POTW this afternoon on the Home Service:
A woman with six children is explaining, via an interpreter, how she is intending to feed the family that day. (The seventh child - a boy of ten - is away with his father working in a city.) The woman shows a pot containing a muddy mix of grain. The interpreter explains that the woman - as is her custom - visited the local fields to glean what she could. Rat holes are a good place to look - the rats collect the grains and store them in their holes. So the woman digs down into these holes to recover the grain, and thus the mud which she will wash off before cooking the grains for herself and her family. On a really good day she may even catch a rat for them to eat.
21st century planet Earth. Let us consider this woman and her family next time we are making a 'life-style choice'.
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