The shipping container has no electricity or hot water.
This means even a simple task like taking a bath is a mammoth effort. Robyn uses a cast-iron bath heated on an outdoor fire.
“It takes about two hours by the time you’ve heated it all up and waited for it to cool down,” she said.
She harvests rain water using a water system on the roof of the container.
Robyn said the thing she missed most about living in a normal home was having a flushing toilet.
“Everyone wants to live off grid until they realise that they have to deal with their own human waste,” she added.
This task involves a bucket and compost.
