Trip to the past or.....?

I just saw the movie "The Village" again.... WOW!! It always touch something and i LOVE IT!! I have seen it soo many times, but it always makes me think about the good things of the past... like my fascination of the good old letter writing, telephones with cords (pre-mobil phones era).... but then there is the dilemma of the new things, like the smoking ban, the MS medicine etc... If I could turn back time, it would exclude that good things of now....

I would however like to live in a place like the one, where I grew out - out in the country side, where we grew most of the vegetable and fruit that we ate through the year.... a special designed outhouse kept the goods fresh well after harvesting them - the technique of the house was from the 1930's and needed no electricity etc.... And beeries where kept in a huge freezer...... Not to mention the jars of pickles, chutney, jam and bottles of lemonade.... It was a lot of work - and could only be done due to the fact of my mother being a housewife.....

One fact still makes me laugh: I spend half a months food money on my first fruit/vegetable purchase when I moved away from my parents house and started studying at the university.. Until then I had now clue about the costs, because I could always get seasonal items for free when living at home.....

< align="justify">More and more people have however recently rediscovered the joy of homegrown food (maye because of the financial crisis??) ... and some of my colleagues knows that I really enjoy it, and therefore bring me the surplus of their harvest, knowing that they cant eat it all by themselves..... I still have the recipies for jam, chutney etc.

So would it really be going back to the past - or just re-adjusment of daily life