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Feast or Famine
Did you know? . . .(here comes one of my history lessons) Did you know that this time of year in the middle ages could be a time of great famine? People died of hunger with the wheat a month or so away from harvest because all the food just . . .ran out. Or imagine, getting through the whole year (a long time when life expectancy was so short) and have the whole lot beaten down by a rainstorm. Whole villages committed suicide, jumping off a cliff together, in order to avoid the agony of starving to death. (I read this somewhere but don't ask me to quote the reference.) There are parts of the world where famine still happens - we all know this. Our farmers in the UK are having a hard time this year with all the rain - but we ain't gonna starve folks.
Feast or Famine
Did you know? . . .(here comes one of my history lessons) Did you know that this time of year in the middle ages could be a time of great famine? People died of hunger with the wheat a month or so away from harvest because all the food just . . .ran out. Or imagine, getting through the whole year (a long time when life expectancy was so short) and have the whole lot beaten down by a rainstorm. Whole villages committed suicide, jumping off a cliff together, in order to avoid the agony of starving to death. (I read this somewhere but don't ask me to quote the reference.) There are parts of the world where famine still happens - we all know this. Our farmers in the UK are having a hard time this year with all the rain - but we ain't gonna starve folks.