Living A simple green Life: Living a simple green life in our old truck in the Scottish mountains

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

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Living a simple green life in our old truck in the Scottish mountains

.Living a simple life here in the Scottish mountains.

Track NOT I bye our friend Sally Hope
( links to her at the foot of the page)

Since leaving the army , i have been on the road living in buses .trucks. benders and sometimes the gutter.

after 25 years wandering it seems we have come to a stop here at Loch Droma where we get to live a simple green life amid the mountains.
I now enjoy running my wee studio where i get to share my tales , films etc

with the help of both solar and wind power we are free from energy bills and with the abundance of fresh water we are free from water bills

my main blog

Living a simple Green life

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com

A wee list of first draft stories from the wee tin can

The Final leap

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2010/01/final-leap-two-monarchs.html

The piper Of Glascarnoch

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2010/02/piper-of-glascarnoch-loch.html

The Night Watchman

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2012/02/night-watchman_19.html

The Pool

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2011/06/pool-wee-tale-from-dafthenit.html

The Rock

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2010/03/rock.html

The Guardian

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2011/11/tree-highland-guardian.html

Turn left at The Moon

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2010/03/turn-left-at-moondeadly-invade...

The Last flight

http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/2012/02/last-flight.html

Love and light
Permission to use my music

To whomever it may concern:
Please note that I Sally Hope of www.sallyhopemusic.co.uk orhttp://www.youtube.com/sallyhopeband and from all my other links on my website have given
full permission to: andypeterlowe@googlemail.com athttp://www.youtube.com/user/dafthermit
whose website is at http://theblackbuscompany.blogspot.com/
to use any of my music of mine for his films, videos, website etc
Signed: Sally Hope

Love and light from the wee rusty tin can here in the Scottish highlands............ Alba gu brath

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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