The Idler: Regular Sex and Freedom
Friday, April 4th, 2008Tom Hodgkinson is getting revved up for Spring!
Country Diary 74: Regular Sex and Freedom:
THIS MORNING I ate a triumphant breakfast: toast from home-baked bread, bacon from home-killed and home-cured pig, and egg from our own hens. Needless to say, the taste was far superior to anything you could buy in the supermarket, and the fact that all the products were from our own home gave the meal an added savour. I finished with some toast and marmalade. The marmalade, I grant you, did not come from our home. But it was made by the school bus driver’s wife and was given as a present, in return for the blood pudding we gave them last year, so I think it still counts as part of the cottage economy. In fact, some societies place gift exchange at the centre of their economy. This kind of thing could get addictive: maybe we should be making our own butter? We tried some home-made butter from Wales recently and it was outstandingly delicious. If we made our own butter, we could get one of those little wooden butter stamps, like they talk about in DH Lawrence’s The Rainbow. Each household had a distinctive stamp, an acorn or somesuch.
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