hat does “living off-grid” mean to you? Perhaps a commune led by a new-age version of Bear Grylls? People surviving on meals scrambled from what they can grow? A yurt or a tree house that combines discomfort and piety in equal measure?
That image might be fuelled by this summer’s sleeper hit in cinemas, Leave No Trace, in which Will, a traumatised US military veteran, and his daughter, who must live without iPhones or Instagram, make their home in the woods before being discovered.
Ditch those perceptions and instead see what people like Claire and Steve Golemboski-Byrne are doing at their home in Co Down, Northern Ireland, where they live with their daughter Lyra, five.
They’re living off-grid…