<<Fred to Selma: What you're used to in the West would probably not be attained even in our dreams here.>>
Don't be so diffident, Fred. Since when have the Westerners become so conscious of hygiene? In the 18th and 19th centuries American farms were malodorous pigsties. Indeed, in the early days of the railways in Britain, even Her Majesty the Queen on her journeys to Wales and Scotland went into the bushes abutting the tracks with a tumbler of water and reams of toilet tissues in hand to unload her royal bowels! But then it's always easy to poke fun at the poor and the defenceless -- as if they are doing it for fun and not because they're being exploited and left to their own devices without even basic amenities. Regards, RKN
