOW click on STV logo to see the film

Andy the Daft Hermit lives 45 minutes outside Inverness with his wife Mel in an old bus parked in a layby. This current home of theirs is the longest they have ever stayed in one spot. “I’ve been travelling now 25 years,” said Andy Lowe. “Mel’s been travelling 15. One of the reasons we’ve come and stayed up here is because of Mel’s health. I wanted to bring her to the mountains for fresh air and clean water and just a slower pace of life.” Mel has had breast cancer twice, skin cancer once, and for three years believed she had bone cancer after being wrongly diagnosed. Andy’s belief in the restorative powers of the north made them pack up ‘The Black Bus’ that they live in and cross the border into Scotland. New Highland home for hermit couple Andy and Mel “I think we both believe in trying to get to a more simple way of life,” said Andy, “but it’s strange for us because we are sort of hermits, or we like to live separate, but it’s not being anti-social… it’s just the way we are that allows us to be creative.” Andy first began travelling when he left the army. Fed up with bureaucracy he packed a rucksack and left for France and has been travelling ever since. By investing any money the couple have earned into solar panels and wind generators they now live a self-sustaining existence, without electric bills, and collect rain water “straight from Heaven”. “It’s not easy,” said Mel. “There might be time when there might not be enough facilities around, but you always find a way, you know?” Rather than rejecting technology, Andy blogs about his travels online and collaborates with artists from around the world via his ‘Scratchy Heid Film Studio’, which he runs from a static trailer next to the couple’s bus. He explained his philosophy: “My belief is that if you can go through life and you drop dead and you’ve got a balance there that slightly outweighs the good than the bad, you’ve done alright. “Yesterday, with what Mel’s been through with the cancer and all that, I had a woman on one of my sites there that thanked me for the writing, for the positive things, and to me that’s worth everything. You can keep your millions, we’re not interested. That is what we do.” To check out Andy’s artwork and video projects check out his website. MORE FROM THE NORTH