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Welcome to Down the LaneA website showing, through personal trials and tribulations, the results of a downshifting experience.Life takes you wherever you want it to go usually. For a large part of it you can be happy and content, then things change around you and it's not what you want it to be anymore. This sums up how I was feeling in 1999. I had a good secure job, well paid and I didn't have to worry too much about paying the Bills. Then, in six traumatic weeks, everything changed and it became apparent that taking away certain parts of my life, there wasn't much left. I took stock of the situation and decided I could only have the quality of life I wanted by changing it and making my destiny through my own means. Out went my Railway Management job and in came the self-reliant world. The last 8 years has taken me through Oddjobbing, Gardening Work, earning a bit on the Web through Surveys and Mystery Shopping etc. Now I'm lucky enough to have a summer job of Dressing Room Attendant for the Kent Cricket Team and spend the winter month's on other casual diversities. Although still not earning half the amount I was 8 years ago, I have supplemented some of this by growing much of my vegetable needs and keep chickens for eggs (but they're pet's really!!). Working on the "Do I need it and if I do, can I make it" principles, the frugal life has become second nature, the paying of Bills a challenge and the outcomes a sense of personal achievement. I hope you enjoy the reading! The Web Site
Down the Lane has grown from just 30 pages in late 2003 to over 600 pages as of now.
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To John at WebOne UK for hosting this website and providing me with much technical expertise! (visit his great Allotment site here) Enjoy your trip around and down the lane. IT'S A BIT OF A MIXED BAG, BUT SO AM I!
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