Tamara wrote: <Quite often, the queuing took hours (nobody wanted the morning's bread in the afternoon, so we all stood and waited for the afternoon delivery), and people (mostly women) talked -- on any subject from personal illnesses/misfortunes and birth control methods, to jokes, to politics, to...>
This is one of the reasons why it's thought best to install a communal tap in villages in Africa to improve the lives of the women who used to have to walk miles to get water rathan than try to give individual houses their own water supply. The younger ones learn all sorts of things from the older ones by listening to the older ones talking while they're queueing to fill their water vessels. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
