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Offtopic but - Depends what you mean by feelings. It could be argued that the chemotaxis cascade that enables motile bacteria to swim up a gradient towards food molecules is a feeling. My model of feelings is they're the neuropeptides and other signalling molecules that tell us about what's going on in the interior ecology (which I don't mean to imply is a closed system).
I realised last night though that I don't care about the moth larvae death carnage involved in my silk dress the same way I care about never eating factory farmed animals. I was out with a couple of vegetarians, and I realise if they'd offered criticism that it wasn't from organic silk production, or that it's not as far as I know dyed with nontoxic dyes, I might have felt bothered by it to a greater extent. "Made out of insects - a renewable resource, unlike polyester."?
But on-topic:
Bring back alcove fireplaces. I think a lot of houses in England are poorly designed with respect to drying clothes. Every dwelling should have a warm alcove above the boiler or other heat source with a well designed airflow, so there's somewhere to hang wet laundry when it's raining, using the secondary heat from the boiler. Where I grew up there was a large alcove maybe 6' by 12' which adjoined the chimney breast. The wood stove was there that ran the hot water, radiators, kettle, and oven. We never lacked dry laundry unless noone hung it up without needing a tumble dryer, and we weren't making the house prone to damp either because the heating and chimney combination moved the damp out of the house. (Plus there was a cozy nook with an armchair to curl up in with a book that smelled vaguely of good woodsmoke and clean laundry that was a refuge when I was in need of comfort.) |
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