Now THAT’S switching off! He’s a modern-day Robinson Crusoe who lives without power

Daily Mail

Mark Boyle hasn’t switched on a light for three years. Nor has he boiled a kettle, bunged on a wash, turned on the oven, or the radio, vacuumed, cheered on his favourite football team on the TV, listened to any recorded music, sent an email, made a phone call or updated his social media.

Not because he’s lazy, but because, in December 2016, he pledged to live technology-free. On his banned list was anything that requires power or ‘an ongoing energy input’. 

‘That was my starting point, but I take things to a more extreme level than that,’ he says.

So he shut down his computer, closed all his online accounts, cancelled his credit cards and got rid of every piece of electronic equipment — he won’t even allow himself a wind-up radio.

Read the rest and see the pics here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6982991/Now-THATS-switching-JANE-FRYER-meets-modern-day-Robinson-Crusoe-lives-without-power.html

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