Loading ...Workplace Health and Safety regulations increase until the bureaucratic burden is so great that the industry ceases to be economical and everything is off-shored.
The winter months might have been light on work, but come spring I think it was flat out. Ploughing with horses, sowing, weeding etc. all the way up to the harvest. Even in my time the country pubs would open at 9.00 am in summer for the workers after they’d started harvesting at 3.00 am!
Level of comfort, absolutely. Just look at the way plastics, insignificant until after WWII, impact our lives. We cannot do without plastics for anything.