This sounds so intriguing! It also sounds like, as you say, the invisible committee is made up of folks who have never spent a good few hours cursing over and ripping out some seams, or baking bread (or pies! Delicious, recalcitrant pie crust!), but finds find it romantic. I assume that the increased spare time will be used to contemplate the new romantic nature of our circumstances, including scurvy. (edited for baaad grammar. Not v. romantic.)