RE: [pf] "The Market" replacing communal life ("warped news")

>David MacClement wrote, responding to Peter Saint James's:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001II/msg00397.html :-
>> · Excellent, Peter.  I grew up in that sort of society; I remember
bottling sessions in a hot and steamy kitchen, and the satisfaction of
everyone afterward, looking at those rows and rows of jams and preserves on
the shelves; people looking at each other pleased and happy.
>
On Thur, 19 Apr 2001 11:25:13 -0000, David Appell wrote:
>So David, if this gave you so much happiness, why aren't you still doing it?
>
· Jumping to conclusions based on a particular view of the world aren't you?

· I still am making and using home-made jam; Bera and I make jam from our
one remaining plum tree whenever we have enough plums. We're still using up
the last lot we made - it's much better than the jelled dilute
highly-sugared stuff you buy in the store.

· And we make much-appreciated gifts of the smaller, elliptical-shaped
bottles of jam.

· I admit that we stretch-out our stock of home-made jam by buying
commercial stuff - we also use honey, from Jeanette Fitzsimons' hives on
the farm before they were devastated by introduced bee-mite - but if we no
longer have an excess of plums (the tree's very old) we would buy-in the
fruit and sugar and make our own jam. It takes a certain effort and time,
but it's not a big job otherwise. We have the time, and even if Bera has
less time than I have (because of her full-time job), she enjoys making
jam, and I enjoy helping her.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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