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Ah well, it were but an idle thought about the whuffie... I'll have to miss out on the science channel though, no television and not enough bandwidth on our satellite internet to get it that way. Despite which, I am posting this from an ipad that's talking to my mobile phone in the corner by the window. This is in rural France where we are so far from the nearest phone substation that our landline is actually a radio link. We get our water from a well (yes, there is a pump) and I often take the donkey cart to go shopping. So it can be something of a nineteenth century lifestyle but with some interesting anomalies. Oh, and the wood for heating the house gets sawn with a chainsaw, not by hand. We do have mains electricity! I think the biggest difference to the lifestyle here, compared with say 1900, is the availability of easy travel by car or by air, coupled with the internet for entertainment and access to information. Of course, in 1900 there were seven people living where now there are only the two of us. Rural depopulation came in with the tractor. Sorry to witter on so, but the change in daily life does fascinate me.
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